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Anonymous
13 years ago

Re: DAOrigins.exe Large Address Awareness for Steam and other platform versions

For all of you who have a Steam-bought Dragon Age Origins key and want to test the possibility of LAA on the executable, this might be interesting:

I happened to stumble upon the possibility of registering my Dragon Age key codes within EA's Origin and after downloading and installing through that service I was actually able to set the flag and still start the game.

Seems Origin itself has a less restricted/adjusted version of the game files than Steam does. Nonetheless I wasn't eager enough up to now, to observe whether the undesired game behavior changes or not.

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  • ThandalNLyman's avatar
    ThandalNLyman
    13 years ago

    Yes, anyone with a legitimate installation of the game can switch to the EA/Origin store digital download simply by choosing the "Redeem product code" option and entering the CD-key.  (Thanks for the reminder, excretumnecris!)  I did this for fall five of my BioWare games (already had the retail disc versions) when I built my current Win8 machine.

    And yes, once you're no longer using Steam as the minder for your game's patching (although there many are good reasons for some people to do so) you can edit the daorigins.exe file header to make it "Large Address Aware".

    See my post (third one down on this page on the BSN) from over three years ago: step-by-step with a link to the original FO3 batch file on the Nexus!  😕mileywink:

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    Yea Origin let me redeem my DAO: Ultimate Edition but not the other DLC such as Golem's of Amgarrak or Leliana's Song. I would love to play with LAA enabled but playing without those expansions or maker forbid having to buy the DLC again or waid through EA's not always responsive customer service is not an option.


    EDIT: After spending the morning looking around on the forum found a solution to my missing DLC.

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