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[fireblade80]

The patch is in the state that it is (well, deplorable), due to Electronic Arts not aproving the funding to create a real patch. In such a situation, the company delegates 1 developer (for part-time only) to write a patch, as it is not cost-effective to commit more resources to a non-profitable venture. This is a standard tactic of the "renowned" publishing houses. DLC's can be sold, so they greately take priority over patches.

A similar case is the Diablo 1.13 patch, written by a single programmer part-time, over the course of more than a year. This happening due to Blizzard having been bought by Activision and being forced into their unsavory working practices, much in the same way as Bioware is forced by EA.

In-game DLC advertising, high prices for flawed add-ons, countless meaningless DLC's, poor support and patches, yearly game releases that are not required and that don't bring anything new (see FIFA) are trademarks of EA.

EA needs to learn that the best way to attract customers is to respect them, rather than to aggresively force content onto them (DLC in-game advertising, alluding to an incomplete game experience without said DLC), overcharge them (see DAA) and not answer the plights of the community at all (what about answering them in a timely fashion, ha?).

Unfortunately for us, the only way to limit these disgusting practices is to penalize EA by not buying their products. Writing on forums looked at by 5% at most of the players won't change their "innovative business strategies".

Modifié par fireblade80, 19 juillet 2010 - 07:57 .

[PsychoYoshi]

Rhobert wrote...

Has anybody installed the patch and
noticed that it improved things? I'm not crashing that often, and I
didn't crash at all before 1.03, so I'm reluctant to install this just
yet.

With an old save, I still got a CTD, but it seems the frequency of crashes have diminished somewhat. It also seems to have fixed the DLC authorization bug. Based on my very limited playtime thus far, the patch doesn't seem to have introduced any new bugs of its own.

At the very least, it's a better patch than 1.03 was. I'll have to try making a new character and seeing how CTDs are with a totally fresh run.

Modifié par PsychoYoshi, 19 juillet 2010 - 07:59 .

[Asymptotic]

 This is SO awesome, I had no Idea this patch was coming and I said to my friend yesterday "Im not playing this game until they patch it" (you see, I kept crashing in the mage tower, now no more crashes!!! so awesome so damn awesome, my favourite RPG I think...

[Thomas9321]

Just installed the patch! Thank you guys!

[errant_knight]

Oh, this is good news! Thanks!

[Funker Shepard]

PsychoYoshi wrote...

Rhobert wrote...

Has anybody installed the patch and
noticed that it improved things? I'm not crashing that often, and I
didn't crash at all before 1.03, so I'm reluctant to install this just
yet.

With an old save, I still got a CTD, but it seems the frequency of crashes have diminished somewhat. It also seems to have fixed the DLC authorization bug. Based on my very limited playtime thus far, the patch doesn't seem to have introduced any new bugs of its own.

At the very least, it's a better patch than 1.03 was. I'll have to try making a new character and seeing how CTDs are with a totally fresh run.

I installed the patch, and in the ~5 minutes of gameplay before coming here I've had two crashes to desktop and both the Stone Prisoner and Warden's Keep quests on my current playthrough have been corrupted. Not happy!

[darkrose]

Installed the patch fine. First thing I checked was the borked achievements for Awakening. All are still borked: all I see is the icon and the points, but none of the text is visible.

[Awildawn]

For those who have the dlc unauthorized bug, type services in your start folder, the look for dragon age updater and make sure it is activated. That did the trick for me.

[Japser]

Overall, then, for my list of issues I was still tracking (with my assigned severity) that might not be fixed:
[list]


[*]Endgame dialogue issues ("Alistair is still king" bug):  Not fixed in 1.04.  Fixed by mods for PC,  No workaround for  consoles, severity 2 out of 5 (affects gameplay/immersion)


[*]"Find Vitals" bug:  Not fixed in 1.04.  Fixed by mods for PC, no workaround for Consoles, severity 2 out of 5.


[*]Ancient Elven Boots:  Still not fixed in 1.04.  Fixed by mods for PC, doesn't show up on Consoles.  Severity 1 out of 5 (lower severity only because mods are a "complete" fix.)


[*]Where's the rest of my Blackblade armor?:  Still not fixed in 1.04.  Fixed by mods for PC, no workaround for consoles, severity 2 out of 5.


[*]Warden Commander Armor and other skin issues:  Not fixed in 1.04, and likely will never be completely fixed.  Fixed by mods for PC, severity 2 out of 5 (affects gameplay/immersion)


[*]Additional percent to healing (item property):  Not fixed in 1.04.  Fixed by mods for PC, no workaround for consoles,

Can you advise on the links of the fixes of  those points you mention where there is a fix? i have tried to find the "find Vitals" fix but couldn't find it for instance. Thanks in advance! 

Modifié par Japser, 19 juillet 2010 - 09:02 .

[Japser]

Oh and how about the following:



• Daggers will now properly assign the dexterity-based damage bonus



It didn't appear on the fixlist after I applied 1.04 patch.

[badboy64]

Patch is working for great for me now. Not even CTD anymore. Thanks for the update.

Modifié par badboy64, 19 juillet 2010 - 09:07 .

[YooperLaw]

Good lord. 826.9 MB patch for Origins and 834.8 MB for Awakening on Steam. Are some of those files redundant (i.e. overlap/shared) because launching Awakening from the Steam launcher merely launches DA:O - I removed Awakening from the Steam launcher and just play Awakening by launching the default DA:O program.

[BelSirk]

Now my only question , i wait to install the patch, or install the patch and play a new run on the expansion or wait to get the updates on the qwins fix patch

[DeadJediJamie]

Well, so far so good. I see that you didn't fix the Lothering Chantry crash problem though. I have no idea why going to the Chantry after recruiting Leliana causes the game to crash on load. Overall things feel a lot snappier and so far no random crashing in any combat.



I admit though that none of my characters have Mana Clash, so I can't test that.

[igniss]

thanks

[benn333]

Unable to patch on Windows 7 64-bit. Getting the following error:



"The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you are running. Check your computer's system information to see whether you need an x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher."



Tried compatibility mode, no luck. Anyone else seeing this?

[Kalcalan]

Mr_Steph wrote...

Mr_Steph wrote...

Kalcalan wrote...

Mr_Steph wrote...

 I just lost all of my DLC when I downloaded the patch 

Seriously? That sounds really bad...

I hope 1.04 won't break as many things as 1.03...

Yeah 

Oh thank god it just came back

Nice to hear that! I wonder why the fixes are so limited though... I've been through the readme many bugs are not fixed by this patch.

[Lord_Saulot]

benn333 wrote...

Unable to patch on Windows 7 64-bit. Getting the following error:

"The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you are running. Check your computer's system information to see whether you need an x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher."

Tried compatibility mode, no luck. Anyone else seeing this?

Strange.  I patched on 7 64-bit without problem.

[flagondotcom]

Japser wrote...

Can you advise on the links of the fixes of  those points you mention where there is a fix? i have tried to find the "find Vitals" fix but couldn't find it for instance. Thanks in advance! 

I'll update that post if I have the time, but QWinn's fixpack has most of the fixes IIRC.  Find Vitals is on dragonagenexus and was the third hit when I Googled for "find vitals mod dragon age".  As usual, the key is using good search terms.  Good luck.

EDIT:  Note that QWinn's fixpack hasn't been updated for 1.04, and he might not choose to update it, but even if you have 1.04 plus another fix for something you *hopefully* will not run into any conflict or ill effects.  YMMV, of course.

Modifié par flagondotcom, 19 juillet 2010 - 09:43 .

[CelestialVanguard]

Japser wrote...

Oh and how about the following:

• Daggers will now properly assign the dexterity-based damage bonus

It didn't appear on the fixlist after I applied 1.04 patch.

I believe that that fix was confirmed as console versions only. It was already fixed for the computer version.

[Kastagir]

Lord_Saulot wrote...

benn333 wrote...

Unable to patch on Windows 7 64-bit. Getting the following error:

"The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you are running. Check your computer's system information to see whether you need an x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher."

Tried compatibility mode, no luck. Anyone else seeing this?

Strange.  I patched on 7 64-bit without problem.

As did I.  Make sure you downloaded the correct version of the patch.

[iggywaffle]

fireblade80 wrote...

The patch is in the state that it is (well, deplorable), due to Electronic Arts not aproving the funding to create a real patch. In such a situation, the company delegates 1 developer (for part-time only) to write a patch, as it is not cost-effective to commit more resources to a non-profitable venture. This is a standard tactic of the "renowned" publishing houses. DLC's can be sold, so they greately take priority over patches.

A similar case is the Diablo 1.13 patch, written by a single programmer part-time, over the course of more than a year. This happening due to Blizzard having been bought by Activision and being forced into their unsavory working practices, much in the same way as Bioware is forced by EA.

In-game DLC advertising, high prices for flawed add-ons, countless meaningless DLC's, poor support and patches, yearly game releases that are not required and that don't bring anything new (see FIFA) are trademarks of EA.

EA needs to learn that the best way to attract customers is to respect them, rather than to aggresively force content onto them (DLC in-game advertising, alluding to an incomplete game experience without said DLC), overcharge them (see DAA) and not answer the plights of the community at all (what about answering them in a timely fashion, ha?).

Unfortunately for us, the only way to limit these disgusting practices is to penalize EA by not buying their products. Writing on forums looked at by 5% at most of the players won't change their "innovative business strategies".

Many good points, most of which I hadn't thought about before. A lot of us forget that while we may blame Bioware for the numerous problems with DA:O and Awakening, there is another company at work.

[Darth Kreia]

I finished re-installing most of my things and I can confirm that the patch works. I have no idea why the first time everything got ruined but now on my machine things are working fine. I installed Origins, Awakening+patch 1.03 and then patch 1.04. So far so good, no crashes and no issues.

I have W7 x64 retail on an I7 920@4.2 GHz with 6 GB of RAM and CFX 5870 XXX edition. Performance wise, I made a few compromises because both Dragon Age and ME2 seem to use crossfire in a weird way. In many instances I see drops in frames and to solve this I had to run both DAO and ME2 with a Crysis profile.

Modifié par Darth Kreia, 19 juillet 2010 - 10:01 .

[Abriael_CG]

fireblade80 wrote...

The patch is in the state that it is (well, deplorable), due to Electronic Arts not aproving the funding to create a real patch. In such a situation, the company delegates 1 developer (for part-time only) to write a patch, as it is not cost-effective to commit more resources to a non-profitable venture. This is a standard tactic of the "renowned" publishing houses. DLC's can be sold, so they greately take priority over patches

have any solid proof on that or it's just your educated guess?

Because, yanno, there are plenty EA games that get patched promptly and with patches that actually don't create further problems.

"Blame the corporate suits!" is always easy, it doesn't always hit the mark, though.

[Kastagir]

Darth Kreia wrote...

I finished re-installing most of my things and I can confirm that the patch works. I have no idea why the first time everything got ruined but now on my machine things are working fine. I installed Origins, Awakening+patch 1.03 and then patch 1.04. So far so good, no crashes and no issues.

I have W7 x64 retail on an I7 920@4.2 GHz with 6 GB of RAM and CFX 5870 XXX edition. Performance wise, I made a few compromises because both Dragon Age and ME2 seem to use crossfire in a weird way. In many instances I see drops in frames and to solve this I had to run both DAO and ME2 with a Crysis profile.

When you don't fix stuff, you generally don't risk breaking stuff.