Dragon Age 2 Launcher.xml is missing
Hi, I reinstalled DA2 from Origin download and was playing it until today. I patched the game with the 1.4 file from the Bioware social network page and now the game will not start. I've checked the...
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Hi,
From what you've described, you started having problems after you acquired the patch from the Bioware Social Network? Can you try a couple of things for me to see if we can't get this solved for you?
- Can you try right clicking the game icon in Origin and selecting "Repair Install". This should repair any damaged files and correctly patch you up to 1.04. Once the repair is complete try launching directly from Origin.
- If that doesn't work, can you try uninstalling your game entirely and redownloading and installing through Origin? This should pull down the latest patched version of the game and allow you to get going without grabbing a patch from the Bioware social site.
In either case, the version of Dragon Age 2 you download from Origin should be the latest 1.04 version of the game. You should not need to download any patches via the Bioware Social Network. If you want to confirm you have the correct patch version, you can run the DragonAge2Config.exe from the bin_ship directory and select the "Game" tab. Your game version will be listed next to "DragonAge2.exe".
The launcher has been intentionally removed with the latest version of Dragon Age 2 delivered through Origin. In order to launch Dragon Age 2 you should run from the game icon within Origin, or by launching the DragonAge2.exe directly in the bin_ship directory.
Hey there BioWare QA;
Glad to have someone from the Studio involved.
Sad to have you say this:
@biowareqa wrote:
...The launcher has been intentionally removed with the latest version of Dragon Age 2 delivered through Origin. In order to launch Dragon Age 2 you should run from the game icon within Origin, or by launching the DragonAge2.exe directly in the bin_ship directory.
If this is true...
a. Why is there the option under the EA/Origin "Game Properties" to start the game with "DragonAge2Launcher.exe"? (It sure looks like the Launcher should be present and functioning.)
b. Why deliberately disable what had previously been working? Especially when there are game settings that cannot be adjusted (from a UI) anywhere else, I really don't want to have to dig into .ini and .xml files to set things that used to be a checkbox on a config screen.
c. Why don't the EA Game Advisors know this? See the EA Help Center Case: 09876247, now going into its second month.
Look forward to hearing more from you.
NOTE FOR PLAYERS: A viable workaround is to copy "DragonAge2Launcher.exe" and the supporting "\data" files from another source. I used the install on my old Win7 machine. Just copy-paste and all's well. (But... that does require a source for the missing files.)
BTW: It appears that the EA/Origin team did the exact same thing to ME2. After having worked properly with an EA/Origin install for almost a year, the Launcher is (now) reduced to a ZERO byte file and supporting files removed (existing install), or simply not present (new install). Copying from a working install on another machine repaired it for me.
They knew about it, but were too lazy to tell you all you had to do was hit repair on the game.
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