Startup problems

[DerellLicht]

I had downloaded and run the Trial version of DA:I, and it worked fine. I really liked initial play, so purchased and installed GOTY version (in different directory than Trial version). I then un-installed the Trial version.

 

I then, perhaps, made a mistake, though I'm not sure. I installed version 1.0.0.8 of DAI Mod Manager, and installed a couple of mods.

 

Then I tried to play the game, but many things are wrong. First, I keep failing to log into the game servers, it keeps saying "servers are down, try again later". This wasn't a problem with Trial version. I'm logged into Origin, but cannot log into the DAI servers.

 

Then, after clicking OK on that, it opens the game in some kind of "windowed full screen" mode; I see a frame around the game window, and my Windows taskbar is still visible, which is blocking things that I need to access.

 

I then went back to Origin and told it to repair the installation, which completed successfully, but did not address this situation.

 

So what did I do to mess this up?? Is this just caused by failure to log into servers? Or was it caused by the Mod Manager? Should I completely re-install the game? Just to re-iterate, the Trial version was running beautifully.

My system:
Windows 7 64-bit, all updates installed

CPU: Intel Core-i7-3820

NVidia GTX 980, 4GB RAM, with current video drivers

16GB computer RAM