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1 year ago

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Dragon Age Inquisition Won't Launch (Game says its running) - Origin Copy

Hi, so I'm trying to play Dragon Age Inquisition and the game is refusing to launch. I was able to last play it on the 14th (as of writing this 2 days ago) What would happen is, I would click play, ...

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Leora85
1 year ago
Hmm, this could be the old issue of the game not getting along with other programs (I must admit I'm a bit out of date, I'm not too familiar with any issues that've come with the new EA App), you don't have AVG or Avast, how about Razer? Teamviewer (I think that's what it was called)? There were some other things but I can't remember off the top of my head. Anything with an overlay (including the EA App) can also cause issues.

Looking at other users who've had this issue, have you tried clearing EA App's cache? (help>app recovery> clear cache). I know you said App Recovery but just checking. Some also had to delete anything EA/DAI related from AppData (it's hidden by default in windows) followed by a restart.

Some people, randomly, fixed it by re-synchronising their date & time in windows (I guess maybe they'd been messing with it for war table timers?). And, of course, running as admin.

Have you run system file checker?

If none of that's helpful, could you attach your dxdiag to a reply, please?

Zackinblack183

1 year ago

Hi, thanks for responding!

I checked through what in game overlays. It didn't mess up before but I decided to try disabling most of them (uninstalled team viewer and such since i do not require it) I don't use any Razer Products so that is a no go.

I did clear the EA App's Cache (Which yes, i did state as App recovery) I also checked App Data, but didn't see anything involving DA:I or Origin, but I did unhidden the folders and found some Origin files, and EA. I did mess with my date and time with the War-table and double checked to see if my date was not sync but yes it was synced, -

Okay so. Uhh.. on a whim, i decided to change the date back to when I last played and the game launched!

I literally have no idea why this would happen, but i did submit my stuff just in case if you wanted to look, but do you think you can explain before I set it as Solved?

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Leora85

Hero+

1 year ago

Well, glad that fixed it!

I'm not sure why this is an issue now, but it seems quite a few people have had this happen since the EA App replaced Origin. So I guess you either need to put up with long war table missions, be very careful with messing with your system clock or get a mod to deal with war table timers.

Fingers crossed you don't run into any more issues. Have fun! 🙂