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Re: [EA app] Dragon Age: Origins Crashes at Ostagar on New Laptop

@KatjeVoo 

Crashes at Ostagar are a very old problem of DAO, often it helps to make the DAO executable "Large address aware".


DAO is a very old game, on old x86 systems a x86 executable could only address 2GB of virtual memory.

This restriction was brought over to modern x64 bit machines if you don't make the old executable "Large address aware". 
After that the DAOrigins.exe can address 4GB of virtual memory.

A explanation and the tool to do that whit "DAOrigins.exe" can be found here.

Virus total scan of the "4gb_patch.exe from that link"

3 Replies

  • KatjeVoo's avatar
    KatjeVoo
    Rising Novice
    1 year ago

    Thank you for your assistance. This appears to have fixed the problem, as I completed Ostagar with no crashes. I especially want to thank you for being kind and not treating me like an idiot; that's not easy to find these days.

    If the problem arises again, I will post it.

    I appreciate you and the time you took to help me solve my issue.

    Katje Voo

  • EA_Shepard's avatar
    EA_Shepard
    Icon for Community Manager rankCommunity Manager
    1 year ago

    Happy to see things are working out on this thread!

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