game wont launch

[PixieRowan]

Hi folks,

I'm trying to play DA2 but when i try to launch the game, it simply not opening. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling, and it wont work. I've even done the chanigng to dx9 or whatever it is as per all other posts i've found. I do have some mods but nothing major- simply things like valuable loot, skip the intro and a hair mod. I don't have any more than 5 installed.
I can still launch other games from my library, including inquisition. But for some reason, DA2 just will not open, no matter what i do. I have also restarted my pc, verified the game files and tried to run as admin.

Any help would be great. I already had to give up with origins because even with the 4gb patch it just broke so often i didnt think it was worth it anymore.

thanks.

[Whitey]

Uh...not sure why you had so much trouble with Origins. How often? With the RAM leak, yeah, every once in awhile I had to exit the game and restart it. But it wasn't unplayable even with almost (I think) 20 mods.

As far as this game goes, the only time I had a problem was first launching the game. I think I just opened EA Origin manually and then tried to start it through Steam. Ever since then I've had no problem just starting through Steam without having to open Origin manually.

[Comradovich]

Had this exact issue today, was going to post about it here before I saw yours. In case it matters later, I'm using the mods for "Lock Bash", "Sketchy on the Details fix", "No More Bloody Teeth", "Treasure Fixes", and "More Backpacks". These were all working last night, and I don't believe any of them involve the launcher. I was launching with the developer console enabled, (you learn to do that pretty fast suffering through DA Origins glitches).

I ended up getting the game to work by doing what Whitey suggested above and launching EA Origin first. (No, don't use the "thin launch" EA Origin that auto-initializes when you click Play in Steam, close that and launch the full EA Origin from within Windows then click the play button in that). Afterwards it sent me an error message in EA Origin that my game was not synched correctly. I clicked "Play Anyway"/whatever and the game launched normally. I have disabled the dev console in the Steam Launch options, but this didn't fix anything as far as I can tell.

What I think went wrong is that EA Origin had some issue shutting down last night. I ended up having to force close it before I could shutdown Windows after several attempts. That would make sense with the EA Origin error message I got. I also noticed that Steam re-downloaded their version of EA Origin "thin-launch" after I did a file-verification.

It is launching now, and fingers crossed that nothing major has been broken. I feel your pain on DAO. I have never sworn that much over anything, and I was in the Marines. We've raised cussing to an art form. I'll swear DAO keeps track of when you last saved and always manages to maliciously pick the exact worst possible time to drop you back to the desktop. I suspect I'll be babying EA Origins tonight, making absolutely sure it shuts down successfully before the computer shutdown.

[Sgt_Artyom]

I had a problem launching the game as well, origin thought it wasn't installed so it only worked sporadically for me.

Uninstalling then re-installing origin itself seems to have fixed the problem though, launches fine now and I didn't have to re-download the game. Could be worth a try.

[Luniponi]

I also had this problem and for me it worked after I disabled MSI afterburner.
So if you're using afterburner, try turning it off and then start the game.

[StrawHat90]

I'm having trouble launching DA2 as well... It keeps telling me that I need an app to launch it, and wants to open my Windows App Store... I saw in the requirements it needs Windows Vista, or 7. Is the game not compatible with Windows 10? or am I missing something else?

[Whitey]

Originally posted by StrawHat90:

I'm having trouble launching DA2 as well... It keeps telling me that I need an app to launch it, and wants to open my Windows App Store... I saw in the requirements it needs Windows Vista, or 7. Is the game not compatible with Windows 10? or am I missing something else?

That's weird. Have you tried what I suggested?

[Comradovich]

At this point I'm about 90% certain it's an issue with Origin's online features instead of the DA2 program itself. Also, for Strawhat90, I'm using Windows 10 and getting it to work, so it isn't a compatibility issue. You should be fine there.

Here's the little trick that worked for me just barely:
1. Click the "Play" button in Steam, Origin launches but DA2 never initializes.
2. As I'm about to use my previous workaround, I realize that Origin keeps online save data for DA2 and has been horrible at synching it lately.
3. As a shot in the dark, I go into Origin's settings and "Go Offline".
4. DA2's stalled process immediately launches for me.
5. I navigate up to the loading menu in DA2 and then change the Origin settings back to "Online".
6. So far everything works again.
7. Fingers crossed that cloud saves within Origin are also working. (I'm not especially confident that they are).

EA's reportedly moving from the Origin platform to a new hub program. I'm almost positive they're having issues keeping old game data up to date on the servers with all the migrations they're going to be doing. This is probably one of those issues. I'm still convinced the "Steam wasn't broke in the first place, there was no need to fix it" argument is the correct one.

[machara.petr]

I can't run the game. I have just installed windows 10. Just installed Steam Client and Battlnet. After the first launch, steam tried unsuccessfully to initialize the game. Then an OriginThinSetup.exe error occurred with the missing .dll libraries. I tried to download the libraries here, but it still writes an application startup error. Does it have to be that complicated nowadays?

[Whitey]

Originally posted by machara.petr:

I can't run the game. I have just installed windows 10. Just installed Steam Client and Battlnet. After the first launch, steam tried unsuccessfully to initialize the game. Then an OriginThinSetup.exe error occurred with the missing .dll libraries. I tried to download the libraries here, but it still writes an application startup error. Does it have to be that complicated nowadays?

Battlenet?

[machara.petr]

Problem solved
I had to install all the Visuall C ++ Runtimes. Steam failed to start the origins client installation. Installing Runtimes solved everything.

[Whitey]

Originally posted by machara.petr:

Problem solved
I had to install all the Visuall C ++ Runtimes. Steam failed to start the origins client installation. Installing Runtimes solved everything.

(EA) Origin or (DA) Origins?

[Khael]

Originally posted by Comradovich:

At this point I'm about 90% certain it's an issue with Origin's online features instead of the DA2 program itself. Also, for Strawhat90, I'm using Windows 10 and getting it to work, so it isn't a compatibility issue. You should be fine there.

Here's the little trick that worked for me just barely:
1. Click the "Play" button in Steam, Origin launches but DA2 never initializes.
2. As I'm about to use my previous workaround, I realize that Origin keeps online save data for DA2 and has been horrible at synching it lately.
3. As a shot in the dark, I go into Origin's settings and "Go Offline".
4. DA2's stalled process immediately launches for me.
5. I navigate up to the loading menu in DA2 and then change the Origin settings back to "Online".
6. So far everything works again.
7. Fingers crossed that cloud saves within Origin are also working. (I'm not especially confident that they are).

EA's reportedly moving from the Origin platform to a new hub program. I'm almost positive they're having issues keeping old game data up to date on the servers with all the migrations they're going to be doing. This is probably one of those issues. I'm still convinced the "Steam wasn't broke in the first place, there was no need to fix it" argument is the correct one.

THANK YOU

[machara.petr]

Originally posted by Whitey:

Originally posted by machara.petr:

Problem solved
I had to install all the Visuall C ++ Runtimes. Steam failed to start the origins client installation. Installing Runtimes solved everything.

(EA) Origin or (DA) Origins?

https://www.origin.com/irl/en-us/store/download

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