Okay so my screen only has a dual link DVI-D port so I plugged a HDMI cable into my GPU and used an adapter for HDMI to DVI-D to plug it in to my screen. I also tried to remove the profileoptions and profileoptions_options -files.
Neither had any result, game froze within two minutes with the same error message again..
Do you think getting a new screen with an HDMI port would help? Or a DVI-D dual link cable? Does it matter that it's an HDMI to DVI-D cable?
Any other ideas on how to solve this? Thanks again in advance...
Doubt it would make a difference on the monitor....a true HDMI monitor WILL look better when gaming, but doubt it helps this crash.
Alright, I went fiddling around with some new combos of possible solutions. Results are as follows.
I set my GPU into debugging mode from the Nvidia control panel, and chose my GPU as the PhysX processor under 3D settings (this was previously set to "automatic"). Game crashed as per usual in less than five minutes.
The best result was achieved by underclocking my GPU by a 100MHz and running the game in windowed mode. I got about 1½ hours in until a crash in cutscene back at Skyhold.
With these two last attempts I've gotten no error message, but the game just freezes, again forcing me to use task manager to quit it.
Is it possible your GPU could be overheating? Have you checked your computer for dust and monitored your temperatures? (You can use a program such as HWMonitor to monitor your temperatures). I had similar issues with the game one summer, the Nvidia GPU I had at the time was very prone to overheating (it did make a great heater in winter, though. Kinda miss it!).
Hey! This is what I was suspecting as well, but the temperature never went over 80C and mostly stayed in the 60-70C range. Currently I'm using EVGA from Steam to underclock the card and have the temperature max set to 80C. I don't really know what constitutes as overheating though, so let me know if I should lower it even further!
I changed my GPU for a new one (same model, 3 fans instead of the 2 I had in my previous one) to try to fix the problem, and cleaned everything with canned air when changing the GPU so it can't be the dust issue.. New GPU and dust removal didn't remove the problem though.
I've heard people fix this issue with a clean driver install together with ccleaner. So far I've only used DDU for a clean install (tried at least 7 times with different Nvidia drivers), so the next thing I'm going to try will be DDU+Ccleaner for the newest drivers + an old one from a time the game worked for me..
Ahhh I want to play this game so bad, it's my absolute favourite.. 🙂
