For those who don't know about EA App

[Wattson]

Since EA App broke the game launching for a lot of people, I recommend redownloading Origin and log in to it. It does still work, yes. Uninstall EA App and just skip out on the EA App download everytime you start up DAI. All it will do is open Origin as it used to do because Steam is still registered to open Origin and it was never removed.

Update: It seems that EA has kindly updated their launcher, so I can actually play again. But let's not hold our breaths, it may screw up again. Keep an eye on it.

[barzai]

Curious to know...there have been two recent updates to the Origin client. The first one evidently didn't break anything, though I cautiously awaited confirmation of this from others braver than I.

Do you know what the most recent one does, if anything? Thus far I've been putting up with running in Offline mode and thus needing to login every time (grrr) but that's better than having the whole thing go sneakers up, right?

But if you've installed the latest update without problems it would be helpful to have that confirmed.

[tyl0413]

Originally posted by barzai:

Curious to know...there have been two recent updates to the Origin client. The first one evidently didn't break anything, though I cautiously awaited confirmation of this from others braver than I.

Do you know what the most recent one does, if anything? Thus far I've been putting up with running in Offline mode and thus needing to login every time (grrr) but that's better than having the whole thing go sneakers up, right?

But if you've installed the latest update without problems it would be helpful to have that confirmed.

Yes can confirm Version 10.5.119.52718 - 773614 works as expected, probably just simple backend and security fixes, tho can't be sure bc the release notes seem to be no longer accessible, anyways it should be safe to install if you wanna come out of offline mode.

[Sanquiz]

I have the latest version of EA and the game no work.

[barzai]

Originally posted by tyl0413:

Yes can confirm Version 10.5.119.52718 - 773614 works as expected, probably just simple backend and security fixes, tho can't be sure bc the release notes seem to be no longer accessible, anyways it should be safe to install if you wanna come out of offline mode.

Thanks friend, much appreciated! :-)

[z3r0t3n™]

Originally posted by barzai:

Curious to know...there have been two recent updates to the Origin client. The first one evidently didn't break anything, though I cautiously awaited confirmation of this from others braver than I.

Do you know what the most recent one does, if anything? Thus far I've been putting up with running in Offline mode and thus needing to login every time (grrr) but that's better than having the whole thing go sneakers up, right?

But if you've installed the latest update without problems it would be helpful to have that confirmed.

The newest available update on Steam (https://steamdb.info/patchnotes/10351640/) tries to force the EA App installation. You can shut Steam up bychanging "IGNORE_INSTALLED=1" to "IGNORE_INSTALLED=0" in "installScript.vdf" in the DA:I installation folder.

[Darth Gamer]

Originally posted by HMS Hood:

Since EA App broke the game launching for a lot of people, I recommend redownloading Origin and log in to it. It does still work, yes. Uninstall EA App and just skip out on the EA App download everytime you start up DAI. All it will do is open Origin as it used to do because Steam is still registered to open Origin and it was never removed.

it did not break it for everyone and for some people its because they use frosty mod manger and don't know how or what they need if u r using frosty mod manger u need this https://github.com/Dyvinia/DatapathFixPlugin and the latest frosty manger and they say this on https://github.com/Dyvinia/DatapathFixPlugin
Troubleshooting
If EA Desktop tells you that you do not own the game, restart it through the in-app restart button.
If Steam/EpicGamesStore has the game stuck as "Running" completely kill and restart Steam/EpicGamesStore aswell as all EA related processes.
If the game shows up as "DatapathFix" in Frosty, try to launch the game like normal and it should fix itself.
Make sure to disable the LaunchPlatformPlugin that comes with Frosty.

[Wattson]

Originally posted by DarthGamer:

Originally posted by HMS Hood:

Since EA App broke the game launching for a lot of people, I recommend redownloading Origin and log in to it. It does still work, yes. Uninstall EA App and just skip out on the EA App download everytime you start up DAI. All it will do is open Origin as it used to do because Steam is still registered to open Origin and it was never removed.

it did not break it for everyone and for some people its because they use frosty mod manger and don't know how or what they need if u r using frosty mod manger u need this https://github.com/Dyvinia/DatapathFixPlugin and the latest frosty manger and they say this on https://github.com/Dyvinia/DatapathFixPlugin
Troubleshooting
If EA Desktop tells you that you do not own the game, restart it through the in-app restart button.
If Steam/EpicGamesStore has the game stuck as "Running" completely kill and restart Steam/EpicGamesStore aswell as all EA related processes.
If the game shows up as "DatapathFix" in Frosty, try to launch the game like normal and it should fix itself.
Make sure to disable the LaunchPlatformPlugin that comes with Frosty.

The Issue I have has to do with EA App not even running the game at all when clicking play through both Steam and EA App. It works with Origin oddly but...it tries to shove EA App installations down my throat and at this point won't even run the game due to the EA App upgrade advert. IDK if reinstalling Origin will ever fix it because its quite annoying

[Cictani]

EA was down or had issues with all games in it, I could not launch Star Wars Battlefront 2 too.

Now it works again and also for Dragon Age Inquisition.

Every Software has bugs and some online services have problems. My problem is the lack of information EA gave. I could not find anything that EU EA App had problems at all online...

[wildrivr]

still not working for me except mass effect legendary edition and dragon age 2, dai refuses to launch.

[Ducky]

has someone found a solution to this? I have tried countless fixes that worked for some people but don't work for me. I managed to get the game working for an hour or so after installing Origin and running it from there, but the next day it stopped opening from Origin as well. I am running out of fixes and patience and I just want to play the game I paid for and spent 105 hours into. Geez, why is it so hard to play this game...

[Mardoin69]

Yes. If you have the Origin client and the EA announcement to upgrade / install the EA app is soft locking your Origin client, then do this;
Open file explorer and set view settings to show hidden system files and folders. Now open the C: drive and go into 'Program Data' folder......
Stop origin client loading EA app message;

1. Open C:\ProgramData\Origin\local.xml in notepad
2. Add new key there:

<Setting key="MigrationDisabled" type="1" value="true" />

Put it down at bottom just above the line </Settings>
Then save the file.
Now you can launch Origin Client and that dam Upgrade notice will be gone. Also, set the Origin client to NOT automatically update the client.

[Wattson]

Originally posted by Mardoin69:

Yes. If you have the Origin client and the EA announcement to upgrade / install the EA app is soft locking your Origin client, then do this;
Open file explorer and set view settings to show hidden system files and folders. Now open the C: drive and go into 'Program Data' folder......
Stop origin client loading EA app message;

1. Open C:\ProgramData\Origin\local.xml in notepad
2. Add new key there:

<Setting key="MigrationDisabled" type="1" value="true" />

Put it down at bottom just above the line </Settings>
Then save the file.
Now you can launch Origin Client and that dam Upgrade notice will be gone. Also, set the Origin client to NOT automatically update the client.

Thanks a lot man. Now I can defeat the darkspawn once again!

[Titan]

Originally posted by Mardoin69:

Yes. If you have the Origin client and the EA announcement to upgrade / install the EA app is soft locking your Origin client, then do this;
Open file explorer and set view settings to show hidden system files and folders. Now open the C: drive and go into 'Program Data' folder......
Stop origin client loading EA app message;

1. Open C:\ProgramData\Origin\local.xml in notepad
2. Add new key there:

<Setting key="MigrationDisabled" type="1" value="true" />

Put it down at bottom just above the line </Settings>
Then save the file.
Now you can launch Origin Client and that dam Upgrade notice will be gone. Also, set the Origin client to NOT automatically update the client.

It didn't work, the update prompt still keeps appearing and i am unable to play DAI.

[Mardoin69]

@Titan ....last guy that told me it didn't work....found out they were putting the line ALL the way down at bottom in the file. It HAS to go above the last line....which is <\Settings>
So, it should look like (edited syntax so Origin client likes it better)

<Setting value="true" key="MigrationDisabled" type="1"/>
<\Settings>

Also, be sure you turn off 'automatic updates' in the client settings.
And, you'll now need to be deleting some files that get installed with their latest attempts at forcing us to upgrade to the EA client. You'll get little popups about upgrading....close those out / cancel / abort.....do NOT let it try to upgrade to the EA client. Then double check your 'local.xml' file to be sure code line still in there.....it will get higher up in the file due to more code being appended to that file......and;
Delete all instances of this file; 'OriginThinSetupInternal.exe'
YOu may need to be doing this before / after launching the Origin client from now on.... to ensure it doesn't try an update to EA....cuz that will bork the Origin client.

[Titan]

Originally posted by Mardoin69:

@Titan ....last guy that told me it didn't work....found out they were putting the line ALL the way down at bottom in the file. It HAS to go above the last line....which is <\Settings>
So, it should look like (edited syntax so Origin client likes it better)

<Setting value="true" key="MigrationDisabled" type="1"/>
<\Settings>

Also, be sure you turn off 'automatic updates' in the client settings.
And, you'll now need to be deleting some files that get installed with their latest attempts at forcing us to upgrade to the EA client. You'll get little popups about upgrading....close those out / cancel / abort.....do NOT let it try to upgrade to the EA client. Then double check your 'local.xml' file to be sure code line still in there.....it will get higher up in the file due to more code being appended to that file......and;
Delete all instances of this file; 'OriginThinSetupInternal.exe'
YOu may need to be doing this before / after launching the Origin client from now on.... to ensure it doesn't try an update to EA....cuz that will bork the Origin client.

Yes that's the way i wrote it, and everything else you said i also did that, but where will i find 'OriginThinSetupInternal.exe'. Haven't tried deleting that yet. It's a shame i am literally at the very end of Tresspasser like i have around 2 hours left in the game and i am unable to play it.

Edit: Ok i found an update on this fix in this video 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE2I_jnCIGU&ab_channel=Stickmanweasle'. Now the prompt doesn't appear and i can use origin but the game still doesn't start. When i launch the game origin kind of refreshes, the DAI name in my steam goes green like i'm in game and then it just goes back to normal without the game ever opening.