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    Dragon Age lock-ups

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by CubsWin, Jul 30, 2010.

  1. CubsWin

    CubsWin Notebook Consultant

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    I am running the 258.96 drivers with no overclocking on my M11x-R2 and I am experiencing a lot of lock-ups while playing Dragon Age. I get a message from Windows that Dragon Age has stopped responding. This issue usually seems to occur during cut scenes or transitions between scenes, but not always. Has anyone else had this issue and do you know how I can fix it?
     
    CubsWin, Jul 30, 2010
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    i will try to see if i have any issues i will post later tonight
     
    LockOn, Jul 30, 2010
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    Game plays very smoothly with no lock-ups for me. I am also using the 258.96 drivers. No OC.

    Maybe you should try to reinstall your video drivers.
     
    mobilezila, Jul 30, 2010
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    same drivers and no oc i ran into no problems just played 2 1/2 hours
     
    LockOn, Jul 31, 2010
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    Is your Dragon Age updated to 1.04? The 1.03 update had memory leak issues that could crash the game.
     
    Krandor311, Jul 31, 2010
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    well i ran the same version you buy it in no updates yet and i did not see a set version on the screen here is my version info under the config tab
    DAOrigins.exe v 1.0
    DAOriginsLauncher.exe v 1.01
    DAOriginsConfig.exe v 1.03
    Uninstall v 1.03
     
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    Update to 1.04 and try again. I've played it on an older 7950go with no issues, so this should be quite solveable.
     
    FXi, Jul 31, 2010
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    I have the Steam version, which is updated to v1.04.

    DAOrigins.exe v1.04
    DAOriginsLauncher.exe v1.01
    DAOriginsConfig.exe v1.03

    I don't have a lot of experience diagnosing this type of issue, but I ran a FurMark stability test last night for 4 hours without a problem. That leads me to believe that this is not a hardware problem, but either a driver issue or something in my settings, but I don't even know where to begin.
     
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    I am still having severe crashing problems with Dragon Age: Origins on Steam with the 260.89 drivers. I have turned all overclocking off to rule that out and the game still crashes frequently. Is anyone else experiencing this issue? Is there anything else you can suggest?
     
    CubsWin, Dec 9, 2010
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