DA:O Complete Edition won't start - please help!

[KaniSatha]

Having recently bought DA:O Complete Edition, I'm now trying to play it. But when I hit play in Steam and then hit run on the game window that opens, the "Dragon Age Origins Configuration Utility" window pops open and then immediately closes, and then nothing. The Play button on Steam goes back to green. I have a recently-bought desktop with Windows 11 and Nvidia 4090 GPU and all the bells and whistles. All my drivers, DirectX, etc are fully up-to-date. And I have verified the integrity of the game files. I have no mods installed. Does anyone have any suggestions? Please help!

[Jan]

You need this, the game engine struggles with modern hardware.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=233222451

Replace the exe file. If its still not working by launching via steam, launch the game directly from the DAOrigins exe (SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Dragon Age Ultimate Edition\bin_ship). You can also link the exe to steam and skip the launcher by setting a launch command in the DAO steam settings using this command (you may need to change the path):

"F:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Dragon Age Ultimate Edition\bin_ship\DAOrigins.exe" %command%

[KaniSatha]

Thank you @Jan!!
I've decided to just refund the game from Steam. I already had it directly from EA, and bought the Steam version only so I could have all my games in one place, and also in case EA ever went under. My version on EA Apps works just fine, so I'll just stick with that, and hope EA doesn't go away anytime soon. :)