Community Admin@aristoloYou could check your reliability monitor after the crash, see if this points at a problem area.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ie/windows7/how-to-use-reliability-monitor
@AquilaTempestas Try performing a hard restart of your console, hold the button until it shuts down completely, then restart it, then check again to see if the stability improves.
I have tried the hard reset but the game continues to crash.
So far it's crashed at the following places:
- Red lyrium deposits in the Hinterlands
- The Templar fight in Champions of the Just
- Just before meeting Iron Bull
I have never had an issue like this until Patch 10. Other games work fine including more intense games like witcher 3 and I used furmark to stress my video card to ensure it wasn't a temperature issue. Not a hardware issue, not a temperature issue, and I tried to repair the game which did nothing so I uninstalled then reinstalled the game and still nothing so as far as I can tell all evidence points to something in Patch 10 crashing the game. There is nothing you can do about it until they release a update to fix this mess.
Ive tried:
Origin Repair Game
Uninstall/Reinstall Game
Updated Drivers
Tested for Temperature Issues
Tried playing with AV disabled
What I know:
Hardware is not the issue
Been playing since the game was released without this issue
Been playing for over a month now on windows 10 so OS is not the issue
This crash started with Patch 10 and Trespasser DLC download
So the solution is that there is nothing we can do on pc or console its up to bioware to release an update to fix what ever their screw up is causing this.
Glad to know that there's someone out there having the same issue and that it isn't just hardware! Really wish there was a way to roll back to older patch versions.
I have this problem as well, though what i noticed is that it only happens if i get hit by a whirlwind attack, from any of those hakkar warriors. And only if the main character gets hit, i get crash to desktop.
I didn't install the last dlc yet but the other two i have.
I hope this information might help with finding this problem at least.
Same here I tested a lot and this only started after patch 10 and never happened before, i cant figure out what it is or could be but im tired of not being able to play the game at all, after about 5 mins or so it just ctd's with no message or anything.
I too have started to experience this issue.
I got the last DLC (Trespasser) and the game starts crashing to the desktop in the middle of battles. I am running Windows 10 and my graphics card is an Nvidia GTX 980. The game ran fine until this latest issue; just finished playing through The Descent with no problems. None of the new optional difficulty settings are in effect, but some of the companions I have with me are using the new "alternative" versions of abilities.
The crash seems to be connected to special effects in the game -- my inquisitor is a mage and so all of the times the game crashed for me, was when I had used some bombastic spell with lots of on-screen visual effects, such as Chain Lightning. My theory is that the problem may actually a combination of graphics driver and game patch issues -- in other words there's a bug somewhere that appeared that's causing some sort of catastrophic memory error or some such that has the effect of "hitting Alt-F4" and bouncing back to your desktop.
I'm going to try out the game on a machine with an AMD CPU and AMD graphics card in Mantle mode to see if the crash also appears there.
No need Retrocade, I am playing with a Athlon x4 860k and ATI R9 280 and use mantle. As I stated it isn't hardware related nor is there any software fix on our end that can remedy this otherwise I would have found it even if it meant playing in a tiny window on the lowest graphics with no dlc downloaded I would have done it if only to be able to play. But I have tried everything I could think of. This is a fix only the guys who released the update/patch can fix because it was something they did that is the source of the issue.
Specs:
Athlon x4 860k OC +20%
ATI R9 280 OC Edition
12 GB DDR3 1600
VelociRaptor 160GBx2 Raid 0
20" Acer x203H Monitor (1600x900)
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
**Update**
Lung and Slash has been confirmed to be the cause of this crash. Bioware is aware and is working on it. For now, respect any warrior you have and make sure they are not using this attack. As soon as it is used on a target it causes the game to crash. Respec and removed the attack and have not had a crash since.
