Im bumping this ´cause . . Well I can , and because there have been NO WORD whatsoever from EA/Bioware to address this . . .
After spending sometime crawling through tech support forums, I've found what may be the answer. There seems to be reported issues with Ambient Occlusions and Post Processing with nvidia's current drivers (347.09) for Dragon Age.
Anything higher than SSAO for Ambient Occlusions, and anything higher than "Low" for Post Processing seems to cause crash -> reboot issues.
I had Ambient Occlusions set to SSAO already, but my post processing was set to high. I was crashing about every 3-4mins, completely at random (fast travelling, idling, being tabbed out, fighting). I played for ~2 hours without any issues after setting Post Processing to "Low"
I'll update this post I run into any problems. Hope this helps.
Alright, I ran into the issue again shortly after my last post. After more trawling the web for answers, it seems that the issue is not a Dragon Age related issue but a Power Supply Issue.
The problem started when I moved my computer from a dedicated wall socket to an old power strip. Despite the power strip being rated at 2400W, it clearly wasn't stable, especially when I had my portable swamp cooler on the same socket.
After moving my PC back to the wall socket (used an inexpensive extension cable) and double checking all the cables from my PSU were attached correctly, I have no longer experienced any crashes after 5hours+ of gameplay.
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