Do you use Mods?
Did you checked the task manager for other applications that cause high loads?
Please create a DxDiag in text file format and post it with your next reply. You can do that with the "Choose file" button at the bottom right corner of the reply window.
Hey, thanks for answering my call for help! I am using no mods, and I did monitor my cpu while playing the game. Nothing of note happening there, just EA and DAI active and DAI will sometimes go up to 50%.
I attached my dxdiag here. I did just have a bunch of repairs done to the pc a year or so ago but I played at least 25 hours of DAI with it since then and never had any issues. This only just started happening.
At first I thought it was an issue caused by hooking up wiith HDMI to my TV but I took all of that out of the equation too and still have all the same issues.
The AppHangB1 error in your DxDiag is often driver related and the driver of your GTX 970 is very old, so lets start there.
Ok so that has definitely improved the things, but we are still experiencing a lot of lagging and freezing when moving around. The sound is still getting static also, but is working better overall. I'd say since updating the graphics driver the situation has improved by about 50%?
Still having to wait quite a bit while the game seems to catch up though. So not quite playable at this point.
In laptops, the dedicated GPU and the CPUs graphic APU work together.
So I would suggest to renew the graphic driver for the Intel GPU as well.
You can find the driver here on this intel page.
Make also sure that your games run on the NVIDIA GPU and not on the Intel GPU.
If this setting is missing look at this guide.
