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6 years ago

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Dragon Age Origins Says invalid license (Old Thread)

A few years back I downloaded Dragon Age Origins through the free game platform (On The House) on Origin. When I tried to play it today it said it could not be loaded due to an invalid license. It sa...

EA_Kent
6 years ago
Hey @carsonrspencer.

The error that you're getting seems more like the game is having trouble finding a file that it's looking for. It's possible that the .dll file has become corrupted or is missing from Windows. When you've got a chance I'd recommend running the Windows System File Checker to see if that helps.

You can find more details on how to run it over at the Microsoft Support website. Let me know if that helps!

/Kent

Kayla1543

6 years ago

Hey Kent
Im having the same issue on a new computer. I've ran the file checker, and installed the C++ files to help me fix my problem with the origin launcher not installing. Both these things got the launcher to work, to install the game+DLC's, and when I go to launch I get the very same error and the live chat has been offline for help. Is there anything else we can try?

EA_Kent

Community Manager

6 years ago

Thank you for giving that a shot!

This error can also come up if NVIDIA PhysX isn't installed on your PC. Even if you're not using an NVIDIA GPU, DA:O is still looking for PhysX.

When you have the chance I'd recommend downloading PhysX directly from the NVIDIA website to see if that helps at all. Let me know if you're still getting the same error message after that.

Thanks!

/Kent

vaalkyried
2 years ago
I tried all of these solutions and none of them worked.
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  2 years ago
  Hey Everyone
  
  As this thread is a bit old at this point, things have changed and been updated, we are going to lock this down so that we can prevent any necro-posting.
  
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