DLC not loading language properly
I had the Ultimate Edition installed, created a new save and could play it just fine... until I got a new PC.
I only saved my documents from the old hard-drive (so concerning DA only C:/Documents/BioWare) and re-installed the game through Origin on my new one. Suddenly the names of all DLC content were shown with their internal names instead of their regular names (Shale was called gen00fl_shale for example) and lacked all descriptions. Despite that problem, I continued playing, got through the campaign and even Awakening. Everything except names and descriptions worked fine, so why bother I thought.
Now I start Witch Hunt and suddenly it's unplayable. I can't see subtitles, hear dialogue or make dialogue choices. If anything of that is required, the scenes play out without lip-synch or voices and when I'm supposed to make a dialogue choice the camera flips to the Warden and back immidately.
My **bleep**-ups/fixing attempts:
- I used to change my Origin language back and forth between German and English, but since the problem occured I set everything possible to English and reinstalled the game and all its' DLC twice.
- During my research I found out that in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Dragon Age\packages\core_ep1\data\talktables" there are "core_ep1_de-de.tlk" files instead of "en-us", but I wasn't able to fix it because apparently the files are not available for seperate download anywhere.
- I tried to "repair" the game through Origin several times, but it did nothing.
TL;DR:
I don't seem to have the right language files for DLC content.
All problems might be solved if someone were to find or provide them seperately for download.
PLEASE help me before I go crazy. I just want to play through the DA games again before starting DAI and I'm stuck at the very last hour...
Okay, I finally fixed it.
If anyone encounters similar problems as described here, it's because language files are missing. To find the cause of the problem was obviously simple, but the fix can be a little bit tricky if you don't have the disc. If you have the manual disc at hand, this issue really shouldn't occur and a re-install should do it. But well, if Origin or Steam **bleep** up and give you the wrong files...
- You'll want to navigate to whatever part of the content you are missing. That's somewhere in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Dragon Age\" .
- Now there are some weird namings, but you can find out where exactly the problem was occuring by going into "C:\Users\<Username>\Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age\Settings\DragonAge.ini" and reading the value for "LastCampaign". That's the content that was loaded for the last save (where you likely quit the game because of the issue)
- You'll have to find the folder that is named like that (Example: Witch Hunt uses "C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Dragon Age\addins\dao_prc_str" because in the DragonAge.ini it said "LastCampaign=DAO_PRC_STR")
- If you are in one of those folders, there should be "core" and "module" folders now, both of which contain similar sub-folders. "audio/vo" and "data\talktables" are the ones that contain the spoken and written dialogue files. If you want to play on English and "audio/vo/" doesn't have a subfolder called "en-us" or the files in "data\talktables" are not called "dao_prc_str_en-us.tlk", then congratulations, you just found your problem! (if not, then jump right to point 6)
- All that's left to do is to get proper replacements for these files from somewhere. I had a friend send them to me whose game worked just fine, you might want to try that.
- If your problems are somehow similar, but this didn't help, it should be rather easy to navigate through the folders yourself and simply look for files that are not called "en-us" but "de-de", "ru-ru" or whatever. If you set your game to English and there are other country codes than "en-us", that's where your problem is and that's where you need new language files.
Hope I could help someone with this very... specific problem.
