DA INQUISITION: infinite loading at skyhold

by eowynmun
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DA INQUISITION: infinite loading at skyhold

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All of my dragon age inquisition files that lead to Skyhold get an infinite loading screen. I've reinstalled the game, repaired several times, and deleted all my mods, then reinstalled them, updated my graphics card, and nothing I do will make them load. Which hurts, because in my most recent game, ALL of my saves were in skyhold, and I just finished the endgame sequence, so all the milestones/autosaves are as well. The only non-skyhold save was before In Your Heart Shall Burn... This just happened recently, I just finished a 70 hour play-through with zero problems, but I tried to load trespasser, it crashed, and this started happening. All of my save files now refuse to load. I had a character I was going to try and jump to my recent one on, because she was in the emerald graves, but moving her to skyhold caused that file not to open either.

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Re: DA INQUISITION: infinite loading at skyhold

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Hi @eowynmun

 

-clear Origin cache https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/origin/origin/origin-my-games-list-is-blank/

 

-delete temp files: open the Start Menu and type %temp% in the Search field  or click in the Run option in the Start Menu and type %temp% in the Run field.Press Enter and a Temp folder should open. You can delete all files found in this folder, and if any files are in use, they can be skipped.

 

- perform a Clean Boot  https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/FAQ/how-to-clean-boot-your-pc/

 

-run the setup file Origin with Admin rights  http://help.ea.com/en/article/how-do-i-run-a-program-or-a-game-as-an-administrator/#2

 

-go in Origin / My Game Library,right click on game icon select Repair. 


 

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In my experience (from Morrowind onwards-- I do a lot of modding) the best (if most tedious) way to resolve issues like this is to do Ye Olde Mod Shuffle-- deactivate all mods, rebuild a clean patch, see if the save loads with no mods at all.

 

If yes, reactivate and rebuild patch with each mod one at a time, attempting to load the save between mod patch builds. When you reach a patch build that won't load the save, the most-recently activated mod is the likely culprit-- deactivate it, reactivate all your other mods, rebuild the patch, and see if the save loads. If yes, you've found A Broken Mod and for DA:I mods the only real solution (if there isn't an updated version of the mod somewhere on the internet that you can try) is to scour that mod out of your load order and call it a loss.

 

(If you've got Dorian in Black, I've had it cause this exact problem in the past.)

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