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Re: Constant Crashing - No solution?

Watching taskmanager and possibly something like speedfan is so you can watch when the game locks up and see if another program has started up and eating memory/cpu to cause your issue. Speedfan would allow you to monitor individual processors of your CPU for temps....as well as other temps on Mobo and vid card. Why you would monitor individual temps of your CPU?? Well, I remember a game(I want to say DAI) but can't remember the exact game for sure, but anyway, I remember a game that used only a few of the cpu's on some chips and if they were too close together, it would overheat ONLY those parts of the processor causing strange issues, but you could set up the program to use certain processors and it would allow spaces to keep them all cool. This was found by watching what was going on with monitoring programs and eventually the issue was corrected at the programming level....but can't hurt to check when you have looked at many other issues already.

One other thing to try is clean boot...this is restarting your computer without alot of the junk that normally loads. IIRC the sticky above about troubleshooting has directions or a link to the process. This would help eliminate cross program interference.

You may also change your audio settings as well, especially if you have something other than just stereo selected. Audio doesn't USUALLY cause crashes, but again, you have tried most everything else, so can't hurt to look around for driver updates for your audio and maybe change some options to see if any difference made.

Does playing with origin offline make any difference?? And you don't have any mods installed do you??

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andrazorwire
9 years ago

hm, well finally hit a crash spot where deleting my profiledata didn't fix anything! even after 5 attempts. so i got to test a lot of stuff out:

tried to notice something with task manager. didn't, really. maybe if i encounter this crash again i'll try speedfan?

tried different audio settings, clean uninstalled/installed audio drivers (and repudated my graphics drivers to the current ones just because) - still crashed.

origin offline - still crashed. I DO actually have one mod, a qunari hair mod which requires the meshes to be in ultra (instead of high, which is what my settings default to). switching the meshes from ultra to high was the only graphic option i changed when i deleted profiledata so i tried switched to high, effectively turning off the mod. i THOUGHT it worked, until i eventually reached a spot (separate from the one I'm at right now) where it didn't. uninstalled the mod completely - still didn't work. ok. really happy that's not the issue cuz otherwise i really dislike all the default qunari hair options.

long story short I did a clean boot and...got past it! so...maybe it's something going on with that. hopefully. really, really, hoping it is. going to give it a few more days of play/trying that method instead of deleting profiledata if it crashes again.
andrazorwire
9 years ago
annnnnnnd that's a negative, still crashing after the clean boot now.

just wish i could get my money back. it is insane that a game almost 3 years old can still have problems like this. i've spent about a fifth of my game time trying to trouble shoot its crashes. ugh...