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[Giubba]

With still more than 5 months to go before game launch,

I hope the community will not hyper-ventilate with concern every time there is a mis-communication or rumour on 3rd party sites.

 

Or we're going to be exhausted by the end of the summer ! 

 

The teases and messages BioWare have shared since they emerged from development hibernation have been well thought-through and bode well for a quality game.

 

Kudos to Derek and Allan for handling the weekend 'crisis' really well.

 

Plain and simple.

 

Not gonna happen.

[Bizantura]

@ Alan09

 

What I'm talking about is for those who have the hard disc (PC Version) and you add the game to your Origins Client Library.  If you need to repair the game and you repair the game using the Origins Client to repair or update (patches) it will change authorization of your DLC and say it's no longer authorized.  My DLC will work just fine as long as I don't have the Origins Client installed.  All I'm saying is that this is the issue I'm having with the Origins Client.  I have the Collector's Edition for Dragon Age Origins and Signature Edition of DA2 and all DLC for each game.  The Collector's Edition isn't even being recognized as such but as the Digital Download version; so what is the point of buying the special editions if later on they won't be recognized by the Origins Client?  They still have not fixed this issue with the authorization of the DLC.  

 

The simple fact of the matter is, every players Bioware/EA authorized DLC pages are not in sync with each other.  The Origins Client is not recognizing all DLC like my Bioware authorized DLC page has.  I think this is their whole problem. 

 

Just recently I went to play DA2 through the Origins Client and it took away my configuration utility.  Totally gone.  That was the last straw for me.  I uninstalled the Origins Client and reinstalled DA2 and no problems whatsoever. 

 

Weird thing, I also have EA's Kingdoms of Alamar Reckoning and it works just fine with the Origins Client.  Dragon Age does not.  All I'm saying is that this needs to be addressed and looked into. 

Never had any problems with origin and I also have Collector's Edition for Dragon Age Origins and Signature Edition of DA2 and all DLC for each game.  But I never install from the dvd's, I just type in the product code in the origin client and start the download.  I admit I have a very fast internet connection.  The dlc's I download from within the game that I start thru the origin client and never had a problem doing it like that.  The reverse and installing from dvd and install dlc from my own harddisk give me also the trouble you are describing.

[ElvaliaRavenHart]

It never gave me the option to imput the key within the Origin's Client, my game was already registered, I just had to download from the Origins client.  What I'm saying is that if you reinstall per the origins client, it is installing the digital version instead of the collectors edition, I guess because it is the lastest version, at least this is what is happening to me. 

 

I was installing on a new laptop.  I downloaded the origins client on a new laptop and at first no problems.  Then everytime the Origins client would get a new update, it would mess up my game files and de-authorize my dlc.  I did report this to ea's customer service that this happened to me.  They told me to reinstall the game through the origins client, and not my disc. When doing this it would de-authorize my dlc.

 

They told me to uninstall the origins client and reinstall.  It just kept happening over and over.  I finally removed the Origins Client and now no problems. 

 

My DLC for origins wouldn't show up on my ea authorized dlc, nothing shows up for Origins.  It was showing up here on Bioware but not over on EA's website.  I don't know why this happened.  The customer service rep told me that some dlc to reinstall was only available here at bioware's site.  I only know what they told me. 

 

When they first moved my ea account to the origins client, my account or game, or dlc never worked right after that.  They had to go back through my purchases and they didn't even have my purchase of DA collectors edition being pre-ordered, which I did pre-order back in 2009.  They had to research my purchase and my security key.  So when they moved my ea account over to the origins client, not all of my information got transferred for whatever reason.  I had a heck of a time getting that straighten out.  They finally found my purhcases of a PC and PS3 purchases of the Collector's Edition.

Modifié par ElvaliaRavenHart, 29 avril 2014 - 06:29 .

[Androme]

If it is like Mass Effect 3 like he says, then each time you open the game it will do a validation on the internet to make sure you own the DLC and then its done. If it cant connect then it will disable DLC. So you will need internet each time you start the game but can unplug after it does its validation.

 

Yeah, that essentially means I don't own the DLC that I have paid money for. Seriously, the 21th century, jesus christ...

[Grieving Natashina]

It never gave me the option to imput the key within the Origin's Client, my game was already registered, I just had to download from the Origins client.  What I'm saying is that if you reinstall per the origins client, it is installing the digital version instead of the collectors edition, I guess because it is the lastest version, at least this is what is happening to me. 

 

I was installing on a new laptop.  I downloaded the origins client on a new laptop and at first no problems.  Then everytime the Origins client would get a new update, it would mess up my game files and de-authorize my dlc.  I did report this to ea's customer service that this happened to me.  They told me to reinstall the game through the origins client, and not my disc. When doing this it would de-authorize my dlc.

 

They told me to uninstall the origins client and reinstall.  It just kept happening over and over.  I finally removed the Origins Client and now no problems. 

 

My DLC for origins wouldn't show up on my ea authorized dlc, nothing shows up for Origins.  It was showing up here on Bioware but not over on EA's website.  I don't know why this happened.  The customer service rep told me that some dlc to reinstall was only available here at bioware's site.  I only know what they told me. 

 

When they first moved my ea account to the origins client, my account or game, or dlc never worked right after that.  They had to go back through my purchases and they didn't even have my purchase of DA collectors edition being pre-ordered, which I did pre-order back in 2009.  They had to research my purchase and my security key.  So when they moved my ea account over to the origins client, not all of my information got transferred for whatever reason.  I had a heck of a time getting that straighten out.  They finally found my purhcases of a PC and PS3 purchases of the Collector's Edition.

Here's an empathy like.  I just went through the same thing with DA: O Ultimate Edition via the Orgin client.  I had to reinstall the Origin cilent, and uncheck anything dealing with automatic updates, so I had to get the 1.05 patch from the bioware site.   Then I had to reinstall the game.  Prior to the Origin reinstall, the DAUpdaterService.svc wasn't running and all the cmd commands in the world couldn't fix it.  

 

After a useless hour with a EA customer service rep, I had to do a completely fresh install.  Then, after I fired up the game, I had to grab the individual files from the bioware entitlements page and start installing them from the DAUpdater (the one for DAzip files.)  Even though it was all techincally listed as out of date, it authorized from there.  I didn't have to go through this with DA2.  

 

I still had more luck with them than I did Steam.  The Steam version had that problem of randomly crashing after about 1-2 hours of play, and the Origin version doesn't have the problem.  I ended up getting Ultimate Edition moved onto the Origin client because of that and other problems.  I don't play Steam games anymore.

[bzombo]

Hopefully I'll have a pc that can run this game by the time it releases, or otherwise I'll have a game sitting on my shelf for a while since Bioware really jacked up the minimum from DA2 to DAI with the Frostbite engine. Heck, I was reading Vista won't be supported. Hope that's not true. Companies say pc games don't sell enough but they make it so hard to play the game if you don't have a top notch system.

[ElvaliaRavenHart]

I don't think through the origins client the Dragon Age Collector's edition is even available.  Doesn't look like it to me.  I even tried the install from disc and manually install to the client and it still de-authorizes the dlc. 

 

I was playing DA2, got a notice to update the origins client.  Signed out of the game from the origins client, did the update to the client.  Started the game, no dlc.  that is when I uninstalled the client and have not had it on since. 

 

So, with inquisition, I will install the client, get it authorized then uninstall the origins client again and go about my business.  Hehe!

[Cyonan]

Hopefully I'll have a pc that can run this game by the time it releases, or otherwise I'll have a game sitting on my shelf for a while since Bioware really jacked up the minimum from DA2 to DAI with the Frostbite engine. Heck, I was reading Vista won't be supported. Hope that's not true. Companies say pc games don't sell enough but they make it so hard to play the game if you don't have a top notch system.

 

If you're running on Vista, I recommend you upgrade to Windows 7 regardless of games. Vista is bad and should feel bad.

 

I rather doubt if you'll need a $2000 system to be able to run DA:I, but we did just enter a new console generation which means that PC requirements are going to make a jump due to multi-platform games no longer being held back by the limited hardware of the Xbox 360 and PS3.

[Grieving Natashina]

If you're running on Vista, I recommend you upgrade to Windows 7 regardless of games. Vista is bad and should feel bad.

 

I rather doubt if you'll need a $2000 system to be able to run DA:I, but we did just enter a new console generation which means that PC requirements are going to make a jump due to multi-platform games no longer being held back by the limited hardware of the Xbox 360 and PS3.

This is very true and a quick google search will back that up.  It isn't just for a couple of games; it had problems with most modern PC games across the board.  I can't tell you how often I had to fight with that POS of an operating system with my games. 

 

Switching OS' will help quite a bit and it looks like many games coming out won't be supporting Vista from here on out.  If you liked Windows XP, then Win 7 is a decent follow up.  And much more gamer friendly than Vista.

[Bob from Accounting]

I still use XP. The computer I'm typing this on is XP.

[Grieving Natashina]

I still use XP. The computer I'm typing this on is XP.

This too.  If you can find a good working copy of XP, most modern games handle it just fine.   I don't agree with Bob here often, but he's right on the nose here.

 

Just...get rid of Vista, Elvalia.  Your games will run much better on another OS, and it's worth the cost for it. 

[Bob from Accounting]

My computer also happens to be a piece of crap that huffs and puffs to run Oblivion (2006) on the lowest setting.

[AlanC9]

I don't think through the origins client the Dragon Age Collector's edition is even available.  Doesn't look like it to me.  I even tried the install from disc and manually install to the client and it still de-authorizes the dlc. 
 

What happens if you don't manually install to the client?

[Eleinehmm]

I still use XP. The computer I'm typing this on is XP.

 You and me both. And I am a Computer Scientist so people often assume I just have to be all cutting edge  and stuff. People have a very strange ideas  about the subfields of CS (I work with language), and what we actually do...

 

But I digress,  I wish they wouldn't go with the always on-line req... It's sad when people who download hacked stuff get less restrictive versions then the buyers.

[AlanC9]

This too.  If you can find a good working copy of XP, most modern games handle it just fine.   J I don't agree with Bob here often, but he's right on the nose here.
 
Just...get rid of Vista, Elvalia.  Your games will run much better on another OS, and it's worth the cost for it.

But will DAI run on XP? That seems unlikely.

[Eleinehmm]

But will DAI run on XP? That seems unlikely.

 

It just might. But as far as I remember XP has rather restrictive RAM limits (depending on the version, need to check), and DAI is pretty graphic-heavy...
 

[Bob from Accounting]

The good news is, I'm going to upgrade to a beastly $1500+ rig next year. Hopefully around the time Bethesda is ready to release their next game. If not, I'll finally get around to playing Skyrim and New Vegas as they should be played once I fill up on third party bug fixes, optimization patches, and texture replacers.

 

BioWare games don't need modding, so they're going on the XB1.

[AlanC9]

It just might. But as far as I remember XP has rather restrictive RAM limits (depending on the version, need to check), and DAI is pretty graphic-heavy...

I was thinking it probably wouldn't run on DX9.

I've actually been considering going to XP on the backup rig I'm using now, since 3GB isn't enough RAM to run DAO under Vista reliably.

[Eleinehmm]

I was thinking it probably wouldn't run on DX9.

 

Haha, too true.

[deuce985]

It just might. But as far as I remember XP has rather restrictive RAM limits (depending on the version, need to check), and DAI is pretty graphic-heavy...
 

 

Frostbite 3 is not compatible with XP.

[Eleinehmm]

Vista is a 7 year old OS and Frostbite 3 relies on plenty of DirectX 11 stuff.

 

Time to let go...

 

 

Windows 8 needs less than 300MB of RAM.

 

Letting go is hard. It took me 4 years to change from the 98 to XP. 98 was the first relatively stable windows system for me. 

 

Hmmm, I remember raging about the fact that  you generally could run MS-DOS games on 98  while  most of them weren't working under XP.

[Eleinehmm]

Frostbite 3 is not compatible with XP.

 

I've guessed as much. DX 9 is the last  DX version supported by XP. Hence me laughing at the fact that the first thing I thought was the RAM restrictions instead of the obvious DX reqs.

[Sanunes]

Here's an empathy like.  I just went through the same thing with DA: O Ultimate Edition via the Orgin client.  I had to reinstall the Origin cilent, and uncheck anything dealing with automatic updates, so I had to get the 1.05 patch from the bioware site.   Then I had to reinstall the game.  Prior to the Origin reinstall, the DAUpdaterService.svc wasn't running and all the cmd commands in the world couldn't fix it.  

 

After a useless hour with a EA customer service rep, I had to do a completely fresh install.  Then, after I fired up the game, I had to grab the individual files from the bioware entitlements page and start installing them from the DAUpdater (the one for DAzip files.)  Even though it was all techincally listed as out of date, it authorized from there.  I didn't have to go through this with DA2.  

 

I still had more luck with them than I did Steam.  The Steam version had that problem of randomly crashing after about 1-2 hours of play, and the Origin version doesn't have the problem.  I ended up getting Ultimate Edition moved onto the Origin client because of that and other problems.  I don't play Steam games anymore.

 

I have the exact same problem with Steam that you did with DLC dealing with Origin with it not properly registering in the game and I think the problem is how Dragon Age: Origins handles the DLC.  If it didn't handle it basically the same was as mods, I wonder if the problem would be there.

[ElvaliaRavenHart]

@ Alan09

 

At first no trouble when I first installed on my new laptop, correct artwork for the collector's edition showed up in the origins client and everything.  Got an update for the Origins Client and then it all went wacky after that.  The Origins Client as I said took away my ability to access the configuration utility, thus removing my access to my security key to determine if it was correct, this happened on DA2.  In accessing my security key I had to go to into my program files or my registery; I don't remember which one.   Somehow it damage the screen to acess the loading screen when the game first loads.  It totally messed this up.  Actually it completely disappeared.

 

With Origins it just wouldn't authorize and removed all of my artwork and game over to the deluxe edition instead of the collectors.  When I reinstalled Origins again and tried to manually add Origins to the client it wouldn't allow me to do this, it said I didn't own the game.  I was like WTH.

 

Once I uninstalled, the origins client and removed all traces from my computer registery, then reinstalled both games from the disc, then everything worked fine.  So the issue is with the Origins Client period not recognizing dlc.  Shouldn't matter if you are signed into the internet or not if your game is registered with EA/Bioware and mine are.

 

My old laptop runs Vista and I never had any trouble running Origins or DA2 on it.  The only trouble I had was I couldn't run it with high resolution.  My new laptop is a gaming laptop running Windows 8.1.  Something I'm noticing this time around is the game runs really fast and the battles are over really fast.  I'm not leveling up as fast as I did on my old laptop so I'm not sure if it is adding everything all points in to level.  I can run it in high resolution on my new laptop and it looks great. Even Origins doesn't look to bad on it.

Modifié par ElvaliaRavenHart, 29 avril 2014 - 08:58 .