Did not work at all. All that resulted is that I now have to manually download and reinstall the dlc's again along with awakening.
Understood about the reinstalling, but still manually instead of through the in game downloader. This method broke awakening as well, so had to uninstall and now in the process of redownloading the full game again.
@Mitsukayoi wrote:
Did not work at all. All that resulted is that I now have to manually download and reinstall the dlc's again along with awakening.
Reinstalling is actually the point. Sorry if that wasn't clear enough in my message. What we are trying to do is to get rid of all traces of former installation that may now interfere with the downloader and the DLCs. However let us know if the DLCs are still not triggering in-game.
That solution was ineffective. This led me to remove all traces of dragon age origins off my system, registry, program data, anything that related to it. Reinstalled again from scratch, flushing dns multiple times and with mulitple restarts. Still 'download failed' in the in game downloader. Manually installing each dlc and offer files once again.
I also now cannot run the manual installer... it complains about a missing XML file.
And my CD key seems to have gone missing... lovely.
@chancenoir wrote:
I also now cannot run the manual installer... it complains about a missing XML file.
And my CD key seems to have gone missing... lovely.
Does it say the exact name of the missing XML file?
@chancenoir wrote:
And my CD key seems to have gone missing... lovely.
Did you try this workaround?
I've been following these threads because I've recently purchased the ultimate edition and have been having the same issue with the "Download failed" message. Previously played the game back when it was released and getting it to work correctly then was a chore as well. But anyway on to the current problem.
I think it's pretty obvious that there is an issue on your end with the servers. Making everyone jump through hoops on our machines seems to be nothing more that a waste of time and possibly a delaying tactic.
I've uninstalled and reinstalled multiple times. Manually purging all the bioware, Dragon Age, and electronic arts folders each time. Manually rooted through the registry. I've tried installing it from Origin and then went back and tried from Steam.
I've tried installing it on two other PCs I have, that have never previously had a version of the game installed, and have the same issue persist on those computers as well. I've even purged off my new ultimate edition and reinstalled my original deluxe edition of the game. Same error.
As a side note I find it funny that even with the new ultimate edition I still had to manually install the DAOupdate service 4 years after the original release date. I mean really how hard can it be to get the install on this game right.
Great game, Poor install execution.
