Dragon Age: Origins Forum

I'm having a page fault immediately after starting DA:O with CrossOver 13.0. I'm using the Ultimate Edition downloaded from Steam. If someone wiser in the ways of Wine could advise, I'd appreciate it. From what I can tell from the forum, no one has experienced this particular failure mode before--or perhaps they managed to fix it themselves.

What's happening, exactly, is that the launcher screen comes up, followed immediately by the "serious problem" crash message. The log file is pretty opaque to me, but it appears to be a page fault in wine-loader. I'd gladly post the relevant portion of the log file, but someone will need to tell me which section to post.

I've gone through Steam's troubleshooting algorithm as well as applying the 4Gb patch referenced in another forum post, and I've reinstalled several components in case they got corrupted (C++ redistributable, .Net 2.0 SP2, and PhysX). I've also tried directing Wine to launch the DA:O launcher as Vista, Win7, and Win8 in addition to the usual WinXP, to no avail. That's about all I can think of to do, save randomly changing settings.

This particular machine is an i7 MacBook Air--so it's running HD5000 graphics rather than a discrete chip. I would have thought that would at worst degrade graphics performance to an unusable level, not cause a page fault. (Figured it was worth a try, since Steam had the game on special for $8!)

Ideas? As I said, any help would be appreciated.

It looks like a Steam update released today broke Steam in CrossOver on both OS X and Linux. We're aware of the problem, and are troubleshooting.

We'll let you know for sure when we know more.

Applied the 13.0.1 update--no joy. The issue is not Steam itself crashing, but the DAOriginsLauncher.exe page faulting. Several other games (Skyrim, Fallout:New Vegas) start flawlessly, as does the Steam client.

Any other possibilities you can think of?

The DA: O launcher crash might be related to a Mass Effect 2 launcher crash that I noticed during the CX13 beta cycle.

Luckily you don't really need the launcher to play the game. If Steam does not present you with the option to run either the game or the launcher, you could create an additional shortcut. Select the bottle where DA:O is installed then click the "Run Command" button, browse to where the game executable is installed (somewhere under C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common. Lastly, don't forget to check the option to create a launcher (shortcut). The same "trick" can be applied for the config utility.

HTH

Interesting. If I directly run DAOrigins.exe, it apparently CALLS the launcher--I still get the same page fault in DAOriginsLauncher.exe.

I note from the configuration utility (which still runs) that X11 is active. Perhaps switching to XQuartz would help?

Managed to get past the launcher: install DirectX myself rather than relying on Steam or the CrossTie to do it.

Now DA:O starts but either the graphics are completely messed up or I get a kernel panic, depending on the graphics settings. Sigh.

I've just installed this on my Ubuntu 12.04 64bit machine and.... the launcher works just fine for me. So this might happen only on Macs or only on your certain type of macbook or even just on your machine :/ I did find another bug, but... it's not related to the problem described here. Sorry :(

Kernel panic suggests faulty hardware, crap drivers or an unfortunate combination of both.

Wouldn't be the first hardware defect I've encountered; I will try the install on my other Mac. It's older (2007 vintage), but it has discrete graphics whereas this one doesn't. I've also got a full copy of Windows XP running on it in a VirtualBox that I can try for comparison on that machine. Will post if I learn anything.

i have the same problem, it doesn't start and, even if i go trough the launcher.
it start installing directs then crashes.
can't understand why.
the file error is

Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x465064a0 in 32-bit code (0x4800e7ce).
Register dump:
 CS:001b SS:0023 DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:1027 GS:000f
 EIP:4800e7ce ESP:034ef200 EBP:034ef248 EFLAGS:00010246(  R- --  I  Z- -P- )
 EAX:034ef228 EBX:4800e774 ECX:46506480 EDX:03038268
 ESI:40236e40 EDI:00820004
Stack dump:
0x034ef200:  03038268 034ef228 034ef220 9135c893
0x034ef210:  30000400 10000000 00000010 00000000
0x034ef220:  4075e3c0 9136a190 034ef248 9136a1b8
0x034ef230:  401b6000 4075e3c0 00000010 00000082
0x034ef240:  4800e760 000003f0 034ef258 9ab57b29
0x034ef250:  00820004 034ef308 034ef278 9ab45cd5
0204: sel=1027 base=7ff80000 limit=00000fff 32-bit rw-
Backtrace:
=>0 0x4800e7ce in <wine-loader> (+0x4800e7ce) (0x034ef248)
  1 0x9ab57b29 (0x034ef258)
  2 0x9ab45cd5 (0x034ef278)
  3 0x4800eb38 in <wine-loader> (+0x4800eb37) (0x034ef298)
  4 0x9aab7ee5 (0x034ef2b8)
  5 0x9aab7f3f (0x034ef2c8)
  6 0x948f6442 (0x034ef2e8)
  7 0x481b0204 in <wine-loader> (+0x481b0203) (0x034ef318)
  8 0x481d083a in <wine-loader> (+0x481d0839) (0x034ef328)
  9 0x481e12e5 in <wine-loader> (+0x481e12e4) (0x034ef358)
  10 0x481936e0 in <wine-loader> (+0x481936df) (0x034ef3c8)
  11 0x9ab5798b (0x034ef3e8)
  12 0x9ab45d47 (0x034ef408)
  13 0x9ab45d87 (0x034ef418)
  14 0x481928b6 in <wine-loader> (+0x481928b5) (0x034ef448)
  15 0x9aab7ee5 (0x034ef468)
  16 0x9aab7f3f (0x034ef478)
  17 0x94ad9426 (0x034ef498)
  18 0x9492242b (0x034ef618)
  19 0x9492f98f (0x034ef648)
  20 0x48010475 in <wine-loader> (+0x48010474) (0x034ef678)
  21 0x7bc6e2cc in <wine-loader> (+0x7bc6e2cb) (0x034ef698)
  22 0x7bc6f37a in <wine-loader> (+0x7bc6f379) (0x034ef718)
  23 0x7bc6e292 in <wine-loader> (+0x7bc6e291) (0x034ef738)
  24 0x7bc76457 in <wine-loader> (+0x7bc76456) (0x034eff88)
  25 0x9909a5fb (0x034effa8)
  26 0x9909a485 (0x034effc8)
  27 0x9909fcf2 (0x034effec)
0x4800e7ce: andb    $0x37,%al
Modules:
Module    Address            Debug info    Name (38 modules)
ELF           0-82001000    Stabs           <wine-loader>
PE      400000-  533000    Deferred        daoriginslauncher
PE    10000000-100a6000    Deferred        gameoverlayrenderer
PE    405a0000-405a4000    Deferred        advapi32
PE    41390000-41394000    Deferred        rpcrt4
PE    41710000-41728000    Deferred        wininet
PE    41780000-4178a000    Deferred        mpr
PE    43810000-4384b000    Deferred        user32
PE    43940000-43947000    Deferred        gdi32
PE    43a60000-43a64000    Deferred        version
PE    43a80000-43a88000    Deferred        shlwapi
PE    43ae0000-43c3d000    Deferred        shell32
PE    43d00000-43d2f000    Deferred        comctl32
PE    43df0000-43df3000    Deferred        msimg32
PE    43e00000-43e98000    Deferred        comdlg32
PE    43ef0000-43efa000    Deferred        winspool
PE    43f30000-43f53000    Deferred        oledlg
PE    43f60000-43f68000    Deferred        ole32
PE    44070000-44078000    Deferred        oleaut32
PE    44180000-44184000    Deferred        ws2_32
PE    441b0000-44226000    Deferred        winmm
PE    44260000-44264000    Deferred        imm32
PE    442f0000-44394000    Deferred        winemac
PE    46060000-46063000    Deferred        avicap32
PE    46260000-46268000    Deferred        wineps
PE    46390000-4639d000    Deferred        msxml
PE    463b0000-463c1000    Deferred        urlmon
PE    46440000-46446000    Deferred        mciqtz32
PE    46530000-46534000    Deferred        dsound
PE    46570000-46579000    Deferred        msacm32
PE    465c0000-465c6000    Deferred        devenum
PE    465f0000-465f4000    Deferred        mmdevapi
PE    46610000-46613000    Deferred        winecoreaudio
PE    467d0000-467d3000    Deferred        msacm32
PE    467e0000-467e3000    Deferred        midimap
PE    69b10000-69c14000    Deferred        msxml3
PE    7b810000-7b9ad000    Deferred        kernel32
PE    7bc10000-7bc14000    Deferred        ntdll
Threads:
process  tid      prio (all id:s are in hex)
0000000c services.exe
    0000001c    0
    0000001b    0
    00000012    0
    0000000e    0
    0000000d    0
00000010 winedevice.exe
    0000001a    0
    00000017    0
    00000015    0
    00000011    0
00000018 plugplay.exe
    0000001e    0
    0000001d    0
    00000019    0
00000025 explorer.exe
    00000027    0
    00000026    0
00000029 winewrapper.exe
    0000002a    0
0000002b winewrapper.exe
    0000002c    0
0000002d sendwndcmd.exe
    0000002e    0
0000002f steam.exe
    00000032    0
    00000065    0
    00000059    0
    00000063    0
    00000062    0
    0000005a    0
    00000057    0
    00000056    0
    00000053    0
    00000052    0
    00000051    0
    00000050    0
    0000004f    0
    0000004e    0
    0000004d    0
    0000004c    0
    0000004b    0
    0000004a    0
    00000049    0
    00000048    0
    00000009    0
    00000039    0
    00000037    0
    00000036    0
    0000001f    0
    00000020    0
    00000022    0
    00000024    0
    00000028    0
    0000000b    0
    00000047    0
    00000046    0
    00000045    0
    00000044    0
    00000043    0
    00000042    0
    00000041    0
    00000040    0
    0000003f    0
    0000003e    0
    0000003d    0
    0000003c    0
    0000003b    0
    00000038    0
    00000035    0
    00000034    0
    00000030    0
00000061 (D) C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Dragon Age Ultimate Edition\DAOriginsLauncher.exe
    0000005d    0
    00000067    0
    0000005c    0 <==
    0000005e    0
    00000064    0
    00000055    0
    0000005b    0
System information:
    Wine build: wine-1.7.4-7212-g3738b01
    Platform: i386
    Host system: Darwin
    Host version: 13.0.0

any help?

I had this exact problem. Installing DirectX 9.0 using the Install Software menu option got me past the launcher crash.

Haven't played the game yet though.