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[Kidbuu99]

Does any1 know how to convert a ZIP file into another file? I am trying to install the duel wielding 2 2handers mod but only comes in a ZIP format and can't install using daupdater because only lets you select a DAZIP file not a ZIP

[Eurypterid]

Folks, if you're having troubles, your best course of action is to make your own new thread in this forum.



Kidbuu99: did you try renaming the file to DAZIP?

[Gorath Alpha]

Eurypterid wrote...

Folks, if you're having troubles, your best course of action is to make your own new thread in this forum.

I think that what Eurypterid really meant was that the several compiled message threads are already so overloaded, that if you want to address your fellow gamers here, post a new individual message of your own (and I want to add that you need to include details, not just a complaint).  If you want immediate relief, contact EA directly, of course.  None of those of us with much in the way of experience expects any meaningful responses here from Bioware.  If that upsets you, tell EA, not me. 

Here is the description of how to report a problem:

social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/58/index/2154638

Gorath
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Edited by Gorath Alpha, 13 June 2010 - 01:19 AM.

[LLegolas]

having a problem in The Fade when/after fighting Sloth Demon. After defeating Sloth Demon, the screen goes blank (as if ready to play a video) and then I get that error message that states "problem ... do you want to notify ... and the game totally closes out?!

Any ideas?

[LLegolas]

having a problem in The Fade when/after fighting Sloth Demon. After defeating Sloth Demon, the screen goes blank (as if ready to play a video) and then I get that error message that states "problem ... do you want to notify ... and the game totally closes out?!

Any ideas?

[billdwhyman]

how do i interact with people/items/chests? whenever i right click it pans the screen, i tried both clicking and holding right click and just right clicking. left clicking doesnt seem to do much either. plus it wont unpause at the very start of the game, pressed space, zoomed in/out, right clicked, left clicked. im flummoxed....any help would be appreciated.

[Survivor Coach]

I know that patch 1.03 has been causing the game to crash occasionally, but my has begun to increase in regularity. At first, it would only happen every few hours, but lately it crashes every few minutes. When I first installed the game, I might one see one crash per night of play, while right now it has crashed 4 times in 2 hours. Should I reinstall the game or what?

[Butters33333]

Hey guys, have a question, i bought the game for pc a couple days ago but everytime i get past character creation and it puts me into the game. My cpu usage goes up to 100% and it is so laggy i can't move. I tried cleaning out my case and updated my drivers. also i tried running it on lowest settings but it still didnt work. i have installed patch 1.03 as well.



pc specs: intel 945p chipset, intel core 2 duo(dual core) processor, Nvidia geforce 6800(i know its bad but i've played swg and wow and numerous other games without problems plus it should work based on the system req. for the game), 4gb RAM. i've never had trouble running a game before and based on my specs it should work. any help would be greatly appreciated i really want to play this game

[Gorath Alpha]

Your biggest mistake is patch 1.03, I think.

Windows XP Minimum Specifications
OS: Windows XP with SP3
CPU: Intel Core 2 Single (or equivalent) running at 1.6Ghz or greater
AMD 64 (or equivalent) running at 2.0Ghz or greater
RAM: 1 GB or more
DVD ROM (Physical copy)
20 GB HD space
Video: ATI Radeon X850 256MB or greater (either this is wrong)
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT 128MB or greater (or this one is wrong)

(Note: IMO, the practical choices for the two video cards above should be the Radeon X800 Pro, and the Geforce 6800 GS, at least, for small textures - it will take a Radeon X1650 XT (or X1800 GTO) for medium & better textures)

Multiple dupes of the same message are forbidden in your agreed Terms of Service rules, so you are supposed to ask for the useless Spam to be locked (Click on "Report this Post").

Edited by Gorath Alpha, 23 May 2010 - 04:07 PM.

[cthulhu-jr]

Every time I try to start the game it says that the disk cannot be found. Any ideas?

[Gorath Alpha]

Swap DVD drives with another PC, or play the game on the other one on which the DVD drive does work; else use the CD-Key number from the hard copy as the code to unlock a digital copy from the EA store (it's not quite so simple as it sounds, though). 

[XxTripleBeamxX]

cthulhu-jr wrote...

Every time I try to start the game it says that the disk cannot be found. Any ideas?

Are you playing DOA or DOA - Awakenings? If its Awakenings you have to have the Awakenings disk in, the DOA disk won't play if Awakenings is installed.

[Marissa903]

very poor framerate even on the lowest settings, so bad i can barely move - my laptop is fairly new and exceeds the video requirements - what can i do?

[Gorath Alpha]

Marissa903 wrote...

very poor framerate even on the lowest settings, so bad i can barely move - my laptop is fairly new and exceeds the video requirements - what can i do?

Sorry, but there is no laptop at all that gets any official support.  That is EA's bad opinion of that PC type as a gaming platform (and they are correct to feel that way).  Fill in a proper problem report.  I personally reommend you pay attention to Chris, in that regard, not to Victor, as per the included link: 

social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/58/index/2154638

A majority of PC owners have no real idea at all how to rank video cards.  Therefore: 

Video Card Performance Rankings (ME-2):

social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/106/index/1713086

Looking at your profile, you joined for Dragon Age.  There is a relatively large jump in video requirements between Bioware's two newest games.  Dragon Age can be previewed to some extent on some pretty terrible, low-powered computer hardware.  I wouldn't agree that it "plays" at all well on the official minimum Geforce, or looks very good on the official minimum Radeon (which is in fact quite fast for its age, but is rather elderly now). 

FYI, here are the two newest Bioware games' video requirements: 

Video: ATI Radeon X850 256MB or greater (either this is wrong)
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT 128MB or greater (or this one is wrong)

(Note: IMO, the practical choices for the two video cards above should be the Radeon X800 Pro, and the Geforce 6800 GS, at least, for small textures - it will take a Radeon X1650 XT (or X1800 GTO) for medium or better textures)

"Video Card = 256 MB (with Pixel Shader 3.0 support). Supported GPU Chips: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 or greater; ATI Radeon X1600 Pro or greater. Please note that NVIDIA GeForce G.210, 7100, 7200, 7300, 7400, 7500, 8100, 8200, 8300, 8400, 9200, and 9300; ATI Radeon X1300, HD 2400, 3100, 3200, HD 3450, HD 3470, HD 4200, HD 4350, and HD 5450 are below minimum system requirements. Updates to your video and sound card drivers may be required. Intel  and S3 video devices are not officially supported in Mass Effect 2."

I added ME2's matching specs, specifically for the lists of unsupported low end cards. 

Edited by Gorath Alpha, 06 June 2010 - 01:23 PM.

[missmisty]

I have tried everything thing on that list and even wiped my computer and reinstalled and I cant seem to get my DLC to show up at all.



Vista 32 bit. Just bought both games from d2d.

[Teerex]

I'm stuck in the caverns from the silverite mine in DA-Awakening. To get my gear back the last mob seems to be invincible ...guess it is a bug. It can't be killed.

[VioletTheirin]

Edited by VioletTheirin, 08 June 2010 - 02:17 PM.

[Gorath Alpha]

Created about 27 days ago

Eurypterid wrote...

Folks, if you're having troubles, your best course of action is to make your own new thread in this forum.

I'd thought that what Eurypterid really meant was that the several compiled message threads are (were) already so overloaded, that if you wanted to address your  fellow gamers, post a new individual message of your own (and I personally wanted to add that you need to include details, not just a complaint).  If you want immediate relief, contact EA directly, of course.  None of those of us with much in the way of experience expects any meaningful responses here inside the forums from Bioware itself.  If that upsets you, tell EA, not me.

That message dated to the point roughly corresponding with the discontinuation of forum moderation, whether in answer to a PM, or from immediate oversight.  I'd have expect Eurypterid to have commented further, had this happened before Bioware told all the moderators to ignore the DA PC Tech forum. 

Incidentally, among the various comments in this thread were quite a few never answered at all, and I don't think that any of those authors ever followed Euripterid's advice about a separate message thread:

Gman_snyder314 wrote...

um for some odd reason after i installed Dragon Age: Origins-Awakening the game doesn't play...

The Awakening disk becomes the one required for starting up.

Blue Spice wrote...

I have download the game on windows vitsa, right from the beginning everything is slow to load up, the graphics is lagged and choppy, I tried fixing this with the resolution and I cat find the best one. Is my graphics card just not up to par for this game?

No way to answer that, since in his / her great wisdom, he / she chose not to include hardware information. 

billdwhyman wrote...

how do i interact with people/items/chests? whenever i right click it pans the screen, i tried both clicking and holding right click and just right clicking. left clicking doesnt seem to do much either. plus it wont unpause at the very start of the game, pressed space, zoomed in/out, right clicked, left clicked. im flummoxed....any help would be appreciated.

Another case of no useful information. 

VioletTheirin wrote...
Nothing useful.

Gorath
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Edited by Gorath Alpha, 11 June 2010 - 07:20 PM.

[Ilckos]

How do i update the game? cannot seam to find the option anywhere in the start up inferface or in game.

[Gorath Alpha]

I have no answer to this last one, and it seems that the readership here is really way down this week.  I have the patches in a folder on my hard drive and I got them at the link I'll include momentarily.  Only three of the five are there now, and I do not recommend the average gamer to install that last terrible abortion of a patch, it is so bad (1.03).  Same as most patches, each one is cumulative. 

If you follow my advice, you'll just use patch 1.02A for now, and just wait to play any DLC or expansion that demands a newer (and bad) patch. 

I used my browser and visited this link for the downloads when they were available, each in its own turn:

social.bioware.com/page/da-patches

Edited by Gorath Alpha, 11 June 2010 - 09:46 AM.

[Zorack]

didymos1120 wrote...

wli192s wrote...

Cannot figure out how to "unpause" a paused scenario--it pauses as a tutorial and I can't unpause the screen. I'm an idiot--but I read the manual! A little help, please.

Well, when it goes into tutorial mode, it's waiting for you to do something specific to that tutorial.  Something in the UI will be highlighted, and the game is waiting for you to click it.  Do so. Repeat as necessary.  An alternative: click on "Options" on the main menu, then uncheck "Show Tutorials".

I must have started this game over at least 20 times since purchasing it last week, after i talk to Nan in the kitchen the game automatically goes into 'Pause' and i can't get out of it. I've try what you said but that didn't help, any more suggestions?

[Gorath Alpha]

Zorack wrote...

I must have started this game over at least 20 times since purchasing it last week, after i talk to Nan in the kitchen the game automatically goes into 'Pause' and i can't get out of it. I've try what you said but that didn't help, any more suggestions?

No one will have anything to offer at this point.  You chose to ignore the fact that no one ion the forum (to my knowledge) is a clairvoyant.  Without information, all of us here are simply unable to offer useful assistance.

Including adequate information in a problem report, DA O:

social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/58/index/2836375

[Zorack]

What information do you need?

[Gorath Alpha]

You'll need to get a new prescription for eyeglasses if you missed the link!  That inadequate of a correction for bad eyesight isn't going to meet the game's requirements, either, you know. 

Edited by Gorath Alpha, 13 June 2010 - 07:20 AM.