DA:O Getting stuck on loading screen starting a new game [ Edited ]

[Fred_vdp]

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@Shironda12 wrote:

DA:O cannot properly handle using multiple cores and especially on anything that is more than 4 cores (so basically any i7 with 4 cores or any 8 cores and up) will make the game crash on loading because it tries to spend the resources between all the cores but the game doesn’t patch them together properly at all, if that makes sense. The solution is to start the game, pull up task manager, right click the dragon age process and go to details. This should bring you to the details tab. Right click daorigins.exe and click set affinity. Make sure you have CPU 0 and only one other cpu core selected. 0 is paramount as that is the one the game will always try to use. Anything else might cause a crash again.

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That's a bit of a hassle. I have ye olde Core i5 4690K, which has only 4 cores and 4 threads, so I haven't run into the issue yet. If there is a way to set a default affinity for a program so you wouldn't have to do it all the time, that would be convenient. I'll look into it.

Edit: This video describes how you can make a shortcut that sets your preferred core affinity.

[Zrigg0015]

Turning off the origin overlay worked for me

[TheTexas1836]

Has anyone found a solution to this? Running on 1 core does not fix it for me.

[Morebudz78]

This still works in 2022. Thank you!

[SylverForgach]

@Zrigg0015 Where do you find that?

[Fred_vdp]

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@SylverForgach wrote:
@Zrigg0015 Where do you find that?

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@Zrigg0015 The person you tagged made that suggestion almost four years ago when EA's Origin was still around, so it might no longer be entirely relevant. EA has moved on from Origin and now uses the EA app.

Here's a tutorial on how to disable the overlay in the EA app.

However, the EA app fixed several overlay related problems in their games, so I can't be sure this will fix your problem.