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Post by **AndreaDraco** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 12:39 pm

My new PC arrived today and I eagerly installed Dragon Age on it...

... only to have the game crashing after every five minutes or so. It turned out that this is a common ATI problem and the only fix I found is to downclock my graphic card and boost the fans' setting, otherwise the game will crash continuosly and randomly, prompting me with a black screen and a tiny blue box saying 'Power Saving Mode'. After that, my machine automatically reboots.

Oh, I'm so happy I went with ATI and not nVIDIA. Does anyone know where I can send a bombing letter to them? I feel the urge to destroy one of their building. Oh, and it's not a thing only of my GPU (5870 HD), but of almost every ATI GPU, as testified by the seventeen pages long thread over at Bioware.

Post by **Collector** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 1:51 pm

If there are that many people that are having issues with the game I would assume that there will be a patch for it before too long.

Post by **AndreaDraco** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 2:03 pm

I hope so, because I'm not particularly happy in having to manually downclock my GPU every time I want to play the game

Post by **DeadPoolX** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 3:31 pm

AndreaDraco wrote:My new PC arrived today and I eagerly installed Dragon Age on it...

... only to have the game crashing after every five minutes or so. It turned out that this is a common ATI problem and the only fix I found is to downclock my graphic card and boost the fans' setting, otherwise the game will crash continuosly and randomly, prompting me with a black screen and a tiny blue box saying 'Power Saving Mode'. After that, my machine automatically reboots.

Huh. That's interesting. I have an ATI Radeon 3870 HD and so far Dragon Age runs perfectly.

AndreaDraco wrote:I hope so, because I'm not particularly happy in having to manually downclock my GPU every time I want to play the game

Is there a way you could create a pre-defined setting that temporarily underclocks the video card every time you load up DA?

Post by **AndreaDraco** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 4:07 pm

DeadPoolX wrote: Is there a way you could create a pre-defined setting that temporarily underclocks the video card every time you load up DA?

If there is, I don't know it

Any idea?

Post by **Collector** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 4:18 pm

You could ask on the ATI/AMD boards.

Post by **Rudy** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 5:45 pm

Andrea, could you attach your dxdiag and write down the system requirements of the game? I would like to check it out.

Post by **Datadog** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 6:08 pm

Sounds like the same problem I had with Mass Effect. Took a whole new G-Force 8800 to get it running.

Post by **AndreaDraco** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 6:30 pm

You can find the system requirements here, under the hidden tab. I've attached the dxdiag.txt.

As a side note, downclocking the GPU to 745 MHz (GPU Clock) and 1080 MHz (Memory Clock) seemed to have solved the problem.

At least I hope

Post by **Rudy** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 6:44 pm

Your system is an easy win against the requirements. Overclocking often messes up things though, that happens a lot.

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