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Dragon Age Origins Guide

Discussion in 'Guides' started by booman, Dec 19, 2015.

  • by booman, Dec 19, 2015 at 7:10 PM
  • booman

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    Dragon Age: Origins is an party-based action RPG. Choose to begin as an Elf, Human or Dwarf and train to become a Gray Warden. Interact in a detailed story as you rid the world of Darkspawn, ghosts, dragons and more.

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    Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Dragon Age: Origins in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

    Note: This guide applies to the Origin version of Dragon Age: Origins. Other versions may require additional steps.

    Tips & Specs:

    To learn more about PlayOnLinux and Wine configuration, see the online manual: PlayOnLinux Explained

    Mint 17.2 64-bit
    PlayOnLinux: 4.2.9
    Wine: 1.7.51-staging

    Wine Installation

    Click Tools
    Select "Manage Wine Versions"
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    Look for the Wine Version: 1.7.55-staging
    Select it
    Click the arrow pointing to the right
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    Click Next

    Downloading Wine
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    Extracting

    Downloading Gecko
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    Installed
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    Wine 1.7.55-staging is installed and you can close this window

    Download OriginSetup.exe

    Go to: download.dm.origin.com/origin/live/OriginSetup.exe
    Navigate to your desktop
    Click Save
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    PlayOnLinux Setup

    Launch PlayOnLinux
    Click Install
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    Click "Install a non-listed program"
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    Click Next

    Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
    Click Next
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    Name your virtual drive: daorigins
    Click Next
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    Check all three options:
    • Use another version of Wine
    • Configure Wine
    • Install some libraries
    Click Next
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    Select "Wine 1.7.55-staging"
    Click Next
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    Select "32 bits windows installation"
    Click Next
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    Wine Configuration

    Applications Tab
    Windows version: Windows 7
    Click Apply
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    Graphics Tab
    Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
    Check "Emulate a virtual desktop"
    Click OK
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    Installing Packages (Libraries, Components, DLL's)

    Check the following packages:
    • POL_Install_corefonts
    • POL_Install_d3dx9
    • POL_Install_physx
    • POL_Install_tahoma
    • POL_Install_vcrun2005
    • POL_Install_vcrun2008
    • POL_Install_vcrun2010
    • POL_Install_vcrun2012
    Click Next
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    Click Browse

    Installing Origin Client

    Navigate to your Desktop
    Select OriginSetup.exe
    Click Open
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    Click Next Again

    Uncheck all options:
    Click Install
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    Check "I have read and accept..."
    Click OK

    At this point the client will try to launch, but will crash

    Killing Origin Process

    Alt+Tab to PlayOnLinux
    Click Configure
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    Wine Tab
    Click "Kill Processes"
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    PlayOnLinux Shortcut

    Select Origin.exe
    Click Next
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    Name the shortcut: Dragon Age: Origins
    Click Next
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    Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
    Click Next
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    Back to Configure

    General Tab
    Wine version: 1.7.55-staging
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    Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down arrow to select other versions of Wine

    Display Tab
    GLSL: disable
    Video memory size: Enter the amount of memory your video card/chip uses
    Strict Draw Rendering: enable
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    Note: Enabling Strict Draw Rendering fixes the choppy cutscenes

    Close Configure

    Origin Directory Permissions

    If you launch Origin it will crash every time
    This is because of the In Game Overlay
    We have to do this manually by renaming some files
    But, the Origin folder is locked

    Go to the Origin Directory
    Path: /home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/Origin/Drive_C/Program Files/
    Right click
    Select Properties
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    Click Dropdown next to "Owner"
    Select "Create and delete files"
    Click "Apply Permissions to Enclosed Files"
    Click Close
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    Rename:
    igoproxy.exe
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    To:
    igoproxy-old.exe
    igoproxy64-old.exe
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    Note: When Origin updates, you will need to repeat these steps

    Launching Origin

    Back to PlayOnLinux
    Select Origin
    Click Run
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    Note: Click Debug to see errors and bugs

    Login to Origin
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    Note: Check "Remember password" to make launching games easier

    Turn off In Game Overlay
    Click Origin Menu
    Go to "Application Settings"
    Click "Origin In Game"
    Uncheck "Enable Origin In Game"

    Note: In Game Overlay causes Dragon Age to crash at launch

    Installing Dragon Age: Origins

    Select Dragon Age: Origins
    Click Download
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    Uncheck "Create start menu shortcut"
    Uncheck "Create desktop shortcut"
    Click Continue
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    End User License Agreement
    Check "I have read..."
    Click Continue
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    Note: Origin may crash when Dragon Age is done downloading

    Back to PlayOnLinux

    Dragon Age and Config Shortcuts

    Select Dragon Age: Origins
    Click Configure again

    General Tab
    Click "Make a new shortcut in this virtual drive"
    Select DAOriginsConfigure.exe
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    Name it: Dragon Age Configure

    Select daorigins.exe
    Name it: Dragon Age: Origins
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    Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
    Click Next to finish

    Dragon Age Config

    Select Dragon Age Config
    Click Run
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    Adjust:
    • Resolution
    • Aspect Ratio
    • Graphics Detail
    • Anti-Aliasing
    • Texture Detail - SET TO MEDIUM!
    • Play in Full-Screen mode
    • Verticaly Sync
    • Frame-Buffer Effects
    • Disable Mutiple Render targets
    • Disable Aspect Ratio correction
    • Disable Intro Movies
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    Note: Texture Quality has to be set on "Medium" to reduce Memory Leaks and artifacts

    Save Settings
    Click Dragon Age: Origins Menu
    Click Save Settings
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    Launching Dragon Age: Origins

    Select Dragon Age: Origins
    Click Run
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    In Game Options
    Click Options
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    Click Video Tab
    Adjust Graphics settings
    Click OK
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    Conclusion:
    Once I figured out the Origin In Game Overlay was causing Dragon Age Origins to crash at launch, it ran perfectly fine. Performance is great on my GeForce 550 Ti.
    With texture quality on high I experienced missing textures, graphical artifacts, memory leaks and super low FPS. The main solution was to set textures on Medium and all of those symptoms were fixed. Unfortunately the textures aren't as crisp and beautiful, but its better than not playing at all.

    Gameplay Video:



    Screenshots:
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    Last edited: Mar 23, 2018
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Discussion in 'Guides' started by booman, Dec 19, 2015.

  1. Marlhin
    Good guide as always and an absolutely great game!
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  2. mrdeathjr28
    Very good guide

    However in my case use high quality in textures and works good, however graphic detail stay on medium



    in 0:38 second appears graphic settings used

    :)
  3. booman
    Thanks guys! It took some research and trial-n-error to get Dragon Age: Origins running...
    This is definitely an immersive Bioware game!
    Sucks that I have to play with textures on medium, but it plays nicely!
  4. Mhancock2
    Ok I am back again with another question. I am trying to install Dragon age. I did the guide. When I click on it it starts and goes to the Dragon age screen. Then an error pops up that appears to be a wine error. Error I utilizing physic. Please visit nvidia.com/physx for updated drivers. I hit Ok and it crashes.
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  5. booman
    Ok, the first thing I always suggest is trying a newer version of Wine since this guide is a bit old.

    Definitely try a "staging" version of Wine as well.

    You might be able to install the package: physx
    But it has to be installed before you start installing the game.
  6. Mhancock2
    I got it figured out. What I did was under the wine config, install components that is an option. I checked it. It installed and the game started working. Thanks for your help.
  7. booman
    Great!
    Do you know which components it installed?
  8. Mhancock2
    That physx component. It was listed as a cmponent I could installed. I just clicked it and installed it. Simple as that.
  9. booman
    Hmm, physx component isn't in my guide. I'll add it.
    Thanks for confirming!
  10. Mhancock2
    Ok I have searched and haven't found anything yet. How about Dragon Age 2?
  11. Mhancock2
    I have got it installed. I click on the Icon and the start screen pops up but then nothing else ever happens. The game never loads.
  12. ssj2songohan
    got an error while installing PhysX:
    Code:
    0055:err:winediag:ODBC_LoadDriverManager failed to open library "libodbc.so.1": libodbc.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
    
    Running on OpenSuSE Leap 15.0
    Code:
    Wine Prefix Arch: 32 Bit
    Wine Version: 3.16
    
    GLSL: default
    Direct Draw: default
    Video mem size: 4096
    Offscreen: default
    Render Target: default
    Multisampling: default
    Strict Draw: default
    
    solved the problem with linking some libraries
    Code:
    locate libodbc | grep "/usr/lib"
    ...
    /usr/lib/libodbc.so
    /usr/lib/libodbc.so.2
    /usr/lib/libodbc.so.2.0.0
    /usr/lib/libodbccr.so
    /usr/lib/libodbccr.so.2
    /usr/lib/libodbccr.so.2.0.0
    /usr/lib/libodbcinst.so
    /usr/lib/libodbcinst.so.2
    /usr/lib/libodbcinst.so.2.0.0
    ...
    /usr/lib64/libodbc.so
    /usr/lib64/libodbc.so.2
    /usr/lib64/libodbc.so.2.0.0
    /usr/lib64/libodbccr.so
    /usr/lib64/libodbccr.so.2
    /usr/lib64/libodbccr.so.2.0.0
    /usr/lib64/libodbcinst.so
    /usr/lib64/libodbcinst.so.2
    /usr/lib64/libodbcinst.so.2.0.0
    ...
    
    ln -s /usr/lib64/libodbc.so /usr/lib64/libodbc.so.1
    ln -s /usr/lib/libodbc.so /usr/lib/libodbc.so.1
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  13. booman
    Very nice! So strange that Physx needed linked libraries for libodbc.so.1 when that is a Linux library not a Windows one.
    Thanks for your post!

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