Re: Awakening DLC Won't Download

@r0se2013I have this same problem. I've tried installing DAO many times in the last couple weeks.

I've uninstalled reinstalled EA App several times.
I've cleared the cache.
Uninstalled EA Origin.

What happens is, when I install DAO fresh, it says something went wrong. But I can still play the base game. It says Awakening DLC is installed, but it isn't, and I can't download any of the other DLC. Then if I clear the cache in the EA App, it says none of the DLC is installed, and I can install everything except Awakening DLC, which goes through the normal process, checking disk usage, but then stops before actually downloading the Awakening DLC. However non of the other DLC is available in-game to play after installing with EA App, such as the Witch Hunt DLC. The DLC is available in the game's addins folder however, but in-game is not playable.

I don't have the link on hand, but there was a page on ea.com with legacy DLC downloads, and DAO had the 1.05 patch, and all the DLC except for Awakening.

It seems someone removed Awakening DLC file somewhere, and then if you had auto-update enabled, maybe it uninstalled Awakening from your install. Just a guess, idk.

Update:

I tried reinstalling DAO, this time I unselected All DLC content on the initial installation, and the error about something going wrong went away. I can start downloading every other DLC except Awakening, which still brings up the Disk Usage popup but when I click Download, nothing happens, it just closes the popup. With the other DLCs at that point it goes to the Download Manager and finishes installation.

This is the addins folder after installing all DLC, except Awakening which still wont download.

However, none of the DLC is available to play in-game:

The addins.xml in user settings still not updated properly:

Will try copying the addins.xml file from the install directory.

Update 2:

After copying the file:

"C:\Program Files\EA Games\Dragon Age\__Installer\addIns.xml"

to...

"C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age\Settings\AddIns.xml"

and overwriting.

the DLC (except for Awakening) was available in-game as far as I can tell:

So yeah, I would hazard a guess that someone, at somepoint, removed Awakening files from a server somewhere. or moved them, but seems some metadata like download size is still there, maybe a broken link. Also, the installer is still broken in 2022, not updating the user's addins.xml file.

So 6 hours later or so, and: