PSA: Dragon Age Origins has an unofficial patch that fixes several hundred bugs.

[MTL5]

Dragon Age: Origins is a really good game, but it's also a really buggy game. Bioware were notorious for having troubled production and trying to pull everything together with mad crunch. Origins is riddled with bugs that cause broken quests, missing dialogue, and even crashes.

Qwinn's Ultimate DAO Fixpack is an unofficial patch that doesn't make any changes that aren't strictly fixes. It fixes broken stuff. It doesn't make changes because "I think that would be better".

There is really no reason to play the game without this patch. It's pure win-win. It makes the game more stable, fixes an endless parade of bugs, and also essentially restores cut content that was caused by broken scripting. More people should know about it. It should be considered as essential as the KOTOR 2 fan patch.

https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonage/mods/4689/

This is a changelog for an old version. Just bug after bug fixed. The more recent versions of the patch fix even more stuff.

https://pastebin.com/viAbvKCQ

There's so much stuff in this game that is broken, and people don't know it's broken, so they just shrug and think, "Oh, huh, Alistair said he can sense Darkspawn, but he failed to warn me about the Darkspawn ambushes five times in a row. I guess that was intentional?" No, it wasn't. The scripting was broken. There is so much broken scripting in this game.

Examples include:

MO3033: Morrigan Romance: If Morrigan forced you to break up with Leliana, a scripting bug prevented anything from actually coming of it, and both romances would be unaffected.

BF3028: "Wounded in the Forest": Restored the ability of your party to heal Deygan. If you can cast Heal yourself, or Morrigan or Wynne can do so and are in the party, you were supposed to have the option of healing Deygan, but the wrong script was being checked to determine if you had the spell. After fixing that script and a couple of other minor bugs, you can now heal Deygan yourself, which restores quite a bit of previously unseen dialogue.

RE3013: "A Village Under Siege": Due to a scripting error, getting amulets for the knights would not actually improve their morale.

DE3001: Market District: Significantly reduced (though did not manage to eliminate) the lag and crashes that plagued the Denerim Market District, particularly when loading a save game there.

CW3422: "Crime Wave": The items to be acquired in the Stealing path - Pouch of Gems, Ser Nancine's Sword, Tilver's Key and Teyrn Loghain's Crown - can all enter your inventory multiple times under certain conditions. These items would fire their quest closing scripts and attempt to enable the next quest in the chain every time they did so (such as when your entire inventory is removed and restored in the brothel, the Urn Gauntlet or the Captured! quest, or sold and re-bought, or just stored and then retrieved from your inventory chest), potentially bugging the quest chain and in one reported case even crashing the game when your entire inventory is restored. These items will no longer trigger their quest closing scripts after the first time they've done so. See related fix GL3410. Many thanks to poster naebram607 for making me aware of this issue.

OR3070: "A Mother's Hope": If you promised to tell Filda that Ruck is dead, making him grateful to you, a dialogue line and its scripting indicate he was meant to give you an item - "Ruck's Sword" - but there is no such sword in game, and the way the line was disabled caused the conversation to crash abruptly and prematurely. Ruck will now give the player a regular dwarven longsword if he's grateful, and the dialogue won't crash at that point anymore.

It just goes on and on like this for page after page. There are multiple characters in Origins, including Morrigan, that are missing dialogue branches due to bugs. The affection system has an off by one error. One of the female voice sets is inexplicably missing. And so on.

[neil]

Been using it for years
2500+ hours and none of these crashes
So I have recommended it left and right

Just no one listens - sigh

[Simple Kind of Man]

Originally posted by neil:

Been using it for years
2500+ hours and none of these crashes
So I have recommended it left and right

Just no one listens - sigh

i cant hear you over the.....sigh