Hello I beleive that there are fudamantal problems wit the code and how it interact with directX. (going to mantle seems to be teh fix for AMD card user)
There seems lots of resources contention with resident programs.
Unless the code is changed i think we can only make it something we can live with.
The problem is that the receipie is going to be different for each MB,CPU,GPU combo.
old driver clean upcleaning and installing 347.09. "limited" the crash to screen loading (travel, cut scenes).
with the setting bellow on my system i did not have a crash for about 40 hours and i play in ultra @ 71 fps average.
Turning the shader cache off on the nvidia driver and removing nvida experience and the Asus OSD inmproved the sitruation drastically from crahs every 30-60 minuted to no chrash so far
mbd: asus xhair 5 formula
proc: fx8150 running at 3.85 mgh (water cooled corsair h100)
ram : 16 meg @ 1333 (no OC)
Gpu: gtx970 ichil 4mg (factory OC)
2*250 mg ssd
The game has all the patches and the multiplayer. i play on a 24" wide screen.
This is what alleviated /fixed the problem (no crash after amost 40 hours of play) and the game benchmark mow works (it never ever did before the change)
I got rid of the OSD the asus videocapture tool.
I removed all the drivers (using a driver uninstaller)
installed the latest Nvidia driver 347.09
de-installed the nvidia experience.
The driver setting are
anisotrpic filtering off
anti aliasing fxaa off
anti aliasing mode off
shader cache off
max pre-rendered frame 3
vertical sync off
In origin
origin is enabled in game
In inquisition
the audio is on night
resolution is the native resolution of the screen 1080p @60hz
full screen windowed
vertical sync unticked
everything on ultra
anything with anti aliasing disabled
ambient oclusion off
post process quality low
everything in account unticked
There is no usr.cfg and i run the video card as is (factory overclock).
before trying to touble shoot, I reload loaded visual c++ and directx11, however the 347.09 driver where installed last.
I did a power down after the change
I hope that helps
