I thought everything was okay, until Origin decided to force an update on me last night. I had noticed some stuttering and high CPU usage prior to that point (70%-75%,) but I really didn't think much of it at first. The game did have some stuttering and other issues, largely resolved by the AMD 14.12 drivers. It wasn't going away though, despite my tweaking of the user.cfg.
Then last night, out of nowhere, I get a message: "Dragon Age: Origins Ultimate Edition failed to install. Please reinstall the game."
I was extremely puzzled, as I had auto-updates off and hadn't touched the game since about April or so. So I figured something went weird and got the game reinstalled. When I tried to repair, it hung at 48%. I watched it for about 5 minutes; the timer stopped moving all together, as well as the progress bar. Frustrated, I went to shut down my computer. It logged out of Windows just fine, but it was stuck in shutting down. After some digging, I found out that a pagefile had somehow still been active.
Once I got back into Windows, I decided to do a disk analyzer to see if there was any defragmented sectors. Sure enough, on the drive which I had the game installed (not my main drive and a SATA) had some defragmentation. When I went to try to get a defrag going, it got hung up on the first pass at 42%. I was able to cancel the process with no issues.
I have made no program changes in the last 48 hours. The only thing that changed was that forced update.
Here's my specs:
Win 7 x64 (have not gotten the latest update)
16 gig
AMD Radeon R9 2XX (up to date w/ driver 14.12)
AMD A10-7850K APU 4GHz
I think the above poster maybe getting a little mixed up 🙂 We are talking Dragon Age Inquisition and not DA-O. I think you probably would be best posting in the forums related to DA-O.
I'm actually able to play the game now. Let's see how it turns out.
Since my version was downloaded 2 days ago, it already came with patch and hotfix. So I unistalled it and downloaded from an "alternate" source. No piracy, no cracks, nothing. Just a plain untouched ISO of the release version.
I installed it and ran it with origin offline, so that it wouldn't update, but I still had to input my credentials. It works.
Am I ashamed of doing it this way? Hell no! I installed a clean and untampered copy of a game I legitimately bought. I just didn't download it through Origin.
Be careful doing that. It may say untouched but it could have a means to steal your login details. I had thought along your lines and would do If I knew someone with a disc only version.
No, I'm not in the wrong section. It's related to the app issues as mentioned in the OP. I'm also not the only one that has run into this on the BioWare forums as well. There have been others that have all these problems with Inquisition and also had an auto-forced Origin update kill DAO.
I think I left the post too vague. The stuttering, the high CPU percentage, all of it was only while playing Inquisition. I also mentioned a paging problem. I suppose I should have mentioned that I played Inquisition 4 hours beforehand, and it never completely stopped paging. Which is the reason why I couldn't turn off my computer without forcing a power off.
I haven't played DAO since April, and I mentioned this in my previous post. I am a little skeptical of the OP, since we only have their word to take for it. Otherwise, I'm reading like a classic textbook case of the draw distance problem, if the OP is telling the truth.
