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andresdecide's avatar
9 months ago
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Dragon Age Inquisition Won't Launch

So I reinstalled the game after some years away and on a new PC. It seems Origin doesn't exist anymore and the EA app handles all now. But for the life of me I can't do anything to launch Dragon Age Inquisition... I tried pretty much anything suggested online, such as:

  • Repaired + Unistalled/Reinstalled the EA app + Ran App Recovery several times
  • Set some or all excecutables to Run as Administrator on the EA App directory AND the game itself
  • Disabled Windows Defender/Firewall and/or add exceptions to both
  • Unistalled/Reinstalled/Repaired Dragon Age Inquisition
  • Created a new local account on the PC
  • Cleaned up the registry with CCleaner
  • Disabled/Enabled in game overlay + background services
  • Moved the game to the same directory or a different directory from the App, both on the same drive and different drives
  • Killed any and all background services, including the EA app that likes to stay around

The results were all the same: An infinite notice of "Preparing the Game" or "Launching the Game" and then nothing happens OR I get an error message with a different error code everytime (for example EC 13, 483, 509, 10066..., 1867..., etc.). No game ever starts, no black screens, no DAI excecutable, no nothing...

So, what do I do? Do I just abandon a game I have almost 500 hours on? Keep trying OUTLANDISH things to try and make the EA app to do its job?

  • EA_Shepard's avatar
    EA_Shepard
    9 months ago

    @andresdecide Hey, honestly I am not sure why unless the issue with the ISP was blocking a connection which some have before, and when systems were restored on their end an update happened. I had not changed anything on my end to get it to work. DAI is doesn't have an online access or anything so besides replacing the entire game, no changes here would have been made to resolve it.

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