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4 years ago

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Missing Executable

Okay, so here's the sitch. During the Steam sale my friend got all the Dragon Age games + DLC. We regularly share libraries, so I downloaded DAO. I was super excited, downloaded a few cosmetic mods ...

holger1405
3 years ago
@templeoftime

The crashes are related to an NVIDIA Driver DLL.

Download the latest driver for your Intel APU and NVIDIA GPU from DELL.

Follow this manual to the letter to cleanly uninstall all NVIDIA components.

Follow the manual to cleanly uninstall all intel components.

Install the Intel driver > Restart the Computer.

Install the NVIDIA driver > Restart the Computer.

Test.

EA_Barry

Community Manager

3 years ago

@templeoftime

The following may help you here, thanks.

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Other-Dragon-Age-Games/Dragon-Age-origins-missing-executable-problem/m-p/11501693#M24097

templeoftime

3 years ago

I have already seen this post, and tried everything suggested in it. Nothing has worked.

holger1405
Hero+
3 years ago
@templeoftime

So if you run the game from the "DAOrigins.exe" under (Standard path) "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Dragon Age Ultimate Edition\bin_ship\" you still get the above error in Steam?

Because that should be impossible.

Create a DxDiag in text file format and post it with your next reply. You can do that with the "Choose file" button at the bottom right corner of the reply window.
- templeoftime
  3 years ago
  Ok, so between my last reply and now I ended up returning the Steam version and downloading DAO on EA instead. It was still crashing at first, but when I complete uninstalled it and deleted the Dragon Age file from the Bioware file in my docs and then REinstalled it, everything worked - until I hit Ostagar after that little prologue stage and it started crashing again.
  And yes, I've tried running the actual .exe file to no avail. I've attached the dxdiag you asked for.
  DxDiag.txt127 KB
  - holger1405
    Hero+
    3 years ago
    @templeoftime
    
    The crashes are related to an NVIDIA Driver DLL.
    
    Download the latest driver for your Intel APU and NVIDIA GPU from DELL.
    
    Follow this manual to the letter to cleanly uninstall all NVIDIA components.
    
    Follow the manual to cleanly uninstall all intel components.
    
    Install the Intel driver > Restart the Computer.
    
    Install the NVIDIA driver > Restart the Computer.
    
    Test.