I put texture detail to the lowest setting and the crashes stopped 🙂 its just sad that the game looks ugly now ☹️
I realize this is and old topic and an old reply, but I have not seen the fix for this problem being suggested by EA and this topic comes up top when Googling the problem. I had the same problem which was 'fixed' by setting video settings low.
If you have a 4gb ram videocard, this may be the source of the crashes.
Download the 4GB patch (you can google or just download this http://www.ntcore.com/4gb_patch.php), after unzipping it, run it and select the daorigins.exe. This fixed it for me, I can now play with high settings.
I hope this will still help someone!
I just searched my whole PC for dragonage.exe and.. can't find it!
anyone know which file thread it should be in?
@AriKam; It is categorically impossible to have DAO installed and not be able to find "daorigins.exe". That is the base game executable. You may have suppressed the display of ".exe" files, but it is definitely on your machine or you haven't actually installed the game at all. (NOTE: The actual file name is not the one you cite.)
Default location: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Dragon Age\bin_ship"
That's what I figured, but.. gotta love Windows 10, I can't find much of anything anymore.. see below...
Hi! I'm under my Hubby's name because I'm the techy one. We downloaded the "hack" but I don't think installed it correctly. Can someone PLEASE tell me how to do it step by step? I can be found on google chat : Chrissysnyder78 -- or you can email me there as well. I'd really appreciate your help!
@Sheepgut13; So, I'm not sure which version of the "hak" you have, so I can't tell you step-by-step what to do, but the basic process is fairly straight forward.
What you're doing is haking the the game's basic Windows executable file to include the flag that allows it to address more RAM than the original 2MB limit. In Windows programming, the technical term for such an executable is "Large Array Aware", (or "LAA") and it's a very minor change to a few bits in the program's file header.
1. Make a copy of the original "daorigins.exe" and put it somewhere safe (just in case!)
2. Make another copy of the original "daorigins.exe" file somewhere you can play around with it. (This is the one you're going to modify.) Probably this should be in the same folder where you have the hak program.
3. Review the README or other instructions for the hak you have so you can relate the following to your specific attempt.
4. Either:
a. Start the hak program and include whatever parameter(s) it needs to find the copy of "daorigins.exe" you're trying to hak, or;
b. Start the hak program and provide the appropriate responses to any on-screen prompts.
5. If all went well, there should be some sort of "Success" message when the hak finishes.
6. Copy the (hopefully now modified) "daorigins.exe" file back to its original location, overwriting the one already there.
7. Start you game to verify that everything's working.
Good Luck! And let us know how you make out. 😎
It should be on the disc where you installed your game then in the file called ''Dragon Age'' and there in the file called ''bin_ship''. The .exe file is called ''daorigins''. If you bought the game on Origin, try to find it in your game library, right-click it and choose repair. It might help restore your .exe file if it's not there where I just described.
Hope this will help. 🙂
@AriKam; Ummm... Not sure how you could have "lost all your previous gameplay". Your saves wouldn't have been touched by an un-/re-install.
Now, they may not be in the location your reinstalled game expects to find them, but they can be copied there. Search your drive for ".das" files.
EDIT: @Legrandix meant only that if you had the retail boxed version, a copy of the executable would be on the disk. For a Steam install, it would be in the Dragon Age "\bin_ship" folder under your "\Steam Apps\Common\" somewhere. For an EA/Origin install, see my post above. But in any case, if the game starts, you have that file. 😇
