Why does this happen

[ell46]

I'm playing Origins and normally the game runs OK, but tonight I've had 3 crashes why does it crash like once a week and the rest of the time it's fine?

[danscott84]

I'm playing Origins and normally the game runs OK, but tonight I've had 3 crashes why does it crash like once a week and the rest of the time it's fine?

 

 

This might sound silly, but since this happens once a week, does your computer have any programs that auto update at the same time the game is crashing? If so it could be a memory issue.

[ell46]

I'm playing Origins and normally the game runs OK, but tonight I've had 3 crashes why does it crash like once a week and the rest of the time it's fine?

 

 

This might sound silly, but since this happens once a week, does your computer have any programs that auto update at the same time the game is crashing? If so it could be a memory issue.

 

No I have an option to stop any programs wanting to update from doing so, it's just tonight it crashed 3 times and I can't remember exactly the last time it crashed I just remember it was a few days ago.

 

I suppose once a week was a bad example, perhaps I should say at random I can't seem to find any pattern or reason when it happens could it be the dreaded patch?

[DarkeWolf]

I very much doubt that its actually something about the game itself, UNLESS you're in an area that is high load, and is crashing due to not having enough RAM to feed the memory leak. Areas such as Orzammar or Denerim, or outside the Warden keep in DAA as examples. Or the area of the game that you're in has some corrupted files.

An easy way to find out whats going on, it to look at your event logs in Event Viewer. Just google it, preceeded by the name of your OS. Something like Win XP event viewer and you should come up with hits on how to open it up, and what it details. Take a look at that, and see what is going on around the time that the game is crashing. It may even list a reason why the game is crashing (tho its techspeak, so you may not understand what it means.)

[Shacary]

this is totally noob talkign here but i read on the bioware website somewhere that they are equating game crashes with realtek audio drivers?/ sound cards. I have this sound card and since Dan and Darkewolf helped me with my own pc difficulty this has not been an issue [ and as far a s i know it was unrelated... ] However i do not have the 1.03 patch this round, i thought " forget it" and its running wonderfully. anyways I just thought of that my bad!

[ell46]

AH, that sounds like it. I've just entered the deep roads slogged my way across that bridge and snuffed out those stupid archers and my character was still in crouch mode when all the others were at ease. I'd saved and reloaded in the hope she would relax, but she didn't I trudged on into the caverns or what ever they are and it was when we met the first lot of darkspawn it kept crashing once before the fight, once after it started and again just as it started. I just got so ticked off I quit the game and went off for a while, came back loaded and it was OK. I reckon it was a mix of something not right in the save and perhaps memory.

[Paxan_1]

I had 2 CTD during the time i'm playing the game. In both cases i think, all the programs i had running in the back caused it. Stuff like Firefox with lots of tabs, Thunderbird, Word, Excel and such little proggies i wont close for a little 15min session.

Without all that stuff DA runs really great for me.

[ell46]

I had 2 CTD during the time i'm playing the game. In both cases i think, all the programs i had running in the back caused it. Stuff like Firefox with lots of tabs, Thunderbird, Word, Excel and such little proggies i wont close for a little 15min session.

Without all that stuff DA runs really great for me.

 

Ooooo naughty, I turn everything off and as ZoneAlarm has a gaming mode I use that so nothing moves while I play. I did forget to turn it on once and right in the middle of a fight, I was zoomed back to my desktop where some program was asking permission for something, I don't remember what as I was so cross, I shut it down engaged game mode and got back to the game asap, thankfully I wasn't dead by the time it came back on screen.

 

I've had times before where characters stay crouched for battle instead of relaxing, but never had it cause a crash until last night.

[DarkeWolf]

I can definitely sympathize. I havent played in a considerable amount of time, and then a few nights ago I went in to do a stab at the epilogues, and my game was just crashing like mad.

If you want to take a stab at shutting off some of the stuff that runs at system boot, to try to cut down on your ram usage prior to starting the game up, that might help.

 

tho I would recommend doing a save point, just in case you untick something that needs to run at boot, and it screws up the boot sequence. You can create a system restore point like this- http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=system+restore&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g10

 

 

After you've gotten that taken care of, just type msconfig into the search box after tapping your windows key.

After you start up msconfig, then put a tick next to selective startup.

After that, click on the tab along the top row that says startup.

 

Once you do that, there's gonna be a list of programs that are automatically started when you boot up the computer. Many of them will have a tick/check next to them. (probably all of them, if you've never done this before).

what you'll need to do is go thru that list and UNcheck any of them that you don't NEED running or don't WANT running automatically when you boot the comp. Now... some of that you do actually need to have running. It could be a service for handling your video, or your sound, or a MS necessity. So if you dont know what it is, do a google search on the name. If you still dont know what it is after that, leave it alone :wink:

[ell46]

Just had a look at that. Why is MS Office in there? Now you've done it I can see things I don't even know what they are Google here I come :laugh: