Dragon Age: Inquisition installation of physical copy to Origin on PC

If this helps anyone, I'll be glad because this has been one frustrating evening......

I bought the deluxe PC discs because like so many of you I did not want to wait for the digital download and got stuck with the Origin fiasco.  Here is what worked for me:

1) Insert Disc one and select "AutoRun ", this will take you through the Origins set up.  Go through this step and sign in for the Origins platform.

2) Inside the Origins platform, go ahead and enter your product key for the Deluxe version at this stage.  You can get to this from the Origin drop down menu "Redeem Product Key".

3) This is where I had messed up before 😕mileyembarrassed:  Inside the Origins box, click to go Offline.  Then you go into the Origin drop down menu again for "Download Que".  Once this box has opened, tell it to cancel your digital download that had started.  You HAVE to do this for it to start copying the discs.  It will give you a warning that you will lose all progress, but do it.

4) Open up your DVD/CD Rom drive, disc one should still be in there.  Close it again.  Now with Origins offline, you will be prompted to start the install again.  At this point, you should see it start to "Copy" from your discs.  You will be prompted to continue until disc 4.  When disc 4 finishes, don't eject.

5) Now tell Origins to go online once you have reached disc 4's completion.  This will start the game updating and finish any digital material from the deluxe edition.  This takes an additional 10 minutes maybe.

I had tried all the steps before without realizing that I needed to dump the digital progress.  Honestly, was afraid to do this in case the discs still wouldn't start working correctly.  At this stage, had four + hours in trying to get this forsaken game to start.  Talk about a buzz kill.  They pretty much killed the mood for tonight's gaming entertainment.

I wanted to write this because there was so much confusion regarding installing/uninstalling programs, etc.  This was the simple solution for me.  I have Windows 7 so there was no operating system error. 

Best of luck to you all, hope this helped.

^ Dude, does it work for "error reading disc" problem? Cuz im pissed, got damn physical copy and still be unable to instal it from this damn dvd. Ugghr...

 It's really annoying... i bought physical copy to just simply instal it within 10 min, not to **bleep** play with your funny installer for 3 hours just because it's literally **bleep**. Now i need to download whole game... i'll be lucky if it take 8 hours minimum at best... thanks EA! GG!

Never ever i'm gonna pre order anything.

And even now i can feel wrath of game bugs when i already install it... ffs... 

I got this excat problem, but for me its disc 3 it stalls at 82% and every time I click "try again" it takes it less and less time to say "disc read error"

I tried this, and for the first 30 seconds it seemed to be fully working. Then all of a sudden it couldn't read the disc anymore. I don't know what cheap garbage DVD's that they put this game on, but it seems that EA is fully incapable of making a game that just works. I literally (no lie!) have had to mess around with every single one of EA's games within the last few years in order to make it work, if I could get them to work at all. Don't ask why I keep buying their games, because my only answer is that I have been dumb enough to keep giving them chances. This is a FAIL company in the worst ways possible.

I hate Origin.  I really do.  Bought physical copy on PC so I wouldn't have to download it through Origin.  After four hours of trying to install from the discs I've had to give in and download it.  I'm tempted to send the game back.  Needless to say I'm never buying an EA game again.  What a terrible company.

Well, i contacted with my region EA support via phone call - what she said is that she's very sorry, that it might be some manufacturer problem. Also said she's happy that i downloaded game itself, because new copies will take time. And yes they will gladly replace them, all i need is to send my game (whole box) to them (your region EA hq outpost - address should be on game instruction).

I hope they will somehow compensate us with some free dlc to this game.

I contacted EA as well and they are trying to get me a replacment disc for the broken one I have now and I don't blame them, buring a dvd is a very presice exsersie and if the disc and or the buring equipment had an off day its not their fault s*%( happens but about the DLC I agree

 I have a similar problem but it doesn't even come up with disc read error. After having put in the new disc (in this case the second one) it sits there and spins its wheels without downloading anything more.

When I try bring up autoplay in the hope of it giving me an option to run the disc, it proceeds to treat all discs other than the first one as picture files.

Link to what is shows me here 

If I let it spin it's wheel's too long the download proceeds to pause and then refuse to resume at all.

Install would get stuck at 49% for an hour and then the disc read error. Tried it 3 times now. And its brand new too...living far from any EQ HQ ( am in Indonesia). sending the disc back (Asia-Pacific edition - Hong Kong HQ) and getting a new one would cost me shipping and others. Is there any way to fix this?