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hikarsugyama's avatar
2 years ago

DAO constant crash and texture flickers

Hi,

I'm playing DAO on a relatively new computer, so launching it for the first time (though I had it installed for months now). I created a new character and from the very beginning I had horrible texture flicker, entire scenes that had the lighting completely bugged, squares of blood underneath corpses like it's a texture tile, and if I keep playing with the textures doing that, it eventually crashes. A couple of times, those crashes rendered the last save file corrupted. Sometimes when I start, everything is well for a pretty long time, until a random loading screen and suddenly everything is flickering again. Now I'm completely stuck, I just finished everything in the Korcari Wilds so my last save is right before activating the broken Wardens chest where Morrigan first appears. I go through the whole conversation, then same with Flemeth, and when she sends you back to Ostagar it triggers a loading screen. And without fail the last ten times I tried, the game CTD during the loading of Ostagar or right as Ostagar starts to appear. I tried lowering texture quality or enabling compatibility for Windows 7 or 8, lowering screen refresh from 144 to 60, but I'm out of ideas. I want to play so bad but this is a nightmare. And for context, on my previous computer that had very similar specs, I never had any of these issues. The only issue I had was with texture not loading properly on characters' clothes or armour (leaving them just blurry and undefined) and simply lowering texture quality from High to Medium had fixed it and I played through 5 entire playthroughs of Origins without a single issue. Can anyone help?

3 Replies

  • @hikarsugyama 

    Please create a DxDiag in text file format and post it with your next reply. You can do that with the "Choose file" button at the bottom right corner of the reply window. 

  • holger1405's avatar
    holger1405
    Hero+
    2 years ago

    @hikarsugyama 

    Yeah, its exactly right.

    Make sure that your games run on the NVIDIA GPU and not on the CPU graphic.

    • Open the NVIDIA Control Panel > 3D Settings > Manage 3D Settings.
    • Go to the ab "Program Settings" Tab > Search for "DAO" in the first drop down menu.
    • Go to: "Select the preferred graphics processor for this program" > Select the NVIDIA High Performance Graphicprocessor > Apply.

    If this setting is missing look at this guide.