Game always crashes when trying to go to Val Royeaux

Silliest question first....have you tried repairing the game by Origin option??

Have you tried leaving everyone but your Inquisitor at Haven when you go?

Have you tried using different armor on your Inquisitor??

1) Yep! 2) Don't even get the option to select any party members, I just click to start and the loading screen begins, it crashes 3) No, I will do that now

EDIT: changing armour made no difference.

It's worth mentioning the laptop definitely gets hot as it loads so it could obvs just be crashing to prevent overheating, but I don't understand why it would be val royeaux specifically and not the other loading screens/why I can spend hours in the hinterlands with no issue, and it happens if I spend an hour running around camp or if I go straight to the war desk, it seems contingent on VR specifically rather than any cumulative heating as I play.

You are talking about the very first time you go to VR...which means you should be getting a cutscene intro to the city visit by your Inquisitor.  For whatever reason it sounds like this cutscene is what is hanging up your game.  Do you have any command lines entered in origin, such as a FPS fix command, or anything such as that.  You may also try altering the graphics quality, ratio, or effects such as AA.  You may also see if you can change between Direct X and Mantle(since you have a AMD Video device).  If none of this works, you may want to post a full DiaX report rather than just screens of your hardware info...there are some crash reports in it as well as drivers and such.

No command line. Switched off from Mantle, lowered all graphics to their minimums, and the only difference was as opposed to crashing after a few minutes of load time, it crashed almost immediately. I'm assuming lower settings = faster load times so it seems any time the cutscene is approaching is what triggers the crash. Attached a report. Thanks again!

At the bottom of your DiaX file is crashes and issues...I see several that list WUDFHost.exe which is a windows driver base system and usually only shows in crash reports when dealing with a bad driver.  I would see about getting a clean driver utility that will uninstall your drivers, start with video and then reinstall them with latest and see if you fix the issue.  You will need to do video, audio, and maybe even mouse and keyboard depending on how lucky you get.  I know I saw one driver cleaner in another tech forum about the latest usable drivers from AMD and Nvidea.

Thank you. Do you recommend any particular program? I've updated my AMD drivers very recently but when I initially bought the laptop it was still on Catalyst so perhaps there are remnants of those outdated drivers somewhere

AMD has their own...try it for video, after that google what you need a read reviews and such very carefully.

AMD cleaner

I used AMD cleaner, and un/reinstalled new drivers for audio, touchpad and keyboard, but to no avail. DxDiag report seems the exact same, attached for reference. Would it be best for me to contact my graphics card manufacturer at this point?

I don't think graphics manufacturer can do much for you.  I could be wrong, but that is my gut feeling.  1st, I did some research on your machine, and the graphics card listed is a mid-line card, border line low end graphics card.  The results I saw, indicate DAI should only be tried to run on the lowest settings. 

You several different crashes listed now, one was Win10 related so is your Op system up to date?

You have one for printer driver, shouldn't matter but...

You had audio driver crash, have you tried changing your audio device settings to see if it helps?

You also had one or two crashes related to AVG...have you tried disabling your Anti-virus and seeing if it makes a difference?

You may also want to run the game in windows mode, on half the screen and put task manager up on the other half and watch the memory and CPU usages as you play for a bit and then try to go to VR and see what if anything weird is going on...maybe the machine is running out of memory due to another programs memory issue and crashing...??

Have you tried playing on a clean boot, to see if something else is interfering?

This game requires an actual, real gaming graphics core from AMD or nVIDIA, attached to a discrete circuit board that is then inserted into a computer.  There is no Integrated Video device of any nature whatever that is supported to play the game. 

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Display Devices
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          Chip name: AMD Radeon R7 Graphics
       Manufacturer: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
          Chip type: AMD Radeon Graphics Processor (0x9874)
   Dedicated Memory: 487 MB
 

Required Graphics Processer Unit, bare minimum: 

    Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 4870 / NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
    Graphics Card Memory: 512 MB