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13 years ago

DA:O Ultimate Edition Purchased from Steam, Awakening Not Working


1. What version of the game are you playing: physical disc or digital download (along with which vendor)?
   Steam Download

2. System Details

      WIndows 7

      AMD Phenom2 X43.4Ghz
       16gb's of RAM    
        Nvidia GTS 450 Video card, 1GB
          
    

So, the problem that I've run into is that I can not find Awakening at all, anywhere, in my game. It isn't listed in the Other Campaigns section, it isn't listed under DLC either. 

All of the DLC content that's come with the game works, and it is registered under my EA account- the DLC is listed under my "registered game content" section on my EA profile, including the Awakening DLC. But, I can't find a way to access Awakening itself at all.  

I google'd the problem and did some research, and came upon someseemingly helpful advice regarding the addins XML folder and the manifest, and what I noticed is that my XML files do not seem to have all the data in them. Here is a screen-capped picture of my "manifest" XML document:

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f122/blaxican_templar/manifest_zpsa15b123d.jpg

All of the relevent information seems to be there. 

But when I opened up my Addins XML file, located in my documents:

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f122/blaxican_templar/Addins_zps15685e37.jpg

It's basically empty. I have not altered the Addins file in any way, shape or form. I've done nothing but open it and look at it. 

So, what do I do? I've installed and uninstalled the game several times, yesterday was actually my third time re-installing it. The instructions I looked at that allowed me to discover the XML files was this thread here -> http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1677021

I haven't tried the pastebin solution, because I don't really understand his instructions for that. 

2 Replies

  • Sorry to hear about your problem.  Unfortunately there's nothing anyone here can do for you.

    The AHQ is for "player-to-player" technical self-help and game-play discussions.

    We're all just fellow gamers, doin' the best we can...

    You need "official" support from the EA Game Advisors.

    As the NOTICE at the top-right of every forum says:

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    Sounds like you have an account, code, and/or installation problem.  😕mileyfrustrated:

    If it were me, I'd uninstall the Steam version (after being sure I had a copy of my product code(s) handy) and get the EA/Origin digital download.

  • I tried uninstalling it through Steam and re-installing it through Origin. 

    Now, not only am I having the same problem with Awakening basically not existing, but all of my DLC is now "unauthorized" and the DLC code I got when I bought the game from Steam doesn't work when I try to redeem it in Origin.

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