Hey guys,
I'm having issues setting up Dragon Age: Origins. I installed just fine, but whenever I try to play or configure the game, I get the message "Dragon Age Origins Configuration Utility has stopped working" about halfway through the "updating configuration" loading bar. I've already uninstalled and reinstalled. Anyone else know of this problem, and a solution or work-around? I heard running the launcher.exe as an administrator would work, but the person said it would be found under Steam... and the only game listed there for me is Portal.
I've heard a lot of good things about this game and would love to play, but I've spent an hour hunting resources online with no success, and frankly I'm getting tired of it.
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What are your computer specs? Did you buy an actual copy of the game or did you use Steam or Direct2Drive or some other download service?
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Wait, are you trying to install the game without being on the administrator account?
I'm pretty sure that "admin accounts" on vista and windows 7 still require you to "run as admin" things.
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You can add the game to steam & try it from there. I had no issues with DaO, except when I turned up the graphics to ridiculous.
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Try to Run as Admin, as already mentioned.
Sorry, my specs are fine for the game; when I get back home I'll try to find them.
I'm logged in as administrator, running Vista 64-bit. I bought the CD, I did not download the game.
I haven't been able to find the game .exe in program files; the best I can find is the launcher (which is listed as autorun), and running that even when right-clicking and saying "run as administrator" is not working.
Edit: But thank you all for the help so far; I'll try again when I get home. Rate-ups all around!
Edited, Jan 27th 2010 7:46am by LockeColeMA
I'm logged in as administrator, running Vista 64-bit. I bought the CD, I did not download the game.
I haven't been able to find the game .exe in program files; the best I can find is the launcher (which is listed as autorun), and running that even when right-clicking and saying "run as administrator" is not working.
Edit: But thank you all for the help so far; I'll try again when I get home. Rate-ups all around!
Edited, Jan 27th 2010 7:46am by LockeColeMA
i think the .exe file you're looking for is in the /bin folder. Cannot remember the name of it exactly though. But you might be able to run that rather than the launcher and bypass any configuration dealy.
mine is located at Dragon Age/bin_ship/daorigins.
I found the .exe, but now I get a new error trying to run it:
It seems it's a DirectX file. I tried to download the latest version of DirectX, but it gave me a compatibility issue. I've uninstalled all of DirectX, but I'm still getting an issue when I try and reinstall it. Can't find any way to get past that issue either...
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d3dx9_36.dll was not found
It seems it's a DirectX file. I tried to download the latest version of DirectX, but it gave me a compatibility issue. I've uninstalled all of DirectX, but I'm still getting an issue when I try and reinstall it. Can't find any way to get past that issue either...
If you only have vanilla Vista or Vista with SP1 you can only have DirectX 10. If you installed SP2 then you can use the latest version which is DirectX 11.
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