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 level up Cole and the game closed to desktop. There was no error message or anything and it didn't generate an event in event viewer, nor any dump file anywhere else.
I figured it was just a random bug and went back to playing, but then it happened again, when I was walking through the Hinterlands. And then it kept happening in random places too.
I thought, perhaps my save file got corrupted somehow? And tried creating a new character, which crashed right in the prologue, just before decide whether to take the mountain path or charge.
Since then I have tried almost all the troubleshooting tips, but nothing worked for me and I do not know what to do anymore.
My laptop is Asus Rog Strix G18 with the following specs:
intel i9-14900HX CPU
Nvidia rtx 4080 laptop GPU
32G of RAM
Windows 11
I have tried:
-Verifying game files through steam
-Lowering my graphics settings
-Playing in windowed borderless and windowed mode
-Re-installing my drivers
-DDU reinstalling both drivers for my integrated intel and nvidia gpu
-DDU rolling back drivers for both my gpus
-setting CPU affinity to different cores through process lasso (I have tried many configurations but none worked)
-deleting the profile setting files and letting the game generate them again
-setting exception for steam, ea app, dragon age.exe, the folder with dragon age.exe and save folder in windows defender
-disabling turbo boost for CPU
-clean boot
-full re-install of the game, including the deletion of all shader caches (DX, Nvidia and Intel)
None of these worked and I am at a loss now. The crashes are completely random and numerous I now have muscle memory for quicksaves, it's eating away at my sanity. Please help me somebody ;-;
