Windows 7 Game explorer - Dragon Age Origins v1.01 Patch

[calvincoetzee]

When installing patch v1.01 for Dragon Age Origins, the link provided in the Windows 7 Game Explorer stops functioning.

Anybody else have this problem, I searched online and seems to be a common problem already but does anybody have this and found a fix?

Not a major problem but still is a problem that needs fixing.

 

[stefan9]

Firstly how did you get the game? I have to wait tomorrow to get my CE from BT. They better have my preorder bonus items ready at 9:00 am.

Here the solutions for your issue: You can also get a back up of the file of the dvd if you don't have the restore function available.

Cerathalis wrote...

If you click and nothing happens at all its probably the daoriginsgdf.dll

A quick test is to go to your dao folder and manually start DAOriginsLauncher.exe if that works but you get nothing the other way follow the rest of the post.

Basically its how the game plugs into the "Games" control panel and the patch broke it.

If you have the system recovery stuff on use the following steps:
1) Browse to C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Dragon Age\\bin_ship
2) Right click on daoriginsgdf.dll
3) Properties -> Previous Versions
4) Copy the old file into a folder.
5) Rename the daoriginsgdf.dll to something like daoriginsgdf.dll.broken
6) Copy in the restored file.

That will fix your links and the game will launch.

If you are under xp and vista and the play button from the launcher isn't working anymore you need to update you vc runtime. The patch uses a newer version as opposed to the game. Win 7 users are fine since the os already uses the newest version.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=766a6af7-ec73-40ff-b072-9112bab119c2&displaylang=en

 

[gregmcc]

No problems here.

 

[StoneCold]

Hey, you could also try the following:

If you applied this patch, copied the crack, and now you're getting an issue either with the game not running when hitting 'Play' from the launcher, or getting a 'side-by-side' error message when launching daorigins.exe directly, then download and install the VC++ 2005 SP1 redistributable from Microsoft, here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...0ff-b072-9112bab119c2&displaylang=en#filelist

Even if you're using x64 windows, download and install the x86 version, as Dragon Age is a 32bit game.

Source: http://filenetworks.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-to-fix-by-side-configuration-is.html

 

[techead]

played this game the whole weekend and I cant put it down...

the story sucks you right it, its quite incredible

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