DAO crashes while The Battle of Denerim

[szejd]

I've been playing Dragon Age on my computer for a long time and I've never experienced this "black screen" issue. Yesterday, during the final quest, everything was fine but today I've tried several times to continue The Battle of Denerim and the game crashes when I'm at the Denerim Palace District or Fort Drakon. I manage only to fight some darkspawn and while being on the battlefield the black screen appears, due to what I can't continue the game. At the Palace I just saved the game three of four times but it's impossible to do it in Fort Drakon (game crashes before I defeat all enemies).

I think it may be a problem of my computer, but I have no idea how to solve it. I turn off every program, I have a lot of space on my disc and the issue still happens. And the mystery is - it worked fine yesterday, today it's still crashing.

 

Do you know how to deal with it?

[naomis8329]

The only thing I can think of is that you may have obtained a virus somehow. Have you run a scan and followed this through? I would do this first. Have you installed another mod? If so this may have interfered somehow, you have not mentioned this so I would take that as a no.

 

My thoughts remain the same however and I would initially look at the possibility of a virus, trojan or worm. Use different scanners to check for all of these and see what happens.

 

I hope this helps, please let me know how you get on.

 

Regards

Naomi

[Thandal]

The most common causes of Crash to Desktop (CtD) are:

 

a) Conflicting mods.

 

b) Muti-core processor running 64-bit Windows (Vista or Win7), with a built-in sound card.

 

Fix for a) is to disable/remove mods until the crash doesn't happen.

 

Fix for b) depends. How much RAM do you have? The "Fallout 3 Large Memory Area Flag" fix has worked wonders for me ever since I first experienced a CtD when I installed patch 1.03. (But I have 8GB of RAM so there's a REALLY large memory area to exploit! :teehee: )

[szejd]

Naomi, thanks for the advice, it really helped me. After your post I downloaded the latest update of my anti-virus program and scanned all files on my computer. There were some viruses, indeed.

 

Thandal, thanks to you, too. I blocked some mods and the game worked somehow. I have 32-bit Windows XP, about 2 GB of RAM, only my Nvidia graphic card has a problem, I think it's just too old and not suitable for new games such as Dragon Age. Anyway, it's not that bad, so I don't complain.

 

Thank you again, now I can freely play Dragon Age without worrying that it may crash to desktop at any moment :)