Dragon Age Origins problem

[bruniss]

Hi ppl!

I'm having weird issues with the Steam version of DAO. I'm giving it another playthrough and for some reason, after playing for about half an hour the game starts to take longer to change menus, select a different character, start a conversation and so on. Graphically it's running as smooth as it always has. It's really annoying. Does anyone know how to fix this?

 

[DarkSable]

It might be a memory leak - run a monitoring program and see how much vram / system ram it's using when it slows down.

 

[bystander]

It may be helpful to turn off Aero when playing, if it is a memory leak. Aero steals a fair bit of VRAM, so you hit the limit, from the leak, faster.

 

[bruniss]

It may be helpful to turn off Aero when playing, if it is a memory leak. Aero steals a fair bit of VRAM, so you hit the limit, from the leak, faster.

What is Aero?

 

[bystander]

It is what makes your taskbar see through, as well as window borders and lets you see previews when hovering your curser over programs on the taskbar.

You can turn it off with Themes, or use this script in a .bat file:
@echo off
sc interrogate uxsms | find "1062"
if %errorlevel%==0 goto :sc_start
sc stop uxsms
exit

:sc_start
sc start uxsms
exit

 

[bruniss]

It is what makes your taskbar see through, as well as window borders and lets you see previews when hovering your curser over programs on the taskbar.

You can turn it off with Themes, or use this script in a .bat file:
@echo off
sc interrogate uxsms | find "1062"
if %errorlevel%==0 goto :sc_start
sc stop uxsms
exit

:sc_start
sc start uxsms
exit

It was the memory leak in the end. Is this what was causing it? I found that the Memory Leakage was a known issue and had no fix.

 

[bystander]

Turning Aero is not a fix, it will just give you more time before the memory leak causes you to crash.