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[Killthee]

Sounds like software update 2.0/2.01 causes Dragon Age to crash frequently. There's already an update that fixes the crashing planned for release before the game comes out and it could be the update that was released tonight, but Polygon hasn't confirmed it yet.

PS4 patch to fix major Dragon Age: Inquisition problem should be out by launch

As mentioned in our full review, we ran into some major problems with the PlayStation 4 version of Inquisition. Namely, the game would frequently freeze — at least once every few hours — and would generally lock up the entire PS4 as a result. The only way we could get it rebooted was to unplug the system or to hold down the power button for around 12 seconds.

While most of the crashes only briefly impeded progress, a few led to corrupted save files. We were able to salvage the game by deleting the one specific corrupted file, but it was always nerve-wracking to run into trouble loading a 40-hour-plus saved game.

After initially reporting these issues to Electronic Arts, a representative for the company reported back that the crashes were not actually caused by Dragon Age: Inquisition. Rather, they're apparently a side effect of Sony's PlayStation Network 2.0 firmware, which also recently affected the Evolve beta as well as the PS4's Rest Mode. That latter problem was apparently fixed by the 2.01 update last week, but the issue with Dragon Age: Inquisition remains.

Sony (through the same EA representative) offered to send Polygon a pre-2.0 PlayStation 4, but we turned down the offer since it's unlikely that any consumers would be playing the game on similarly unpatched hardware. However, later in the review process, Sony offered to send a PlayStation 4 containing an early version of the post-2.01 patch. We agreed to this to see if it made a difference.

The good news is: It did! We spent our last 15 or so hours with Dragon Age: Inquisition on a PS4 with the unreleased new firmware, and in that time we experienced no crashes.

Sony updated PlayStation Network to version 2.02 shortly before our review (and this story) went live. It's unclear if this is the patch that will fix the crashing problem on Dragon Age: Inquisition, but we will be testing it in the coming days.

 

[JayEH]

Must be the game the Giant Bomb guys were talking about in the Bombcast.

 

[Killthee]

Must be the game the Giant Bomb guys were talking about in the Bombcast.

Yeah that would be my guess.

 

[Korezo]

caused cod to freeze to.

 

[Trust me. I'm a PhD]

What about 2.02? I am downloading it now

 

[StoopKid]

Doesn't the article already say 2.01 fixed it.

 

[Killthee]

What about 2.02? I am downloading it now

They didn't get a chance to test 2.02 since it just came out, but it could be that 2.02 is the unreleased fix they were able to use to play the game.

Doesn't the article already say 2.01 fixed it.

2.01 fixes the rest bug, but it didnt fix the DA crashes.

 

[Seanspeed]

Doesn't the article already say 2.01 fixed it.

Fixed the issues with Evolve. But not Dragon Age.

 

[StoopKid]

Fixed the issues with Evolve. But not Dragon Age.

It says it in the second paragraph.

 

[adamsapple]

Yeah .. proving once again Sony is a hardware company, not a software/OS company.

 

[Taker34]

Yeah .. proving once again Sony is a hardware company, not a software/OS company.

... what? I just... ah... whatever...

 

[funkystudent]

Curious what they changes that broke stuff.

I would guess along with the user end stuff in 2.0 they also tweaked a bunch of dev side stuff and that messed something up here.


Unfortunately Sony doesnt go on a press tour every time they update the console drivers to get another 3% performance boost out of the system so we may never know for sure.


Anyway shit happens. At least they caught it before launch. Wonder if any other up coming games are effected.

 

[Kayant]

Curious what they changes that broke stuff.

I would guess along with the user end stuff in 2.0 they also tweaked a bunch of dev side stuff and that messed something up here.


Unfortunately Sony doesnt go on a press tour every time they updating the console drivers to get another 3% performance boost out of the system so we may never know for sure.


Anyway shit happens. At least they caught it before launch. Wonder if any other up coming games are effected.

Sounds like it and this is where XB1's 3 OS setup shows it's one of it's advantages.

 

[MavFan619]

2.02 is apparently live I haven't tried updating my PS4 yet.

 

[Toki767]

2.02 is apparently live I haven't tried updating my PS4 yet.

It's a mandatory update so you'll need to anyway.

 

[MavFan619]

It's a mandatory update so you'll need to anyway.

That's fine I'm just putting it out there that it's out hopefully this one is problem free ;_;

 

[Trust me. I'm a PhD]

That's fine I'm just putting it out there that it's out hopefully this one is problem free ;_;

Has been for me thus far

 

[Basileus777]

Only Sony could pull something like this off.

 

[Nokterian]

Sony rolling the update out now.

https://twitter.com/PlayStationEU/status/532096172811624448

 

[Lucifon]

2.02 better fix this. 2.0 is a joke, for the small amount of features it added and took a year to arrive it's caused a lot of problems. As someone who owns an Xbone as well as a PS4 it felt like 1 of their monthly updates, only with a load of problems, bugs and network downtime.