Nvidia driver CRASH: Windows 10 DAI

Not necessarily a helping reply, but it seems like as of late Nvidia cards are somehow causing games to crash, lock computers up, etc... Maybe an issue with their newest set of drivers?

sounds plausible. i crash alot in fallout 4 as of recently. And Just cause 3...

hell even sims 4.... Though not as bad as DAI

Alright.

i factory reset my laptop... removing EVERYTHING.

running on windows 8.1

updated the drivers and installed them CLEAN.

now im not having kernel driver crashes. the game will just decide to freeze especially during cutscenes and dialogue. i dont get a error message. it just freezes.

it looks sorta like this:

i walk around just fine, but when i enter a cutscene with dialogue it will begin lagging and eventually freeze. The game doesnt close, it just skips lines and sometime they look at each other without talking, it will then freeze and show the game part of the cutscene. it wont move or anything. no hard crash no ctd. im forced to end the process with task manager.

i'm running with Nvidia geforce experience optimized settings.

i did however have a nvidia kernel crash when i tried changing from fullscreen to windowed fullscreen.

Have you tried contacting Dell/Alienware about these ongoing issues? Perhaps they can help? 

No, i figured that since it the only game i'm having dialogue crashes in it'd be game related.

besides the community usually have the solutions. Rather than a support that read about one line of your message and then just give you links to community solutions. official support rarely ever give support.

last time i contacted them about this issue was back when i brought DAI and they brushed me away by redirecting me with community solutions. So i dont want to waste time with them, when im more likely to get better support here, also there seem to be more activity here than on official support, having to wait 3-4 days for a solution to a game breaking bug is not acceptable. Atleast here i've been getting a somewhat steady flow of things to try.

if i get the Nvidia driver crashing again however i will contact Nvidia, as their newer drivers are broken. Because it happens in all my newer games and DAI. and i am 90% sure its the drivers as it began after updating my drivers. Sadly if i downgrade the games run with a absolutely terrible framerate making them unplayable.

It was the mention of crashes and issues in other games that made me suggest contacting Alienware/Dell (I guess Nvidia's an option, too), seems like it's more than just DAI having problems. 

Well, now I know, if I ever get rich, don't buy an Alienware, they have poor customer service. 😛 

Anyway, hopefully you can get it sorted. Nvidia does seem to fix their drivers pretty quickly when everyone complains.

righty ;D though i have zero regrets regarding this laptop, (it has and does serve me well for its age)

i just dont understand, i was able to play DAI flawless on this very laptop back 6 month ago. it is due to recent updates that i had the Nvidia crashes.

which seems to be gone, i hope.

now my dialogue just freezes... and skipping is not an option.

@Urdnot_Talen

Hey, remove any mods you may have, reduce your graphics quality settings and right click and repair the game in Origin.

Try those steps and let us know your results here please and thanks.

Thanks but these problems have nothing to do with the mods im running. And i did try all the solutions i've mentioned before without mods. and tested them with the mods. Nothing changed, same problems.

anyhow, like i said the driver doesn't crash unless im running in windowed fullscreen now. i used Gforce Experience optimal settings and lowered them to performance rather than quality.

However, that opened a NEW problem. Now i will freeze at any time. The game will lag heavily and then a forewarning will be a screen tear where i have about 5 sec before the lag and freeze arrives.

a temporary fix for this is to run the game with the "Real time" priority in Task Manager. 

and yes my laptop can run the game just fine. all of these issues have been from updates to the game and nvidia drivers.

because i ran the very same game on ultra and high just fine with no crashes or freezing a few month's ago. On the very same laptop i use now.

and since i ran windows 8.1 back then i will continue to do so.

i have run countless repairs without the mods and still had these problems. i installed mods to test if they reduced or added to my problems. They changed absolutely nothing.

if you have a permanent solution to the Screen Tearing / Freezing issue then i'd love to hear it.

i find it sad that one of my favorite RPG's is unplayable thanks to "patches"

especially because i purchased the game of the year edition.

i have also tried without certain DLC's but to no avail, still crashed.

iam sorry if i sound "superior" i have no intentions of so. im just... frustrated thats all..

and thank you and everyone else who have taken their time to try and help. i appreciate it.

Do you know which patch caused you to start having problems? I still have copies of patches 9 and 10 if that'll be of any use to you (though if you have Trespasser, you need patch 10 minimum, and it's super buggy without patch 11... And some of your mods might freak out, as well as mod manager).

Hopefully Nvidia will fix their drivers soon and that'll fix at least some of your issues.

And I think we all get how frustrating it is. One downside of PC gaming is that these things can happen and be really frustrating, with so many different possible combinations of hardware and software, it's inevitable.