Dragon Age: Inquisition keeps crashing to desktop no error message, unplayab

[Sacamano]

Im getting the same error. I play fine for a while then a random crash (or minimize) to desktop with no error or notification at all. I can stil hear the game sound but i need to forse it to shut down with task manager. I can then start it up again and it will play fine till it happens again. It was managable but the last patch made the crashes happen so much more often. This is a game breaking issue and really needs to be fixed. I have no other problems on any other new games

[Welshie82]

Yeah, same here and I'm not on a beta Nvidia driver.  I've given up trying to play the game.  £60 for an unplayable game.  I used to have so much faith in Bioware.  Used to.

[Morrowing89]

Same issue. Tried above solutions. Still at a loss.

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System Information
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Time of this report: 12/20/2014, 12:53:02
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[Sacamano]

I think I have narrowed my problem down to the Nvidia GeForce Experiance. I can play fine but when the game dose crash I notice the GeForece Experiance is in my tray again. I cant seem to shut it down without it wanting to open randomly again.

[gianlu3131]

bought the game on release day and i still can't play... it seems the 2 patch that have come out had only made things worst!!! before i only had random crashes every 5/10 minutes (totally unplayable), but now after 3/4 minutes the pc crashes on blue screen giving me a stupid CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT error (never seen before with any other game).

So i'm gonna unistall it again... i'll try again in 1 month. for now i' have only wasted my money. thanks bioware...

[TM_Grinus]

Yeah, it's especially infuriating because there is no error message to look at. It simply drops back to desktop.  I've been pretty lucky so far though. I just experienced my fourth crash after 50+ hours of gameplay.  

[DeltaAgent26]

go to the very first post in this thread.

[PC] Ongoing investigation....

[The0megaMan]

I got curious and googled that error. this page came up. it has info about that error.

http://www.reviversoft.com/blog/2013/01/clock-watchdog-timeout/

[The0megaMan]

try this and see if it helps.

in console command in game or user.cfg in game folder

perfoverlay.enable 0

it's supposed to disable all overlays within the game, including origin's. which should still be disabled in origin by right clicking on the game and unchecking it int he game properties and possibly in origin's advanced options where it applies to all games. plenty of programs don't play nicely with this game,and i suspect the drm to be honest. heh, even having cheat engine running without it running any scripts or scanning/adjusting any values ingame can crash the game if you're unlucky.

[uzu_afk]

I am having the same issue as of late, in multiplayer games only so far. I sincerely hope it won't extend to single players aswell...

No fix yet.