gothxtreme Posted August 22, 2011 Share Posted August 22, 2011 Hello Everyone, Thank you for taking the time to review my problem and submit any answers or suggestions you may have. Onto the issue at hand. . . Since I first bought Dragon Age Origins I have always had an issue with the game randomly shutting down my pc without warning, lockups or hesitation. It's as if I myself reached to the back of the pc and turned the on switch to off. For a while I thought "Okay, maybe its just my crappy Geforce 8600GT card overheating and my pc is shutting itself down to protect it..." but I started to get suspicious when this odd event did not occur for more resource extensive games ran at higher resolution and graphic settings, still I blamed the video card. Well now I have a Geforce GTS 450 and still my problem remains even running the game on the lowest possible settings (when I can play DA2 on normal setting) I am come to the conclusion that it must be a error within the game itself. Anyone have an idea of what this is caused by and how to fix it? All my GPU drivers are up to date, its not an overheating issue I have programs to control the fan on my GPU and to warn me of overheating, 2 new ram sticks 2 gigs each, and windows 7 OS on a dual core 2.70 GHz Processor. Please assist I would very much love to replay this masterpiece but the constant crashing of the pc is quite the annoyance not to mention I am afraid it will damage my pc just completely shutting it down without warning. Thank you all again and may Andraste guide you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thandal Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Hey there, gothxtreme; Yeah, some of us have been having that problem since the 1.03 patch. Game was unplayable for me at that point. Here's what worked for me, but I'm runing Win7/64-bit with 8GB RAM, so my rig has a lot of headroom for a memory leak until it becomes a problem. Still get (semi-)random CtD, but only a very few... My post is the 8th one down on the page, (and I include a link to the original post by akanounnikoff): FO3 Large Memory Area Flag Fix. Hope it helps! :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gothxtreme Posted August 23, 2011 Author Share Posted August 23, 2011 (edited) Thank you Thandal for your advice, I have a question though...even though its for FO3 this fix should work with DAO? I am confused lol but ill look into it and try the fix thank you EDIT: Ill have to try this out tomorrow due to the time...Again thank you for your help ill post the results tomorrow. Also your saying its because of patch 1.03? so if I downgrade the patch will it stop with that shutdown process? Edited August 23, 2011 by gothxtreme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gothxtreme Posted August 23, 2011 Author Share Posted August 23, 2011 No it did not help -_- but thanks for the assistance either way -sigh- I hate this stupid error or whatever it is I am surprised Bioware just left it to stay that way I hear a lot more people than I are having it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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