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Anonymous

12 years ago

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Awakening items/skills have no names or descriptions

So I have been looking around in the forums for days and it seems I have found a new issue for this "old" game. Yaaaayy..... Or it is an issue that everyone could fix on their own and I'm the only c...

Anonymous
11 years ago
I fixed this problem a long while ago now.
But last time I checked this thread there were no Me toos, and it was very late and I was very tired, so I simply dropped it.
My game keeps having the weirdest problems with the DLCs so I simply assumed it was something with my pc or copy. But since there are other frustrated souls out there, here's what MIGHT fix this problem:
I'm no pc expert so I can't pinpoint the source of the problem and I can only theorize what's wrong with my game since I have no idea what's the situation with others. I read in some other thread that the problem might be playing the game in English when the pc is localized in a foreign language(like you can't change the language of the Origin store at the launcher even if you set the properities to English. So games might not be installed right) or the Dragon Age Update service doesn't work right or both. This is simple guessing, so if anyone has the real source of problems with the DLC, sharing would be very welcome
1) You should check your Dragon Age Updater service. Press the windows key + R (or click Start and then RUN) and type in services.msc. Then look for Dragon Age: Origins - Content Update. This way you can start it manually or simply set it to Automatic, so it will start... automatically... next time you launch DA. If the DAO update service isn't there at all, it's not installed right. I had THIS problem too (why there so many??? T_T) and used step3) to fix that.
2) CAN'T CONFIRM THIS MYSELF but I read patch 1.03a is the best patch compatible for awakening. I'm pretty sure you can download the old patches at the bioware site. MY attempts at patching my game kept giving me error messages, so my game stayed 1.05 and I used this instead:
3) Use the DAUServiceDiagnostic-beta. It's a tool from Bioware. You can find and download it from here: DA Update Service Diagnostic Beta. After running the tool it fixed most of my DLC problems. Sulcher Pass appeared, Levy Dryden actually appeared in my camp, etc... and of course I now knew what the **bleep** those awakening skills do. I did many things however, to somehow fix my game so I'm not 100% sure that's the ultimate solution. Maybe 85%...
Hope that'll help.

Anonymous

11 years ago

I fixed this problem a long while ago now.

But last time I checked this thread there were no Me toos, and it was very late and I was very tired, so I simply dropped it.

My game keeps having the weirdest problems with the DLCs so I simply assumed it was something with my pc or copy. But since there are other frustrated souls out there, here's what MIGHT fix this problem:

I'm no pc expert so I can't pinpoint the source of the problem and I can only theorize what's wrong with my game since I have no idea what's the situation with others. I read in some other thread that the problem might be playing the game in English when the pc is localized in a foreign language(like you can't change the language of the Origin store at the launcher even if you set the properities to English. So games might not be installed right) or the Dragon Age Update service doesn't work right or both. This is simple guessing, so if anyone has the real source of problems with the DLC, sharing would be very welcome

1) You should check your Dragon Age Updater service. Press the windows key + R (or click Start and then RUN) and type in services.msc. Then look for Dragon Age: Origins - Content Update. This way you can start it manually or simply set it to Automatic, so it will start... automatically... next time you launch DA. If the DAO update service isn't there at all, it's not installed right. I had THIS problem too (why there so many??? T_T) and used step3) to fix that.

2) CAN'T CONFIRM THIS MYSELF but I read patch 1.03a is the best patch compatible for awakening. I'm pretty sure you can download the old patches at the bioware site. MY attempts at patching my game kept giving me error messages, so my game stayed 1.05 and I used this instead:

3) Use the DAUServiceDiagnostic-beta. It's a tool from Bioware. You can find and download it from here: DA Update Service Diagnostic Beta. After running the tool it fixed most of my DLC problems. Sulcher Pass appeared, Levy Dryden actually appeared in my camp, etc... and of course I now knew what the **bleep** those awakening skills do. I did many things however, to somehow fix my game so I'm not 100% sure that's the ultimate solution. Maybe 85%...

Hope that'll help.

NicklausSIR2
10 years ago
I'm sorry to say none of this works for me. I spent 2 hours trying to fix this game I PAID for. I was able to fix some DLC's by getting the complete files from the bioware website, but Awakening isn't on my list of products. Since Origin didn't provide me with a key, I can't even access it on the Bioware webiste.
In any case I think it is a shame than Origin doesn't offer options to choose languages independantly of your local settings. I want to play the other games of the series, and I'm seriously considering getting them from other platforms, because this is all so inconvenient !!