teabee2630 Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 Hello, I've been playing Dragon Age for quite some time now and I have lots and lots of mods installed. There has never been a major problem - nothing that couldn't be fixed with deleting certain conflicting mods or mod files. Now, however, there are these weird glitches and/or bugs. For example NPC clothing that changes its colours rapidly or strange symbols in the loading screen. The last mod I installed was "Unique Face and Texture for Companions DAO Edition" and I'm fairly certain that the trouble started with this mod. I'm saying it like that because I've downloaded it during my last playthrough some time ago. Everything went smoothly back then and now, a couple of months later...well. I've tried deleting it, of course, and it kind of stopped, so I gave it another shot and only deleted a couple of morphs from the mod but the glitches came back and so I deleted it all together. After that I made it to Lothering where my game crashed everytime around the time when you fight the first group of bandits outside of Lothering. So I uninstalled the whole game via steam (my save files and mods are still intact) and installed it again and the game did not crash anymore but now there are these weird glitches around dead enemies (blinking red squares around the body). Edit: On second try the game crashed again. My question now is: Did I break my game somehow with this mod? Simple morphs can't do that, can they? What about the texture files from this mod? After I had given up on the mod I created my own companion morphs via the toolset but I deleted them just to be safe.My brother said he had the same glitches and bugs (no game crash) even in the vanilla version but my brother's computer has a much better graphic card and so on. I've never had any trouble with the graphics at all. Even when I had all my video-options at high/very high. Can somebody help? I'm so not an expert and I don't even know where to look. I was only able to install all those mods and the toolset because I can read, but that is all. In the end I'm still a helpless noob, haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theskymoves Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 (edited) DAO's engine has a known 'memory leak' issue, even for unmodded installs. Heavily modding the game adds more stress to the engine. The usual advice is to first patch the game executable with either the Large Address Aware or 4GB patch... though I believe only one of those two are usable with a Steam version of the game and that there is special process required for applying it... I don't use Steam, so I'm no help there. Lowering the graphics settings can also help. The flickering textures issue is usually related to having one of the large 'hi-res' global textures replacer mods installed. If you have installed something like that, then try removing it from your install. And as always, a complete mod list would be helpful for providing further advice and suggestions. Edited November 4, 2021 by theskymoves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teabee2630 Posted November 4, 2021 Author Share Posted November 4, 2021 DAO's engine has a known 'memory leak' issue, even for unmodded installs. Heavily modding the game adds more stress to the engine. The usual advice is to first patch the game executable with either the Large Address Aware or 4GB patch... though I believe only one of those two are usable with a Steam version of the game and that there is special process required for applying it... I don't use Steam, so I'm no help there. Lowering the graphics settings can also help. The flickering textures issue is usually related to having one of the large 'hi-res' global textures replacer mods installed. If you have installed something like that, then try removing it from your install. And as always, a complete mod list would be helpful for providing further advice and suggestions. Hello and thanks for your answer.I just wonder why I have so much trouble with the game all of a sudden. My brother suggested that it might have something to do with a background update for my graphic card? Could it be that? That's something I know next to nothing about.What do these patches do exactly? Frankly I've never heard of them. Do you mean something like "Redesigned" by "hi-res" mods? If so, I have no such mod installed. I deleted the mod "Practical Morrigan Robe" and the flickering textures are gone and after lowering my graphics settings the crashing has stopped as well. At least for now.Everything seems to be normal again but I still wonder about how those issues occured seemingly out of nowhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theskymoves Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 Both the LAA and 4GB patches allow the game to use 4GB of RAM, rather than 2 GB. Patching older games to use the memory available on modern computers is pretty standard these days. If by "Redesigned" you mean Dragon Age Redesigned (or the like), no, that's not what I mean. A morph replacer with 'normal' res textures will have very little impact on the game's perfomance. What I was refering to are 'global' hi resolution or upscaled texture replacers, like JB3 and AP Neural Enhanced Textures. And it's certainly possible that a driver update can cause issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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