Dragon Age: Origins

Retail version (including minor patches). Please mention the distribution platform (DVD, Steam, etc.) and game version in your test results.

Application Details:

Version:	1.x
License:	Retail
URL:	http://dragonage.bioware.com/
Votes:	34
Latest Rating:	Gold
Latest Wine Version Tested:	5.0.4

Maintainers: About Maintainership

Bartosz Kosiorek

Test Results

Old test results

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Selected Test Results

What works

Installation (crashes at the end, seems non-fatal), using wisotool: http://winezeug.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/wisotool Launching the game, if you use a no-dvd crack. Taking screenshots (doesn't work with some no-dvd cracks). Starting a new game. Gameplay/movies with the patch from http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22202.

What does not

Keyboard loses focus if you alt-tab out of the game (mouse input still works). Using a virtual desktop works around it.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Playing the game. Using the developer's console.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

GPU:
Driver:

Additional Comments

Nvidia 9800 GTX+ / 195.36.15 drivers

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Show	Debian GNU/Linux Unstable "Sid" x86_64	Jun 19 2021	5.0.4	Yes	Yes	Yes	Gold	Christian Weinz
Show	Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu)	Jun 14 2018	3.10	Yes	Yes	No	Silver	Carlos Rodriguez
Show	Arch Linux x86_64	Mar 30 2018	3.4	Yes	Yes	Yes	Gold	Linus Lind Lundgren
Show	Antergos x86_64	Apr 23 2017	2.5-staging	No, but has workaround	Yes	No	Gold	Cecco d'Ascoli
Show	Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Mar 24 2017	2.4-staging	Yes	Yes	No	Gold	Rafael Bernar

Known Bugs

Bug #	Description	Status	Resolution	Other apps affected
21564	Warning Forever / Dragon Age: Origins - ignores keyboard input after losing/regaining focus	NEW		View
26898	Dragon Age 1 & 2 shows black screen preview for the saved game	STAGED		View
30984	Some keys do not work in different games (Trine, Skyrim, Dragon Age Origins, Dragon Age 2, Star Trek Online, Gothic 2)	STAGED		View
33362	Dragon Age Origins texture replaced by black	NEW		View
33459	Dragon Age Origins crash with Framebuffer error	UNCONFIRMED		View
37533	Dragon Age Origins: Crashes in some parts of the game	UNCONFIRMED		View
50368	DragonAge Origins Launcher doesn't toggle music status	UNCONFIRMED		View
55981	GL applications (and d3d applications using the GL backend) are slow in new wow64	NEW		View

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HowTo / Notes

Workaround for keyboard bug when losing focus

If you go on another desktop and then come back to Dragon Age window, you should notice keys on keyboard don't work anymore.

In fact, wine thinks the keys Crtl and Alt are still hold.

The workaround is simple : hit crtl key, then alt key with focus on Dragon Age window : the keyboard should work again

If you are affected by this bug, please warn Wine team about it on wine bugzilla :

Bug 33553

HOWTO stop the flickering / black movies

If you see black screen or flickering during the cutscenes or/and on the main screen, you will need to run winetricks strictdrawordering=enabled

If you are affected by this bug, please report it on the wine bugzilla to help Wine team to solve it : Bug 22383

HOWTO get DLC content working

Downloading the DLCs manually seems currently the only way to get them working.

You can find the downloads in the Redeemed DLC Unofficial Troubleshooting and FAQ, section 4.1.

Afterwards you can install them using the "daupdater.exe", which requires dotnet20 (.NET Framework2.0).you can install it using winetricks :

winetricks dotnet20

For 64 bits Users

In order to install the required components for Dragon Age DLC's, you will have to create a 32 bits wineprefix and install everything there (Dragon Age Origin included).

To create your 32 bits prefix : WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/path/to/wineprefix winecfg

To start winetricks in that prefix : WINEPREFIX=/path/to/wineprefix winetricks

To run Dragon Age from this prefix : WINEPREFIX=/path/to/wineprefix wine /path/to/DragonAge/daorigins.exe

REPORTING BUGS

If you experiment any bug listed above, or any non listed bugs, please report it to wine bugzilla, specifying your wine version : http://bugs.winehq.org/

This will help wine team to solve them.

HOWTO stop the flickering black movies

If you see black screen flickering during the cutscenes or/and on the main screen, you will need to run winetricks strictdrawordering=enabled

Comments

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Solving GL_OUT_OF_MEMORY errors
by yushir on Saturday October 1st 2016, 5:58

If you have crashes in some particular scenes (e.g. when trying to look at the Ash Warriors in Ostagar or at the Fire where Duncan is on the Night) and you're getting GL_OUT_OF_MEMORY errors on the console, then you may need this workaround.

You will need this if the following helps you with these issues:
- Set Texture Quality to "Medium" or "Low". The crashes should no longer occur.

As a permanent fix (to be able to play with Texture Quality set to "High") just follow the instructions outlined here: www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/large-address-aware.112556/. Make sure to apply this flag to *daorigins.exe*. After this you should no longer get any crashes (e.g. I'm playing with everything maxed out and AAx4).

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black cutscenes
by thom_raindog on Wednesday August 10th 2016, 13:06

Hey,

not sure if this is the "black flickering" mentioned above, but for me, a whole lot of the dialog scenes are actually just black screen, rarely is it not so.

I set strictdrawordering to enabled, did no good. I activated CSMT and deactivated it, no dice either. This is on wine 1.9.16 staging on ubuntu 14.4 with an nvidia GTX 750 Ti

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crashes on loading screen—possible framebuffer problem?
by nskaran on Monday March 24th 2014, 13:13

hi! i installed the game today, and i encountered a black screen upon loading but i fixed that with winetricks strictdrawordering=enabled. now, though, i get to the loading screen with the dragon, the dragon gets halfway across the screen, and then it freezes. it's unresponsive so i have to force quit to get back to the Steam window, and the debugger is open but when i try to get details it just loads forever—so i can't offer the debugger output, sorry!

here is the terminal output at the point when i think it starts having the problem, though: pastebin.com/fgCX4U2z

is this related to an acknowledged problem? does anyone have an idea of how to fix it?

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RE: crashes on loading screen: debugger output!
by nskaran on Wednesday March 26th 2014, 23:02

okay, it was a long shot because it hadn't worked before, but i tried selecting "play from launcher" instead of directly starting the game, and it crashed immediately but i was able to get the debugger output: pastebin.com/9KY2X3dN

this may or may not be the same problem i was having with the direct launch, but maybe with this info someone will be able to figure out what's going on here. the Terminal output when the crash happens is "wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x43d12f55 at address 0x43d12f55 (thread 004d), starting debugger..."

hopefully this helps! let me know if there's some other info i should give that might make my problem clearer. does anyone have any idea what i should do?

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RE: crashes on loading screen: debugger output!
by Aliekezhi on Monday March 31st 2014, 11:14

Can you try with last wine version ? (currently 1.7.15)

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RE: crashes on loading screen—possible framebuffer problem?
by Aliekezhi on Monday March 31st 2014, 11:08

It looks like the following bugs :
bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33459
bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22383

What wine version are you using ? What graphic card and driver version ?

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