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Before attempting any of the listed fixes, make sure that you computer meets Dragon Age’s minimum system requirements.
| Dragon Age Origins Windows XP System Requirements | Dragon Age Origins Windows 7/Vista System Requirements | Dragon Age Origins (Windows) Recommended Systems |
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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: 1GB or more Video: ATI Radeon X850 256MB or greater NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT 128MB or greater DVD ROM (Physical copy) 20 GB HD space |
OS: Windows Vista with SP1, Windows 7 CPU: Intel Core 2 Single (or equivalent) running at 1.6Ghz or greater AMD 64 (or equivalent) running at 2.0Ghz or greater RAM: 1.5 GB or more Video: ATI Radeon X1550 256MB or greater NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT 256MB or greater DVD ROM (Physical copy) 20 GB HD space |
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz Processor or equivalent AMD Phenom II X2 Dual-Core 2.7 GHz or greater RAM: 2 GB (XP) or 3 GB (Windows Vista/Windows 7) Video: ATI 3850 512 MB or greater NVIDIA 8800GTS 512 MB or greater DVD ROM (Physical copy) 20 GB HD space |
One last note before proceeding to the list of Fixes for Dragon Age. If you encounter errors or issues with Dragon Age Origins that are not included in the list below, issues which the solutions listed does not resolve, Tell us about it by Posting it in the comment box at the bottom of this page (No registration required). Include details about the Dragon Age error and the specifications of the system you are running Dragon Age on. It doesn’t have to be a fullblown dxdiag log, just the Video Card, Processor and amout of RAM and of course the Operating System (and service pack versions) you are playing Dragon Age on. check the comments at the bottom of this post.
Note : Dragon Age is just a few hours old. l’ll be waiting for the issues to pop up and I’ll be updating this Dragon Age Fix guide as soon as the issues become known. So it’s a great time to post on the comment box at the bottom of the page If you are experiencing Dragon Age errors, credit will be given to whomever they are due 
List of Fixes For DragonAge Origins (PC) Errors
Update : Since there are so many ways for this game Dragon Age crash. so before looking into the solutions below, try this solution posted by Odess81
Just disable full screen play. It should boot no problem. After you’re in the game, you can manually reconfig the full screen mode
Problem #1 : Dragon Age crashing to desktop on random intervals
Solution : If you are an ATI user (specially those who use Catalyst 9.9 drivers), downgrade your video card driver to Catalyst 9.7. There are issues with running Dragon Age on ATI Catalyst 9.9 and should be fixed with the next Catalyst update
credits: destroy 733
Problem #2: Dragon Age error message “Error: Could not connect to EA Core”
Solution: Open up the EA Download Manager and enter your serial number for the game there to activate it. I did that and it works fine now.
credits: Nanobent
Solution: Your firewall or anti-virus may be preventing EADM/EA Downloader from connecting to it’s server. Disable your firewall and anti-virus then try again
Solution: Reinstall EADM/EA Downloader
Problem #3 Cannot register to Dragon Age Social site problem (Cannot download Dragon Age DLC, toolset)
Solution : Known issue with no available workaround yet. So far, we know that this is an issue with EA and not Bioware… greedy bastards at EA should burn in hell.
Problem #4 Dragon Age error message “we could not activate Dragon Age on this computer” appears when trying to activate the game.
Solution : Click on the “Enter product key” button and type in your product key again. This is because EA has it’s own thing going with the activation process of Dragon Age and inputting the key on Steam/Direct2Drive is just for the sake of adding the game to your profile.
Problem #5 Dragon Age “Unauthorized” message/label on downloaded content (Unable to play content error)
Solution you need to be logged in to the profile that purchased the DLCs in order to play them
Problem #6 Dragon Age randomly freezes in game
Solution See solutions for Problem #1
Problem #7 Downloading Dragon Age DLC/Content files and it the download process froze (marked by exclamation point beside the DLC). How can i restart it?
Solution
1.Select the content on the Download Progress tab and click Download.
2.If there is no Download button available, follow these steps:
a.Re-start the game. From the Game Launcher, click on the Configure button.
b.In the Configure tool, click on Repair and then Clear Download Cache.
Problem #8 Dragon Age crashes during/after conversations
Solution No known workaround
Problem #9 EADM does not work on Windows 7
Solution No known work arounds yet as of this posting. here’s what EA said about this issue
Prior to the release of Windows 7, the current EA Download Manager application (version 5.1.0.4) had been developed, tested, and released for Windows XP and Windows Vista (32 bit). Upon further testing, we discovered that the current version of the EA Download Manager may not be fully compatible with Windows 7. As a result, a fully compliant version of the EA Download Manager is in active development.
While we apologize for any inconvenience this delay might cause, please know that we vest an enormous effort in ensuring broad compatibility across multiple games and platforms. Our rigorous QA and development process helps ensure the outstanding gaming experience you’ve come to expect, and the production process for the EADM is no exception.
Problem #10 Cannot set Dragon Age to fullscreen
Solution No known workarounds
Problem #11 Dragon Age Physx error — failed to initialize Physx. Update physx drivers to the latest version — but my physx card drivers are up to date
SolutionNo known workarounds yet as of this posting
Problem #12 Game crashes when trying to launch (steam version)
error message
“Dragon Age: Origins has stopped working”
Solution No known workaround
Problem #13 report a Dragon Age error/issue on the comment-box below
Solution report fixes for Dragon Age errors on the comment box below
Important!: If you are experiencing errors with Dragon Age Origins that are not listed above or is not solved by the specified fixes, Tell us about it by posting in the comment box below (include system specs, OS, and description of the error you encounter in Dragon Age Origins), NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED TO POST/ASK QUESTIONS/POST SOLUTIONS
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Game crashes when launching (Steam version)
“Dragon Age: Origins has stopped working”
Specs
Win 7 64
280 GTX
q9450
4GB RAM
Whenever I go to install my copy of dragon Age: Origins i get a error message saying “No Supported Languages Found”.
I am in the US and using English as my Language.
I get an install error near the very end of the install process that just shuts down everything it just did. Legal copy installing from disk.
Win XP
Intel 2.6GHz Core2Duo E4500
3GB RAM
“The installation of Dragon Age: Origins has failled.
A data error occurred”
It seems at 15.4% through extracting campaign_movie3.rar to finalbattle.blk there is some sort of an error. I downloaded the game via Comrade, from D2D about 2 hours ago… After having preloaded, and removed the file. This happens on any drive I have used.
Dragon Age froze just after killing the giant rats in the pantry, with the sound looping. I had to hard-reset.
Q6600 overclocked to 3.2GHz
8800GTS 512 (latest drivers installed)
Windows 7 32-bit
Steam version of DA:O
After attempting workaround #2, The EA installer tells my that my code is in use!!!
Vista HomePrem 32bit
Installed Dragon Age: Origins without any problems. I have promo codes installed and that did not present any problems either. I create my character, select stats, talents and difficulty. When I press play the icon at the bottom turns once and then stops. It says loading at the bottom but it really freezes. I have rebooted and did everything that I can think of but the problem remains.
Update:
Extracting: /Language en /progresspercent 1177 /settotalK 1867587 ‘E:\data\campaign_vo_english.rar’ ‘D:\Program Files\Dragon Age’
Rar error: error 12 RAR process file failed: File CRC error.
Rar Details: A Data error occured.
Um, it shouldn’t be a problem with my hardware. What do I do about this?
Game installed and runs fine, for about 10 minutes tops then I crash to desktop.
I’m running Windows 7 x64 and it would appear that the problem is actually on ATI’s end. I would assume that most people with ATI cards and Windows 7 x64 are having the same problem.
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: DAOrigins.exe
Application Version: 1.0.9353.0
Application Timestamp: 4ab2529e
Fault Module Name: atiumdag.dll
Fault Module Version: 8.14.10.700
Fault Module Timestamp: 4aba9bf2
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00002b62
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Picked up my copy from gamestop today. attempted to install from the disk. near the last few % of the install, i get an installation failed, data error message.
win xp
2gb ram
dell xps laptop
Dragons Age freezes/crashes during intro sequence/character creation page. I have a Radeon HD 4870 x2 video card, core 2 quad 2.4 ghz, 8 gb ram on win 7 64 bit. I originally had catalyst 9.10 driver installed, but rolled back to version 9.7 as recommended, but this has made no difference to me. I would love if someone could please help me! Should I have gotten an NVidia card instead, as this is not the first time I have had a potentially graphics-related problem since I got my Radeon?
Thanks in advance,
Mark
When I put the disc in or try to auto install I get the following error: Switch from current encoding to specified encoding not supported. Line 1, Column 40 in inter XML Settings.
If I open the disc and try to install using the exe file I get past the accepting agreements page and get the following error immediately (after I initially put in the activation key): The exception unknown software exception (0xc000000d) occurred in the application at location 0×00ceb13d.
Game crashes when config tool is run immediately after game is installed. My specs:
Windows Vista, 32 bit
3GB RAM
AMD Athlon 64X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275
During config tool, I get ‘Dragon Age: Origins Configuration Utility has stopped working’ error, with the details reading:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: DAOriginsConfig.exe
Application Version: 1.3.0.9
Application Timestamp: 4ab951f1
Fault Module Name: DAOriginsConfig.exe
Fault Module Version: 1.3.0.9
Fault Module Timestamp: 4ab951f1
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00068b73
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 6e82
Additional Information 2: 0a34ee58b310c51850b48b021c7f3b2f
Additional Information 3: 74a8
Additional Information 4: 728cc5c02460f7130b1f55856f6e2163
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Mine is a retail copy.
game seemed to install successfully. Loading screen from DVD shows. When I click either play or configure I get a windows error box with:
“Runtime Error!
filpath/DAOriginsConfig.exe
This application has requested the runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the applications support team for more information.
Mac OS10.6 Running Parallels 4 with Windows XP SP3
8G Ram
No clue on the video card
I’m running on Windows 7 32-bit with an nVidia 8800gt and I have all black textures on all my models. Tried all the video settings and multiple drivers, but still no fix.
Loading between areas as long as five minutes
I have had some random freezes and crashes, no method to the madness.
Win 7
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600 2.8ghz
4gp ram
GeForce GTX 260 896mb
all drivers updated and running with tower open so overheating is pretty much ruled out.
Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit
Phenom 9500 2.2GHZ
Radeon 4850 1GB
4 GB Ram
I have noticed after awhile the game slows down and load times increase. from what i’ve been able to find through forums is that other people with the Phenoms (not phenom II’s) are having similar issues.
Installed fine and can access the options screen fine.
BUT when I press play the game crashes and I get that Microsoft error report/send box.
System is well within spec.
Windows XP SP3
Core 2 Duo - 2.66
2 Gigs ram
Nvidia 260 GTX
Loaded all new drivers after crash.
Also reinstalled the game.
Still the same. - Crashes at play.
Very disappointed
getting a error after click play from launcher that says failed to authenicate disk. please insert correct disk and try again. returned it to gamestop and tried again and got same thing.
amd x2 6000
3 gb memory
xp sp3
nvidia 8800 gts 512 mb
this is the error msg windows reports after a crash
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: DAOrigins.exe
Application Version: 1.0.9353.0
Application Timestamp: 4ab2529e
Fault Module Name: PhysXCore.dll
Fault Module Version: 2.8.1.21
Fault Module Timestamp: 4965a051
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0017f82e
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
anyone know what it means?
Crashes on the menu screen,
Core 2 Duo - 2.66
2 Gigs ram
nvidia geforce 8600 gt
Vista home basic
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: DAOrigins.exe
Application Version: 1.0.9353.0
Application Timestamp: 4ab2529e
Fault Module Name: MSVCR80.dll
Fault Module Version: 8.0.50727.4016
Fault Module Timestamp: 49cc5361
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000173d0
OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.2
Locale ID: 3081
Additional Information 1: fd00
Additional Information 2: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Additional Information 3: fd00
Additional Information 4: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Crashes on the menu screen,
Core 2 Duo - 2.66
2 Gigs ram
nvidia geforce 8600 gt
Vista home basic
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: DAOrigins.exe
Application Version: 1.0.9353.0
Application Timestamp: 4ab2529e
Fault Module Name: MSVCR80.dll
Fault Module Version: 8.0.50727.4016
Fault Module Timestamp: 49cc5361
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000173d0
OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.2
Locale ID: 3081
Additional Information 1: fd00
Additional Information 2: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Additional Information 3: fd00
Additional Information 4: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
My Specs:
Intel C2D E7300, XFX 9800 GT, Asus P5QL-Pro, 4 GB DDR2 RAM, Windows XP SP3. Everything updated to latest drivers.
Apart from the one random crash to the desktop I got after playing for about 4 hours, I got a weird glitch after the Joining ritual. Graphics was all messed up. Polygons were stretched so far out they covered the entire screen. Textures were missing as well. I did a quick save and went into the main menu, reloaded my game and it was fine. No overheating issues since I was playing at night and an electric fan is directly feeding my PC cool air coming in from my window. Played at night so the weather was pretty cold.
After I downloaded and installed Dragon Age on PC it doesn’t work. I was able to go to the menu where you can change video card settings etc but when I hit play it says “There is a problem with your game’s setup. Please reinstall your game” I reinstalled 2 times updated my video card it still doesn’t work. I’m running on Windows 7 64bit.
XP-sp3
amd 6200 x2
xfx 9800GTX+
3gigs gskill
onboard sound
gigabyte s series
Game will play anywhere between 5-25 minutes, including character selection if making a new one.. It will crash at any part of the game, selection, dialog, fighting.. I will get a quick split second blue screen and then my PC will restart.. CPU usage reaching 100 (max).. Has crashed to desktop a total of 2-3 times with windows error.. Mostly split second blue screens (too many to count) and one plain restart, black screen then restart.. Have case open with small fan blowing in also with 5 fans running on the pc (blowing in/out) not including cpu/graphics fan..
Installation error occurs. “Permission on a data file denied”
What exactly is that supposed to mean?
Whenever i run the setup i get “No supported languages found” I’ve tried to change my regional options to both US and UK. None of them works.. I dont know if theres any languages i need to extract in the Data folder.
AWC.dll error - The game has failed due to a misconfiguration. Please install your game again and try again.
During the Cinematics, there isn’t really any sound. There’s talking from the main characters but not from anyone else. There’s also no ambient noise coming from the surrounding parties or people. For example; a charging army makes no noise. Is that intentional?
I’m running into the awc.dll error that Aleksei mentioned above. Downloaded the game from Impulse, no errors or anything but when I try to start the window pops up saying “The game has failed due to a misconfiguraiton. Please reinstall and try again”. I’ve re-downloaded/re-installed three times now and no changes.
When installing and reaching about 90% it says Installation cannot be finished, a data error occured. I’ve tried about 4 times already. Seems a couple of others have the same problem.
Playing on Windows XP SP3, Dual Core @2.13, 8800gt, 2 gigs of ram
When I try to load my last quicksave I get this message:”Unable to open file.Your file may have been corrupted.”
How am I suppose to uncorrupt it?
Oh, and the game frequently crashes when a cut scene is about to begin or at the beginning/ending of loading.
Pc Specs:
Core 2 Duo @2.1Ghz
3Gb Ram
8600M GT 512Mb
Win 7 x86
After leaving the origin story, any time I walk across the bridge to the gray warden camp the game crashes to desktop, at exactly the same place every time. A windows error message saying “dragon age has stopped working” pops up. Event viewer reports a memory violation.
I was able to get past this by saving just before the step that crashes me, and loading then moving forward instantly. However When I left the camp into the woods, I crashed again. This looks to be something happening at these specific spots, as I can spend hours in the origin areas with no issues.
Also of possible note, the game seems to max my CPU out at 100% no matter what it’s doing, even in menus.
Vista 64 bit
nvida gtx 285 , latest driver, 191.07
C2D 2.1 ghz
4 gigs of ram
Steam version of game
Still got error:could not connect to ea core
Tried all 3 possible solutions provided above but no luck.
After about 45 minutes it says:
Installation Failed! Installation of Dragon Age: Origins has failed. Unable to find a data file or disk has been removed.
My computer can run borderlands and hellgate london just fine, I don’t know why this game is having issues installing.
Have the same error at about 85% “Installation failed, a data error has occured”
tried using manual install and changing the default path name, still no luck, and still haven’t heard anything to fix. Hear a lot of people are having this issue though, GG BIOWARE.
intel core2 duo 2.67
vista home prem 64bit svc pack 2
4gigs of ram
GeForce GTX 280×2
Bought directly from EA Store, pre-downloaded the game on Monday, tried to install it today (as soon as it was available in EU). Near the end of the installation process, I get the infamous “data error”. Tried to install a couple more times to no avail.
I’ll try to re-download it now, I hope it does install this time.
Intel Core2 Duo 2.50
Vista Business SP2 32 bit
4 Gb RAM
GeForce 8600 GT 256MB
Dell XPS M1530
I’m stuck at the config screen crashing at about half bars.
Windows XP
AMD Athlon64×2 3800+
2gigs ram
Radeon HD 4350 1 gig
crashes during installation with “data error” message. This is my second copy of the game, I got it to install on the second try, was pumped, and then couldn’t get the game to load, kept getting the black screen crash. So, I uninstalled, and now it crashes in the first few seconds of installation. I know I’ve seen a lot of other messages from people who are getting the “data error” message, so it must be a fairly common compatibility problem.
Dell AMD 64×2 4400+
3 GB ram
Nvidia 8600 256Mb
Vista Home 32 bit service pack 2
Installed the collector’s edition on my laptop (Dell xps 1730), but computer freezes at the splash screen when I hit “Play”…
I can’t even install the game! When trying to put it into ANY installation path Vista gives me the message directly below the scroll box
The install folder specified is in or is a folder reserved for special files.
What in the world does that mean? I’ve never had this problem before when installing any games. I’ve tried creating a new folder, placing in an old one, renaming an old one, replacing this games folder with another game’s. No idea what I’m doing wrong!
Game completely freezes after clicking ‘New Game’ and after the cinematic finishes.
Dragon Age (Retail) crashes while launching PC Standard edition. I installed yesterday and played flawlessly. No issues launching or in-game. Today I can’t launch the game. It crashes right at launch.
I had this issue with the Character Creator too when I first downloaded it. It worked fine first few days and then it started crashing when I tried to launch. Worked fine after a reinstall. But I’d rather not reinstall the game though.
Error Signature:
AppName: daorigins.exe AppVer: 1.0.9353.0 ModName: daorigins.exe
ModVer: 1.0.9353.0 Offset: 000153f0
Specs
AMD Athlon 64X2 6000+ Dual Core 3.02 GHz
3.25 GB Ram
NVidia GeForce GTS 250 1GB GDDR3
Asus M3A78-EM Motherboard
Windows XP Pro SP3
dx9.0c
Just randomly at time the game will crash on me, like just a second ago I was play with no problems, then boom, crashes..WTF!
Downloaded it from steam
Windows Vista
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
8800GTX SLI
2 GB Ram
Random crashing to desktop after minutes of gaming.
Windows 7 64bit
AMD Phenom 940 3.5ghz
EVGA GTX 285 1gb
EVGA 8800gt 512mb Physx
8gb ram 1066
Asus Crosshair 2
Crash at PLAY. Splash screen is fine / config launcher works fine. Crashes at PLAY pressed…. o.O
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: DAOrigins.exe
Application Version: 1.0.9353.0
Application Timestamp: 4ab251ee
Fault Module Name: DAOrigins.exe
Fault Module Version: 1.0.9353.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 4ab251ee
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0008bf89
OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: fd00
Additional Information 2: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Additional Information 3: fd00
Additional Information 4: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
“After leaving the origin story, any time I walk across the bridge to the gray warden camp the game crashes to desktop, at exactly the same place every time. A windows error message saying “dragon age has stopped working” pops up. Event viewer reports a memory violation.
I was able to get past this by saving just before the step that crashes me, and loading then moving forward instantly. However When I left the camp into the woods, I crashed again. This looks to be something happening at these specific spots, as I can spend hours in the origin areas with no issues.”
Exact same issue with me.
Vista 32 bit
Nvidia 8800GTX, with the same driver version as you, 191.07
Update:
Just passed through it without a crash. (After 5 or 6 reliable crashed at that exact spot).
I turned off autosave and slowly marched through it, saving every second to try to get past it like you did.
And.. I just walked through.. no problem. Could be a problem with autosave? Though I’m not sure if it autosaves right there.
problem 12 (steam launch crash) solution:
when clicking on the icon in steam, start the launcher instead of the main game and then press play in the launcher. worked for me.
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: DAOrigins.exe
Application Version: 1.0.9353.0
Application Timestamp: 4ab2529e
Fault Module Name: DAOrigins.exe
Fault Module Version: 1.0.9353.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 4ab2529e
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000153f0
OS Version: 6.1.7100.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
A fix that worked for me:
First - specs
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ 3.1GHz
4GB RAM
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 1GB
MSI 790GX HDMI ATX
Windows 7 x64 Professional
I was getting a lot of crashing due to my video card at first so I rolled the drivers back to Catalyst 9.7.
I was still crashing so I ran it in a window and watched my resource manager, CPU was maxing out at 100% like many others have stated. I went to the task manager and removed one of the cores from the affinity menu. CPU dropped to around 53% but the game is stable now (at least in the human origin story, haven’t tested others)
I think we still need to wait for a patch but this workaround might work for some other people on 64 bit dual core systems that are experiencing crashing. 53-60% CPU usage is still pretty high and I wouldn’t recommend playing it for extended periods of time, but I got about 2 hours in(past origin story and over the notorious bridge of crashing).
Best of luck!
I get CRC error at the end of the installation:
[Thursday Nov 05 11:32:40 2009] Extracting E:\data\campaign_vo_polish.rar to D:\Spel\Dragon Age…
[Thursday Nov 05 11:32:40 2009] Extracting: /Language pl /progresspercent 1227 /settotalK 2377783 ‘E:\data\campaign_vo_polish.rar’ ‘D:\Spel\Dragon Age’
[Thursday Nov 05 11:32:51 2009] Rar error: error 12 RAR process file failed: File CRC error.
[Thursday Nov 05 11:32:51 2009] Rar Details: Wyst¹pi³ b³¹d danych.
[Thursday Nov 05 11:32:51 2009] Abort Install Called, rolling back install.
i’m stuck in this game because of a crash send / dont send. my lvl 8 party is in Denerim at Dirty Back alleys. i killed many mobs but my healing potions run out. now i’m stuck there between a huge mob that i can’t defeat and a crash that happens when i try to travel back to The Pearl.
crash occurs after i click the gate for city map transition at the loading screen.
q6600 2.4
hd4870 512
4 gb ram
windows xp sp2
(seems i just got around the crash by traveling to Market District instead so many thanks to the god of games)
havent even been able to play game yet installs fine when i hit play goes to the black screen then i get the error signature daorigins exe. App version 1.0.9353.0 mod version 1.09353.0 offset 000153f0 running windows xp pro nvidia 8800gts
whole computer crashes and screen goes black after a little while playing dragon age.. then error message on the black screen “video frequency too high”
can’t do anything expect reset the computer
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ 2.80GHz
4GB RAM
Radeon HD 3870 512 MB
Windows XP Home Edition SP3
I crash whenever i try to cross the bridge when Duncan brings you there.
Ati Tray Tools
http://daforums.bioware.com/viewtopic.html?topic=702924&forum=146
Work for me (ATI 4870), but now i need something to control my GC fans if i dont want to have a tropical weather in my room.
Someone posted this as a fix for those of us using Steam and getting the ‘Dragon Age has stopped working’ message on startup. I have “NOT” tested this yet (I’m at work), but am interested to see if it helps anyone else:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=11872055
I am not sure whether this is related to the EADM issue not working on Win7.
I am running Windows 7 RC 64bit, and I cannot download any of the DLC. It does not even show up in the in-game menu, no matter what I do.
This is because the “Dragon Age: Origins Updater Service” is unable to start, even when I try it manually through services.msc. Manually starting it causes it to instantly report the following error: “Windows could not start the Dragon Age: Origins Updater service on Local Computer.
Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.”
Manually uninstallting and reinstalling the service using the “installutil.exe” is possible, but it does not resolve the problem. The service simply cannot start, and therefor the in-game DLC downloader cannot detect the available DLC.
Same as Jake,
“Jake — November 4, 2009 @ 7:00 am
After attempting workaround #2, The EA installer tells my that my code is in use!!!”
I can’t use my code. It won’t let me do it though EA. And then when I manually put it in it says it’s in use. I disabled all my firewalls and even added the game to my safe processes list (still with firewall disabled). I doesn’t work. How can my code already be in use?
Windows XP 64
NVidia 8800
Jason
my issue is I can’t get the game to install, i get to the install process and the game installs in literally 1 second. It obviously hasn’t installed. very frustrating
Wardens keep won’t show up on the map.
It says it is installed but nothing
happens when i try to accept the quest
from the dude at camp.
When I try installing the game and I get to the part when I get to choose Custom Install or Express install either 1 I try, the install freezes as soon as I hit the Install button. I have Over 40 gigs of space, and have the minimum requirements. Any suggestions on getting it to install would be helpful! Thanks!
Nick
I hit around 90% of installation and i get “installation Failed” An error has occured.
I have intel core quad duo, XP SP3. 1gig ATI video card, 4 gigs of ram.and tons of HD space.
Stupid, frustrating.
Dragon age freezes at start up (steam edition), requires hard reboot. After clicking launch game, the dragon age graphic appears on the screen and the computer hangs at this point. Have verified all cache files in steam without error.
Dell XPS M1730
GeForce 8800M GTX SLI with latest nvidia drivers 186.81
Vista 32
4GB
Please Help!
Dragon Age frezes randonly, with the sound looping.
I have to hard-reset, to exit.
Core2Duo E4400 @ 2.5GHz
2,5gb DDR2
GeForce 8600GT
Windows Seven x64
I am having the problem mentioned above with awc.dll. It says game cannot start because of misconfiguration. Got my copy from direct2drive download. BTW I have already downloaded the EA download manager and tried to run EAAccessInstaller. It says I need to run in /s mode but when I add /s to the command it says invalid path in target box.
I crash within about 2 minutes of hitting play, tried about 20 times. Sometimes blue screen, sometimes soft reset, sometimes just crash to desktop. Turned all settings off, sound off, no change. If anything it got worse. GeForce 8800GT, Windows XP Home Pack 3, Core Duo2 3.0G, 2.5G Ram. Tried Nvidia drivers 181, 190, and 191 (latest). Running through Steam.
I couldn’t register my game frome the main game page, it schowed an error after I accepted the lisence. What I did is change my pasword because i use special symbols like & or $. After i changed it to only numbers and leter, i got loged in and my game was registered.
Graphical tearing/artifacts game runs perfectly fine otherwise. Nothing is overheating according to two different temp monitors. I can play for however long I want but some textures have square holes (character models) while floor/wall/door textures are stretched or missing. No settings affect this, forced vysnc or tripple buffer have no effect other than “smoothing out” the missing pieces.
For those who are having “data error” during installation, just extract the files .rar at “date” folder to some directory on your hard disk with other files from the “data”.
Then just run the daorigins.exe from the folder “bin_ship” that have been created.
I had a stuttering problem, where the game played for few seconds then froze for a second(unplayable). I have avast antivirus and disabled it - now works better - will try finishing origins story and see what happens - good luck
Dragon Age randomly stopped working after clicking on the door to enter the tower to light the sinal fire. Also during dialog, after i choose an option it freezes for a couple of sec’s.
Specs:
Dell XPS M1730
Core2 Duo 2.4 T8300
Nvidia 8700m
4gigs ram
ooops
and…Vista 64bit with service pack.
Game crashes when I start the game and config tool open.
My pc specs:
Windows XP Professional SP3, 32 bit
2GB RAM
AMD Athlon 64X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+
2x NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS (SLI)
During config tool, I get ‘Dragon Age: Origins Configuration Utility has stopped working’ error, with this explanation:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
AppName: daOriginsconfig.exe
AppVer: 1.3.0.9
ModName: daoriginsconfig.exe
Fault Module Version: 1.3.0.9
Exception Offset: 00068b73
AMD x2 6000
8800 gt
Windows XP 32 Pro sp3
All drivers updated.
Constantly Crashing at various parts of the game. Usually during dialog scenes but that’s because there are so many.
Flashed blue screen and crashed 2 times. Mostly just crashes to desktop though.
I am running AMD 64 duel core with a 9800GT Gforce vid card i have 2 gigs of ram. Oh yeah and I am running vista, I can get into the game with out a problem then about 5 mins of Play i drop to desktop everytime. I have tryed to load in every vid driver there is from 195 to 181 and nothing, I still drop. If there is something I am over looking and if ppl have any ideas I am listening
I haven’t seen any solutions to the Data Error problem that’s been running around, where you try to install the game and you get an error that a file is corrupt; the installation then deletes itself.
This appears to be a problem with the CRC error checking algorithm, NOT the files. I fixed it this way:
1) Take the game CD, and make two ISO images on your computer. I used Nero.
2) Mount the ISO images at the same time in virtual drives. I used DaemonTools.
3) Manually unrar the contents of the first disc into a folder for the game. Use winrar, which does NOT delete on a corrupt file, but instead keeps going.
4) Manually unrar the second, with orders NOT to replace existing files.
5) Manually copy over the remaining files from the main directory on the CD, that weren’t in any rar file.
6) At this point the game worked for me. I’m not aware of any problems down the road, but I’ve barely started playing. Remember, you need the disc in the drive to play!
game crashes after defeating the elf assasin when i travel
Well installation freezes at about 90%. @ extract:modules\single player\audio\vo\en_us\vo\morrigon_main.fsb.
Tried to install 3 times and freezes at same point every time then gives error warning that cant find file or disk has been removed. Any ideas for someone who doesnt know much about how to fix computer stuff?
My specs:
Windows XP Media Center Edition, 32-bit
2 Gigs DDR2 RAM
ATI Radeon HD 3870 vid card
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz Model 15, Stepping 6
This is for DA:O steam version. The install went by with out any problems at all. I have just finished the orgins story and am now in the grey wardens camp and it will randomly crash to a black screen with sound loop and requires a hard reset. There was no problems occuring in the orgins story and all graphics and frame rate seemed to be fine and it is only when I have entered the camp have I had any problems.
-Installed latest drivers and then still have the problem
-Uninstalled latest drivers and installed 9.7 drivers as suggested by soulution 1 and still have the problem
-played windows mode and turned down all graphics and still had the problem
-my video card is not even close to overheating as my tower is open and I check the temperature on it
-defrag and CCleanered my computer as acts of desperation and still does not work
-all other games work with out crashing (sims 3, aion, WoW, half-life 2)
Install failed
A data error occured.
Tried a different dvd player, but didnt work.
got intel i5 quad 2.6ghz
4gb ram
msi p55cd53 motherboard.
oh and ive tried in both xp and windows 7
When im in the startup screen theres a black line across the top of the screen that moves up and down…And the black line is worse when im making a character…whats wrong?
also i checked and my CPU usage is maxed out….how do i fix this?
I have the retail DVD version, it installs fine but when I hit ‘Play’ it instantly crashes with the following message:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: DAOrigins.exe
Application Version: 1.0.9353.0
Application Timestamp: 4ab2529e
Fault Module Name: DAOrigins.exe
Fault Module Version: 1.0.9353.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 4ab2529e
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0008deb9
OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: fd00
Additional Information 2: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Additional Information 3: fd00
Additional Information 4: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Specs:
Vista 64-bit
2×8800 GTS
Core 2 Duo E6750 @ 3.6GHz
4 gigs RAM
Haven’t been able to even run it once, this sucks.
Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
Program: C:\Program Files\etc.
This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application’s support team for more information.
I’m running Windows XP Service Pack 3 on a Mac OS with Parallels 5. Hope this can be fixed soon!
I have played the game for a while when it froze and said
“Dragon age: origins has stopped working”. It crashed when i was leaving Flenneths hut with Morrigan. It said, “Area transition: World map” then it asked me about “Gather your party and venture forth?” I pressed yes and thats when it crashed. Now i tried that 10 times over and every time it crashed. So i played to the same location with another character and the same exact problem!
I have updated the game to 1.02a(or something) and it did’t fix it.
Windows vista 32
Nvidia card(so it’s not the ATI problem)
Got 3.2gig ram so it can’t really be an issue there!
Please help me!
i have the same problem when i defeat the elf assasin and i want to continue the travel in the map, i want to go to the elf camp but when is traveling it craches to desktop
help
hey, im kinda having some trouble with the languages, i want to change them to english right, but when i open the DAOriginsConfig.exe, and go to the “language” part, it says “Spanish” and its greyed out, so i cant chose another language. and under it it says “original language: english” so why cant i select english then?!?!
i’d really like to play in english coz the audio is in english and the texts are in spanish, someone pls help me…
thanks
I get to the Loading screen trying to load a game it says it’s loading but then the sound starts looping. and nothing happens. I have a Gateway P-7811 FX. I tried all save files but none work. started with the after the video of the king and Duncan fighting now nothing loads. help
hi guys,
i have a CPU INTEL CORE DUO 2.66GHZ, 2,00 GB RAM AND AN ATI RADEON 2900 PRO.
I have successfully installed the game, but, during the character’s creation and during the play of the game the screen’s colour has a red or a green background. This problem is very annoying and i cannot play the game. please sent me some advices…
thank you in advance
I have installed the game and everithing was ok, but when I reached the game menu I can’t click on anything…
My specs:
Windows XP Service Pack 3
3 GB RAM
Pentium 4 3,2GHz
Nvidia 6800
Thanks
I have what i think is the same problem as Mark (an early post ) i get part way through the character creation screen when my system starts buzzing rather violently (I traced it to the PSU which bewildered me) Anyway, it buzzes, skips a bit then i get a blue screen- doesnt last long but i think its a memory leak of some kind. Then the system crashes and doesnt stop buzzing till XP boots up again.
Im running
XP (SP.3)
8800GT card (fully updated)
Q6600 Quad CPU 2.4
2Gb Overclocked Team Elite Ram (up’ed clock timings)
I ran it a few times, once with a system monitor on and noted the first two CPU cores go off the charts before the fatal crash.
-The buzzing is most worrying.
Thank you Greatly for any help you can provide : )
I’m having the same problem as Zamou. During the character creation screen, the whole screen is tinted in red. In the game, the portions of the screen turn red,green, and blue. The portions of the screen that are blue are not transparent. I can’t play the game because of this.
When I try to install the PC version of DAO on a 2nd computer (my laptop) from the install disk it won’t accept the cd-key. It says it’s invalid. It used it fine on my desktop computer. Will this game only allow it to be installed 1x???
Please help. I’ve tried typing in the cd-key about 20x…I’m almost positive it’s correct.
Thanks,
Jenae
Found a fix to my problem and 92’s problem. Turn off the Frame Buffer Effect in DAO configuration.
Game installed fine. When I try to play it the screen goes black and thats it, you can’t access the PC any more and have to reset it via the power button and reboot. I left it for 10 minutes with no response.
Having data error instalation issues as well. Mine stops at movies.rar 88.7% (game introduction.bik). I tried to instal with Vista and XP, downloaded thrice, used winrar to extract this .bik file but failed (”file is corrupt).
Hi, installation goes good than i launch the applicatione i press play and everything goes right…so i am in the main menu now but my mouse seems unable to click anything, the mouse moves but i can’t click on nothing….nor starting a new game…nothing..what is the problem?
My pc:
____________________________________________
CPU: Core2 Duo E8400
Mainboard: Asus P5B SE
RAM: 2 GB DDR2-800 DDR2 SDRAM
Hard Disk: Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 (500 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II)
VGA: nVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+
Power Supply: Real Power M700 - RS-700-ASAA-A1
Sound Card: Realtek ALC662
Monitor: Samsung 932MW
O.S.: Windows XP
_____________________________________________
Thanks
i cant go back to the elf camp the game crashes to desktop
help!!!
The game keeps crashing before crossing the bridge to go to the signal tower with Alistair after the Joining. I have gotten to the big battle cutscene once. It usually won’t even play that scene before it crashes. After this crash happens, any saves in Ostagar are borked and cause the same game crash. I can reload back to Morrigan’s mom, but never any saves in Ostagar.
Why would every Ostagar save I have get corrupted just because the cutscene keeps failing after the joining? This is just insane. It has happened after every new install I performed. Just this one pat of the game. All other cutscenes have been fine.
I can load the saves with Morrigan, redo her cutscene with mommy, go back to Ostagar, finish my business there, and then go to Duncan and do the Joining…and the game ALWAYS crashes before I get to the bridge en route to the tower with Alistair.
There is a forum thread at Bioware with others that have the same odd issue.
There is a forum thread at Bioware with others that have the same odd issue.
When i install the game it crashes my computer at the very end of the install. I re-downloaded the game from direct2drive and tried again same issue. I have deleted it and tried it on different drives still no luck. Please help.
When i go into the directoy and start the gamer it says game did not install correctly and says to re-install.
Windows Vista
Edge
I have Radeon HD 3870 on a AMD x2 4600 with 4 gig of ram and windows media center or w/e and Every time i load a save where the game is about to lead into the first big battle i black screen and have to reboot… other games are working fine.
Hi, I bought the game via steam and dl’ed/installed.
During the install there were no complications. Now whenever i startup the game, a c++ progress window pops up and im told that steam needs to be closed for installer to finish, my option are: cancel, try again or ignore.
If i press cancel the game will start and i can play. I’ve done so for 2 days without any problems. Now suddenly i can’t even play for 10 mins without a gamecrash. I’ve experienced different types of those. Game crash at startup (intro movie just once) mostly its ingame not doing anything particular the screen freezes, some GFX pixel errors shows of screen and the game continues to run in the background cuz i can hear they keeps fighting and dying or talking, whatever i was doing, but the screen is still frozen. The only way i can get out of this is by manually rebootin, nothing else works (not happy).
I tried installing newest GFX drivers and also the ones that came with my gfx cards but nothing works. And i really don’t want to delete game and reinstall by dl’ing the 15gbs AGAIN. The odd thing is that it ran flawless the first 48h.
My system specs:
Windows XP pro 32bit - with latest updates and SP
motherboard: Abit IN9 32X-max wifi
intel core2 quad Q9450 @ 2.66ghz
SLI 2x Geforce 8800 GT
4GB ram
I have an ati HD 3850. I have tried to revert my CCC to 9.7 like there site told me to and it worked for a while tell I went to the elf city now it is crashing again. It goes to a black screen then stops sending video to my monitor then the computer locks up keyboard sound everything after that I need to reset.
For me it take almost a day to make it work. Even that way it freezes once.
After several hours I realize that the game crash if I configure the Graphic Detail other than LOW.
I thought it was Windows 7, then I install in WinXP and the same. With Graphic Details set to other than LOW it freezes in the first screen change after about 30 sec.
Athlon X2 7750BE on Asus MoBo with ATI 780 Chipset and ATI HD4830, 2Gb DDR2-800, Windows 7 or WinXP SP2
I hope it helps someone.
Rand AL try my solution, you are experiencing the same I was.
Sometimes while playing especially when in Ostagar the game will completely crash to a black screen and im forced to reboot the PC and i meet the requirements etc if anyone has fixed this issue let me know
At work so can’t go into a lot of detail.
Win7, Evga geforce gtx275, intel i5 cpu, 4gb ram, ASUS Maximus formula III(packaged with a soundcard, soundblaster i think)
In cutscenes the audio lags behind the video. Voices stay in time with the cutscenes, but clashing swords and other sounds of war (think after-tower cutscene) are not heard immediately. The gap between the video and the sound seems to worsen the longer the cutscene goes on.
Note: Setting graphics settings as low as they go does not help
I have found a minor solution to help with the ‘crash on loading’ issue. When you start up the game, go into settings/options and lower all your video settings to a minimum, and disable vertical sync and effects.
From experience, this allows the game to load whatever save I want and once in the game, I just pop up all my video settings again.
When installing, near the end, computer just shuts down. Had to wait 5 minutes to power back up. Tried twice. Thought PSU went bad but PSU is fine.
WinXP Pro SP2
AMD Athlon X2 4000
3GB RAM
SATA hard drive, lots of free space
Latest video card driver installed, geforce GT 9800 512MB PCI-e x16
SLiem, I think it’s your processor crapping out. o_O
game crashed during a quick save, now the quick save is gone and my last 2 hours have been lost Believe the crashes are do to my catalyst version as mentioned above.
Hey there, I run the game, then after a while, when starting a new game (around the part where i’m creating the character(looks)) the game AND the computer (basically the whole thing) shuts down just like that.
Please Help!?
(By the way, I tried to get the cheats setting according to this site - http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/dragonage/hints.html?tag=tabs;cheats )
Thanks!
sorry to double post but both my graphic cards drives and rig configuration SEEM to be ok.
“The game cannot launch because of a misconfiguration. Please reinstall your game and try again.”
I get this right after I click the launcher. Bought game from D2D. I have two EA accounts for BF 2142.
I am about to get VISA to reverse the charge from D2D and go buy a CD.
Same as a few here, random crashes to the desktop with the message “DA:O has stopped working”. No problems with my computer as far as I can tell.
Quad 4 2.4GHz
Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit
4 Gb RAM
GTX 260 896Mb
I’ve noticed a few people seem to have problems with the Nvidia GTX card?
Hi,
i installed the game without any problem. i got a digital Key version of Dragon Age but if i try to start the game the comes up an error message that says:
“The game cannot launch because of a misconfiguration. Please reinstall your game and try again”
I did resinstall ut stil same message i got windows vista 64 with quad core
I have installed the game and it was working fine until I installed the 1.01 patch. I now receive the error “Game cannot launch due to a misconfiguration. Please reinstall your game and try again.”
System is Dual Core Athlon II 250 Regor, 4GB RAM, ATI 4550 Radeon, Windows 7 Ulitimate Edition.
The game was purchased and installede via Impulse. I have had no issues prior to the patch; the game installed and played with the DLC.
Game Crashing after you defeated the dragon in the elven temple ruins when you try to go down to the lower level of the “dungeon”
No error messages or nothing just crashes out to desktop.
I have installed dragon age no problem but when config utility starts running and gathers system info it bombs out with signature error. you can’t access any of the options in config utility you can only close it. What can I do? Is the Xbox version any better????? My machine surpasses all the specs and am running on XP.Please help.Thanx
“Unable to Load Module” When trying to start a new game after downloading the Toolset. Have tryed UNinstalling the Toolset and Game.
I get a runtime error with the file DAOriginsConfig.exe It happens every time i try to play it on configure the settings.
I’m on windows 7 ultimate and my machine surpasses all the specs.
mine just crashes at 95 percent and says data error fail
Windows Xp Service pack 3 ver. 2002
.99 GB ram (dont know how)
First and now second legit copy crashes during install (data error)
q9450
hd5850 cat9.11
4 gig ram
First and now second legit copy crashes during install (data error)
win7 64
q9450
hd5850 cat9.11
4 gig ram
Cannot install from DVD disk onto W7 (64bit). Installer fails while trying to extract files. Only way to install is to copy data files to hard drive, unpack and manually copy into /program files(x86) folder. Game will play but unable to install any patches as patch installer cannot find original game files.
Qosmio Gaming Notebook 2.2 DC, 4 GB DDR3, Nvidia 9700gts 512, Win7 64.
was playing then all sudden i had no character select ring on the ground and there is no more melee lock. all my henchman just stand there now. also cannot travel to map at all. not from any game save. i re installed, still same issue. also notices we couldnt die. handy but still cant leave map. i tried starting a new game then i get error “cannot load module” please help me with this, ive lost 50 hr game play.
Just after the intro, everytime, again and again. I’m on Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. I reinstalled both MS C++ 2005 & 2008 SP1 packages. No go ;-/.
Faulting application name: DAOrigins.exe, version: 1.1.9363.0, time stamp: 0×4ae9d52d
Faulting module name: MSVCR80.dll, version: 8.0.50727.4927, time stamp: 0×4a2752ff
Exception code: 0xc000000d
Fault offset: 0×000157b5
Faulting process id: 0×8bc
Faulting application start time: 0×01ca645094cc8ec8
Faulting application path: G:\Dragon Age\bin_ship\DAOrigins.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\WinSxS\x86_microsoft.vc80.crt_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_8.0.50727.4927_none_d08a205e442db5b5\MSVCR80.dll
Report Id: f98048a2-d043-11de-9bd6-0018f33bb1f7
Crashes on Start Screen (Steam Version).
Ran fine until today. Now the background on the Starting Screen is all blurred and whenever I click on any menu entry, the game crashes:
Fehlerhafte Anwendung DAOrigins.exe,
Version 1.1.9363.0,
Zeitstempel 0×4ae9d4e2,
fehlerhaftes Modul DAOrigins.exe,
Version 1.1.9363.0,
Zeitstempel 0×4ae9d4e2,
Ausnahmecode 0xc0000005,
Fehleroffset 0×0048b740,
Prozess-ID 0xc0c,
Anwendungsstartzeit 01ca645378b3bc25.
Specs
Vista 32 Bit german
4 GB RAM
Mobility Radeon HD 4570
Resolved: Crashes on Start Screen (Steam Version).
Installing latest Dell Radeon drivers fixed the issue. I wonder why it suddenly stopped working though.
Game crashes after loading transition area in Orzammar. It happens only after completing the king’s quest.
Dragon Age works fine except on certain areas (such as East Brecilain Forest, Circle of the Magi tower, Redcliffe Castle 2nd level etc..) where it crashes back to the desktop. Sometimes I get error messages (daorigins.exe needs to close) sometimes none. Tried different drivers for my video card but still the same results.
My rig is
Intel Core2Duo 2.4
Gale 2GB RAM
Win XP 32-Bit SP3
GeForce 8600GT 256 RAM
Sometimes, Dragon Age: Origins’ graphics freeze during conversation, even though the sound continues, and then the game crashes to desktop.
Also, I have twice encountered the Blue Screen of Death when exiting the game (pressing the exit button on the main menu) particularly after a long session.
My PC:
Windows XP SP3
Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 (2.33 GHz)
XFX GeForce 8600GT 256MB (Driver: 191.07)
2 GB RAM
Note: I have no malware on my PC according to ESET Smart Security 4.0.467.0
After about 45 minutes it says:
Installation Failed! Installation of Dragon Age: Origins has failed. Unable to find a data file or disk has been removed, almost always while trying to install audio.rar file. I have tried this at least 8 times now, after a while the dvd player won’t read the disk anymore. I have also returned the game and tried a new dvd/game, same problem. I have also put in other dvd games to make sure my dvd player is not going out and they all run fine.
Phenom3 @ 3Ghz
2Gb of RAm
7900 GTX
Windows XP w/SP3
The first few days I’ve played DA:O, it was fine. Now, it constantly crashes my entire computer during certain events, namely during loading screens and talking to my party members. I’ve tried to run it in windowed mode but that doesn’t help, considering my whole computer crashes, not just the game.
Intel Pentium Dual CPU
E2160 1.80GHz
2 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
There are no error messages, the entire screen turns black and I have to hit the automatic restart button on my computer.
awesome. Now I can’t play any game because it does the exact same thing. Thank you bioware for breaking my computer.
Anyone else have the game through Steam and seem to get a crash any time Steam wants to run a “News” update? I can’t tell you how many of my DAO crashes were followed by seeing a box in the taskbar for some Steam “news” advertising game deals or new releases.
If I had just known that Steam would not only force me to run its program constantly in order to access DAO, but crash the game with regularity, I’d have bought it on disc or through another download site and spared myself the frustration.
KEVIN, I have notice that too. Very weird!!!
The game was installed successfully while it cannot play.
Windows Vista, 32 bit
4GB RAM
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (2.4 GHz)
ASUS GeForce 8600GT 512MB
The first day or two playing, everything was fine. Then, the game started crashing, so I updated all my drivers. Now, my sound isnt working. I had to rollback my driver from the microsoft to an Asus driver, which is my motherboard manufacturer. So my sound works, though my game crashes several different ways, hardfreeze, error message, and blue screen.
Vista 32
4 Gigs RAM
Dual Core AMD Athlon 3.2
GeForce 8600
Thanks for having horrible customer support, EA. Put out another patch already and fix this garbage!
XP SP3
AMD Phenom 9600 Quad Core 2.31 GHz
3GB RAM
GeForce 9500 GT
Dragon Age craps out on launch, EA Sucks!
Hi everyone,
Problem:
Installation always crashes, at random points. The screen freezes, and after while goes into blue screen of death:
KERNEL_STACK_INPAGE_ERROR
stop: 0×00000077 (0xc000000e,0xc000000e,0xc00000001,0×0087A000)
Specs:
OS: Windows XP pro SP3
CPU: Intel core 2 duo E6750 2.66ghz
RAM: 2GB
Video: GeForce 8800GT 512MB
24 GB HD space available (maxtor 80 gb, a little old, two partitions)
ESET NOD32
Spybot-sd
No firewall (windows firewall disabled)
Daemon tools lite 4.35.5.0068
Power iso 4.6
What I’ve tried:
-at least 50 installation trials…
-versions: Skidrow, skidrow repack, Warg, a 4.9 repack
-run setup with administrator rights
-set the install process’ affinity to only one core
-boot the computer without the antivirus/antispyware/any other process that would not be required/disabled the local connection/
-Changed the virtual memory space allowed
-I desintalled Sandboxie software
-I prayed (one time the installation went up to 65/70%)
The last version I have is the 12gb Dragon.Age.Origins.MULTI5-WARG. I would prefer a french version but I would go even with a chinese one!
Plz some help me
My problem is the same as #13 #39 #76 #124 #126. and i havent seen a solution to it.
it installed fine, but everytime i go to play it, the configuration utility starts up and half way through collection my system information it encounters a problem and needs to close.
Specs:
OS: Windows XP pro SP3
CPU: Core 2 Duo - 2.66
RAM: 4GB
Video: GeForce 8800GT 512MB
I’ve found a SOLUTION to the “Problem #8″ - Dragon Age crashes during/after conversations.
It’s simple: Just turn the sound hardware acceleration to zero. Go Control Panel -> Sound Settings -> Advanced, slide the control all the way to your left.
It works great for me since the game was crashing like hell and now it runs as smooth as vanilla ice cream…
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Nah… After a smooth gameplay the game is crashing after the grey warden joining ritual dialogue. Just as Duncan says we’ve a meeting with the king and we answer. I’ve tried to play again a million times but still it crashes at the same point. Trying to update game now…
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Hi everyone!
First time i installed the game, it runs good, without any issue…i played 1 hour more or less, but next day when i tried to load my savegame, game crashed going out to desktop (with error message). I have tried loading savegames a lot of times without success and i dont know what can i do….
i have upgraded graphics drivers, sound drivers, virtual c++ and tried everything i have read previously but nothing works
my specs:
QuadCore Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550, 2833 MHz (8.5 x 333)
Asus P5Q SE2 (3 PCI, 2 PCI-E x1, 1 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN)
4gb Ram
ASUS EAH4890 (1024 MB)
Monitor Acer X223HQ [22" LCD]
any idea to fix this? you think that bioware will puo out a patch to fix it?
thanks everyone and good luck!
I can’t start installation. It says “No supported languages found. Please contact Bioware.” Please, someone find a solution for this. It seems many have this exact same problem.
Windows Vista SP2
4GB RAM
GeForce 9800
Intel Core 2 Duo
DirectX 11
After Creating my character i press play and get nothing but a black screen and audio.
AMD 64 x2 1gb 3.2gHz
4gb ddr3
ATI HD3650
Direct x 11
Win 7 64-bit
After creating my character i press play and get nothing but a black screen and audio.
I got a really weird problem. the game installation passed easy, the game run quite well, depsite i got a fx gforce5700. But my problem as almost nothing to do with video issue. I just don’t havo no letters at all. Nor in the main menu, neither in game. No letters, no sentences, nothing but black.
I explain. In the main menu, their must been something like a ” option ” button. I got the button, but not the letters ” option ” .
i got xp sp3 2go ram Gefore 5700+ 512 ram. It’s very frsutating as it seems i’m the only one experimenting this :/
I found a way to pass Dragon Age crashes during/after conversations. Before Conversation you need to change language of the game both voice and subtitles to oryginal (English) I think it will work on other bugs where the additional information adress was “0a9e” I hope help you all ^^
I am getting about 10 xml error messages when I autorun the disk. is there any fix or anyone else having this problem.
I am running 7 Ultimate 64-Bit. Also, i had installed the game earlier with no problems but am now getting the errors when i try to install.
Specs:
Vista Home Premium 32 bit
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz
2.0Gb Ram
ATI mobility Radeon HD 2600 1.0GB Ram
Problem: When Playing Dragon Age: Origins, there’s red/neon colored lights flashing every time I move around the map but the opening movie was alright the start up screen shows no problems. I checked the status of my Video Card and it seems to be fine. Its not bad but the game feels nauseous when you play it and a bright red light keeps flashing in your screen in a regular interval.
I forgot to add that my Dragon Age: Origins is installed in Drive D and not in Drive C.
I have a problem of “No supported languages found.Contact BioWare”
Please help me i want to play
I’m having a similar problem to others on this post—install seemed to work fine (and re-install), and I can configure, but, once I go in to New Game, the spin-y, tribal tattoo-looking thing comes up, “Loading…” flashes a few times, and then BAM…the whole thing crashes. I get the generic “DAO has encountered a problem and needs to close” message, but the error signature is as follows:
AppName: daorigins.exe AppVer: 1.1.9363.0 ModName: daorigins.exe
ModVer: 1.1.9363.0 Offset: 0007cd37
Graphics card? 3-D problem? REALLY want to play this game. Arg.
Running Windows XP SP3, DAO 1.01, 2.2 GHz Dual Core, 4GB Mem, GeForce 8600M card. Helps?
Here’s a post I made on official forums;
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I made a post before about ATI Catalyst 9.10 fixing my problem, but it didn’t last long and I’ve been trying to isolate the issue ever since.
Here’s my problem. Game just freezes after random amount of time. Requires a hard reboot everytime. So far it has only happened while walking or while in combat. Haven’t got anything while in dialog, loading or checking codex/journal/character sheet.
At first I thought it was ATI drivers because EA support already had a solution for 9.9 users. I switched back to 9.7 as suggested but it didn’t made any difference, then I upgraded to 9.10, which allowed me to play without any problems for a fair amount of time. It didn’t stopped freezing though, as it started 2 days after.
So, here’s what I’ve tried so far:
Rolled back to old drivers
Installed latest drivers
Tried every single graphic option combination
Underclocked both GPU and CPU
Tried changing Affinity
Closed every single program on the background
Disabled Anti-Virus and Firewall
Uninstalled all unnecessary applications
Defragged the Hard Disk Drive
Unplugged all USB hardware including Keyboard and Mouse (switched back to PS/2)
Decreased the Sound Acceleration
Disabled Sound
Uninstalled Sound Card and tried onboard sound
Checked overheating and both CPU and GPU is solid
As you can see I tried lots of things. Until 2 days ago, when I though I needed a format to completely isolate the issue and started uninstalling random things for the sake of trying it, I uninstalled my codecs. I wasn’t expecting anything because I was using filters and I had absolutely 0 problems with them in the past, including with some games that had well known codec problems. Since then, I’ve been playing the game pretty much crash/freeze free for the last 2 days. I already have VLC so I don’t really need WMP (I like it better though but thats my opinion).
If anyone else is having same issues with me, I suggest uninstalling all video and sound codecs for a try.
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and follow up;
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Apperantly that wasn’t the cause either as it started freezing after 3 days and now I can’t even play for 20 minutes without freezing.
Reinstalling graphics driver somehow gives me some time before freezing again completely. I’ve formatted my HDD and I only have bare minimums installed and game still gives me the same issues.
Its really frustrating.
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Only thing I didn’t mentioned was, I bought the game from Steam, so exe is modified so it can only be launched via Steam. But that couldn’t be the cause as there are lots of other people that aren’t having any issues at all. I’m at a loss here really.
Random Crashes during gameplay, at random intervals. Sometimes I will play for an hour or more without a problem, and sometimes they’ll come 10 minutes apart. A simpled “Dragon Age: Origins has stopped working.”
E8600
GTX295
8gb RAM
Vista Home Premium 64 SP1
Dear operators
My copy of Dragon age was working fine, when all of a sudden, about two days ago, it started crashing down while playing the game. I have about 4 minutes from the moment I start the game, to the moment it crashes completley and shuts down my PC. Any idea why?
OS: WIndows XP
Specs:
Intel core2 duo
1 gigabyte of ram (should be more. could this be the problam?)
ATI Radeon HD 3600
thanks!
Gil
my game keeps crashing only when someone is talking i meet all the requirements to playing the game and everything else works perfectly just random conversations and it crashes i think this is problem 8 do u have any idea why?
Dragon age crashes at random intervals to the desktop, however I’m now at a scene were it crashes at the same point consistantly and am basically at a full stop with the game.
Windows 32 bit Vista SP2, Phenom 3.0Ghz chip, 4 Gigs Ram, GForce 8800 GTS 512 vid, all drivers updated, game fully patched.
Dragon Age seemed to install fine. I get the menu where I am asked to Config, Visit Website, see Support sites, (yada yada) and Play. Selecting every other option works correctly, but pressing play begins a loading process that resembles full screen loading for any game and then I get a Blue Screen of Death that forces my PC to restart.
I am running a fresh install of Windows 7 64-bit with an nVidia GTS 250 video card. All my drivers are up to date.
Youhou!! It’s aliiiiive
Hum. Well, this follow post #146.
(excuse my english, I am not a native speaker)
My problem was that the installation crashes each time, but randomly. I tried then to extract myself each folder, and if crash, each of its file. Like the install, some extraction crashed. After many trial, I was able to extract all the files. At that point, I was able to run the game, but it crashed each time I launched a new game.
Then, I tried one more installation and it worked. The game is installed and I was able to run a new game.
The problem was at the level of extraction. I dont know where this problem is from, because I never had that before.
If someone has the same problem, just try many (many) times, it may work.
gl all
I hit play and it crashes: I’m running on windows vista 64bit
Toshiba Qosmio x305-q705 laptop. (Intel core 2 duo P7350)
4GB DDR3
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: daorigins.exe
Application Version: 1.1.9363.0
Application Timestamp: 4ae9d52d
Fault Module Name: daorigins.exe
Fault Module Version: 1.1.9363.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 4ae9d52d
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 004157e4
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: fd00
Additional Information 2: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Additional Information 3: fd00
Additional Information 4:
I was able to play for 2 days, now game won’t start.
So pissed! want money back to buy another game…
At random intervals, DA crashes to desktop. I’ve played about 12 hours total and crashed twice.
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
P6T
6 gigs ram
GTX 275
i7 920
I try to play the game but right after I click ‘Play’ the game hangs with a black screen. I’ve tried setting compatibility to Windows XP SP (2,3) but still does not load.
Gateway G50VT-X5
2.13GHz Intel Core 2 Duo P7450
Memory 4GB, 800MHz DDR2
Hard drive 320GB 7,200rpm
Chipset Mobile Intel PM45 Express Chipset
Graphics 512MB Nvidia GeForce 9800M GS
WINDOWS 7 64-bit (Fresh copy)
Game seems to crash quite frequently. At first, it was during the first scene, it would cause the computer to restart. After I freed up hard disk space, ran RegCure, defraged, and optimized my hard disk, I tried again. This time, it played until my character went into the woods to start his joining ritual. It proceeded to crash when he walked to a specific point near then entrance of the forast. I rolled my ATI driver back to 9.7 from 9.11 and it did it again. Then I re-installed the game and this time it played past that point, but later in the forest it froze again with the sound looping. This is getting frustrating.
Windows Vista 32-bit
2 (cross-fired) ATI Radeon HD3870 512MB Factory Overclocked
AMD Athalon 64 X2 Dual Core 6400+ Processor
4GB Ram
320GB Hard Drive with 55% Free
correction to my last comment: everytime I restarted the game before I re-installed it the last time it froze at the same point at the beginning of the forest
Ive been playing absolutely problem free, 1900×1200 8x/16x
Every last inch of my system is up to date. I only installed game patches yesterday but played 5+ hours with them no problems.
Now at the same part it freezes every single time.
(The part after you get by the soldiers trying to get you to pay 10 silver toll)
I thought i might have corrupted data so i did a low level scan and then defragged to %0 defragmentation.
No fix.
I might run other detonators, this really sucks was just getting into the story.
Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6002) Service Pack 2 (6002.vistasp2_gdr.090803-2339)
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.8GHz
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 7.00.6002.18107 64bit Unicode
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285
Driver Version: 8.16.0011.9107 (English)
I found a workaround that worked for me on the physx issue (problem 11). I’m running an ATI card so downloading an Nvidia driver was a no-no for me. Instead I downloaded the .dll file ‘physxcudart_20.dll’ and placed it in the dragon age bin_ship folder. This did the trick. I had to do it for the toolset as well.