EA Play app forcibly installed itself on my computer yesterday. Was looking forward for a nice gaming night, but NOOOOO, did not get to game for one single hour. Gotta say was REALLY p*ssed!
Got Dragon Age Origins to start, DA2 works occasionally, no idea why it sometimes does not. Mass Effect Legendary Edition works if I start EA Play as administrator. But Dragon Age Inquisition just would. not. start. I tried every single one of the things instructed in multiple discussions. No help.
I've played DA:I for hundreds and hundreds of hours through Origin app with no problems, so I knew the issue was not with my computer (no updates after last played). I spent all evening doing different things and finally got it to launch.
Here is how I did it. Firstly, I uninstalled DA:I and installed it under a non-default directory of C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\EA Games (don't know if this is necessary, but as I did it as a part of the fixes I tried, I'm including it here). Then I launched EA app as an administrator. After it had started, I put it to offline - mode (left upper corner, you can select offline from there). Then, I started DA:I from desktop icon as administrator. And it started! Of course it was in offline mode so no connection to DA Servers, or Dragon Age Keep, which was annoying, as I like to play with different world states. So I minimized DA:I -window and went to EA App, and put it back to online -mode. After this, I maximized DA:I -window and selected to connect to Dragon Age Servers, and it worked. Note here, I'm playing with the game in windowed -mode, not full screen -mode. Got my cloud saves back and everything. There is something funny with some of them, I have several characters that I've played the game all the way through, and can access their saves (and see them at level 27), but the character selection says they are some other, lower level, some say 10, some even lower. But hey, it still works!
The only thing is, that the EA App won't record the hours played, indeed does not recognize its been played at all, and just shows '-' where it should show the last played -info. Also I suspect it will not recognize achievements, but did not yet get to test this, and also I have most of them done already, it would be time consuming to test, and I don't really mind this - the most important thing is that I got it to start!
