Dragon Age Origins Ultimate Remaster 2023

Bored of the usual Dragon Age Origins experience? If you want to change it up, this article shows the list of mods than i use on my own playthrough. Its looks great in 2023 and its also performance friendly.

Dragon Age Origins - Ultimate Edition

Dragon Age: Origins - Mod Manager✅

Mod Manager allows for the installation of game modifications released DAzips.

Download Link[www.nexusmods.com]

• First Step

Create a Override Folder. Its the same method that we use in DA2 modding and is the simplest so we'll cover thats first.
(Documets > BioWare > Dragon Age > packages > core)
Now create a "override" folder.

• DAO Mod Manager:

Unpack the file it to your drive location of choice.
Open the folder and start the DAO-Modmanager.exe.


If you downloaded the mods of your choice, unpack the file and open it.
Now start the mod manger and drag & drop the ".dazip" file in to the "Installed DAzips" section.

Just test it with one mod to check everything works fine.

If you want to uninstall mods, just right click the mod of your choice and select "Uninstall".

4GB Patch ✅

Download[ntcore.com]

Start the patch and select the "DAOrigins.exe" and klick OK.

CharGenMorph Compiler ✅

Download[www.nexusmods.com]


CharGenMorph Compiler automates the process of merging chargenmorphcfg.xml files, searching through all override directories and reconstructing a singular "master" xml file containing all the values.

• Important Notes

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-Do not run this program from within the Dragon Age/Dragon Age 2 override directory.
-Ensure your paths are setup correctly.
-Ensure you have full administrator privileges when running the program.
-Ensure your anti-virus/spyware/firewall software, etc has the DA_CharGenMorphCompiler.exe executable file marked as "trusted." There have been reports of Comodo interfering with the correct operation of this program and producing errors.
-The .NET Framework 4.0 is required, download it from Microsoft.

*This program expects individual mods to be installed into separate subfolders within your override directory. You should extract each cosmetic mod into a separate, dedicated subfolder if you want this program to work properly - throwing all your xml files into one folder will not work!
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Make CONSOLE commands visible ✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

If you use the console, you have probably found that that what you\'re typing doesn\'t show up. This will fix that problem.

Created by
Angel

Grey Wardens of Ferelden ✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

This mod will give you DA2 style Grey Warden armors and weapons for DA:O. This mod also changes the appearances of all Grey Warden NPCs into wearing a uniform Grey Warden armors.


Created by
NeoKingArthur

Extra Dog Slot ✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

Allows you to make your pet mabari war dog a permanent 5th travelling companion.















Created by
Dheuster

Bidelles Cosmetics ✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

Bidelle's Cosmetics adds new eye and complexion presets for each race and gender (and everything in between)
Unzip the file into your Documents/BioWare/packages/core/override folder.
If you use any other chargenmorphcfg.xml files with other mods, use this compiler to merge the files.
Start Dragon Age.
Create a new character in either Origins or Awakenings.
Enjoy!

-New Features

• 25 Preset Eye Colors
  
• 6 Custom Playable Morphs
  
• Every race and gender included this time!
  
• 150 total Presets
  
• New Realistic eye patterns with higher resolution
  
• Extra eye colors for toolset use included, but not part of any preset.
  
• Classic eyes included.
  
• Classic makeup included

Created by
Bidelle

No Helmet ✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

This module hides helmets from view by placing helmets in the cloak slot. Each character maintains their own visibility setting. The helmets are visible on the inventory paperdoll for comparison and easy swapping. Item sets function normally.

Created by
Yonline2

Improved Atmosphere ✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

When you played Dragon Age, were you disappointed by the lack of life in towns? Were you bothered by the fact that most ambient NPC’s after Ostagar refused to move a muscle and were instead just hopelessly standing in one place? Did you enjoy hearing your companions interact with each other, but were disappointed there were so few instances in which they would engage in conversation? How about more variety when it comes to your own equipment and also that of the NPC’s? Wanted the bodies of your victims to remain after you slew them?

This mod attempts to negate all of these shortcomings, and much more. And the best part about it? It's modular; you can use everything it has to offer or only a small portion of it.

• Greatly improved NPC (both minor and major) ambient behavior routines. Their list of activities now includes, but is not limited to, talking, walking, drinking, sitting, resting and forging.
  
• Increased number of non-combatant NPC's and non-hostile animals, closing the gap between the number of enemies versus number of friendlies.
  
• Dozens of new item color tints and hundreds of new items--armors, weapons, clothes, etcetera--made with the intention of providing more customization options, for both the playable characters and non-playable characters.
  
• Revised appearance and statistics (optional) of most original items, tended to in an effort to give each item an unique look and to close a large gap in item statistics between the most powerful items and other items of a similar quality--in short, all unique items are now more or less useful throughout the whole game.
  
• Increased amount of party banter triggers (placed in sensible areas of the maps), making it possible to hear most, if not all, interactions between party members in a single playthrough.
  
• Increased number of gameplay opportunities, in-game encounters and role-playing possibilities. This was accomplished by fixing bugs that were never tended to by the developers, restoring cut content, as well as adding new--lore friendly--content.

Created by
SpaceAlex

Unique Face Textures for Companions ✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

All faces are vanilla (with the exception of a very minor tweak to Morrigan's nose) with unique High Resolution skin and eye textures.

• The mod is modular, open the "Companion Morphs" folder and delete whichever morph you don't wish to use.

Created by
Ellise

Dragon Age - Lighting Enhanced ✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

• Important Notes

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Anti-aliasing needs to be disabled from the Dragon Age Launcher in order for this mod to work, the mod has SMAA implemented, and you can force AA from your graphic card control panel.
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Basically this mod adds:

• Sharpening through Lumasharpen
  
• DPX
  
• Subtle Bloom
  
• Tonemapping and Contrast adjustment
  
• SMAA

• Installation:

1) If you are using the ENB version, you need to download these ENB files. If you are using the NON-ENB version, just skip to point 3.

2) Unzip the downloaded ENB file; and copy the contents to your "Dragon Age\bin_ship" folder (Where daorigins.exe is)

3) Download the file uploaded here, extract it, and copy all the files inside the ‘Core’ folder to your "Dragon Age\bin_ship" folder, overwrite when prompted.

4) The second folder 'SweetFX Settings' contains various presets, if you want to use them, just copy the "SweetFXsettings.txt" in the selected folder to "Dragon Age\bin_ship" and overwrite the default one.

5) Open DAOriginsConfig.exe and DISABLE Anti-aliasing, SweetFX does not work with DA:O's AA; I have enabled SMAA in SweetFX, if you need more AA, you can force it from your graphic cards control panel.

6) Run the Game! "Shift+F12" toggles ENB, "F11" toggles SweetFX.







Created by
Shrutesh

Sleep Until Dawn ✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

Go to sleep in camp and wake to a new day.

Spend the hours until dawn in your tent sleeping alone, laying
beside your faithful Mabari or wrapped in the arms of your love.

The next morning you will awaken to a beautiful dawn in camp
ready to take on a new day of adventures in Thedas!














Created by
DahliaLynn

Tinimaus and SarahCousland's - the Rescue at Ishal ✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

• Important Notes

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NOT recommended for first-playthrough's
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This mod extends the ending of the battle of Ostagar (mod contains spoilers). It adds two new cutscenes and two new pre-filmed movies, showing details of the devastating aftermath of the battle, what happened to Alistair and the Warden after the tower ambush. Lore-friendly. For all races, genders, and origins.


Following Loghain's betrayal and the ambush at the top of the tower,
both Alistair and the Warden are left to die at the hands of the darkspawn.
A gravely injured Alistair attempts to shield his fellow Warden from further harm, not knowing Flemeth is on her way to rescue them both.

This was a part of the story that Bioware chose not to include in the vanilla game.


It will add two brand new cutscenes mixed with two new pre-filmed bink videos (BIKs) that show the devastation of the Ostagar battle and the narrow rescue of Alistair and the Warden by Flemeth. It will play after the tower ambush and before you wake up in the Korcari Wilds with Morrigan.

Based on Dragon Age lore, the identity of Flemeth, and Morrigan's comments about Flemeth turning into a "giant bird" we decided that it was very possible that Flemeth shapeshifted into her well-known dragon form for the rescue.


Created by
SarahCousland and Tinimaus

JB3textures ✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

BioWare released Dragon Age: Origins recently, but many textures throughout the game are noticeably low-resolution. This texture package gives the game new, resized textures (Using fractal method, fake HDR and my own photoshop methods) and many textures are reworked. With JBtextures, the world of Dragon Age: Origins will look significantly more detailed!

• Need 75% less memory then version 2.1.
  
• Many textures rework for high detail.
  
• Faster loadings.
  
• No more black and corrupted textures.
  
• High textures resolution for: objects, armors, terrains, creatures.

Game engine is bad, have memory leak. Use only JB3 main file, and updates, don't use optional files if you have any problems with graphic in game, like glitches, black textures. Game work better on 64 bit systems.

I recommended use only ONE optional pack. Choose which one you want. With only ONE game will be ok, you can try with TWO but it can be problems in Denerim. With more then TWO will be problem with memory leak in all gameplay.

Before installing, know that JB3textures needs more RAM and VRAM from your computer than the game's default textures (Double the amount). Expect the game's loading times to increase (5 - 10 seconds more than usual).

Installation instructions:

Use only JB3 main file to get 100% compatibility whithout glitches and memory leak problems. Use optional files, and test what you'r pc can handle. With all optional files is 99% you will get memory leak!

Memory leak is game engine problem, this old bug, but BioWare never repair this.


Created by
reative

SJC's Skins ✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

12 additional skins for character creation.


Created by
SammyJC

SJCs Tints And Textures ✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

A collection of textures and tints that include;

• 6 skin textures (whiter vanilla teeth and realistic teeth options available)
  
• 20 eye textures
  
• 10 hair and eyebrow tints
  
• 10 eye tints
  
• 10 skin tints

Created by
SammyJC

FtG UI Mod - More Readable Fonts and UI ✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

Readability improvements for cutscenes, the quest journal, the codex, conversation history, tooltips, the inventory, and other various menus. There\'s still lots more to go and more versions to come.


Created by
FollowTheGourd

Realistic Worldmap ✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

This is a small worldmap Change, with the goal to make it look more realistic.

available languages

• german
  
• english
  
• czech

Created by
EclipseWTF

Kirkwall Exports ✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

Adds armor and weapons from DA2 to DA:O

• IMPORTANT:

As of yet not all armor is available to all races and genders (but most of them will be in future updates). The list looks like this:

• 1)Champ Warrior= ALL races and genders, except golems and dogs :p
  
• 2)Champ Mage= humans and elves, all genders
  
• 3)Champ Rogue= ALL races and genders, except golems, dogs and qunaris :p
  
• 4)Fenris armor= elf male
  
• 5)Templar commander armor= human female and elf female
  
• 6)Apostate robe= humans of both genders
  
• 7)Merrils robe= elf female
  
• 8)Templar armor= human male
  
• 9)Chantry robes= human male and female
  
• 10)Isabella and varrics armor= All race and genders except qunari.
  
• 11)Raider armor= Helmet is for ALL races and genders, except golems and dogs.
  
• 12)Noble light armor= Human male only
  
• 13)Noble light armor v.2= Human male only
  
• 14)Leather armor= Human female only

The rest of the armor is human male only. NOTE: This particular armor isn't finished yet, so don't be surprised if it looks weird while moving. The helmet is completely finished though.

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Installation:
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Note that to actually add the armor to your inventory you will need the console enabled, and then use the code's.

All codes are on the Nexus Mod page.
Listing them all would be too much for this Steam Guide. There's a damn lot.


Created by
Amycus

KH Creations ✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

Hair, Face Textures, Tattoos and .Mops. A chargenmorph with all resources is included


Created by
Kani Hime

Chantry of Ferelden - Robes ✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

This mod will change all appearances of the Chantry robes into the Dragon Age 2 style.


Created by
NeoKingArthur

MerAnne's Camp Storage ✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

MerAnne's Camp Storage adds 4 storage containers and an altar that provides 'material' leveling functionality.

The altar provides the options for the GW to level

• the equipment that she/he is wearing,
  
• all inventory in the backpack
  
• scrolls that can be given to Companions to level the equipment that they are wearing.

Materials will not level for unique equipment or equipment that has runes installed.



Created by
MerAnne

Lothering Hawke of Ferelden ✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

This mod basically replaces the Helpful Refugee NPC by the Lothering Tavern into the default Hawke from Dragon Age 2.

This mod contains five Variants:

• Hawke 1: The starting mage clothing that Mage Hawke wears.
  
• Hawke 2: A different variant of clothing with brown and blue colors.
  
• Hawke M: The Champion Robe that Mage Hawke wears.
  
• Hawke R: The Champion Suit that Rogue Hawke wears.
  
• Hawke W: The Champion Armor that Warrior Hawke wears.

Each variant has two subfolders within:

Lothering Hawke - No Blood Smear
Lothering Hawke - With Blood Smear

All variants and folders have different Hawke appearances, please check on the screenshots provided to decide which Hawke you prefer.


Created by
NeoKingArthur

Edr Hawke Family in Lothering ✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

This mods will replace 3 NPC in lothering into DA2 Carver ,Bethany and Leandra Amell (Hawke's Mother).

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Where to find them?
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Carver :
After you dealt with the bandits and watch the long cut scene just go into town.
He will be on the left near stone pillar.

Bethany :
Go across the stone bridge and turn left, she will be in front of the house.
If you reach sten cage then you missed her.

Leandra Amell :
Not far from Bethany, she will be standing in front of a tent right next to a chest.


Created by
Edhriano

Lawful Human Male preset ✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

Created by
spin_doc

Loincloth Fashion ✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

This mod adds several ported DA2 armors and weapons to DAO. Helmets are not included, with the exception of the Golden Prince's Helmet and the Harlequin's Hood and Mask.


Created by
Entopie

Dragon Disciple Powers ✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

This mod unlocks new powers when the main character drinks the high dragon's blood from Kolgrim (must reload or change area after drinking).

The powers are added, like a chosen specialization, only to the main character that drinks the blood.
Dragon Disciple also grants +2 Constitution and +5% Fire Resistance.

With the powers, the Hero unlocks 8 talents: 4 of them are used to summon dragons and the other 4 give dragon like properties to the character.

Moreover there are 30 new items:

• Light Armor Set (Helmet, Chest, Gloves and Boots)
  
• Medium Armor Set (Helmet, Chest, Gloves and Boots)
  
• Heavy Armor Set (Helmet, Chest, Gloves and Boots)
  
• Massive Armor Set (Helmet, Chest, Gloves and Boots)
  
• Mage Robes and Cowl
  
• All kind of weapons (double daggers and swords)

To give the powers to the controlled character you can type on the console "runscript force_drdsc".


Created by
Symonius

Wynne redesign ✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

This is standalone mod! So you have no need to install any other mods.















Created by
katorius

Hairstyles vol.2 ✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

Adds new hairstyles to the charactor creator.


Created by
ShepShy

New Textures by MissB ✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

New Face and Eyes textures for creating your character in DA.


Created by
MissBasha

Pineappletree s Vibrant Colors ✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

This adds 48 new hair & eyebrow colors, 40 new skin tones and 30 new eye colors to the Character Creator and replaces the 11 eye colors originally shipped with DA:O.


Created by
Pineappletree

New Font for DAO ✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

A small mod that makes font more readable.


Created by
drew24

Lock Bash ✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

This mod allows players and followers to "bash" or "force" open most locked chests and doors.


Created by
xatmos

Dog and Mabari to Wolf models replacer ✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

Replaces your Mabari hound with a Blood Wolf based on a retextured Blight Wolf or a typical Wolf or a retextured Timber Wolf. And, with the optional files, can replace most all Mabari with a retextured white Blight Wolf model.


Created by
icthulu

Leliana Sacred Ashes Face Morph plus Sacred Ashes Hair ✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

view of how Leliana SHOULD have looked. Sexy, and more accurate to the Sacred Ashes trailer


Created by
Elliott Berglund

Auto Loot / Quick Loot ✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

If you have enough inventory space all items will be added without opening the loot gui.




Created by
Pheelon

The Witcher 2 DAO✅

• Download[www.nexusmods.com]

Added a few model armors and weapons from the Witcher 2: Assassins of King to Dragon Age Origins.


Created by
Makara

Also, check out my simular guide for Dragon Age 2 & Inquisition ✅

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2928204834
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2963094989

Rate, Reward & Add To Favorite! ✅

Official Ragna_Ikari Steam Guides

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3000054506

Changelog

07.07.2023 Added "Official Ragna_Ikari Steam Guides" Main Guide
03.07.2023: Added New Mods // Quick Loot, The Witcher 2 DAO \\
11.06.2023: Added cover image

[laurencecopnall]

auto loot is not compatable with camp storage

[Dragster]

DAZIP installation = Dragon Age Mod Manager
NON DAZIP (mostly) = Users\Veri\Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age\packages\core\override
Make folder in override folder of any name for a mod and put mod in..

[David Boeing]

Dude... In order for the 4gb patch to do anything, you need to literally replace the DAorigins.exe with a copy that isn't broken. Why would you not mention the most critical step in the entire mod list? The game does not work otherwise

[hamrickrobert33]

What if the mod is not DAzip

[Notoriously Sad]

6 hours, multiple guides and many dl's later I get an error 51. I give up

[Ragna_Ikari]

I have no experience with vortex. sry :/

[veilletteross]

thanks for this. is there any benefit to using the mod manager over Vortex?

[Dark_Takeda]

hi Ragna. I can't seem to get the morph compiler working so I can get the additional hair mod working. I keep crashing when I create a new human noble. Thank you

[Ragna_Ikari]

make a backup for the worstcase and everything is fine and you can try whatever you want to change.

[Diane The Deadly]

Finally a stable modlist that doesn't crash and has just the right amount of content!~ Thank you for the amazing guide, btw I was wondering if its possible to modify the list further with a few gameplay tweaks on my own accord without breaking the game or do I not touch on anything further?