I may have found a Work Around, and it would be great if they could give us the "Command Line Arguments" to use inside Origin to see the Game to "Windowed Mode"
So, as mentioned before. if I open another window, like a NotePad window, and make it really small, but as the ACTIVE WINDOW (the window with focus)
-- then I can see the menu and motion in the Dragon Age window behind it.
-- I can also manipulate the menu, but, as soon as I click on the menu in DA (Dragon Age) the screen goes black again
if I switch back (ALT-TAB) to my mini notepad window, then I can again see the DA window and my click was registered.
so I very slowly, changed the the settings from "Full Screen" to "Windowed" and slowly upded the resolution to my 1920x1080 (1 click, alt-tab at a time - to the left arrow to go up)
then I changed the graphic settings to LOW (not auto).
when I reloaded the game (Task Manager- End Task), the game was working..
then I had to push my luck and try setting the Graphics Back to AUTO -- it froze after that.
REMEMBER, before you END TASK the window, you must hit "BACK" in the menu in order to "APPLY" the changes, then you can END TASK.
so, if you make the following changes it should work?
-Windowed
- Match your resolution, but this may not be needed, because, even when I did this the window was smaller, but allowed me to drag the corner out to make it bigger
- Graphics to LOW.
OK. so it reloaded, needed 60 seconds to waiver and look like it might crash, but it didn't - so. the Menu Screen is now working !
again, command line argument to change from FULLSCREEN to WINDOWED would likely make this easier for many.
-I'm going to try play the game now. fingers crossed
LOL,
when I backed out of the menu after verifying my changes had held. the main menu froze. /sigh.
maybe a reload and right into the game? but, I'm scared to make any progress with this kind of critical instability.
also, of note,
when the menu freezes, it locks my cursor up along all of my windows for about 5 seconds. (ie, couldn't type here, but could change Chrome Tabs)
Threading issue?
Entering 'windowed=true' in command line seems to force windows for me.
So,
I was able to just start the Single player and play for about 30 minutes.
once it was loaded it was fine (fun and beautiful)
so even on Auto graphics it was great once in game
i made and customized the character, and did the dragonagekeep thing and back, and completed meeting my first group.
so, it seems, as long as its in WINDOWED mode and you don't play with the menu too much, you can play just fine.
great looking game. will play a lot more later!
