dragon age crashquisition · 2:47am Nov 23rd, 2014
So I realized I was gone for a couple days (and racked up more messages and comments to reply to). I've been playing and trying to fix Dragon Age Crashquisition, which proves once again why I should never, ever buy triple-A titles. I've played week-old steam greenlight indie games that crashed less often, and I'm fairly certain they didn't have a multi-million dollar budget, a large publisher, and a history of making (slightly) less shitty games behind them.
Anyway, it looks like the problem is once again a case of "Oops, we didn't realize we poorly optimized the game!" or as I like to call it "Oops the end of the fiscal year / holidays / quarter / game conference / investors meetings / my son's birthday is next week so fuck the beta testing, release it now!"
Though from what I have played when I'm not constantly crashing to desktop (despite the crash fixes, blah blah yeah keep blaming the user for it but if we're already running the newest drivers, who is really to blame?) it is a pretty fun game.
I suppose it's for the best that it kept crashing, now I can get some other things done. Besides, I was getting tired of spamming the same four spells over and over again. So, I suppose homework, writing pony, and alpha sapphire will be getting some love soon.
Oh, and it crashes on the xbox 1 and ps4 too. When you can't properly code and optimize a game for a console with fixed, precisely known hardware and software installed on it, it's time to close your company down. Preferably with a fuel air bomb. I don't think I'm close enough to EA or Bioware for the blastwave to hurt me, though I might see a pretty light show if I look in the right direction.
Bioware....
I haven't heard anyone else complain about Inquisition crashing. Just it not having a good frame rate and some graphical issues.
Maybe you've been busy which is perfectly fine, but this holiday season there have been at least five to six AAA titles released with major bugs and issues. My policy has been for the last two years to never buy AAA games at launch and to simply wait. Of course I'm not the only one to do this... which means the companies know many people are reluctant to buy their games at launch, which made things worse. Since those companies rely on sales to keep their shareholders happy, they decided (instead of fixing bugs before launch) to simply either lie about them or not talk about them or shadow the truth to get as many one day sales as possible... sucks, but that's how it works now. Their QA departments may as well not exist, WE the gamers are the QA departments now.
This goes doubly true for PC titles.
I'm about 20 hours in and I've only had it freeze once. Trust me when I say that Inquisition is far and away the most stable release this holiday season. Especially compared to the maddness that is Unity. Anyone esle afraid of Ubisoft becoming the next EA?
Yeah, you should've bought Assassin's Creed Unity instead. I heard that had a flawless start.
Pony won't crash on you. Pony won't let you down.
Every place in the world had the Ruby/Sapphire remakes released on Friday, 21st. Except for Europe. We will have it one week later, on the 28th.
D:
Meh, I fixed it using this: segmentnext.com/2014/11/18/dragon-age-inquisition-errors-crashes-pc-controls-directx-stuttering-freezes-save-fixes/
Try lowering shadows to at least medium and the lighting to SSAO or maybe HBAO, and low post processed effects. The game hasn't crashed since I did this, about 30 hours in.
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nothing can beat EA right now, it was literally rated "the worst company" in america, and as any intelligent american knows, we have
a LOT of shitty companies.
maybe activision, or capcom; though
It's never crashed once for me on PS4. Haven't even noticed any bugs or glitches, just some talking animations that could use some TLC is all.