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Anonymous

12 years ago

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Cannot get Awakening to Open

I am playing Dragon Age Origins on a Mac, and I cannot seem to get the Awakening expansion to open. When I go to 'Other Campaigns' in the menu and try to open the game, I get the response: "The mod...

ThandalNLyman
12 years ago
@averymarcus; (Can't say how to do an un-iinstall on a Mac. Don't have/never used one.)

1. Write down your product codes for the UE (including the separate one for the "additional materials" which includes DAA and all the other DLC.)

2. Back-up your saves/mods.

3. Un-install.

4. Log-on to EA/Origin

5. Re-install (Redeem product code).

Anonymous

12 years ago

I have been working on this and have a half-baked solution - although not by any means acceptable.

Since the DAO_PRC_EP_1 file is missing - I went to the Documents/Bioware/Dragon Age/AddIns folder to see that indeed that file was not there. To try to fix this, I went to the Dragon Age Origins Awakening Installer and right clicked on that, and selected "Show Package Contents" then "Contents" then "Resources" then "Awakening.tgz" which takes a little while to expand because I believe this contains most of the expansion. I then moved the "DAO_PRC_EP_1" file into the Documents/Bioware/Dragon Age/AddIns folder where i believe most of the rest of the DLC is located.

After this, I could access the game finally!! However lots of animation was missing, the blood dragon armor dlc was missing, but i was at least able to see some of the opening animation and play some of the game, albeit with missing portraits, and some other wonky things like awarding 210 exp for killing low level darkspawn.

Based on all of this, it leads me to conclude that the install is totally bogus, at least for us, and it is not actually installing or doing a complete install.

Thus, I think the solution may rest in somehow being able to do a full, manual install on the mac. The question I would pose - and I am certain must be doable - is how do you do this??

Anonymous

12 years ago

I finally figured it out! If you were like me who previously owned and have a copy of DAO installed dont used the icon from the previous installation to launch the game after you install the Ultimate Edition/Awakening. Instead delete it and go to where the new version is installed (by dafault should be in your Applications fold), open the Dragon Age fold and use the icon to launch the game. You can also now drag that icon to your desktop and launch the game from there.

Anonymous
12 years ago
That did the trick!! Excellent work man, thank you very much!
- ThandalNLyman
  12 years ago
  Glad I could help.
  
  Now go save Vigil's Keep! (Or Amaranthine, your choice...) 😕mileywink: