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13 years ago

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 of my new game.

Now ingame I get the Quest for Warden's Keep, which says that I should make camp and wait for the merchant.

Regardles of how often I change cities/camp the merchant won't appear (On the save I already finished the mage tower and Redcliff in the meantime).

The Golem DLC doesn't appear at all and I'm not quite sure if I'm missing something here but I can't travel back to Ostagar on the map.

One supportmember told me that my game wasn't introduced into the system correctly but all that changed after he added it was that I now have not only my Digital Collectors DA: Origins plus Awakening but also a new normal DA: O (which I shouldn't have, should I?).

I hope someone here can help me!

Regards

Edit: I forgot to mention: The game is patched up to the latest version and I downloaded all DLCs from social.bioware and installed them, as instruced, with DAUpdater exe!

22 Replies

StankWormeus
5 years ago
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.
Stormsands
2 years ago
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.