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9 years ago

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Dragon Age Origins 'Definitive' Crash Fix?

I have Dragon Age Origins Ultimate Edition for Steam, and i heard that it had problems with Memory Leaks (which crash the game... or was it the pc? ...not my point). I looked up ways to prevent such problems, but there seems to be a hundred solutions on each forum for the issue.

Is there one that works for sure, or do I just have to try each one when the problem comes up? Or... if it comes up...?

Thanks. Just figured i'd ask for my own curiosity and other's future reference.

ThandalNLyman
9 years ago
There is no "100% Fix" for this issue. It's a result of (poor?) coding in the game engine itself. The best a player can do is mitigate the effects through having at least 4GB of RAM and using the LAA hak. But that only delays the inevitable.

Pro Tips: Save early, save often, and exit/re-enter the game once every couple of hours.

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EA_David
Community Admin
9 years ago
@Zander490 Honestly it's different for every game and issue.

Sometimes there's a 100% permanent fix that solves a problem 100% of the time, but that's rare as a certain symptom could be indicative of different issues, or a person might have multiple issues that compound the problem.

If you do encounter issues (which isn't guaranteed, much of the time folks just play without encountering anything) you can post here and hopefully someone can help you out.
ThandalNLyman
9 years ago
There is no "100% Fix" for this issue. It's a result of (poor?) coding in the game engine itself. The best a player can do is mitigate the effects through having at least 4GB of RAM and using the LAA hak. But that only delays the inevitable.

Pro Tips: Save early, save often, and exit/re-enter the game once every couple of hours.
AnyMEmdq
Seasoned Newcomer
4 years ago
@EA_David You do know your reply is a bad joke, right? This problem is a well known DA:O problem since 2009, a 100% permanent fix was promised to come with patch 1.05, but it didn't. EVERYONE has this problem, which back in 2009 was a MASSIVE problem, since it was not that common to have 4+ GB RAM. Encountering this issue in the game, unless you play for half an hour at a time, IS guaranteed, but it starts just like a mild annoyance, and only becomes a severe crash creator after a few hours of continuous gameplay.

Please, don't lie to people, and as an EA employee, own the middle finger both EA and Bioware threw at their clients, saying it was never officially fixed even if it was promised, and recommend what you consider the best of the hundreds of partial workarounds there are as @ThandalNLyman did.