Dragon Age Inquisition black screen
I can get as far as the menu sometimes. Last weekend the game ran on my computer Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. On Monday it loaded but with lag times of many seconds to take a single step. Since then it has not loaded even once after MANY MANY hours of trying. Now it goes to black screen then 20 or so minutes later just disappears. No application or process shown in Task Manager... but LOTS of disk activity related to Origin app. Tried offline mode this morning, same result. Don't tell me to update my drivers, there are no updates available for notebooks with switchable graphics. Can't get a refund because all my wasted time trying to load this thing shows up as time played.
Last weekend theload times were longish but not so bad. Now I can't understand all the disk activity that goes on when it tries to load... does it compile on the fly? Interpretive C++? Or more likely some **bleep** retentive copy protection gone horribly wrong? I bought the pre-release months early (what an **bleep**) and when I tried to redeem the product code it said it was already redeemed. By who? Is that the problem, some auto redemption that doesn't finish the job? I don't know.
What little I have seen of the game so far looks pretty good but what good is a game that won't run? Why will it run on X360s with whatever RAM/CPU they have but a four core I5 and 6 gigs of RAM aren't enough? Graphics card is an HD 7450, better than the minimum required.
Is anyone even working on this problem? I'm not the only one who has it.
