Won't launch

[brother alpharius]

I have played on my laptop fine and now when i try to play the launch menu comes up i click play and it closes launch screen and nothing happens. I tried re downlaoding it and verfiying my game.

[Lazy Putsch]

Same problem here. no fix has worked yet.

[Onion]

try to update the graphics card and play with game settings a bit.

[Lechuck's Beard]

Also had this problem and after reading various threads with suggestions and fixes, the one thing that worked for me was to close steam, navigate to the Dragon Age launcher within steam>steamapps>common>DragonAge...click on the Dragon Age launcher and the game kicks in after it launches steam and so on. For some reason, for myself atleast, it would appear that steam or whatever thinks the game is already running before trying this method/work around.

[Lechuck's Beard]

Just to add...after using the above mentioned work around, i can now launch Dragon Age through steam now. God knows what was up.

[brother alpharius]

so run it outside of steam?

[Lechuck's Beard]

Originally posted by icecu:

so run it outside of steam?

Yes, give it a try and if it works then it should launch as normal the next time. Did for me anyway.

[brother alpharius]

ok i' redownloaig now

[Dredd]

Originally posted by ☻/☺:

Same problem here. no fix has worked yet.

You must shut steam down completely first ! then launch the game from the exe in the steampps/ common folder

It helps is the launcher is run as admin and compatibility xp mode too,

key thing is to SHUT DOWN STEAM FIRST though, after you run the exe from the folder, it will log you into steam, then you click play and Voila !

Enjoy, you do not need to download it again

[brother alpharius]

I just launched from outside of steam and it worked thanks man!

Originally posted by Sorgrind:

Originally posted by icecu:

so run it outside of steam?

Yes, give it a try and if it works then it should launch as normal the next time. Did for me anyway.

[Darkwings [NL]]

Originally posted by Sorgrind:

Just to add...after using the above mentioned work around, i can now launch Dragon Age through steam now. God knows what was up.

worked for me the first time but now I can't launch it whatsoever... I only hear the music and it's in my processes list... seriously I've bought many games on Steam. but EA games give me these stupid troubles!

[Legitness]

Okay, after trying all of the above suggestions, I am still not able to run DAO. Is there anybody still willing to help me with this now that its 2023

[GoldKn3cht]

@Legittt

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/physx/physx-9-21-0713-driver/

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/physx/physx-9-19-0218-driver/

https://www.openal.org/downloads/

https://www.techpowerup.com/download/visual-c-redistributable-runtime-package-all-in-one/

https://www.techpowerup.com/download/directx-redistributable-runtime/

or

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35

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4GB LAA patch

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***\steamapps\common\Dragon Age Ultimate Edition\redist

run when steam and game closed

DAOU_UpdateAddinsXML_Steam.exe
DAUServiceSetup_Steam.exe

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***:\Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age

create empty txt file
rename -- systeminformation.xml

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The Game works on my system.
Windows 11
RTX video card
without the compatibility or one core stuff

[Soulution]

I have tried everything and still cannot get this game to run. Sad was looking forward to playing the entire series from beginning to end on my new computer.

[Fictus22]

Originally posted by Soulution:

I have tried everything and still cannot get this game to run. Sad was looking forward to playing the entire series from beginning to end on my new computer.

I have a few things you could try if your up for it.

1. Try lowering your graphics/texture settings to medium or low. Try and see if that corrects your issue.

Reason: Game was originally designed for the highest graphics/texture settings to be on what we call medium and was never properly optimized for what is available now.

Note: If you end up doing what is suggested in the 3rd option, you can change your graphics/textures settings to whatever you wish.

2. Go to your game install folder's redist folder to run DXSetup (In the DirectX folder), physx and vcredist exes to install the software on them. Try and see if that corrects your issue.

Reason: Sometimes steam misses these or doesn't run them properly during setup.

3. Go to site in the link below and follow along with it's "modding video step-by-step tutorial for DA:O" from the beginning to the 4gb Patch. After doing so, see if your problem is corrected.

https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonage/mods/5989

Reason: The game still is limited to using 1 - 2 gb of RAM since it was originally released. Due to newer graphical settings, DLC and various tweaks found in the present version the game requires more RAM than it was designed. The method shown in the tutorial is the correct way to apply the 4gb patch on Steam.

4. Get the game through the EA App.

Reason: There is a exclusive update only available through the EA App that helps the game work on modern hardware/computers compared to when the game was made.

Note: If going the EA App route, you can just do the 4gb patch on it mentioned in the 3rd option and be good to go.

5. Get the game through GOG.

Reason: Alternative if you don't want the EA App. Just as easy to apply the 4gb patch to it as it is on the EA App.

[Kick |ItsThatGuyWeebツ]

Originally posted by GoldKn3cht:

@Legittt

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/physx/physx-9-21-0713-driver/

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/physx/physx-9-19-0218-driver/

https://www.openal.org/downloads/

https://www.techpowerup.com/download/visual-c-redistributable-runtime-package-all-in-one/

https://www.techpowerup.com/download/directx-redistributable-runtime/

or

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35

-----------------------------------------------------------------

4GB LAA patch

-----------------------------------------------------------------

***\steamapps\common\Dragon Age Ultimate Edition\redist

run when steam and game closed

DAOU_UpdateAddinsXML_Steam.exe
DAUServiceSetup_Steam.exe

-----------------------------------------------------------------

***:\Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age

create empty txt file
rename -- systeminformation.xml

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The Game works on my system.
Windows 11
RTX video card
without the compatibility or one core stuff

GOD BLESS YOU.

After an hour of trying to make this game work, your solution was the only one that worked. You're a wonderful human