It doesn't show up in the EA app because it's a standalone Steam title that was available on Steam long before the EA app was introduced.
It was possible to redeem the game key in Origin/EA app but I am not sure if that is still possible. It shouldn't be necessary in the first place, the game should run just fine from Steam.
If you want help with this look at this post and provide the DxDiag.
I was unaware of that. But no, it does not run fine on steam. I was able to get into the game and play for a little bit before a crash but now If I select continue or load game it will load then right before it would switch from the loading screen to the game it crashes. I don't know why it worsened.
here is what you asked for.
The crashes error code are standard access violations, that is not much to go by.
First:
Move the game to an internal hard drive > Test.
If that alone don't helps, did you made the "daorigins.exe" large address aware?
DAO is a very old game, on old x86 systems a x86 executable could only address 2GB of virtual memory.
This restriction was brought over to modern x64 bit machines if you don't make the old executable "Large address aware". If you do "daorigins.exe" can address 4GB of virtual memory.
A explanation and the tool to do that whit "DAOrigins.exe" can be found here.
Virus total scan of the "4gb_patch.exe from that link"
It kind of worked. I downloaded and applied the patch. I am now able to load into the game but it still crashes every 10-20 minutes.
OK, some progress at least.
Please post a new DxDiag.
