My game freezes during loading screen after race selection
I'm only looking for help with DA:I, but I'm going to mention everything in case it helps figure out what's wrong as I have no idea if any of it is interconnected. Last week I had to get a screen replacement for my laptop, so I had been using an external monitor for a couple weeks. Everything was working perfectly with the external monitor. Then, with the new screen (that I had done by a professional, so should be no problems there), I went back to playing on my laptop. Before continuing to play on my laptop, however, I decided to download some mods with DAI Mod Manager, which I have done for a while now and has always worked perfectly for me. I went into DA:I and started a new game and had no problems whatsoever until after the part where Cassandra and I fall off that bridge and I have my first fight. After this, nothing seemed to be triggering, no cutscenes were happening where they were supposed to and no enemies were where they should've been. I was wandering aimlessly to places I shouldn't have been able to go because of cutscenes until I shut the game. No matter how I changed my mods around, I had this same problem, until the loading screens started freezing. The first time, it was after creating my character and was a black loading screen that froze. The loading thingy in the corner was also frozen. I looked up solutions to this and tried repairing my game and adjusting my graphics settings to be lower even though I know my computer can run this game on High as it has done so since the game came out. The game froze at different points a few times, and once I got the infinite loading screen instead of it freezing, but now it is consistently the same problem. It only freezes after the race selection, before the character creation, in the loading screen with the cards. The loading thing in the corner freezes as well and I am not able to keep flipping through the cards. I tried to update my drivers, which I'm not experienced at but I believe I did it correctly. I went in Device Manager and went to Display Adapters and uninstalled them from there, then ran the AMD autodetect program and reinstalled them with that. It says they are up to date. I also did an uninstallation and reinstall of DA:I. Any ideas please and thank you? 🙂
Here's how to use AMD switchable graphics. Power Saving will use the chipset, the not so good GPU and High Performance will use the dedicated, or better GPU.
When an application launches which requires the additional power of the high performance AMD graphics card, systems with AMD Dynamic Switchable Graphics technology seamlessly switch over to that graphics card, and then turn it off when no longer required.
The switching to the AMD graphics depends on application profiles. If an application has no such profile, you can assign the graphics card manually:
- Right-click your desktop, and select Catalyst Control Center.
- From the Power drop-down menu, select Switchable Graphics.
- Click Browse and navigate to select the program.
- Click Power Saving or High Performance to select the graphics card to use for that specific application.
