Just to add my CTD delights, a an ex-tester and games designer:
The game started fine and was working flawlessly. After 23 hours the crashes began. As I've progressed further the crashes began to occur closer and closer together.
I have found the "large" magic effects while you're fighting someone close quarters causes the game to crash consistently, and this is the only time I experience crashes. None in cutscenes. None on menus. Only when scrapping in close, and all sorts of magic effects, etc, are going off. First the game drops frames, then it freezes. The music then loops, and we drop to desktop. To create a 100% crash level Dorian up as a necro mage (lvl 12-13) and Vivienne as a Spirit/Ice/Flame combo(lvl 12-13 again). Select both to your party, and allow them to use all magic. Also select the main character as a warrior and another warrior character.
Attack any enemy and pile in close. Zoom the camera right in, and wait: a crash happens 100% for me with these repro steps. I have found Caer Bronch to be especially conducive to repeating this crash, more so with Dorian resurrecting enemies as spirits fighting for you. Get in the keep and pile into enemies and get real close. The game crashes 100% for me. Often the quicksave will load with all resurrected spirits restored as full functioning enemies, but the player cannot target them, this appears to be a by-product of the crash. Tactical view shows them with blue rings, and no info.
However, often the last autosave will not load and causes the game to crash when selecting Continue or Load. Usually another autosave of a couple of minutes before works. Only once have I lost substantial progress.
To avoid crashes I have to move away from the combat and watch at a distance.
In short however, the crashes now occur between 5 to 10 minutes during combat, not at all outside of combat. This -in my mind- makes the product not fit for purpose, as backed up by the other comments within this post. I would suggest either an answer from staff, or a full refund, if not both. At this time Bioware, EA and Origin look incapable, and not since Rise of the Robots have I seen such a poor launch, and immediate after support. Ignoring customers point-blank who are effectively testing your product is beyond rude.
