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[BlakeH]

So the "online chat" help has been utterly useless, so I figured maybe the community would be a better place to ask for help.
So my problem is that the game starts up fine, but after the opening videos I see the main menu screen, but there is no text on any of the buttons! It's really strange. I have the nVidia FX 5500 256 mb graphics card. That's a little under spec, but it works with many other games. I've used the latest drivers and tried rolling back to many previous drivers, none of them work. Any ideas? Thanks!

[RedMagician201088]

This problem, it's happened to me too. I got the digital deluxe edition for Steam. It installed just fine and at first I could play the game with no problem but, when I restarted the game so I could use the DLC there was no text! there's no text on the main menu and even when I managed to load my saved game blindly hitting things there was no in game text either. The dialogues weren't working (no text or voices would show up) and the character names woudn't show up, and so on.



My computer is a beast, so BlakeH, I doubt your problem's due to your comp stats. I've already sent an email to the Bioware tech support and hopefully they'll answer soon. Meanwhile I'll hope someone here in the community knows something about it and how to fix it.

[BlakeH]

Thanks, glad to know it's not just me. And yeah, i hope so too

[RedMagician201088]

Ok. I think I've figured out what might be the cause of this problem, at least in my case. I'll tell you how to check it out to see if the cause is the same in yours:



1. Go to the directory where you installed Dragon Age origins

2. Open the Dragon Age folders

3. Go to Modules-Single Player

4. Once there make sure that the Audio-"Facialanimations" and "vo" folders have file in them.



If those folders are empty, tada! there's your problem. For some odd reason, in my case at least, the audio and text files were ERASED sometime later after the set up. How did this happen, I've no idea. However, for now I'm sure that the only way to solve it is to REINSTALL the game. In my case this if painful as hell, as I purchased the digital deluxe edition for Steam. Once I've removed dragon age from my comp I have to download the whole thing on Steam AGAIN, which takes about 2 to 3 looong hours. And then, here's hoping those files WON'T go missing again. So as soon as the game's been installe I'm going to make a security backup of said files.



However, I smell a bug here, of sorts. There's no other explanation to it for all I know. It's either Steam's or Bioware's fault. In any case, Dragon Age is but a product of Bioware which is distributed via Steam. So dear Bioware, I suggest looking into this quite annoying bug, I get the feeling BlakeH and me won't be the only ones suffering due to it.



Hope this helped BlakeH.

[BlakeH]

Unfortunately that isn't my problem, but thanks a ton for taking the time to try to help out. Good luck!

[Gorath Alpha]

BlakeH wrote...

I have the nVidia FX 5500 256 mb graphics card. That's a little under spec, but it works with many other games. I've used the latest drivers and tried rolling back to many previous drivers, none of them work.

Are you for real?   Is this just a TROLL to stir things up? 

That POS was almost the financial ruin of nVIDIA six or seven years ago, it was so bad, they lost millions and millions on those crappy FXes, and that one you are naming was among the crappiest of all of them!  It's so old, the rest of that PC surely is also crap, unless you are just pulling everyone's legs here. 

A "little under spec" is the understatement of the week.  Bioware already was offering a Pie in the Sky daydream by naming the rather bad Geforce 6600 GT as official minimum, but that card at least has the actual SM3 shader functionality, that none of the FXes had.  They had a different shader of nVIDIA's that literally had to emulate SM3!  Turn over the game box and look 2/3 of the way down.  How many more of the minimums there has you junker of a PC missed?

(Sorry, but junk is just junk!  There's no way that pouring syrup over it makes the situation any different!) 

Gorath
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Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 05 novembre 2009 - 06:49 .

[BlakeH]

Haha I was unaware of my graphics card's level of ****tiness. The problem with upgrading is that i have an AGP slot instead of PCIe. Any AGP cards that you know of that would run this? Without costing a ****-ton of money?

[Gorath Alpha]

BlakeH wrote...

Haha I was unaware of my graphics card's level of ****tiness. The problem with upgrading is that i have an AGP slot instead of PCIe. Any AGP cards that you know of that would run this? Without costing a ****-ton of money?

Yes, quite a few of them, all Radeons.  nVIDIA dropped support for AGP four years ago.  ATI kept up some support for another year and a half beyond that, but several ATI partner companies picked up the ball after that.  The AGP cards tend to trail several months behind their PCIe brethren, so that the HD 4650 and 4670 were just hitting the market a couple of months ago, and ATI has already released its HD 5700 and 5800 cards, with at least one 5900 in the wings already. 

Also, because they have extra complexity, and sell in smaller numbers, there is a price penalty of between $15 and $25 compared to PCIe.  I haven't priced any AGP anything in ages, but since the HD 4670 is readily available for just about $80 or so, and frequently on sale a lot lower than that, the AGP version is probably right around $100.  I named that one because it is the top Bang for a Buck PCIe card (more frames per second per dollar than any other), and it runs on the typical brand name PC power supplies. 

HOWEVER, you are in a different situation.  No matter what your power supply's label claims as its new condition current amounts, it is now an old part that has no more than half of the capability it had when new.  Power Supplies gradually deterirate until they are useless, and a modern Mainline Gaming card needs the kind of current that a NEW, modern 300 Watt power supply can offer, and yours cannot any longer. 

The most important thing to know about power supplies is that there are about a dozen good brands, a hundred crap brands, and 8-10 so-so brands that you have to pick and choose individual model PSUs from, and then only when you know a lot about what you are doing!  I can name these: Enermax, Fortron, OCZ, PC Power & Cooling, Sparkle, and there were supposed to be six I had memorized, but the last one just spun down into some dark cranny in my memory!

P. S.  I have already alluded to this, but if your RAM is too small, and your CPU too old and slow, it would be a waste to put more money into such an old clunk, really!

Gorath
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Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 05 novembre 2009 - 07:15 .