Dragon Age Inquisition Crashing
Hello, I have an issue. I decided to replay the game recently and redownloaded it through steam. I managed to play for around 30 hours with no issues, reaching Skyhold. Once there I was trying to le...
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holger1405
Hey thank you for your response! Here's the dxdiag.
There are 0x141 VIDEO_ENGINE_TIMEOUT_DETECTED LiveKernelEvent errors in your DxDiag.
This means that one of the video engines, most likely the graphics driver, stopped responding within a time frame determined by the OS. If this occurs, the OS terminates the driver and resets the GPU to prevent the system from becoming unresponsive or crashing.
- Follow this manual to the letter to clean uninstall all NVIDIA graphic driver components.
IMPORTANT: if you use a Pin to log into Windows 11 don't use DDU in safe mode!
Use it in your normal Windows session. - Install the graphics newest driver > Go online.
- Test.
There are also other serious errors in your DxDiag.
Do you get BSOD when you play?
holger1405
Hey! Nope no BSOD the game exits with no errors and I had already done the DDU but I think I solved my crashing issue and it had nothing to do with my graphics drivers.
I posted this on the dragon age and dragon age inquisition subreddits as well in case anyone could help me there and some person on the Inquisition sub told me they had the same issues on their ps5 and that it was caused by the trials for them.
When he said this I realized that on my skyhold crashing character I decided to enable even ground and take it slow after I reached skyhold cause I felt like my levelling was too fast - then it started crashing.
On my new characters I started with those trials already enabled because I felt like they made the gameplay more fun and those characters were crashing too.
So I just removed those two trials and have been playing for a while and haven't crashed a single time - I will keep playing some more and update this in a few days, marking it as a solution if I don't crash again.
Thank you for your help though! (Also those dxdiag events are pretty old I'm sure I had some issue with a different game bugging with my driver causing blue screens, but never dragon age).
EDIT: "old" is a strong word I mean they are BEFORE I did the DDUholger1405
Okay nevermind, I just crashed again it is not the trials sadly :(
This is truly maddening, I did the entirety of Crestwood, went back to Skyhold, did the whole forbidden oasis, turned the game off, came back to it and it crashed walking from camp in Forbidden Oasis.
I wish it would at least give me an error but there is nothing, event viewer is clear :(The next step would be to DDU the intel graphic drivers. On a Laptop both the intel and NVIDIA graphic drivers work in conjunction.
But seriously, the number of significant error reports in your DxDiag either point to a hardware problem, a rather sever driver problem or to problems inside the OS.
You can check if these *.dmp files still exist and upload them to your public OneDrive folder or a free file hosting service like Dropbox.
C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\091125-22078-01.dmp
C:\WINDOWS\LiveKernelReports\WATCHDOG\WATCHDOG-20250521-2256.dmp
If these specific *.dmp files are no longer available, it would be good to have a minidump whose creation date corresponds with a crash.
