Dragon Age Inquisition; Black screen into a force restart (quad core)

I got the same problem, except it happens aprox. once every 2 hours. Got the newest AMD drivers. No difference if I use Dx11 or Mantle.

What most annoing is you are force to do a forced restart of your computer. I've many harddrives that way.

I7-3930k

16gb ram

AMD R290

Win7 64bit

I had this issue very persistently. The only thing that resolved it was when I did two things, a verify of the game files, and lowered Ambient Occlusion from HBAO to SSAO. I believe the latter is what did it, other people in other threads said this stopped it for them as well. I haven't had a restart in the past about 5 hours of gameplay when they used to happen every 10 minutes.

Thanks for the post, Darthus. Just out of interest, what card/rig are you using?

Edit:Checked posting history: "quad core i5-750, GTX 970 and 8GB Ram"

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@Darthus wrote:

I had this issue very persistently. The only thing that resolved it was when I did two things, a verify of the game files, and lowered Ambient Occlusion from HBAO to SSAO. I believe the latter is what did it, other people in other threads said this stopped it for them as well. I haven't had a restart in the past about 5 hours of gameplay when they used to happen every 10 minutes.

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I have done that , and was able to play for approx 2 hours, and then it crashed again.

I've noticed no patterns in the black screen crashes. Sometimes is during a rift or a cutsceene, sometimes it's when looking at gear/skills. I hope there will be a patch soon to fix this issue.

Seems to be a problem related to the GTX 970, or possibly just with conflicts in the high/ultra. I purchased a GTX 970 this morning so I could play at highter settings and I'm having some constant black screen crashes about halfway through closing a rift. Location of the rift doesn't seem to be making a difference.

As an FYI I played the game for 10+ hrs. on my GTX 660 with not a single crash, stutter or slowdown. Just low graphics settings. I also stress tested the GTX 970 for over an hour just incase it was a video card problem but didn't have a single issue.

• Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2700K CPU @ 3.50GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.8GHz
• Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601)
• 16GB Ram
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

UPDATE: I tried chaning the following:

• Ambient Occlusion to SSAO (from (HBAO Full)
• Effects Quality to High (from Ultra)
• Mesh Quality to High (from Ultra)
• Post Processing Qualith to High (from Ultra)
• Tesselation Quality to Medium (from Ultra)

For the ost part Amient Occlusion seems to play the biggest part in my crashes as I had indipendently changed some of the settings previously to incrase to a steady frame-rate in some of the busier areas. Changing to SSAO seems to have temporarilty resolved the crash as I completed two rifts with no issues at all. Good enough for now until a patch comes out, I'll advise if anything changes.

Sounds like a very similar situatiion Reinsol. Also just anecdotally it does sound like GTX 970 is in particular having the issue. I am still running everything else Ultra with SSAO and experience no crashes in the past 15 hours. I'm upgrading my entire computer (aside from the graphics card), but am nervous about bumping AO back up until a patch comes out from either NVIDIA or Bioware to address this. Does anyone have an eta or have heard anything?