[Steam] - Dragon Age Inquisition won't launch with EA app

I'd like to help you, but nothing so far has worked. I'm even considering to Update to Win11, as it MAY change something as a last straw option. Only thing EA seems to do is moving topics around and forget about them. Got this issue reported for weeks now and even wrote per mail just to learn that their "support" is googling the most common issues and wouldn't even mind to read your mails entirely. Gonna be honest here, if they won't fix it, the can keep their dreadwolf and maybe any other game in the future. Even Wild Hearts is a bugfest, but at least it launches. This company will be dead if they won't step up their game.

Rant over. :D

Dragon Age Inquisition worked just fine for me on Origin. When i got forced to install EA App, it suddenly didn't wanna start anymore. It boots up and closes immediately.

What kind of joke is this. This problem exists for quite a while now and nothing get's done about it. Countless "fixes" all over the place and none of them works.

Why do they force us to use a new launcher when the games don't even work? Just give me back Origin if you can't fix it, EA.

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!

@Catali7, @Zakkuri, @Nibelung_N7 try my solution in the above post, maybe that will help you?

@Cornyrose276 Thanks for the proposed solution. Unfortunately it doesn't work. Currently i am getting, doesn't matter how i want to launch the game, always an error message which only tells me, that the game couldn't start and that i should try it again later. Nothing more, very helpful.

I am happy that it worked out for you.

Allright, quick update. Games won't launch for me when they are in foreground.

I did hit launch button and immediately switched to my browser to further google for solutions and the game just happened to actually launch in the background, in small window mode.

I have no idea, seems like it has a problem when it is in active window

MAKE SURE THE GAME IS INSTALLED IN THE SAME DRIVE AS THE EA APP.

I've had the same problem with both DA2 and Inquisition when trying to install through Steam. I was ready to give up, read EVERY post out there about this problem that EA has NOT bothered to solve all these years.Then the last thing I tried was to install the game in the same drive as the install directory of the EA App. Not the same folder, just the same drive.

I have two hard drives in my PC and I always installed the new game to the other one because it had more space but it seems like the launcher couldn't find it like that.

Sorry if that's another false hope but it's the only thing that worked for me, I was really one failure away from refund and piratebay.

Unfortunately that isn't going to work for anybody who cannot do so due to small drive issues. Since there is no option to change the installation path of the app, it automatically goes to my primary drive. Steam and ALL games (including other DRM services) are installed on the other drive. There isn't enough space to put DAI on my primary drive. So I guess everyone in my position is screwed until EA decides to start giving a crap about their customers.

I managed to make space for DAI on my primary drive. That didn't work either. It shuts the app down, restarts it, then does nothing. In the Steam window it just goes back to the green play button. No error message, no log. This has been going on for the entirety of the EA app's existence. Can we at least get someone from EA to respond that they acknowledge their program is a failure and that they're going to work on it? By failure I mean that it does not work properly for everyone who follows all steps to ensure proper functionality. It's broken. Fix it. Or give people their money back if you're unwilling to make it so we can play the games we paid money for.

@Wulfypants42 did you try the way I got it to launch?

"I installed DA:I 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."