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10 years ago

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Nvidia driver CRASH: Windows 10 DAI

This isn't the first time someone has this issue... And frankly its the first time Ive had this issue. i dont know what to do anymore. i've tried more than 30 "solutions" NONE has worked so far.

here is some of the things i've tried:

Deleting all excessive software.

Cleaning most of my computer.

Runned Ccleaner a 100 times.

uninstalled ALL graphic drivers and re-installed them freshly (win 8.1)

downgraded drivers to older builds.

made a user.cfg containing these lines: WorldRender.MotionBlurEnable 0
RenderDevice.VSyncEnable 0
RenderDevice.TripleBufferingEnable 0

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disabled Vsync ingame and on Nvidia control panel.

ran the game with optimized settings from Gforce experience.

uninstalled all other games.

repaired DAI 20 times.

installed all DLC.

repaired again...

reinstalled drivers...

even my integrated card ones...

running DAI with high end GPU processor.

reinstalled game and DLC 4 times

closing all non important software while playing (firefox, steam and such)

playing without the origin interface and in offline mode on origin.

disabled auto connect to DAI keep.

disabling all ANTI virus running in the background.

updated directx countless of times.

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gave up on Windows 8.1 and upgraded to Windows 10

uninstalled all GPU drivers and Gforce experience. Then downloaded some fresh Windows 10 Nvidia drivers WITHOUT Gforce experience.

still using user.cfg at this point.

reinstalled game with all DLC except "Trespasser" (i heard alot of issues about crashing with this dlc...)

repaired... Again...

ran the game and i got to play for 4 hours STRAIGHT! normally i'd get about 15-20 min and then the nvidia driver would crash.

assumed i had fixed the game. However my framerate would suck. Since the game would have its settings to "automatic" and forced all to ultra.

i disabled vsync again. and changed the quality of all settings to high instead of ultra.

the crashing resumed.

changed back to automatic resulting in pisspoor fps AND still crashing.

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im beginning to lose hope here.... And may i point out that i've tried most of the stuff i did on windows 8.1 on windows 10 aswell, like disabling other programs and running offline.

i've included a Dxdiag.

i own the deluxe edition AND game of the year edition.

and pardon my poor english and grammar-

DxDiag.txt91 KB

dragon age inquisition

Urdnot_Talen
10 years ago
i want to thank everyone who spent their time with my issue and helped me with the issues.
however, it is my mistake. i have been doing poor maintenance. i disassembled my laptop today and found that all the vent exit points were clogged with dust and stuff.
i tested with MSI afterburner to check my gpu temp and it raised to dangerously high temperatures... 90c
after underclocking my card and raising it on 2 blocks to improve the airflow my temp maxed out at 80 in demanding games. NEVER had a crash since.
now after i cleaned it im expecting even lower tempatures. will test and report back here.
So thank you everyone and sorry. i should have held better maintenance
Update:
having cleaned my vents worked, but the problem is deeper. i have to change the thermal paste on my GPU chip.
but after that im positive it will work like a dream again.
thanks again everyone!

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Urdnot_Talen
10 years ago
i want to thank everyone who spent their time with my issue and helped me with the issues.
however, it is my mistake. i have been doing poor maintenance. i disassembled my laptop today and found that all the vent exit points were clogged with dust and stuff.
i tested with MSI afterburner to check my gpu temp and it raised to dangerously high temperatures... 90c
after underclocking my card and raising it on 2 blocks to improve the airflow my temp maxed out at 80 in demanding games. NEVER had a crash since.
now after i cleaned it im expecting even lower tempatures. will test and report back here.
So thank you everyone and sorry. i should have held better maintenance
Update:
having cleaned my vents worked, but the problem is deeper. i have to change the thermal paste on my GPU chip.
but after that im positive it will work like a dream again.
thanks again everyone!
Leora85
Hero+
10 years ago
The dust, seems to stump us every time. 😛 Didn't occur to me to mention it (there have been a few dust related issues lately) because it was a laptop, 😛

Hope cleaning it out fixes all of your issues. 🙂
EA_Barry
Community Manager
10 years ago
@Urdnot_Talen

Glad you seem to have this sorted out, sorry we did not catch the clogged airflow possibility sooner.
Anonymous
10 years ago
Glad if you are sorted. It seems there is a multitude of reasons for this. I checked for dust as an early attempt to solve the issue but that didn't help me. I returned here to say that I foolishly updated some drivers to their latest versions (NVIDIA being conspicuous) and now I'm experiencing common crashes once again. Worse is that system restore seems not to work on Win 10 as it always moans that it didn't do anything because it couldn't access a file. It suggested I turn the AV off and retry but that didn't help. Said something about advanced restore but I've no idea what that is. I wish EA and NVIDIA could get together and solve the issue rather than find nothing wrong with their bit. :-( Either the drivers all have a flaw, or the game is sending it something invalid it isn't coping with. Time will now tell if the game has become unplayable again.
Hmm ... 50 minutes and a power cycle needed for the crash. :-( Why did I update the drivers ? 35 minutes... Interesting. I will not yet me change the options. graphics quality is set to automatic, if I try to change it the screen flickers, it remains at automatic and the selection moves to mesh quality. Something is controlling this and it isn't me, the only one it should be. Wonder if it's that NVIDIA Experience thing setting all to "optimal" again ? Darn it, something has set it to full screen again ! That has never worked properly ! And that refuses to change also. What is it about things refusing to let one control their own settings/PC ? All the data login stuff ticked AGAIN. Seems I can only change things if I make a different screen active and click on the option immediately from there ! Sigh, another long long long period of trying to work out why NVIDIA and DAI don't work well together.
Anonymous
10 years ago
Oh brilliant. All I now have are 2 corrupted saves !!!!!!! Switching characters and there is a small improvement. All have the latest two saves shown as corrupted but the rest are there. Yes I can confirm that for the game I've been playing recently the latest game that is not marked 'corrupt save' is some way back. Why did I update the drivers ? Why is this game the only thing that has issues with them ? Makes one want to give up. I need a cheat patch that lets me be invulnerable until I've walked through to where I already have reached. This is going to be SOOOOO tedious. And it affects all 5 characters. Has to be due to the crash.