Dragon Age: Origins

I also had no sound but I think I've found the solution; at least it has worked so far:
ntcore.com/?page_id=371
I downloaded and applied the 4gb_patch to 'DAOrigins.exe' and the sound is back.

# Distro
Fedora release 29 (Twenty Nine)

New clean 32bit WINEPREFIX
INEPREFIX=/games/dragonage wine32 /games/download/dragonage/setup_dragon_age_origins_ultimate_2.1.0.4.exe

# Game installs completes fine.
# Then install physx
WINEPREFIX=/games/dragonage winetricks physx

# I can play the game, everything works fine, except there is no sound and no music.
# Sound on my system works fine, we play many other Wine games all the time.

# Note, if I install "gstreamer1-plugins-ugly.i686" DAOriginsLauncher.exe the launcher will crash.

# Some of the errors I think are at fault here:

$ WINEPREFIX=/games/dragonage wine32 DAOriginsLauncher.exe
005c:fixme:thread:create_user_shared_data_thread Creating user shared data update thread.
005a:err:quartz:GetClassMediaFile Media class not found
005a:err:winediag:MIDIMAP_drvOpen No software synthesizer midi port found, Midi sound output probably won't work.
0065:fixme:gstreamer:event_src 0x7d484f08 (61441) stub
0065:err:gstreamer:unknown_type Could not find a filter for caps: "video/x-ms-asf"
005a:err:gstreamer:GST_Connect GStreamer failed to play stream
0064:err:gstreamer:watch_bus decodebin0: Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in.
0064:err:gstreamer:watch_bus gstdecodebin2.c(4640): gst_decode_bin_expose (): /GstBin:bin0/GstDecodeBin:decodebin0:
no suitable plugins found:
Missing decoder: Advanced Streaming Format (ASF) (video/x-ms-asf)

0064:fixme:gstreamer:event_src 0x7a105c40 (61441) stub
0064:err:gstreamer:unknown_type Could not find a filter for caps: "video/x-ms-asf"
005a:err:gstreamer:GST_Connect GStreamer failed to play stream
0065:err:gstreamer:watch_bus decodebin1: Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in.
0065:err:gstreamer:watch_bus gstdecodebin2.c(4640): gst_decode_bin_expose (): /GstBin:bin1/GstDecodeBin:decodebin1:
no suitable plugins found:
Missing decoder: Advanced Streaming Format (ASF) (video/x-ms-asf)

0065:fixme:gstreamer:event_src 0x7a105d80 (61441) stub
0065:err:gstreamer:unknown_type Could not find a filter for caps: "video/x-ms-asf"
005a:err:gstreamer:GST_Connect GStreamer failed to play stream
0064:err:gstreamer:watch_bus decodebin2: Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in.
0064:err:gstreamer:watch_bus gstdecodebin2.c(4640): gst_decode_bin_expose (): /GstBin:bin2/GstDecodeBin:decodebin2:
no suitable plugins found:
Missing decoder: Advanced Streaming Format (ASF) (video/x-ms-asf)

0064:fixme:gstreamer:event_src 0x7a105ec0 (61441) stub
0064:err:gstreamer:unknown_type Could not find a filter for caps: "video/x-ms-asf"
005a:err:gstreamer:GST_Connect GStreamer failed to play stream
0065:err:gstreamer:watch_bus decodebin3: Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in.
0065:err:gstreamer:watch_bus gstdecodebin2.c(4640): gst_decode_bin_expose (): /GstBin:bin3/GstDecodeBin:decodebin3:
no suitable plugins found:
Missing decoder: Advanced Streaming Format (ASF) (video/x-ms-asf)
...
mmap() failed: Cannot allocate memory
mmap() failed: Cannot allocate memory
006b:err:pulse:pulse_test_connect Failed to create context
mmap() failed: Cannot allocate memory
mmap() failed: Cannot allocate memory
mmap() failed: Cannot allocate memory
mmap() failed: Cannot allocate memory
ALSA lib pcm.c:8424:(snd_pcm_recover) underrun occurred

# Thus, there seems to be an issue with either gstreamer or pulse.

I'm using Wine 2.16 32 Bit on Kubuntu 14.04 64 Bit, my CPU is an Athlon II X3 435 2,9 Ghz.

- no CSMT or StrictDrawOrdering: Videos don't show, game runs smoothly on highest settings with vsync on.
- CSMT: Videos show with minor stuttering, game stutters heavily on medium+ settings, vsync drops FPS extremely.
- StrictDrawOrdering: Videos are fine and smooth, game runs smoothly on the highest settings with vsync on.

So, if you experience low FPS or stuttering with CSMT, try to enable StrictDrawOrdering (to be removed in 3.0).

I can confirm, with Wine 4.0, that with CSMT there is heavy stuttering when moving the camera around much and/or walking, even in scenes with little complexity. Without, the cutscenes flicker and turn invisible after a second or so, but the game itself is playable. Also, I had to set a virtual desktop to fix input issues repeatedly cropping up after a few minutes of play (over sensitive mouse control of camera, complete loss of input after alt-tab).

AMD R285, mesa 18.3.5, kernel 4.19, wine vanilla with 32bit prefix.

So I installed wine-staging 2.7 so I could enable CSMT. Created a brand new 32 bit prefix, set Strict Draw Ordering to enabled. And it works. Just like that.

I can get the regular version to run, but the Ultimate Edition immediately crashes to desktop. Nothing of interest in console. Is there any thing special about the Ultimate edition, or any additional setup necessary to get it to work?

What version of wine are you using?
Should work for 2.5 upwards.

You need a 32bit prefix, you should have CSMT enabled under winecfg.
And do require dotnet20 for the Ultimate edition which tries to connect online. Maybe you also an need an Origin account... ?

Hope it helps!
Cecco

PS: Here is how I got it working recently:
appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=18283

Wine 2.5 I think, because of problems I had with Wine 2.6 and 2.7. I'll verify tonight. Might have been a 64 bit prefix, I'll check that also tonight and run through the rest of the stuff. Results to follow!

I'm playing DA: Origins now (Wine staging 1.9.14), and it works well, I only had to install physx (there was no need to do direct ordering in my case). There is one issue though. Once I Alt+Tab out of the application and go back, it becomes all black, and I need to force quit it. Did you experience anything like that?

System: Debian testing, KDE Plasma 5.

I get something similar. When I ALT+Tab out and back, the mouse doesn't go back to the "game mouse cursor" and game can't be played anymore, neither mouse nor keyboard do anything.

I did NOT get the physx-error though, but that might be because I installed through PlayonLinux

I'm using wine 1.9.3 staging (activated CSMT) on Ubuntu 14.04 using Gnome3

At least for me, using ALT+ESC instead of Tab fixes this.