Patches, Bugs and PC Requirements

I do have it and have been playing it. Settings are mostly high and the game still looks very good. I do have occasional CTD for some kind of graphics card error but DAtV is so generous with auto saves I've not lost more than minutes of gameplay. Fingers crossed! I'll probably upgrade next year.

PC's are complex, I can totally understand why issues crop up.
My own 50 hours without a single bug or crash on Xbox comes at the price of not experiencing 'ultra' graphics.
It's a tough choice. And I do wish my PC friends with it.

A patch has been announced for later this week:

No stuttering, but I got the DirectX crash like a couple times.
Also noticed some texture pop-in with ONE staff (Shockbranch, I think it's called? The one with the serpent, the snake's scales get blurry every now and then and then pop back in when I get closer with the camera. Don't think this should be happening... but then also it could be some other setting, depth of field, bloom or whatever (I don't know jack about PCs, could be anything - but I'm running all on Ultra). Strange though, it's literally just this one weapon, everything else from clothes to those huge environments, hair, ray-tracing stuff... all top notch super detailed and gorgeous AF.

I got crashes a few times. The only time I noticed was when I would pause by pressing the escape key. I got around this "pausing" by bringing up the map. I have a 4070 super and am using the latest drivers.

Not a bug.   Many of the companion quests involve a "meet" point.  When you interact with that point there's a transition from the "open world" part of the adventure to the core quest.  If you have the companion who's quest it is in your party they come along with you until you get to that point, because the quest hasn't really started yet, and you could be doing other content in the same area.  You other party member may go away for a bit as well once you interact with the meeting point, but will come back when the quest ends.

Hm... than the quest should say "go to point X to start the quest" not 'Meet Harding at point X".

I know someone asked me about this but I cannot find where it was, so here are the specifics of the patch notes for gameplay that was loosely bundled as 'balance changes'

Player Gameplay
- Branching fixes for Warrior Charged 2H (this should fix a bunch of traits that were unintentionally hard to pull off)
- Audacity (unique rogue sword) no longer takes arrows per hit if the player has Bombard (infinite arrows) rune active
- Pilfer now applies effects from equipped belt rather than a generic heal (this means if your belt doesnt have healing on it, this ability wont heal)
- Mage beam (ranged attack) damage offset from 33% to 50% (this makes it deal more damage relative to equipped weapon)
- Mage beam properly flagged as a 'weapon' so it can trigger specific rune procs (and properly gain from +weapon damage stat)
- Mage beam tick rate for normal/enhanced from .66/.33 to .5/.25 (slightly faster between damage instances now)
- Mage branching should feel smoother in specific cases now
- Beam upgrades now work even if you dont buy the ramping damage skill at the center (but why would you not?!)


Items
- Timeworn Mageknife legandary property cost reduced from 50 to 10
- Enchanted Athame legendary property bonus damage increased from 50 to 100%
- Fixed issue with scaling on follower ability damage from their equipped chest piece (you should see the damage going up in the latter half of the game by a noticeable amount)
- Bees! affliction now stacks properly
- Casket Sharp (unique 2h warrior) light attacks properly tagged to do bonus damage to armor
- Helms that have scaling based on faction power are now scaling more appropriately for levels 2 and 3

Creatures
- A couple Despair Demons enhanced with Juggernaut were swapped off to other things as it was breaking their wakeup logic
- Regeneration Enhancement tick rate slowed on Underdog/Nightmare from 3/2 to 3.5/3 respectively
- Mythal Dragon fight was not scaling properly, this should now be appropriately challenging (as intended)
- Assassin archetype enemies basic attacks deal slightly more damage base damage now

That Qunari reminds me of a Viking or maybe Kratos from God Of War.  Some serious face paint.  On the battlefield, dude means business!

The EA app does not load the patch for me. It displays confusing values about the size (7 MB of 7 MB,...) and the download speed is between a few bytes and 20 KB.
Then I uninstalled the game, because the installation a week ago went quickly. Well, now nothing is happening.