Dragon Age: Origins Ultimate Edition - Crashing On Startup
I've tried that but "set affinity isn't one of the options. smh
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I am now getting crashes every 10-15 minutes of game play. I have set affinity to run on a single core but I have to do that every time I get into the game because it resets to default every time I exit the game. This buys me the little bit of game play I get between each crash.
For setting affinity permanently: (GOG or Steam, will not work in EA app.)
- Go to your "....Dragon Age Origins\bin_ship\" folder.
- right click "DAOrigins.exe" > select "Send to" > "Desktop (create shortcut)"
- right click the new "DAOrigins.exe - Shortcut" on your Desktop > "Properties"
- Delete anything in the "Target" line.
- Copy and paste: "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C start /affinity 1 DAOrigins.exe" (Without the quotes) into the "Target" line
- Click OK.
- Start the game from this shortcut and the affinity will be set automatically.
For the crash:
The game crashes with a standard Access Violation error code.
This means (in very simple terms) that the game or a component called by DAOrigins.exe is trying to perform an operation in memory that is not allowed.
Problem is that this can have any number of reason. Maybe a dump will bring more light into the problem:
- Press the Windows key and "R" at the same time.
- In the new Window, type or copy and paste "%LOCALAPPDATA%\CrashDumps" (Without the quotation marks) > Press ENTER
- Look if there are any "DAOrigins.exe.Xxxx.dmp" files in the "..Local\CrashDumps" folder.
- Zip 2 - 3 ""DAOrigins.exe.Xxxx.dmp" files together and upload them at a free file hosting service like Dropbox or Onedrive.
- Post the link here.
If there aren't any dump files of ME:
- Press the Windows key > Write: Command Prompt > Right click on "Command Prompt" in the search results > Run as administrator.
- Copy and paste reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps\devenv.exe" /v DumpType /d 2 /t REG_DWORD into the prompt Window > Press ENTER.
- Play the game until it crashes.
- After the game crashes, let all Windows crash dialogues finish.
- Press the Windows key and "R" at the same time. > Type "%LOCALAPPDATA%\CrashDumps" (Without the quotation marks) into the new window > Press ENTER.
- Zip 2 - 3 "DAOrigins.exe.Xxxx.dmp" files together and upload them at file hosting service like Dropbox or you can use the Onedrive "public" folder.
- Post the link here.
If you want to undo the automatic dump creation, use the command below in a elevated command prompt (As in point 1) reg delete "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps" /f
Here's the crash dump files: - CrashDump
I should also note that the affinity pathway you gave me for the Target line in the shortcut doesn't work. I copied and pasted it as you sent it and double checked it for accuracy, but it crashes instantly on launch.
Nick2Sterling wrote:
I should also note that the affinity pathway you gave me for the Target line in the shortcut doesn't work. I copied and pasted it as you sent it and double checked it for accuracy, but it crashes instantly on launch.
This is strange. Could you provide a screenshot of the shortcut itself (just the file on the desktop) and the "properties" window of the shortcut?
I will have a look at the dump later on.The errors are "NULL_POINTER_READ" or "NULL_CLASS_PTR_READ", meaning that there is a attempt to read a pointer that does not (a pointer normal "points" to a valid memory address.)
refer to a valid object and the attempt to access the data stored at that memory location, in this case in a from the OS restricted area, is a access violation.
The problem is that there is no indication of what is causing the error, we know it is not the game itself, if there was a bug in the game that caused this behaviour it would not run for anyone.
So all we can do is standard troubleshootingDo you use mods or reshade?
Please preform a clean boot and test the Game in clean boot mode.
In clean boot:
- Make sure the "EABackgroundService" remains enabled under point 3 in the guide.
- Make sure your virus scanner and other security software and also Afterburner and similar software is disabled.
- Make sure any CORSAIR/ASUS/Razor software is disable or deinstalled and that your GPU & CPU are not overclocked.
- Make sure only your Mouse and keyboard are connected to the PC
