Dragon Age: Origins Forum

I simply have black screens for video. Audio seems to be fine.

Any ideas?

I should add this is a GTX465, NVIDIA drivers 280.13, Arch Linux.

I have no flickering or the like that others seem to have experienced.

Let's see. The crosstie sets two registry keys:

      <key>HKCU\Software\Wine\AppDefaults\DAOrigins.exe\Direct3D</key>  
      <value>  
        <name>StrictDrawOrdering</name>  
        <data>enabled</data>  
      </value>

and:

      <key>HKCU\Software\Wine\AppDefaults\DAOrigins.exe\Direct3D</key>  
      <value>  
        <name>UseGLSL</name>  
        <data>enabled</data>  
      </value>

And the requirements are MS VC 2005, MS VC 2008, PhysX, and .Net 2.0.

Do you have those registry values? Did the installation of any of the requirements give any trouble?

Setting these keys did indeed fix the video issue for me, thank you.

By the way, why on earth can't we have crosstie files that install requirements/set keys without installing the program itself? Steam installer ran perfectly for me.

Good, I'm glad that worked.

Last I heard, the ninjas were still working out what to do with crossties and steam apps.

For games like DA:O, which only need a few runtimes and registry hacks, using the crosstie exclusively as a pre-installation step works pretty well. But other apps/games need more complex stuff, like post-installation operations or such, in which case the crosstie must be able to perform the installation by itself.

I dream of one day having a crosstie system for, say, X-COM on Steam, that installs Steam, confirms that I own the title, downloads it, downloads native (linux/mac) dosbox, and sets up a native dosbox environment with X-COM game data from the bottle. 😀