It Should Not Be This Hard To Play Dragon Age Origins On PC In 2024

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Tessa Kaur

Published Jun 24, 2024

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Summary

If you're playing through the whole Dragon Age trilogy for the first time before The Veilguard releases, be warned. Origins is broken.
I can't believe that this game is being sold on Steam despite being so broken that you need player-made mods to make it playable, but here we are.
I gave up on trying to fix the PC version and just played it on Xbox. You may want to do the same if you're unfamiliar with modding.

Like many people, I’m attempting to play through the entire series in preparation for🐼 . While a lot of longtime fans are replaying the series out of pure love, I’m approaching it as a complete newcomer. While I’ve played a lot of games, I overlooked Dragon Age completely as a kid, and I felt compelled to dive in so I could play The Veilguard with as much context as possible.

If you’re thinking of doing the same, BioWare is trying to make it easy for you. Right now, you can buy the entire trilogy on Steam for less than $10, and the games are also discounted individually. There’s a ton of DLC included in these editions of the games as well, making it even more worth the money, if that’s possible. This isn’t the first time BioWare has had a major sale like this – I actually bought the bundle at a massive discountꩵ years ago, and have had the games sitting in my library ever since.

I was pretty excited to take a crack at the trilogy over the weekend, and installed all the gꦯa🎐mes on my PC. I’m planning to go in chronological order, so after finishing work on Friday night, I booted up the first game to jump into the critically lauded fantasy epic.

… Except You Can’t Actually Play Dragon Age Origins

The moment ♏I pressed play on Dragon Age Origins, I started facing issues. My game crashed immediately, and I was shown a popup that told me that the game had “failed to detect a supported video card”. I’d never faced this issue before, so to Google I went. It turns out this is a pretty com🔴mon issue. According to the internet, the game doesn’t know how to fully utilise some GPUs, but fiddling around in the settings fixed the problem.

Unfortunately, this was just the beginning of my problems. As I played through the tutorial – I opted to play as an Elven Mage, so my tutorial took place in the Fade – my game crashed over and over again, each crash within minutes of the last. I couldn’t even make it out of the tutorial. I couldn’t figu🏅re out why on earth it was happening. I bought my PC in 2022, and it’s pretty powerful one, so how could it be that I can’t play a game that was released in 2009?

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Back to Google I went. Again, according to the internet, the game has a memory leak that causes it to crash. I whined about it on Twitter, and a couple people replied with links to mods that would help with the problem, but there was another flaw with this solution: I’m an idiot. I’d already tried to install mods and patches, but I’m a lifelong Mac user and fiddling with Windows PC settings is a nightmare for me. I couldn’t get any of my patches to install, and troubleshooting that problem just gave me a headache.

This is where I copped out. I’d already bought the trilogy on Xbox during a separate sale, and I figured that I could save myself a lot of frustration by just switching to a different platform. I hadn’t even🍎 completed the tutorial, anyway, so I wasn’t losing any significant progress. To the living room I went, and the Xbox port ran beautifully. I haven’t faced a single crash.

The Xbox Version Doesn’t Feel As Good To Play

I’m still bitter about it, though. The Xbox version of the game is notably different in that you can’t play in the top-down, tactical view. You’re locked in third-person and forced to play in action mode, which I find significantly less compelling – though I didn’t get to play for long, I quite liked the top-down gameplay and the control th𒁏at being able to pause and move my party around the battlefield gave me.

After all, that’s the way the game was originally meant to be played. Top-down gameplay was left out of the console version becausꦫe that generation’s technology couldn’t support it, which makes it feel like console is a less authentic way to play. Considering I simply couldn’t play it on PC, I’m willing to settle for the console port, but that’s not going to stop me from being salty.

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How Is Dragon Age Origins Still Broken In 2024?

It is shocking to me that BioWare is selling an obviously broken product on Steam. It’s been 15 years since the game was originally released and it’s still being sold in its unplayable form. Is this ethical? Is this allowed? How has it fallen to players to create ways to make an Xbox 360-era game playable, and not the stu🍌dio to ensure the game can at least be played without constant crashes?

I don’tౠ think that studios should be maintaining games for all eternity, but surely making sure the game is playable for the majority of players is the bare minimum. There are Dragon Age fans posting PSAs about how to fix the game on social media because so many people are unaware that they’ve purchased a broken game, and that shouldn’t be the case. Dragon Age Origins should have been fixed before it was ever available on Steam, and it’s egregious that fans are the ones having to do that work. I’m hoping I don’t face the same problem with the later games,💮 but if I do, I guess I’ll just have to settle for playing on console.