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Arcalunatique's avatar
3 months ago

DA Origines launch but keeps crashing before I can play

I tried playing the game a few times, even went throught a few internet ask, but I'm not originally an english speaker and have a hard time identificating to said asks.

So I launch the game, everything's fine, but then, when I finish creating my character and press "play", the game just... crash. No messages, no nothing, there's just suddenly no game on my screen and I'm face to face with my computer background... and it does that everytime only at that moment.

I did install it on an USB hard drive, could the problem come from there?

7 Replies

  • jaquis's avatar
    jaquis
    Seasoned Newcomer
    3 months ago

    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. 

  • holger1405's avatar
    holger1405
    Hero+
    3 months ago

    jaquis​ 

    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"

     

     

  • jaquis's avatar
    jaquis
    Seasoned Newcomer
    3 months ago

    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.

  • holger1405's avatar
    holger1405
    Hero+
    3 months ago

    jaquis​ 

    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.  

  • jaquis's avatar
    jaquis
    Seasoned Newcomer
    3 months ago

    I am having the same issue. I have tried every common troubleshoot on the internet that I can find. None of them work. I bought it on Steam along with the other two Dragon Age games but Dragon Age Origins does not show up on the EA app even though I have both accounts linked. I am finding that this is a common issue that is not being resolved. I can not say I am surprised though. EA and many other companies do not seem to care about their customers/fanbase, which is sad.

  • Arcalunatique​ 

    Please add a DxDiag to your next reply.

    A DxDiag is an overview of your PCs technical features and recent software errors.
    There is no personal info in it except for the “Machine name” in the second row. (You might delete the “Machine name” line if you wish too.)

    How to create a DxDiag:

    1. Press the Windows key and "R" at the same time to open the Run dialog box.
    2. Copy and paste or type "DxDiag" (Without the quotes) into the new field. > ENTER
    3. Wait until the green bar is gone > Click on "Save all information"
    4. Save the file to your desktop.
    5. Attach the DxDiag file to your reply (paper clip symbol)

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