Re: Can I play Dragon Age Origins Ultimate Edition (PC) without CD inserted?

I redeemed some code in the beginning, guess it was for DLCs. But it didn't help with my problem, Though dlcs now downloaded and installed. 

I just used DaemonTools.... So I guess I am ok with it for now, because it worked. 

Thank you friend.

And yes, to get an actual contact  with  EA is sooooo hard.

Thanks ThandaINLyman!

Had the itchin to restart a new DAO campaign but could not locate the disc anywhere.  Had purchased this game on release, had the manual with the registration code but no disk.  Gave up....looked for disk....gave up for a few weeks more....looked for disk.... etc. etc.

Finally I came upon this thread and your post.  Put my code in and it's downloading now!  

This should keep me occupied for my Dragons Age fix until Inquisition is released!!

Hello, ThandalNLyman.

Probably I got you wrong or I messed up some things. 

I had a CD with DAO Ultimate Edition in my hands. I directly installed from CD and when it asked for a CD key during installation I entered it (4*5 digits). 

Then I went to social.bioware.com , entered my account, and there I clicked on my games and registered and bound this game to my actual account at social.bioware.com . Then I redeemed A promo code for this game (4*4 digits) on that very site. It Accepted. Everything looked smooth. But keeps asking for CD if it's not in DVD-ROM.

As you suggested I tried to redeem product code on the Origin Account. Origin.com accepted game CD/Key, So I got it registered again. Though I couldn't make it accept promo code for  additional content : was saying it's already been used. I got confused.

Probably, I should've all started at origins.com.

Game plays well with all Ultimate edition Content included while CD inserted and Daemon tools. But when dismounting the disc it keeps asking for it.

You mentioned dowload/install - what else I should download and from what link? I am missing something.

Thank you again. Sorry for a lot of typing.

You have to do a complete un-/re-install of the entire game and all DLC using the EA/Origin download process (plus the BSN process for some of the DLC.)  Total of 24GB for the complete Ultimate Edition.

But once you've got the game installed via the download, you don't need the disc any more!

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But to EA: why sell CDs if we have to download the same thing again. Not neat.

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Yeah, a lot of us have puzzled over why there's not an easy way to tell EA/Origin that you have the disc(s) so that it validates the game in your on-line Library, but copies the files from the disc (applying any updates it knows about.)  I do  know one problem potential is that the disc version of the installer establishes a slightly different folder structure than the EA/Origin download. Although why that  should be the case I have no idea!

(I'm told there's a way to "fool" the download installer by starting the process then interrupting it and switching to the discs for the actual files.  But I've only heard about people doing it, never tried it myself.)

Could you please tell me the exact steps to use Daemon Tools in this process?(My computer skills sucks). I bought the game and i dont want to play it with the cd(it's tiring).

Thanks a lot @ThandalNLyman! This worked perfectly for me. DA:O Ultimate Edition German on DVD, redeemed DVD-key in Origin Client and downloaded the game. No disc needed anymore :-)