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lianglonglong
10 years ago
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DA:O Invalid license. Reason code=Missing DLL:{NxCharacter.dll} Error: 0x7E.

So i recently started to play the free version of DA:O and i got hooked on it. so after few days of playng the game i bought the DA:O-Ultimate edition.
The game worked fine until few days later when it started to crash time-to-time for no apparent reason, thus i went on origin and right-clicket on DA:O-Ultimate edition to repair it. 
After the repair the game would not start and only givign me this error message " Invalid license. Reason code=Missing DLL:{NxCharacter.dll} Error: 0x7E."
I wen to the bin_ship folder and that .dll file was there. i tried running the game on admin-rights and compatibility mode for windows-7 and windows-xp servicepack 3 as sugested by EA, those didn't help. So i tried to repair fix it again, it didn't work. I uninstalled and re-installedit, didn't work.
I called EA-customer support, they said to delete origins programdata folder and restart the pc with anti-virus off and re-install. did that, didn't work. They said to call them back if it didn't work but it's weekend so i was trying to fix it my self.
I went online to find fixes to the problem. Re-isntalled c++ visual collor thing, Physx,  i did a clean-boot and tried to repair and didn't work, so i did a thurow clean of all traces of Dragon Age after un-installing it. Clean booted again and tried to isntall it again, that didn't work.
Please help me! non of the other fixes on the EA-forums or other forums helped.
(before i did all this i updated my drivers)

My PC Specs:
Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz (8 CPUs), ~4.0GHz
Memory: 16384MB RAM
DirectX Version: 12
Graphic Card: 2x GTX-970

Thanks in advance! :D


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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    You can download it from nvidia here: http://www.nvidia.com/content/DriverDownload-March2009/confirmation.php?url=/Windows/9.14.0702/PhysX-9.14.0702-SystemSoftware.msi&lang=us&type=Other

    If that link eventually expires, google nvidia PhysX download, it'll likely be the top result.

    Although this problem is fixable, it's still inexcusable that as customers we have to work out the problems ourselves, although I understand it's impossible to know every single bug, when discovered EA should have fixed this problem.

    Edit:

    It seams that although installing the above fixes it, it only works when launching through origin. If you launch it through steam as a non-steam game, it gets the same error (at least it does for me). It's not a major issue, but being able to have games all in one place would be nice.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    I tried this still no fix. This is the fix that EA told me any other options?

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    I have been having same error message but I looked in the C:\Program Files\Origin Games\Dragon Age\__Installer\physx\redist folder and there is no physx install file there or is there one on my laptop and the game plays on it. I was wanting to play the game on my desktop but the copy method to my desktop gives the the invalid license error. Everything else seems to be the same on both but game still does not play.

  • BoneZ2424's avatar
    BoneZ2424
    9 years ago

    there was no file in my with physx in the _install does the game need to launch first or?

  • SaulPedrazaR's avatar
    SaulPedrazaR
    9 years ago

    If I have an AMD graphic card, the NVIDIA Physx work to fix this problem? 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    9 years ago
    @lianglonglong wrote:

    Ok after fidelling around the file folders i came to an solution.
    Go to Program Files (in my case program files x86) > Origin Games > Dragon Age > __installer > physx > redist 
    there you should see and Phys-x install file, install it, after that the game should work.



    OK but for those of us not using NVIDIA graphics the game doesn't install physx. yet we get the error and physex wont install unless you have an NVIDIA gpu. SO is there a way to tell the game you don;t need physx?

  • ilike2burnthing's avatar
    ilike2burnthing
    9 years ago

    Whether you're using Intel, AMD or Nvidia graphics, you need the PhysX software. See above for the download link.

    For non-Nvidia cards this is just a software implementation of PhysX which runs off the CPU rather than the GPU like with Nvidia cards.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    I have AMD and installe4d as you instructed.  WORKED!!!

    Thank you

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