Will this game ruin my computer???

9 views and on one can even tell me yes or no? >.>

It isn't possible to "kill" properly designed hardware with software.  Only bad hardware dies from being used; that wimpy HD 7450, for instance, is far enough below the minimum the game needs, it strains and struggles, and over time, wears out faster because you chose cheapness ahead of quality. 

The minimum four years ago was ATI's Radeon X850, which had been the top of the line six years ago.  Bottom basement cards haven't moved upward particularly far over those six years, unless we look at the Integrated video from AMD and Intel, which have progressed a good ways. 

http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=625&card2=55

These days, the lowest new model Radeon you can buy at retail in a store is the HD 7750. 

The HD 6570 is still available, and will work fine:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102994

All lower solutions than that are built into the APU / CPUs (although some retailers want really cheap old video cards, and keep using stuff like HD 5450s, but it's had a firmware plug-in performed on it for a different name. 

The HD 5450 was AMD's last low-end video card actually on its own separate circuit board.  

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=Radeon+HD+7450

http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-6450M.43971.0.html

lmao. This "wimpy" hd 7450 can run a modded skyrim with over 200 mods without a single problem on maximum graphics with a very high ENB mod as well. its simply this game that causes problems. the 2nd DA causes none.

But I guess I shouldn't ask if a game will ruin a computer on the game makers website. I'm sure if I went on a fake virus forum and asked if the program caused the virus, they would try to insult me as well.

EDIT: just checked specs on skyrim, the graphics card gets over 10 degrees celsius HIGHER on dragon age origins than on skyrim. Thats clearly not right as skyrims graphics are more than 10x better than DAO. atm, while running skyrim, it is 61c. Earlier, after 5 minutes on DAO it was 73c. So it is clearly **bleep**ty software, not **bleep**ty hardware.

EDIT 2:

The recommended requirements:

OS: Windows XP SP3/Vista SP1
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (2.4 GHz)/AMD Phenom II X3 720 (2.8 GHz)
Memory: 2 GB
Hard Drive: 20 GB Free
Video Memory: 512 MB (nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS/ATI Radeon HD 3850)
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
DirectX: 10
Keyboard & Mouse
DVD Rom Drive

my computer is far better than this as well. You need to check your info before you act like you know what youre talking about.

Try to argue after you build your hundred and first computer, kiddo!  I built my first in 1986.  I programmed my first IBM 360 in 1972, and taught college in the Computer Information Systems department for a dozen years.  You bought junk instead of a decent video card.  That's a fact, period. 

So your saying that a 7450 is worse than a 3850 and that dragon age has better graphics that are harder on a system than skyrim with an ENB?

I think not. I havnt ever built a computer. but I do know that skyrim is harder on a system, and that many people all over have the same problem with this game, it has something to do with a memory leak and im here to find a way to fix it, not be insulted by someone who thinks a lower standard game should require higher specs than a top of the line graphical master-piece.

From the facts, it makes me either think you have no expierence in what you say you do, or you just simply didnt read the minimum requirements for the game and just assumed my card couldnt handle it, or maybe you just have no idea that the game has this memory leak problem that bioware (or EA whoever does the crap) hasnt fixed in any patches.

In which case... If you dont really know anything about graphics cards (saying mine doesnt meet minimum requirements when it surpases the recommended requirements by far), or you dont know the minimum requirements for the game, or you have no idea about the problems the game has, you have no business answering questions about it.

Please from here out, only serious people that understand how the game works (with the problem and how to fix it) reply to this...

So, instead of acknowledging the thousands of people with AMD graphics having a memory leak problem with the game, and fixing it, you blame the computer and change the topic name?

On every other forum I've visited it has been identified as a memory leak that no one has an answer for. I come to the EA site to find a fix, and am treated like this. I have read everywhere that EA has one of the worst bases for a straight answer, and refuse to admit they messed up.

This forum will go as far as to say a graphics card way better than the recommended requirements calls for, is not good enough for the game.

Here's a real laugh to share: 

http://products.amd.com/en-us/QuickSearch.aspx?q=radeon%20hd%207450 

AMD claims that they never made any such item, no matter that HP is selling one for $135 ( kinda steep when a much better HD 6570 is available for $40 ! )

The OP is trolling. There is no way the 7450 can run Skyrim like he is saying. Everyone on the internet have theirs running it at below medium, and still not at great framerates. Only way to get it to higher is to overclock. And, if grimmpickering is getting such good framerates, then he is overclocking far too high and taht is why his systems are dying on him. Plus with 10GB of RAM, you are not using equal DIMM/size sticks which is not a good thing when gaming. And if the rest of the system is this bad, it probably is not allocating the resources very well. The 7450 is a very bad card. It still uses DDR3 memory , and is not designed for gaming. The 8800GTS (which I have in an older machine) is far superior for gaming and ran Dragon Age perfectly.

Like goraththeelder said, software cannot damage a machine. There are safegaurds in place to prevent it from being damaged. It would shutdown once it got too hot. Unless you had a faulty machine, a game - no matter how bad it is - cannot harm it.

Sure, the engine in Dragon Age had it's problems. But, it is not what is braking your machine. Remember, Skyrim uses visual trickery to look as good as it does. Oblivion with mods is more demanding than that game. Comparing apples with oranges.

Please, Sir, don't be so nasty to people who were trying to help. You will get nasty responses back. Not everyone can afford super high end machines, that's fine. But, to go around trolling a game - when you have a machine that clearly is not very good - is not very clever.

TL;DR: The game won't damage your machine, provided your machine is not faulty/sub-par/over-clocked beyond reason.

I'm sorry that you were treated this way. Unfortunately, people will be [removed] from til the end of time.

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