I have an update. And it is a good one. So, for many of you who have followed my thread, you know that I did not come up with a permanent solution to the CTD.
I have updated my BIOS on Wednesday (31/12/2014) and have played the game the whole night with ZERO crashes (6 - 7 hours) and of course, 01/01/2015 is a holiday and I spent the whole day playing the game too. Good news! ZERO crashes too. I split my play in 3 sessions throught the day. 5 hours starting in the morning, another 4 hours in noon and 3 hours at night. Yes, no crash, no shutter, no freezing and no problem. The game play was smooth as silk.
The last time I updated my BIOS was...erm....never! :D I used the driver from the installation out of the box (of which the driver is from year 2010). I did not, however, tweaked the graphic settings and overclock anything (yet) but I will later on when I have time to run further tests. You may give suggestions in ways to test.
I know this may be "luck", so, I stress tested the game. The places in game that I crash the most is the Foundry (?) - the place where you craft gears in Skyhold, the War Table, during conversation and cutscenes. Yes. Not. One. Crash. (Yay)
I will come back with more updates in a couple of days. If the update-BIOS-fix works, I will mark this thread as Solved.
So, I ask for your help in testing by updating your BIOS and see whether you game is crash-free. There will be complication in updating your BIOS. Read the instruction here before going ahead:-
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c00007682
Quote: "if an incorrect update is installed or if the update process is interrupted, the motherboard can be permanently damaged, leaving the computer unable to boot." However, if you follow the instructions closely, you may "fix" the CTDs and also (as a bonus) improve the performance of your system! My machine is running smoothly, FYI.
See you guys again in a few days! <3
Again, thanks for the update!
But...I updated my BIOS and got a *new* error. After about ten minutes of playing, my computer completely shut down. That's something that has never happened before, and now I'm afraid to boot up the game at all. (Before it would just CTD with no error after around 20 minutes.)
My specs again, just in case someone can point to something and say "ah-ha!":
Windows 8.1
Motherboard: MSI A75MA-G55 (MS-7696)
CPU: AMD A8-3870 (quad core, 3.0 GHz)
GPU: GTX 660
RAM: 16GB DDR3
650W PSU
Edit: It looks like updating my BIOS did something wonky, because my PC is shutting off during any game I play, so it's not just DA:I. Resetting back to factory settings now.
@foneshome
Well, **bleep**...Now I feel so bad recommending this step.
Don't know about you guys, but before patch, i had zero crashes, after patch i get ctd with no error, but that is random, can play a game for an hour and ctd, or play a whole day, travel to many places and no crash, then go to inventory and boom, you are at desktop. My guess, there is problem with memory leak in game
@foneshome wrote:
Again, thanks for the update!
But...I updated my BIOS and got a *new* error. After about ten minutes of playing, my computer completely shut down. That's something that has never happened before, and now I'm afraid to boot up the game at all. (Before it would just CTD with no error after around 20 minutes.)
My specs again, just in case someone can point to something and say "ah-ha!":
Windows 8.1
Motherboard: MSI A75MA-G55 (MS-7696)
CPU: AMD A8-3870 (quad core, 3.0 GHz)
GPU: GTX 660
RAM: 16GB DDR3
650W PSU
Edit: It looks like updating my BIOS did something wonky, because my PC is shutting off during any game I play, so it's not just DA:I. Resetting back to factory settings now.
gtx 660.
known issue with _60 series cards having a pattern of problems.
it is known that gtx 460,560, 660, 760, etc cards including Ti versions are having more difficulty
with this game than other cards.
having read through many, many posts of pc issues, and having GTX 760's in my system, I have
asked tech support about it, and they confirmed that there is a pattern of _60 series cards
having issues with the game more than other series. And was told that the studio is looking
into this, and working with nvidia to resolve it.
@Keataclysm: No worries, it was worth a try 🙂 I reset my BIOS and all is back to normal.
@middlefngrsalute: Thanks for the heads up! I guess I'll wait for the next patch/driver and cross my fingers.
Update: I was able to play for 2.5 hours tonight, which is the longest I've been able to play, by far. Surprised the hell out of me.
The things I changed:
I'll play more tomorrow night and report back if I get the CTD again. Otherwise, I guess one of those steps magically fixed it.
