Dragon Age: Veilguard Crashes within a minute

• Problem still happening for me, what I have done so far:
  • Updated motherboard bios (NZXT N790)
  • Clean install Windows 11
  • ALL drivers updated
  • Reinstalled game several times
  • Verified cache
  • removed shader cache
  • Tried compatibility modes
  • Tested different power profiles
  • Modified anti-virus
  • disabled all in-game overlays (Steam, EA App, Nvidia etc..)

PC Specs:
Intel core i7-14900k, 64gb DDR5 Ram, RTX 4090, All nvme drives, (OS/GAME)

Nothing works.

I'd just refund it if you can, and come back later if they ever fix it.

It's been 3 patches now and they haven't fixed the issue and seen to have no intention of acknowledging that they sold you a broken product.

Imagine buying a car, the check engine light comes on immediately, and then the car is in the shop for an entire month, comes back, and it still has the check engine light on.

Okay so update, It seems to be working now (not crashing on start), but here is what I did:

Quickly changed the graphics preset from Ultra (the default it was set to) to High. The game then crashed since changes happen on restart. 

Once it relaunched, it worked. I then manually upgraded the graphics settings by setting each option to Ultra and what not, as opposed to the Ultra preset. I also changed the screen from borderless to fullscreen.

Same. I have updated my graphics driver, restarted, verified files and still it crashes before shaders complete. I am attempting to play from steam and have a NVIDIA 4070

Hey Everyone, 

When you've had a moment, can we try the steps shared in our troubleshooting article:

Dragon Age The Veilguard - Technical Assistance & Bug Reports | EA Forums - 4985821

If this continues let is know the information requested in the article!

Same as cathybytes I launch the game to a black screen in the top left of my monitor for 5-10 seconds then the program closes. 

I had the same problem and finally got it up and running by turning off in game overlays in steam, discord, and nvidia

Hey cathybytes and Istandor 

If you're on PC and running into launch issues, can we give the following a check and try?

• Do you have the latest Windows updates and Graphics drivers?
• Have you checked your Anti-virus (or other security software)?
• Are you running any third-party programs or overlays in the background?
• Is your system Date/Time correct, or could you be running a VPN? 
• Are you using any mods? (if so remove them, clean install your game, and test on a fresh save)

If you've checked the above and continue running into an issue playing Dragon Age, you may need to give the following a shot (like an arrow shot... get it!)

1. Run the System File Checker tool, then Check for Windows and GPU updates
2. Default your PC to the dedicated Graphics card: Troubleshooting Graphics issues 
3. If an option is available, try capping your frame rate. You can also enable Vertical Sync (V-Sync) to match your frame rate to your display’s refresh rate.
4.  To repair the game files in the EA app, go to the Library and find your game. Click the Manage icon, then click Repair.
5. Clear EA App's Cache (Top Left Menu > Help > App Recovery)
6. Check if any background applications are stopping the EA app or your game.
7. Perform a clean boot of your PC to disable background tasks that may interfere with your game.
8. Reinstall your game and potentially your PC client. 

Same issue as KingWizard. Game crashes my PC. 4070TI, 64GB RAM, i9 13th Gen i9

Mine seems to launch just fine, but crashes about 1 minute into the game itself.
The error message popup states that it is DirectX related, or graphics driver related.
Now, I dug a little deeper, and it seems like the problem is also related to the upscaling, as it ran fine when I turned off XESS, or FSR (my card does not support DLSS), and left the resolution scaling at 100%
Framerate was horrible though, but the game was stable.

System specs: GTX 1080Ti, AMD Ryzen 9 3900X, 32 GB RAM, Windows 10. Game is installed on an SSD.