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Dragon Age Crashing Issues!

Post Date: 2010-09-09
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    Posted: 09 Sep 2010 at 11:12am
Hi all.

I have come to love this game and this beast of a system can run it great however after getting a couple hours into the game I can no longer last longer than a 10 minutes before it crashes on me. (crashes to desktop, says dragon age has stopped working) This happens in varied game circumstances so it doesnt seem to be due to action in the game.

I have explored to the end of the internet and found a zillion fixs to try and nothing has work. I figure there is alot of gamers around here may be someone can point me to a fix they discovered, or a suggestion?

I have tried:
disabling SLI
setting affinity to run one core only
Set to run as admin
turned down graphics, though that is highly unlikely to be the issue on this system
set shortcut to run off exe rather than launcher
reinstall...twice
reinstalled latest drivers


What I can't trouble shoot well is graphics settings as I don't understand it well. MSI shows I run consistently at 60.1 FPS. Seems low for two 480s? When I disable SLI I get lag which surprised me as I thought one 480 would be plenty for DA.

Sorry for long post ask anything and I'll provide additional info. Thanks for any help!
Intel i7 930 @4.27GHz
EVGA x58 FTW3
Hailstorm - 6GB DDR3 1600mhz
Dual Nvidia GTX 480 1.5GB
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Posts: 5084 		  Quote justin.kerr Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 09 Sep 2010 at 11:49am
60 FPS is from V-sync being on. turn it off and your FPS will be much higher, with all settings maxed, I get around 1,000 FPS, on the opening screen Big%20Smile
crashing, make sure you have all of the  patches installed for dragons age. I have played it to the end twice, and started many many times. never once had a crash, freeze, failure.
run SLI, run max settings, should be no issues. if after the patch installs don't fix the issue, then I suggest running 12 hours of Prime95 to help find the issue
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Posts: 77 		  Quote Gpaint Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 09 Sep 2010 at 11:55am
yeah everything is patched up to date. I turned vsync off and now I'm getting 80-100fps with dual 480s. I don't know if that is still abysmal for my system or not.

I looked at prime 95 before but didn't understand it all. So I just run it and then stop it at 12 hours or can I set it to run 12 hr cycle. Then it will give me a report I'm guessing? Can I still use my computer while this runs?
Intel i7 930 @4.27GHz
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run a blend test for at least 12 hours, keep something up that monitors your temperatures while you do it, make sure they stay in a healthy range
you can still use the pc but it will be taxed heavily, i'd stick to internet and desktop use only though i have used photoshop while running it lol
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Posts: 77 		  Quote Gpaint Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 09 Sep 2010 at 12:02pm
real temp and MSI good to watch it? I just downloaded 64 bit prime. Ill run it later overnight.

Could you guys give me a guideline for temps?

Im used to see high 40's and 53 once with the gpus with my cooling.

Cores I'm not so sure
Intel i7 930 @4.27GHz
EVGA x58 FTW3
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Posts: 4219 		  Quote !ender_ Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 09 Sep 2010 at 12:37pm
dont need msi, just coretemps or realtemps
depends on your rad set up, but id guess you shouldnt see over 70c on your cores
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Posts: 49 		  Quote the12deel Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 10 Sep 2010 at 6:12am
I'm not sure if you've tried the following solution posted on the Dragon Age support site;

If you have a Windows Vista or Windows 7 operating system, and you are experiencing crashes to your Desktop when you try to play games, we recommend checking to see if you have User Access Control (UAC) turned on.

If you have UAC turned on, you will have to momentarily disable UAC in order to get the games to stop crashing. Follow the instructions below to check if UAC is turned on and disable it. Hope this helps

My game crashes to desktop while using windows 7 or vista


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