Please try the following fix, it worked well for me. If it does not work feel free to post your system specs and I'll see if any of the other things I tried work for you.
Start DA: O as admin if possible.
When it's running hit ctrl - alt- delete to get to the task manager.
Choose the dragonageorigins.exe process and right click. Hit "Set Affinity"
Check only 1 cpu and uncheck the rest, then exit.
Hey, thanks for the tips everyone! Sadly, nothing I did ever fixed the problem. However! After the last Steam update, the game is working like nothing ever happened. I'm not really sure what the deal was, but I'm glad it's fixed. I hope anyone else that was having the same problem as I was able to find a solution. Cheers.
The only thing I can think of is that something on Steam was affecting the Flag setting for the real GPU to be used, and the Intel chip was what was being used for awhile. The game was never meant to have any compatibility with those Intel things.
I know this is an old post, but I am a good person!
Anyway, for anyone else looking to solve this issue, I have another tip: If you have Xfire running, you need to close it (completely exit). The Dragon Age engine doesn't like the way Xfire injects its code. I know two people who weren't able to run the game until exiting.
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