So after taking an close to two hours to download, 20 some odd minutes to decrypt, and about 15 minutes to register and download the DLC, I can safely say that Steam has saved PC gaming.
It’s not just Steam. My wife can’t get the DLC for her retail copy, either.
This worked for me as well, but only after I:
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Ran the service installer from a command prompt in administrator mode
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Ran daorigins.exe as an administrator
I have the DLC now, but the experience has soured me greatly on “digital collectors editions”. Why should I be jumping through these hoops?
Vesper
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So I just started up… Are you guys seeing clipping issues on characters during conversations? It’s not huge, but I see people’s necks through clothing supposedly covering their necks in parts. (Have seen this on two elven females in the city elf starting area.) Also hair tends to clip through ears. I’m just curious if there’s some driver/setting issue, or if this is just an engine limitation. The ear thing I expect, the clothing issue I do not.
There’s lots of clipping in all contexts in this game - happens regularly, sometimes amusingly
Munky
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Awesome. That did the trick.
After finally finishing the download after an obscene time, now shale is stuck at downloaded and won’t install. What is this, champions online launch day?
Much of my release day excitement is now waning due to sheer incompetence on the part of whomever designed their dlc system.
The weird thing is, I logged into my account while the game was installing, registered my codes, and then launched the game, logged in via its menu, and d/l the DLC and all in-game items within probably 10 minutes. Why some people are having no issues and others tons of problems. . . .
Well, their forums are full of people having trouble with various dlc related things so yeah…
Also, in case anyone was wondering: no manual available yet on Steam, or in any of the game folders after install, as far as I can tell.
[crickets chirping]
Okay, not really a surprise, I guess.
There was a full pdf manual posted on the DA forums a while ago.
That makes it even more absurd that they don’t have it ready to go with the game download.
I think I may have sorted out my Bioware account login mess.
The Dragon Age Journeys login seems to be using my EA Master Account.
I logged in to accounts.bioware.com and there was an option to merge my accounts. I now have two accounts listed under this merged account.
I then logged in to social.bioware.com and it allowed logging in using my EA Master Account login but it showed me logged in as one of the merged accounts listed under the Master Account. Hopefully that is the way it is meant to work.
It’s still horribly confusing though and Bioware really needs to cleanup their act and present a more unified account process.
Also John did you add hyphens into the account codes? I keep getting a rejected code message.
Good review, Desslock. I laughed when I got to the part about Warcraft art design since I was ranting about it recently in the Torchlight thread (though I got over it quickly after playing for a while). Glad to see someone else is just as opinionated as I am about stuff like that.
Also appreciated the sidebar on BG2, but really groaned when I read about excessive need for TAB-highlighting. That shit is almost as bad as crate OCD. Oh well.
mono
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My Steam Deluxe edition downloaded all the extras just fine. Only took about 10 minutes, as John Reynolds described. I just had to register my keys on the Account page, and all items showed up in the game menu and downloaded without issue.
This game is fantastic, and great looking as well. I’m not regretting my splurge last month on the new ATI card.
Got everything downloaded but Warden’s Keep with the Steam CE. Warden’s Keep sitting at 0%.
Looks interesting. More talking than anything so far. 4 hours in. About to do the Joining. So quitting now before I go to bed at 4 AM.
Too bad my profile never updates on the bioware site. Showing my player beyond the character creator.
But should not be surprised with all the issues people are having. Question is. Is this a Bioware screwup or EA screwup? If EA, well no surprise there really. if Bioware, guess they have been infected.
But still interesting so far.
So I pre-loaded this yesterday, tried to run the game when I got home. I got that weird decrypting bug and restarted steam.
It decrytped fine after that, and now it’s doing what appears to be a fairly sizable update… Day 1 patch? I’m confused what is this updating nonsense?
I think I may be there as well. I’m definitely not regretting my decision to start The Witcher a few days ago, rather than waiting for Dragon Age.
Gotta say my first impression is not real positive. There are a ton of UI oddities and that game looks pretty lousy on 360…but more than that it just kinda seems to be missing a heart and soul. It feels really flat so far and like it has no real personality. Maybe it’s just cause I’m coming off Borderlands and Demon’s Souls, which both have an amazing (if very different) atmosphere.
All in all I’m feeling pretty medium on this one so far. I don’t hate it, so I’m gonna keep playing, but it just feels really flat.
I was expecting problems but had very few. I had to restart Steam about 4 times before it would start Decrypting. While decrypting I went to the social webpage, logged in with my account (that I made when I used the Character Creator) and registered whatever codes the webpage would eat. Then I did the dishes while the Decrypting took like 30-40min.
Once that was done I could launch, put in the last key and goto the Download Content area (in game now). In there I forced the little things to download by right-clicking and then started the bigger Stone Prisoner. While that was downloading I started my game. It takes a good number of hours to even get out of the on rails first areas so no worries about Stone Prisoner not being done before you start.
So far I am really enjoying it.
