"LOAD ERROR - An Error Occurred While Trying To Complete Your Request"

I've only had the game since Sat. (11/9) and am also having this error. My girlfriend bought it for me because DA is one of  my absolute favorites, and we're so upset.

Previously, I was able to kind of brute force it (keep trying to load in until it worked), then that stopped working. Then, restarting my laptop every time before I opened the game worked, but that also stopped working. I was only able to play for a bit on one day (11/10) before I became completely unable to play since I can't load in on any save file that isn't immediately post-prologue. And I really don't want to replay up to the point I was, especially only to get the error again. I had just gotten to D. Meta's Crossing (literally just got off the boat), but I'm not sure location is pertinent, upon reading other posts and replies.

1) Game files are installed on my SSD (D: drive, though; C: drive is HDD), but I still got the HDD warning when I first installed. (My gf did, too, on a PC that is also C: HDD and D: SSD, but she has notably not had this load error at all)
2) Graphics drivers are updated
3) Graphics are set to Low
4) No other programs running
5) Loading into recent prior saves does not help -- they provoke a Load Error as well
6) Loading into earlier saves and then into more recent saves still provokes the error
7) Creating a new character and then attempting to load in from the start of that prologue still provokes the error
8) As mentioned, restarting my laptop no longer fixes the issue

Edit to add: I have installed the update that dropped today (11/13) and am still experiencing this error.