For me it very reliably crashes n the first map room cutscene. I cannot move the story past this point.
@Nikells wrote:Ok, following on from this I'm going to try the following workarounds and update them if I can confirm they don't work.
Seems like I can reliably recreate the crash on the map room introduction (haven't been able to get past it without it crashing the game yet.)
My Solution!
I have 2 GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost cards in Sli configuration; using drivers version 344.75. I was suffering from this crash/error on multible occasions (cutscenes and the war room.) The game was unplayable.
I searched for solutions and tried many of them (reloading drivers, reinstalling VC, turning off Ambient Occlusion, lowering my GPU Mhz, etc...) None fixed my error, although some resulted in having the error less often, but only somewhat playable if I skipped through cutscenes as quickly as possible, but still unable to use the war room (since you can't skip.)
*After doing the following, I have had over 3 days of uninterupted gameplay through many long cutscenes and uses of the war room.*
Using Nvidia's Geforce Experience as a guide, I set my graphic settings to the recomended optimal settings. They are as follows:
Ambient Occlusion SSAO
Display Mode Full-screen
Effects Quality Low
Graphics Quality Custom
Mesh Quality High
Multisample Anti-Aliasing Off
Post-process Anti-Aliasing High
Post-process Quality Medium
Resolution 1920x1080
Resolution Scale 100
Shadow Quality Medium
Terrain Quality Medium
Tessellation Quality Off
Texture Quality Low
Vegetation Quality Medium
Water Quality High
Now, the graphics are noticeably worse than they were when I had the settings at High/Ultra, but not bad. I have not tried to increase any of the above to see if I can improve graphics and not get the error (why mess with a good thing.) All I can say is I LOVE THIS GAME and have been enjoying it without incident since I used those settings. Moreover, this worked for me and my setup (with factory overclock included!) I hope that if you are using the 650 Ti Boost this will work for you, or if you are using a different card, you can install Geforce Experience and try the recommended optimal settings to get the game to work for you.
*Note: I did have to manually make the changes, the program could not make the changes for me.
Good Luck and Happy Gaming!!
P.S. Has anybody else found themself singing "The Inquisition" from Mel Brook's History of the World Part I while playing this game??
I just think it is weird to have to downgrade our graphics and cpus to play what is supposedly a state of the art game that is intended to be enjoyed visually...its an EA/Bioware Fail.
Absolutely wonderful! 12 hours with no crash, just smooth gameplay. I just followed your settings, did nothing else, GTX 650 Ti Boost. Thank you, you're a SAINT.
Reverted latest Nvidia river, and had 16 hours of no directx errors, from every 20 minutes.
Then NOPE !!!
You are awesome. I gotta tell ya. I was singing it at some point. Hahahhaha
I hope that this helps someone... It was the only thing that worked for me so far.
I had the same problem (Direct X message error, unable to play on fullscreen because of flickering or crashing), that also happened to me with The Night of the Rabbit, so I tried the same solution and so far it worked (at least I can open the game on fullscreen without flickering or crashing).
What I have done it is very simple: on the desktop just right-click, select "screen resolution", then on the new window click on the text "change size of the text and other elements" (or similar, I have Windows in Spanish), and set them to 100% (small).
I have a Macbook Pro Retina (early 2013) with Windows 7 and the GPU is a NVidia GT 650.
Good luck!
