21 April 2016

Dragon Age: Inquisition The Deeproads DLC Load crash fix and/or possible suggestions.

So you like to play on PC and you too had this problem, eh ?
Load a game saved anywhere inside the Ruins of Heidrun Thaig and the game loads ending up to a black screen with the pulsating DAI logo which then freezes, Cpu usage goes to 99% and the game needs termination from the task manager.

Stay with a fereldan horse mount, select that one and forget about any other exotics. - unbeliveable but this actually does the trick.
Other solution involves Alt Tabbing out of the game as soon as you hit the load button and waiting for two minutes or so then Alt Tabbing back.
Other solution involves entering the Deeproads from the war council table but that doesn't always fix the issue.

This is bugged but as far as i know it's the only place in the game where this happens constantly. Other areas/DLC's should be flawless.

BUT WAIT:
What if you don't have any *decently* *recently* saved game previous to entering the DLC area ? 

Well,
Quick way:
  • Go to C:\Users\{YOUR_USER}\Documents\Bioware\Dragon Age Inquisition\Save and delete the ProfileOptions_profile file. it should be a 2kb file.
  • if you have a controller, unplug it.
  • Enter the game but change no settings whatsoever. Just load your Ruins of Heidrun Thaig save. It *SHOULD* load. 
  • As soon as it does, go to Skyhold, change your mount to a fereldan horse, SAVE YOUR GAME.
  • Go to options and customize graphic settings, enable controller support, plug in your controller, EXIT game.
  • Start the game again, load your Skyhold save, fast travel to Yours truly (screenshot below)
The Deep Roads way :
  • if you have a controller, unplug it.
  • Repair/reinstall whatever your game.
  • Go to C:\Users\{YOUR_USER}\Documents\Bioware\Dragon Age Inquisition\Save and cut as in *move it* "ProfileOptions_profile" somewhere safe. - Leave ONLY the DAS files and "ProfileOptions" file.
  • Enter the game but change no settings whatsoever. Just load your Ruins of Heidrun Thaig save. It *SHOULD* load.
  • As soon as it does, go to Skyhold, change your mount to a fereldan horse, SAVE YOUR GAME.
  • Go to options and customize graphic settings, enable controller support, plug your controller, EXIT game.
  • Start the game again, load your Skyhold save, fast travel to Yours truly :

Credits:
As suggested by Niah_Dark
As suggested by MonorissStormrag
Also to me, because I played a while in the deeproads and my non crash save was hours behind.