Dragon Age: Origin DLCs not working
Hello, I'm writing because my DLCs for Dragon Age: Origins do not work correctly. I have all DLCs and they worked like a charm on my old PC. All DLCs are active and have been so from the beginning ...
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My issue is that the Stone Prisoner and the Return to Ostagar DLCs are not showing up on the map, nor do I receive any of the DLC items in my inventory. I run into a little cut scene that I assume is in regards to Shales existence-
(slight spoiler warning)
where there is a small meteor crash with an older couple stumbling upon the crash site and mentioning something along the lines of "raising" the little tike (or whatever they called it, can't remember exactly off the top of my head) but there is no more mention of it through the main story and new locations never show up.
I have the Warden's keep DLC working just fine and have access to all of the "other" campaigns, just can't seem to get the other 2 major DLC locations to show up on the map during the original story. Side notes: all DLC's show up as installed and enabled at the main menu, I never got an "unauthorized" pop up about any of the DLC either. I've also received crystals that are only equippable by Shale but it just notes that the item is "not equippable for this character", it makes no direct mention of Shale specifically like the other companion locked equipment.
UPDATE / POTENTIAL FIX (2021):
I looked through the files under documents/bioware/dragon age/AddIns and found that the DLCs that weren't working for me were all lacking the MANIFEST.xml files in their folders. Go to https://help.ea.com/en-ca/help/faq/dlc-for-classic-games/#dragonage and redownload the DLC files that aren't working for you, use 7zip program to open the archive of the DLC files then drag and drop the manifest.xml files into their proper dlc folders in your dragon age addins folder.
For example: Stone Prisoner DLC
Click the Stone Prisoner DLC within that link to download it. It should appear as DAO_PRC_CP_2_1.0.dazip in your downloads location. Open a separate File Explorer directory and navigate to Documents/Bioware/Dragon Age/AddIns so you have the downloaded file open in one File Explorer tab and your dragon age AddIns folder open in the other. Right click the downloaded DLC file, hover over 7-Zip, select open archive, drag and drop the manifest.xml file into the "dao_prc_cp_2" folder. Open your game again and resume whichever save you'd like. You should immediately see a quest pop up regarding the Stone Prisoner DLC (and I'd assume it will be a similar pop up for any of the DLC locations).
These instructions are assuming you already have the DLCs downloaded and installed as I do and they appear as though they are enabled in the game menu.
This fix worked! I had the exact same problem of these two dlcs seemingly working but the first locations just not showing up on the map, but pulling out the manifest files and copying them just as you've said meant they've shown up!
Thanks a lot, was really worried I'd have to restart after getting 20 hours into this playthrough. Just thought I'd comment as the other fixes were unsuccessful.
