I'm also having this issue. I played the game for about 40 hours with no problem at all and only over the last 10 hours has it become an issue, and it seems to be getting worse the more I progress in the game. Was every few hours and it is more like once and hour. So frustrating! I have a brand-new Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 on Windows 7 64-bit.
I posted this on RPGwatch already.
If you get random Crash-to-the-Desktop errors with a DirectX messagebox, this helped me:
(I have a Win7 64 Bit-System with a ZOTAC GTX 660 TI NVIDIA gfx card)
Upgrade to Nvidia driver version NVIDIA 347.09
Choose (very important!)
Display Mode: Full-screen Window
Graphic Options:
Tessellation Quality: OFF
Post Processing Quality: LOW
Ambient Occlusion: OFF
Effects Quality: LOW
Post Process Anti-aliasing: OFF
Multi-Sample Anti-aliasing: OFF
everything else can be on HIGH:
Resolution Scale 100
Graphics Quality Custom
Mesh Quality High
Resolution 1920x1080
Shadow Quality High
Terrain Quality High
Texture Quality High
Vegetation Quality High
Water Quality High
The setting file:
C:\Users\[yourUserName]\Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age Inquisition\Save\ProfileOptions_profile
looks like this:
GstAudio.AudioCompressionMode 0
GstAudio.DialogueVolume 1.000000
GstAudio.EnableSubtitles 0
GstAudio.MasterVolume 1.000000
GstAudio.MusicVolume 1.000000
GstAudio.SavedEnableSubtitles 1
GstAudio.SoundEffectsVolume 1.000000
GstAudio.TextLanguage -1
GstAudio.VoiceOverLanguage -1
GstAudio.VoipBehavior 0
GstRender.AmbientOcclusion 0
GstRender.AnisotropicFilter 4
GstRender.AntiAliasingDeferred 0
GstRender.AntiAliasingPost 0
GstRender.Brightness 0.500000
GstRender.EffectsQuality 0
GstRender.FieldOfView 70.000000
GstRender.FullscreenEnabled 0
GstRender.FullscreenMode 2
GstRender.FullscreenRefreshRate 60.000000
GstRender.FullscreenScreen 0
GstRender.Gamma 0.500000
GstRender.Mantle 0
GstRender.MeshQuality 2
GstRender.OverallGraphicsQuality 5
GstRender.PostProcessQuality 0
GstRender.ResolutionHeight 1080
GstRender.ResolutionScale 1.000000
GstRender.ResolutionWidth 1920
GstRender.ScreenSafeAreaHeight 0.950000
GstRender.ScreenSafeAreaWidth 0.950000
GstRender.ScreenUIScale -1.000000
GstRender.ScreenUIXOffset 0.000000
GstRender.ScreenUIYOffset 0.000000
GstRender.ShadowQuality 2
GstRender.TerrainQuality 2
GstRender.TessellationQuality 0
GstRender.TextureQuality 3
GstRender.UndergrowthQuality 2
GstRender.VSyncEnabled 1
GstRender.WaterInteractQuality 2
GstInput.CameraAutoCenter 0
GstInput.GamePad 0
GstInput.MouseRawInput 0
GstInput.MouseSensitivity 0.400000
GstInput.MouseSmoothing 0.200000
GstInput.Scheme0FlipX 0
GstInput.Scheme0FlipY 0
GstInput.Scheme0Sensitivity 0.500000
GstInput.SwapMouseButtons 0
GstInput.Vibration 1
I could play for 8 hours without a crash. Hope this helps.
After trying everighing .
My solution,
Presets= medium( change noghting).
No more CTDs.
