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Anonymous

12 years ago

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Dragon Age 2 crash on startup

Recently re-downloaded DA2 after uninstalling it a while back. DL went fine, everything looked good. Tried to start it up, got to the launcher, clicked play, and got the error message: Dragon Age II ...

lonori
12 years ago
Searched around a bit and found out some other possible solutions that you might try (see this thread on social Bioware for the whole discussion):
Do these changes in your graphical settings:
--In game video options:
DX 11 with 'high' graphics detail and the high resolution texture pack. Very high graphics makes the shadows and lighting look horrible and it freezes . AA and aniso @ 4x. I didn't checkmark any of the 3 boxes below aniso, just the high res textures.
--Launcher config video options:
Play in full screen; vertical sync, disable multiple render targets and disable aspect-ratio correction check marked.
The game looks much better then settling with DX9 and has not froze once for about 12 hours of staggered playing accross 3 days, once for a 5 hour stretch.
Running the game in full screen and DX9 mode.
If you have a sound card: Update its driver or use the inbuilt sound on the motherboard (this seams unlikely that it will help according to me but it has for at least one).
Disable all over clocking of your graphic card.
Under clock you graphic card (see the thread for more info)
I haven't had the need to try either of these for myself but I hope that one of them can help you. Good luck.

Anonymous

12 years ago

Thanks for the help. Unfortunately the program linked in that thread failed to find any faulty drivers. I have also since tried doing a clean install through the nvidia installer to no avail. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

lonori

12 years ago

Searched around a bit and found out some other possible solutions that you might try (see this thread on social Bioware for the whole discussion):

Do these changes in your graphical settings:
--In game video options:
DX 11 with 'high' graphics detail and the high resolution texture pack. Very high graphics makes the shadows and lighting look horrible and it freezes . AA and aniso @ 4x. I didn't checkmark any of the 3 boxes below aniso, just the high res textures.
--Launcher config video options:
Play in full screen; vertical sync, disable multiple render targets and disable aspect-ratio correction check marked.
The game looks much better then settling with DX9 and has not froze once for about 12 hours of staggered playing accross 3 days, once for a 5 hour stretch.

Running the game in full screen and DX9 mode.
If you have a sound card: Update its driver or use the inbuilt sound on the motherboard (this seams unlikely that it will help according to me but it has for at least one).
Disable all over clocking of your graphic card.
Under clock you graphic card (see the thread for more info)

I haven't had the need to try either of these for myself but I hope that one of them can help you. Good luck.