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Re: Dragon Age Inquisition won't start on PC

@cendrula; From your DXdiag report, here's why the game won't start:

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Display Devices
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          Card name: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600

An Intel HD integrated video chip is not adequate to play this (or any other) graphics-intensive game. Period. (Sorry to have to break the bad news. 😞)

[EDIT] From the EA site:

Minimum
OS: Windows 7 or 8.1 64-bit
CPU: AMD quad core CPU @ 2.5 GHz / Intel quad core CPU @ 2.0 GHz
System RAM: 4 GB
Graphics CARD: AMD Radeon HD 4870 / NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Graphics Memory: 512 MB
Hard Drive: 26 GB
DirectX: 10

Recommended
OS: Windows 7 or 8.1 64-bit
CPU: AMD six core CPU @ 3.2 GHz / Intel quad core CPU @ 3.0 GHz
System RAM: 8 GB
Graphics CARD: AMD Radeon HD 7870 or R9 270 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
Graphics Memory: 3 GB
Hard Drive: 26 GB
DirectX: 11

3 Replies

Anonymous
8 years ago
Hey,
Thanks a lot for giving a look 🙂.
But why did it manage to work for 17h...?
The game was working fine and then it was like "oh, wait, she doesn't have a proper graphic whatever on her computer, I should stop working now!" :D
ThandalNLyman
8 years ago
@cendrula; No idea. Games are highly complex programs that can push marginal hardware to, and over, the edge. There are so many variables at any moment during play that tracking down why something behaved one way that time, but not this time, can be... difficult. I could give a lot of "Maybe this, maybe that..." but it would be pure guessing.

[EDIT: 17h does seem like well into the game though. I'm actually amazed you could get it to start at all. What point in the story had you reached?]
Anonymous
8 years ago
I was finishing quests in Hinterlands, taking it easy in the completionist style by doing all of the side quests on my way 🙂
To be honest, I was not as hooked on this game as much as on Mass Effect (yet) so I am not that devastated with the news. I think I can survive easily without this game until I buy better computer one day. I just regret that I've spent my money and went through all if these problems for nothing.
Ah well, I will have to instal something else now I guess. Any recommendations based on my PC capabilities? :D