My game is now working after man y hours of crashing on start up. This is how I was able to make the game run.
First I installed the drivers at https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=24329
Then I disabled Origin in game.
Without disabling Origin in game my game still crashes (even with these drivers). And before I installed the drivers it crashed even when I disabled origin in game.
Hope this helps someone.
The order of things I did to keep the game from freezing (crashing): (preliminary check: make sure you have a quad core processor, anything less and that is most likely your problem, it's in the game requirements to have a quad core processor at minimum).
1. Start the origin software prior to running the game. Must do this part EVERYTIME you restart the origin software: click on origin at the top and select 'go offline.'
2.(Only need to do this step once) two ways to diable origin in game, the way I did it was to disable it completly for all games by: open the origin software, click on origin at the top, in the drop down menu select 'application settings,' then click on the 'origin in game' tab and uncheck the box to turn it off. (alternative way is to go to the 'my games' tab and right click on inquisiton and select the properties option.) ALSO, In the General tab of this menu turned OFF (unchecked): a. auto keep games up to date, b. enable cloud storage. I also turned off in the Advanced tab 'origin helper.'
3. Must do this part everytime you play: After the game starts do not log in with you user information (email & password).
4. (Only need to do this part once) In game, go to the options menu, in the advanced tab I turned off (unchecked) share usage data, as well as turned off upload information to the keep.
5. When creating you character DO NOT load your information from the keep (a lot of people have reported various other bugs related to this as well).
I basically went out of my way to keep the game from talking to bioware servers by taking these steps and the game has played flawless for me since.
Guys. I tried to run this with a Core Duo and OFC it didnt work. I went out and picked up a used Core 2 quad 9400. Guess what, it didnt work. So I messes with my computer all day and about 20 min ago I got past the auto save portion and its working. The thing I did was looked in my task manager. Click performance, then resorce manager and noticed that I wasnt running all my cores. Clicked my RUN box and typed MSCONFIG. clicked boot, Advanced options, it should say how may processers you are running. If its not running 4 you aint running this game. To change it I had to use a program called EasyBC. Its free. Once you have it open it and click Advanved Settings, then click Developer and change the Windows CPU/ Core limit to (zero) 0. Then click Save Settings. After you save turn off the comp. DONT RESET OR LOG OFF. POWER OFF. When you reaload Windows do the MSCONFIG again Click ADVANCE OPTIONS set it to the amount of Cores you really have (dont lie) click ok. Next you click boot log and the os boot information box. Apply. Click make all boot setting permanent. It will warn you that its permanent yada yada yada. Click do it and the PC will want to reset. When you reset you should be able to run this game on Windows 7. Everyone else you can try it out but I didnt try this on Windows 8. Task manager will show you all cores running with 100%.
@CrumB007 wrote:
2.(Only need to do this step once) two ways to diable origin in game, the way I did it was to disable it completly for all games by: open the origin software, click on origin at the top, in the drop down menu select 'application settings,' then click on the 'origin in game' tab and uncheck the box to turn it off. (alternative way is to go to the 'my games' tab and right click on inquisiton and select the properties option.) ALSO, In the General tab of this menu turned OFF (unchecked): a. auto keep games up to date, b. enable cloud storage. I also turned off in the Advanced tab 'origin helper.'
4. (Only need to do this part once) In game, go to the options menu, in the advanced tab I turned off (unchecked) share usage data, as well as turned off upload information to the keep.
I basically went out of my way to keep the game from talking to bioware servers by taking these steps and the game has played flawless for me since.
These 2 worked for me. I was unable to travel to Haven without a crash but disconnecting entirely from Origin did the job.
-J
I set Mesh Detail to Medium. Works for me without crashing now.
