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[Aeronik]

Thanks for the quick replies.



First attempt was the launcher config - tried a few different combos. Vid drivers are up to date, so I'm going the reinstall.



I can't help but feel suspicious of an update that may not have downloaded properly between the game being fine and the appearance (ha) of the glitch. That was the only thing I could identify that may have made a difference.



We shall see.

[Gorath Alpha]

By now, you are aware that you do not want to use a patch newer than 1.02A, right?  The newest, which hasn't been withdrawn in spite of (apparently) being ridiculously bad, is 1.03, and it seems to cause more people more trouble than it was supposed to have fixed! 

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 11 novembre 2010 - 11:20 .

[Aeronik]

Reinstall worked. Even kept all the saved games by itself



I'm using steam, so it automatically gives me the latest version - 1.03. But it seems to work for the time being.

[52893]

Its Happened to me however it only happened today, i was messing around with the toolset, i then exited it launched DAO and the text in menus and on loading screens was gone, this has never happened before the game used to run perfectly, should i just reinstall? if so would all my mods be gone?

[Gorath Alpha]

I'm going to take a WAG and say that your chances of getting a usable answer may be better if you ask that in one or the other of the several Toolset forums. 

[Satoru]

I know this thread is old but I booted up DA to finish up a few things before DA2 comes out. Now I'm getting this no-text on menu error. I'm running a GT 8800 so it certainly doesn't fall into the 'too old to run' category. Has anyone found a consistent way to fix this issue?

I'm running on Windows 7, dx11, Nvidia 8800GT, Intel Q6600 with 3GB RAM.

Modifié par Satoru, 09 novembre 2010 - 03:54 .

[Gorath Alpha]

Gorath Alpha wrote...

                      "No words, no text.  Empty Menu in game."

Just to have it available for reference, since, very surprisingly to me, the question comes up far too often, I am posting a description and a pair of explanations.

Under only two circumstances that I am familiar with, the game will try to start, but none of the optional choices will show up in menus.  There is one, primary reason that it happens.  There is a secondary, very infrequent situation as well.

Primarily, it is caused by trying to run the game with extremely obsolete hardware.  (Clipped)

Reason number two, seen only rarely, is a corruption of some game files, or of video driver files, which in the former case, sometimes seems linked  to using / misusing  the game's Toolset. 

There is nothing new here.  An occasional system has its drivers or Direct3D or the game itself, so corrupted that those must be removed (where necessary) and reinstalled.  Start with drivers, go on into Dx9 (yes, that one, not Dx10 or Dx11), and finish if those aren't it, with a game uninstall / reinstall.  Mishandling the toolset has been the primary route to this (second) situation.

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 11 novembre 2010 - 11:18 .

[Gorath Alpha]

Aeronik wrote...

Reinstall worked. Even kept all the saved games by itself

That is usually the answer to the problems rising out of toolset misuse. 

[Gorath Alpha]

Gorath Alpha wrote...

There are three parts to the graphical total, software-wise.  Easiest to fix is the video driver, if it's what's been damaged.  Next easiest is Direct3D, in the form of Dx9 (makes no difference whether you have Vista or Win7, because the game is Dx9).  Last, if updating those didn't do it, is reinstalling the game. 

This is still the right "hit" for a search to find, and the quoted comment addresses only a small fraction of all of the times that the sympton of blanked out text affects the menu.

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 16 janvier 2011 - 01:50 .

[Amaiya]

Having the no text problem too.



I have the disc so no problem with it not being legit.

I've reinstalled direct-x 9

I've reinstalled the game.

Graphics card : NVIDIA Quadro FX 700.



I'm able to play EverQuest 2 with this graphics card .

(Don't know if you're still helping people on this thread.)

[Gorath Alpha]

Quadro cards are intended for production, not for gaming, and I strongly suspect that yours is an antique, way too old to bother with, but I'll look it up when I get a chance. 

http://reviews.cnet....7-30873484.html

According to that artticle, it was released seven years ago, which is what I thought was the case, and only offered for the long-obsolete AGP video bus, meaning that the PC it is in is almost certainly also well below what can run this game. 

http://www.gpureview...1=346&card2=180

http://www.pny.com/p...ro/fx/700fx.asp

Sorry, you are out of luck.  That one won't even run Oblivion, a five year old game now, without replacing part of the game with the Oldblivion launcher.  So far, we don't know whether the rest is that good, though, I don't think (I'll check that now, but I wish I could have both the good editor functions and be able to see the source material as well).

No, you didn't offer any other data to support your unfounded hope that you could actually run this game on that ancient of a system.  

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 (this is clearly wrong)
NVIDIA GeForce "6600 GT" 128MB or greater (and this one is more 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, same thing, almost) for medium or better textures)


Gorath

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 21 janvier 2011 - 02:30 .

[Amaiya]

Alright, thanks for the fast reply.

Would getting a new graphics card for my computer work ?

--

I'll try the game on another computer and see if it runs.

That computer being a new one

[Gorath Alpha]

The old one is really terribly old, and if it is an Intel system, I just don't think that a better graphics card will help it enough to warrant the expense.

"Newness", however, really counts for very little today, because almost everyone these days seems to be buying low quality mobile PC hardware, instead of the quality hardware that is required for game playing.

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 22 janvier 2011 - 01:06 .

[Choom]

Also having this issue, and my video card (or its drivers) can't be to blame since it's an NVIDIA GTX580 and only recent drivers recognize it. I had another installation of Dragon Age: Origins in the same computer and it was running fine, however after installing the Ultimate edition, all the DLCs were marked as unauthorized and the Ultimate edition doesn't display any text in the main menu.

[Jherico72]

I just installed this as well and I'm getting the no-text issue. I'm running with a Core I7-920 CPU and an nVidia GTX275 video card. So far I've tried reinstalling DX, validating the game files through steam, running full screen and windowed and in a number of different resolutions. Nothing's worked. I'm not fond of the reinstalling the game as a 'debugging' step since for Steam users this means quite a large amount of bandwidth is consumed, but I'm doing it anyway. This is pretty bad user experience.

[Gorath Alpha]

Some people are seeing assorted problems in their DAO games after adding DA2 on their systems.  Why it's happening isn't clear, but when the video graphics cards are the real thing, with the correct pixel shader support (Dx9.0"b" for small textures, Dx9.0"c" for medium or large textures), then the drivers have problems (first to check), or Dx9 has problems (next to check, and Dx10 / Dx11 have no bearing on the situation), or at the end, it's the game itself that's been damaged and needs to be uninstalled / reinstalled. 

Don't forget, the switch from 4:3 to 16:9 / 16:10 "wide" screens was just accellerating as the game was being finalized, and it is sensitive to mistakes in settings.  You can't tell the game to use 4:3 screen settings if it's got a wide screen, and vice versa. 

P. S. We also saw some somewhat similar problems from trying to install DA:O, UE on top of the original release, without uninstalling first, and don't forget that carelessness while using the Toolset has been a common source for this situation. 

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 01 novembre 2011 - 04:56 .

[nbstephan]

Modifié par nbstephan, 04 juillet 2011 - 11:03 .

[NicolinoH]

I have the same problem in my menu, i'm on the steam version so it automaticly updates to 1.03.

Graphic card Nvidia GTX 470 gonna try driver updates ^^ etc hope it works

[sami jo]

NicolinoH wrote...

I have the same problem in my menu, i'm on the steam version so it automaticly updates to 1.03.

Graphic card Nvidia GTX 470 gonna try driver updates ^^ etc hope it works

Actually, it is updated to 1.04.  If you require assistance, there is a thread labeled "READ FIRST"  pinned to the top of this forum.

[brownstudies]

I'm having this problem too.
My graphics card is a NVIDIA® GeForce® 9600M GT GPU. I'm using Windows Vista.  I've played the game since DA2 came out and didn't see problems, although that was a good few months ago. The game is on steam and is v.1.04, and it's the original verson.

I don't think the obselete graphics card reason applies to me (or does it?), and I don't use the toolset. Not sure what to do :/

Modifié par brownstudies, 01 novembre 2011 - 12:24 .

[Gorath Alpha]

Have you changed displays from an older 4:3 type to a newer 16:9 or 16:10 wide screen since you ran the game last? You can't have the wrong screen setting and see the menu.

[brownstudies]

Thanks, the problem is fixed now. I do have the toolset on my computer and wondered if just having it installed was enough to make trouble, so I followed your advice from a different thread and just did a reinstall of the game - that did the trick.

All I've ever done with the toolset is downloaded it, had a quick look and then closed it again. I've never tried to import something into the game or anything like that. Is that really all it takes?

Turns out I now have an issue over there being no dialogue (my companions in camp aren't even moving their mouths when they're meant to be speaking), so off to research that one now

Modifié par brownstudies, 01 novembre 2011 - 10:12 .

[eblingus]

I am having this problem today. I did not have it yesterday, and have been playing this game since it first came out. The only change I am aware of is an update via Steam:

Processor: AMD Athlon II X3 425

Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (5.1.2600)

RAM:2GB

AMD HD 4850

Driver 6.14.0010.7236 10.25.2011

VRAM:512 MB

DAOrigins.exe v1.05
DAOriginsLauncher.exe v1.01
DAOriginsConfig.exe v1.03

I have tried changing the game video resolution, detail, and disabling features, to no effect.

[Gorath Alpha]

Gorath Alpha wrote...

Some people are seeing assorted problems in their DAO games after adding DA2 on their systems.  Why it's happening isn't clear, but when the video graphics cards are the real thing, with the correct pixel shader support (Dx9.0"b" for small textures, Dx9.0"c" for medium or large textures), then the drivers have problems (first to check), or Dx9 has problems (next to check, and Dx10 / Dx11 have no bearing on the situation), or at the end, it's the game itself that's been damaged and needs to be uninstalled / reinstalled. 

Don't forget, the switch from 4:3 to 16:9 / 16:10 "wide" screens was just accellerating as the game was being finalized, and it is sensitive to mistakes in settings.  You can't tell the game to use 4:3 screen settings if it's got a wide screen, and vice versa. 

P. S. We also saw some somewhat similar problems from trying to install DA:O, UE on top of the original release, without uninstalling first, and don't forget that carelessness while using the Toolset has been a common source for this situation. 

That's the summary of the entire thread there.  We don't know any more than that now than then, and there is no need for us to do so.  It's covered. 

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 23 décembre 2011 - 05:33 .

[eblingus]

I solved this by using the Steam detect and repair.