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11 years ago
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Missing dialogues in DLCs

Hi, I'm having some troubles with the DLCs I installed for Dragon Age 2. A couple of days ago I got Mark of The Assassin, Legacy and The Exiled Prince from Origin (which is also where I downloaded Dragon Age 2 from). The installation went fine, I could see the mementos in my house and everything, and, as for The Exiled Prince, I could talk to Sebastian with no troubles, at least until he and Hawke were in the Chantry. Troubles started as soon as I started the quest "Repentance": once I got into the Harimann's Estate, dialogues went missing. I could still hear party banters and combat dialogue, but all the other characters appearing inside the house were mute (as well as Sebastian's and Hawke's dialogues). I could still see subtitles and choose dialogue options, but... no voices, no speaking animations, nothing. Music and ambient sounds were just fine.

I thought it was just a problem with that particular quest, but just to be sure, I decided to try out Legacy as well, just to see if there were other similar problems. Things turned out to be even worse in that DLC: again, I could enter the new locations, see subtitles, choose dialogue options... but dialogues were missing. This time, there weren't even party banters. Haven't tried Mark of The Assassin yet.

I'm from Italy, so I'm playing an Italian version of the game (English audio/Italian subtitles). The rest of the game works just fine, no audio problems or anything similar.


Here are my system specs:

OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit (6.1, build 7601)

Producer: Hewlett-Packard

Product model: h9-1200el

BIOS: Ver: FOR_714.rom vFOR7.14

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @3.50GHz (8 CPUs), -3.5GHz

Memory: 12288MB RAM

HD: 2 TB

DirectX: DirectX 11

Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 7770 Series - updated to the most recent driver

Chip: AMD Radeon Graphics Processor (0x683D)

Audio: IDT High Definition Audio - Integrated - last updated March 30th 2012

I should also point out that when I installed the DLCs first I had some mods installed: no intro, some skins, hairs and a few additional face presets. I thought I may have corrupted something for not removing the mods first, but the problem persisted even after I uninstalled the game (from Origins) and re-installed it without mods. I also tried the various fixes suggested around (force Stereo Audio, check for Voice Over options in the DragonAge.ini file -which are enabled). No result. Tried a game repair... and again, no result. Contacted a Game Advisor in live chat here at the EA site, and he suggested me to write about my issue here.

So... is there any solution to the problem? As far as I could see, usually Dragon Age 2 audio problems affect the whole game, not just some parts of it, so I couldn't really find anything more to fix the whole thing. It's not that the game is completely unplayable as it is right now, but still... dialogues are one of my favourite things in Dragon Age, and I find it kinda sad to play the DLCs on silent mode D:

Also, not sure if this is a problem, but I thought I might point it out as well: while checking the talktables files inside my Dragon Age II/addins/da2_prc_drk/core/data/talktables and /da2_prc_eye/core/data/talktables (which I think are the files for Legacy and Mark of The Assassins), I found out that I seem to have three files:

1. da2_prc_drk_c_it-it.tlk

2: da2_prc_drk_c_it-it_f.tlk

3. da2_prc_drk_c_ja-jp.tlk

...which I think means I got some files for a japanese version? The Exiled Prince folder (da2_prc_seb) seem to contain only the it-it files inside the talktables folder, instead.

I'll admit, I'm not too sure if this means anything (and I hope my explanation wasn't too confusing!), but I thought I'd mention it anyway.

  • MsPotatino's avatar
    MsPotatino
    11 years ago

    Hey, @AstraeaNevermore!

    I had the exact same problem and almost went mad trying to solve it. However, I found a solution! You probably don't care anymore, but maybe it'll help players in the future?! I don't know. 

    Anyway, since the DLC(s) autorun claims Dragon Age II is not installed (and we both know it is), you'll have to open the DLC(s) file with 7-zip. You'll see 3 different folders (ignore the $TEMP one if you come across it). First, create a new folder called plugins in your Dragon Age II directory (usually Origin Games<Dragon Age II) and extract the content of $PLUGINSDIR in it. You will only have to do this once.

    Then open $[34] and click on addins. You should be able to check which DLC it is now (the folder is usually called da2_prc_xxx). Now go to Origin Games<Dragon Age II<addins and click on the proper folder. For example, if it's Legacy go to Origin Games<Dragon Age II<addins<da2_prc_drk. Then extract the content of $[34] AND $_OUTDIR in it. 

    Tada! Problem fixed :womanwink:

    Try it and let me know if it worked for you as well!

    NOTE: I used xxx, but that's just to compile all 3 letter endings of the individual DLC(s) without having to write them all down!

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  • Pseudolo's avatar
    Pseudolo
    7 years ago

    I found I miss some item description in the Fan Reward Pack. Sadly Bioware no longer has download links for it on it's syte. Does anyone know where I could find a manual installer for the Fan Reward Pack or for the Promotional content bundle in which it is also contained?

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    7 years ago

    I can't actually see ANY text - no item names, no text in Yes/No windows, etc. in DLCs after choosing English. Works fine in Russian, but I don't want that.

  • thank you so much, darling, maker bless you. it is amazing how thought years same problem gathers people here. and origin doesnt give a * about it. yet we pay them. sucks.
  • SOLVED

    IF YOU INSTALL WITH ORIGINS:

    2019 and STILL I have this problem with spanish version on origin. Same happend in dragon age origins by the way. I solved this problem finally.

    GO to this page: https://help.ea.com/en-ca/help/origin/origin/download-dlc-for-classic-origin-games/#dragonage

    Download the dlc content

    Open exe with with  https://www.7-zip.org

    (Right click 7zip choose open)

    Go to C:\Users\super\Downloads\DA2_ExiledPrince.exe\$_2_\addins\da2_prc_seb\module\

    There, select audio archive; right click and choose "Copy to" . Select the directory, mine is in C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Dragon Age II\addins\da2_prc_seb\module (That is the example for the exile prince dlc, with other dlc it changes in prc_XXX) . When copy put yes to all. Do it for Emporium, exile prince, legacy and the mark of the asassin.

    Enjoy!

  • Thanks a lot @Firgon2 
    I lost subtitles  yet
    For resolve this problem, I also copied files from C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Dragon Age II\addins\da2_prc_XXX\module\data\talktables

  • EA_Atic's avatar
    EA_Atic
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    4 years ago
    I'm closing this thread to stop it from being necroed.

    If you have any issues with Dragon Age 2, please make a new topic about your problems and what kind of steps you have tried to solve them.

    /Atic

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