[DAO-UE Steam Version Launching Issues]

Hello, ghost. :smile:

 

Sorry you're having such troubles. I can see you've been through quite a lot.

 

The ..Documents\BioWare folder typically holds info about your install - like profile, saves, mods, that sort of thing. Unless you've changed your profile (like by unlocking specializations or earning achievements) or have some saves you'd like to keep, you can ditch the folder when you uninstall... or rather, I should say the BioWare/Dragon Age folder. The ... Documents\BioWare folder also contains files associated with other BioWare games in their respective sub-folders, which you may wish to keep.

 

Your installation lists more steps than I remember ever going through - but I install through Origin. FWIW, and if you're interested in trying a different platform - you can register your CD Key from Steam into Origin and download/install it through Origin instead.

 

Whether you stick with Steam or move to Origin, I would suggest:

-- Make sure you uninstall everything. Unless you have a profile or character save you'd like to keep, ditch .. Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age

-- Fresh install

-- Start the game and make sure it works. Create a character, play a bit.

-- Install LAA patch. (large address aware, sometimes called 4GB).

-- Play awhile, make sure everything is still working.

-- Then install mods a few at a time. Do not use Vortex to install DA mods. Make sure the game still runs okay after you've installed each (small) batch of mods.

Hi! :D

 

It's no worries, haha, It may be frustrating in the moment, but I'm overall a fairly patient person when it comes to technical stuff.

 

I actually was able to catch your reply just in time and carry out the steps you listed (with the exception that I've not installed the patch yet. I wanted to go through my mods first to make sure the problem wasn't the patcher after a restart or something, lol). I was finally able to narrow down what the issue was and it was a problem caused by the Dragon Age - Lighting Enhanced mod. Which is really weird since it still works on my laptop, but not on my desktop... It's also unfortunate since I really like this lighting mod, oof...maybe I can copy and use my laptop files to make it work. Hmm...

 

Aahh, sorry for the ramble! Thank you so, so much for your help! I would have never been able to guess it was a lighting mod that was stopping my game from launching! XD

[DAO-UE Steam Version Launching Issues]

Uh..hi! I don't think anyone really knows who I am or remembers me only as a ghost, but hi! I tend to be shy and ask a lot of questions, so I'm really sorry if I bother anyone here, however I've been running into an issue a lot recently and was hoping someone, anyone might be able to help me get this resolved (I've already asked Reddit, but in all honesty the subreddit scares me, lol).

 

Anyway, here is my issue: I recently received a new, quite powerful PC (I only say this because I've not dealt with high-end PCs like this before...) and have been reinstalling things on it. Of course my main concern was my Dragon Age games, however I am greatly struggling with just Origins at the moment.

 

To help make things easier to describe, I've attached this manifest of everything I've done up to this point (this is a record of my second attempt; it's a txt document that is clean, I just had to share it this way because I'm struggling in getting it to attach to this post for whatever reason...) and also included what I plan on doing next as well as my PC specs. I will also note that when I install mods, I will probably install Qwinn's fixpack first, since that is what I did originally on my laptop and do the LAA/4GB Switch patch later (probably the last thing I do? I'm not sure when I should do this or if the order of things even matters except in the instance of two particular mods I will be installing, so please let me know!).

 

I think that's everything. What a way to introduce yourself, ah... Anyway...thank you in advance for any and all help! I really hope we'll be able to get this working properly soon. I really want to be able to play these games on this computer...

[Struggling to get These Hairs to Work]

I'm assuming you want the hairs to show up in the in-game character creator... did you manually edit your chargenmorphcfg.xml to add the hairstyles?

 

Risi doesn't include mergeable XMLs for her individual hairstyles (tho I think the Inquisition ports package is an exception) so you must manually add the resource information to use them in the CC.

 

There's an Installation guide on her blog, with basic info on the process. Note that rather than copy/pasting the resource info for the style from the site, you should type it out... the site uses smart quotes and the XML requires straight quotes. (Make a safe backup of the chargenmorphcfg.xml before opening it or editing anything; you want a 'known good' file to fall back on in the event of something going wrong!)

 

If I've misinterpreted what your issue is, I apologize! In that case, please repost with more information on exactly how they aren't working, and we'll try to figure it out.

Ah, you explained it perfectly fine! Thank you so much, your comment helped me get the hairs to work perfectly!

 

I apologize for how vague this post was, too. I was getting stressed from the whole situation (and my forum posts are always so awkward anyway, ahh). TwT;; Thank you so much again, though! You really helped me out so much!!

[Struggling to get These Hairs to Work]

I want to use these two hairstyles for my elf, but they are the only ones that are not showing up in my game. All my other mods are working fine (after a few hours of fixing them), I just can't get these ones to work. Am I missing a step to installing them or something...?

 

Hairs I want, but aren't showing up despite having them installed:

- https://mrs-risibisi.tumblr.com/post/173638577559/look-hair-hair-depositorymore-look-hair

- https://mrs-risibisi.tumblr.com/post/159277894234/look-hair-hair-depositorymore-look-hair