Monday, August 15, 2011

Why is Dragon Age randomly freezing?

Question

Well actually Dragon Age is a pretty nice game, but it is freezing pretty often: i.e. i have to push the reset-button. Some pixels get weird colors and the sound gets in a loop.

I ...

  • installed the newest patch (1.04)
  • installed newest graphic card driver (also tried it with some older versions 190.x)
  • switched down graphics
  • started DA with only one processor
  • stopped AntiVirus
  • installed Windows new
  • played in windowed mode (i actually could play pretty long without any freeze)

Actually I even called the EA-Hotline ...

First I thought it freezes only during dialogs, but just right now it freezed somewhere standing in the landscape...

Some information on my system:
Windows 7 64bit, Intel i5, Geforce 9400GT, 4 Gig ram, Asrock P55M Pro mainboard

Answer

Your grahpics card could also be defective. I had a similar problem with a graphics card that later ended up dying on me. If you have a spare kicking around, try swapping it out and see what happens.

Or alternatively, install the card in another PC (if available) and see what happens.

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