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Anonymous
11 years ago

dragon age origins dead trenches glitch

I am playing in Orzammar, I am in Ortan Thaig, when i go to the correct exit to get to the Dead Trenches a cut scene is triggered that is supposed to end with you in the Trenches. It does not work. The audio plays but the video is black or shows a angle from under the floor. The dialogue works, I have to choose what to say. Once it is over, i am still in Ortan Thaig, and usually one of the characters is in a wall or on top of magma. I cannot access the Dead Trenches, once the cutscene plays I get stuck in Ortan Thaig and it never plays the cut scene again. I am playing the fully updated Steam version, Ultimate Edition. I cannot roll back patches. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling, I used the same save file to go back to where I was. I have considered playing from a much earlier point, but I don't know if that would be worth it to play an entire level over only to have the glitch happen again. I have searched the internet and found no mention of it. The game plays fine at all other times, no graphics or audio problems, it loads normally.

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  • EA_David's avatar
    EA_David
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    11 years ago

    Do you have any mods active? If so, try disabling them. 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    No mods. I got it to work by starting from an earlier save before I even went to Caridin's Cross. I think it wasn't working because I cleared Ortan Thaig and Caridin's Cross without Oghren and then went back to Orzammar to get him.

    Now I've gotten past that point to the Anvil and it keeps crashing while I'm fighting the spinning stone head with the spirit anvils.

  • I'm also facing exactly same problem, in my case however I also tried going back to Orzammar and using map to reach dead trenches, but still after Caridin's Cross as the team moves on map, game crashes and my desktop becomes unresponsive and I've to switch off from power button.

    Previously when I had origins it was fine this problem began when I updated to ultimate version.

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