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[Boost IT]

I bought the game through steam and have problems with the DLC. How do I download the game through EA's origin service? I want to try the beta game patch

Modifié par Boost IT, 20 juillet 2011 - 07:36 .

[Rob Bartel]

I'm glad to hear that the beta patch is getting a lot of you back up and running with your DLC and that the slowdowns being reported aren't affecting everybody. We're continuing to work on the issue with the private beta group and look forward to getting that resolved and releasing a proper version of the patch.

For those of you wanting to download the game through EA's Origin service, you can download the service here:
* http://www.origin.com/about

Within the Origin service, there's a little gear button at the top. In the resulting dropdown menu, select "Redeem Product Code" and you'll be prompted to enter the Product Key for your game. For Steam users, they will have emailed you this code as part of the purchase process. Enter the code and the game will be added to your collection, allowing you to download a copy at any time. Within the settings tab, I recommend ensuring that the "Keep Installers" button is checked so that you don't have to redownload it again later if you're going back and forth between Steam and Origin versions.

[Stumpy82]

RaenImrahl wrote...

Stumpy82 wrote...

Unfortunately, I have the Steam version, so cannot apply the patch - hence my annoyance.

Sounds to me like you should be annoyed at Steam.  If you must complain to EA/Bioware, this is not the place to do it.  Go to support.ea.com, click on "contact us", log in, and select your method of communication.

RI

No, believe me, my annoyance is at Bioware for releasing a product on Steam that doesn't work without a significant amount of manual fixing. The fact that Steam doesn't support Beta patches is neither here nor there; this isn't a minor patch to correct a couple of gameplay issues - it's a patch to actually allow people to play the content they've paid for.

[Furtled]

Stumpy82 wrote...
No, believe me, my annoyance is at Bioware for releasing a product on Steam that doesn't work without a significant amount of manual fixing. The fact that Steam doesn't support Beta patches is neither here nor there; this isn't a minor patch to correct a couple of gameplay issues - it's a patch to actually allow people to play the content they've paid for.

I get why you're annoyed, and I'm not about to tell you that you've no right to be, but they are working to fix it as quickly as possible in a way that won't cause more frustration for players.

[Shadow of Light Dragon]

Stumpy82 wrote...

No, believe me, my annoyance is at Bioware for releasing a product on Steam that doesn't work without a significant amount of manual fixing. The fact that Steam doesn't support Beta patches is neither here nor there; this isn't a minor patch to correct a couple of gameplay issues - it's a patch to actually allow people to play the content they've paid for.

It's frustrating, certainly. I pre-ordered DA2 and due to an authentication/DRM issue couldn't play it legitimately for about 2 months until a patch was released. The irony is that EA gave me the DA:O DLCs as compensation for said frustration...and of course I couldn't get them to work until this beta patch was released. XD

I didn't bother going back to EA to complain about it that time.

At least a patchis being worked on. With DA2 out I didn't think they'd bother with official DA:O fixes anymore, given the age of the content. Glad to be shown otherwise.

[ShinsFortress]

Killer69 wrote...

sami jo wrote...

As it states in Rob's first post in this thread that describes the patch, 1.05 only addresses DLC authorization issues.

So this only deals with DLC issues......still no aceint elven boots huh?  Or the other few dozen bugs that has carried over in this game for the past year and a half.  So I guess a 15 year old hacker living in their parents basement can provide these fixes but a billion dollar gaming corporation can't seem to find the personnel, time, or talent to get it done after selling millions of copies of the game.

No, it can't.  Or won't.  Although it's been stated that the objective of the coming patch is the DLC issues, there may still be other issues addressed.  Though nothing of that nature assured as yet, if at all.

I largely gave up complaining and simply voted with my wallet (e.g. as you may notice from the lack of further icons under my avatar) and didn't buy anything else from Awakenings onwards.  Far less stress that way.  Plus, it creates less mess on these forums for those people who wish to stick with it.  I strongly recommend the same.

I still peek back here periodically to see if the game ever actaully gets to the state it should have been at release, since the age of a game rarely bothers me (I still play NWN2 and only last year stopped NWN1!).

Modifié par ShinsFortress, 21 juillet 2011 - 06:35 .

[Kastagir]

Sniping and complaining, however warranted in this particular case, is not an acceptable alternative to reading the threads and making constructive comments. It has been WELL established that 1.05 is aimed at addressing authorization issues pertaining to DLC and not the outstanding bugs that have been reported. Other issues may be addressed afterwards. An extensive list of persistent issues has been collected and recorded by Rob Bartel. To expect a patch to tackle all of the issues that plague this game is simply not realistic and reflects a lack of understanding of the process and sheer efforts involved in identifying bugs (and their root causes), writing fixes and testing them without introducing more problems in the game.

I applaud Rob Bartel's efforts, though I still condemn Bioware as a whole for not dedicating appropriate resources to get this done earlier or faster. Updates are not coming as fast as I'd like to see, which unfortunately suggests that few resources are devoted the current effort. There has also still not been any word on future commitments on Bioware's part to fixing the existing bugs once the DLC authorization issues (aimed primarily at making the Ultimate Edition a more viable purchase, I suspect) are fixed. A more comprehensive roadmap would be appreciated, though this amount of disclosure is not the norm for Bioware.

One question I have for Rob Bartel is this: previous patches, such as 1.04, included content from earlier patch versions and did not necessarily require that other patches be applied prior to their installation. Will 1.05 include content from 1.04, or is it going to be considered more of a hotfix since it only addresses authorization issues?

Modifié par Kastagir, 22 juillet 2011 - 08:04 .

[Gravbh]

I had the ultimate edition on steam. I too recently decided to give origin a try since ME3 and BF3 seem like they're going to require it. It's less bad than I expected so I've moved all my EA steam games to it.

In doing that I had the same authorization issue and none of the trouble shooting that fixed it for my initial steam install worked now that I'm using it on origin. This beta patch fixed the problem beautifully. I'm not seeing increased load times either.

Modifié par Gravbh, 23 juillet 2011 - 05:01 .

[PrettylilSniper]

i was haing an issue with the the companions falling through the ground on the party chooser screen of course that could be one of the 3rd party additional compaion mods needed to be worked on itself but when updated to fix a performance issue i had i kept getting a message saying theres was an error and to reinstall the game which means i have to remove it open up orgin and redownload ue will theis patch fix the problem with me not being able to acces DA:O?

[Drakhiei]

So, I downloaded Origin, downloaded DA: O Ultimate Edition on Origin, launched it to make sure everything was in working order, downloaded patch 1.05, tried to launch DA: O Ultimate Edition and it won't launch. Anyone else have this problem?

[sami jo]

Are you trying to launch it from within Origins? I re-installed at one point and it did not re-associate the shortcuts at first.

[sami jo]

@PrettylilSniper: if your mod broke your game, an official patch won't fix it. As it states in the original post, this patch fixes DLC authorization issues only.

[PrettylilSniper]

it was actually the 1.4 patch that broke the game not the mod itself but the mod might be broken itself too

[sami jo]

More likely, the mod doesn't work with the 1.04 patch and therefore broke your game. If so, it won't work with 1.05 either as 1.05 includes the changes made in 1.04.

[PrettylilSniper]

i just uninstalled the mod altogether and force loaded my save and resaved and applied the patch and now the performance issue is gone

[Stumpy82]

Any word on 1.05 for Steam users?

[DeathProxy]

Well, is anybody there with a problem weirder than mine? My redeem code from my DA Ultimate actually authorizes... Dragon Age 2 content! I'll give a try at patch 1.05 tonight

[sami jo]

Because of the way Steam distributes patches, the patch cannot be distributed to Steam users until it is out of beta, which won't be until the load time issue is resolved. Work is continuing on the patch. For the time being, Steam users can download the EA digital version and apply the patch or try the things in the solutions round up thread.

[laximar]

nesesito el link

[sami jo]

laximar wrote...

nesesito el link

First post.

[RaenImrahl]

DeathProxy wrote...

Well, is anybody there with a problem weirder than mine? My redeem code from my DA Ultimate actually authorizes... Dragon Age 2 content! I'll give a try at patch 1.05 tonight

Registering pretty much any game on the Bioware site gives you access to some of the free DLC items for DA2.  It's a marketing thing.

[daniel_schold]

Worked wonders for me. Never been able to play any DLC for DA:O until I saw this. Playing through Legacy yesterday I got in the mood for some DA:O (it reminded me of that, guess it's the whole "ouh, he's kind of like The Architect"-thing they got going there), and being on a different comp from when I originally played through DA:O I had to reinstall, so did that and downloaded all the DLC's I have bought (but which never worked). When I saw that they still didn't work I went on the forums (last time around I thought it was due to my computer at the time) and found this. Feels awesome! Because let's face it - DA:O is more epic in scope than DA2.

The only thing about increased loading times that I've found is that if I start playing the game and then head back to the main menu everything slows down. Not played for long sessions so can't be sure if loading times will increase over time of not, so will not say anything about that.

In short: thanks for this patch! Gave me a couple of complete new (for me) hours of one of my favorite games of all time!

[Saberwind]

Well, it worked wonders for me but now the game keeps crashing at the fight against the bewitched templar and the demon...

[0x30A88]

Drakhiei wrote...

So, I downloaded Origin, downloaded DA: O Ultimate Edition on Origin, launched it to make sure everything was in working order, downloaded patch 1.05, tried to launch DA: O Ultimate Edition and it won't launch. Anyone else have this problem?

I got this problem on Steam, locate DAOrigins.exe in (install directory)\\bin_ship\\ and for me it gave a comprehendable error. If it's a PhysX error, download the latest update of PhysX.