Dragon Age: Origins Forum

I am running Snow Leopard 10.6.4

Earlier today I had installed Dragon Age when I came across your tips here for installing .net 3, C ++, etc so I installed it after having installed DA. It installed fairly well and the game worked with the intro and with turning on the sound in the ini file. It is the first time I have seen the intro on this mac. I played for a little while when the game crashed on me.

So I later on reinstalled Dragon Age with using the step by step instructions.

1. create a new xp bottle
2. install DirectX modern
3. install .net framework 3.0
4. install the Visual C++ 2008
5. manually install the PhysX file
6. install Dragon Age

Everything installed pretty well, but I received Runtime Library error during the install of Dragon Age, but I oked out of it. It also installed or tried to install physX, and the same failed message came up which does everytime with physX.

Microsoft Visual C ++ Runtime Library Runtime error

R6034
An application had made an attempt to lad the C runtime library incorrectly.
Plase contact the application's support team for more information.

The install finished and I clicked the icon for Dragon Age. The game screen came up and I pressed play but the C runtime error came up again, but this time it was harder to close the box. When I was able to close the stubborn box I restarted the game, but the same error came up.

For the moment it's a no go for me.

Is there something I have forgotten? What can I do?

Have a great week!

Hi Paal,

I am not sure why you are unable to actually get in game, as I am having no issues running Dragon Age on 10.6.4 (Well, aside from the Nvidia drivers being wonky). I performed almost the exact same install as you, aside from the fact that I also installed the MSXML Parser 6. I did this before I installed PhysX, though I do not remember where in the process I installed it, or if it matters. When You installed the Visual C++ 2008 redistributable, did it install the 2005 redistributable for you as well?

I'll try my best to make a new bottle tomorrow for Dragon Age and reinstall it into that bottle and give you the exact steps I performed. Maybe that will help get the game running for you.

It actually also installed the MSXML 6 parser as well

The list of installed programs from checking the Installed Applications says:

Microsoft Visual C ++ 2008 Redistributable
XML paper specification Shared Components Pack 1.0
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0
Windows Workflow Foundation
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
Microsoft Visual C ++ 2008 Redistributable - x86 9..
Windows Presentation Foundation
Nvidia PhysX ----- I installed version 9.10 someone gave a link here on the forum
Dragon Age: Origins
WIndows Communication Foundation
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 ----- installed twice for whatever reason.
Microsoft DirectX Runtime - Modern
CrossOver HTML engine
Microsoft . NET framework 2.0
MSXML 6.0 Parser (KB925673)

What a list. Now if only the C4P file could install everything and also make the sound tweak in the ini file that would be a good help.

Thanks Mike...:)

I might try again tonight. Perhaps just something happened during the install....

One more thing.

Yesterday I had installed Dragon Age the "normal" way meaning just installing the game. The intro was black and there was no sound, so similar to Crossover Games 8.1.4. I went to the forum here and saw the tips on installing additional programs. So I went ahead and installed them. But twice the installer stopped and asked me if I wanted to skip something which I did or else it would not continue since it saw I had something from it installed already. (I also turned on the sound in the ini file)

The game started opp fine and the intro video and sound worked. Yah! It is the first time here on this mac I have seen that happen. I went through character creation and began the game. After about 5-10 minutes of game time I received a Visual C++ error and I had to click ok to get out of the dialog box and had to quit the game. I restarted and game to the play screen at the beginning before the intro, and when I pressed ok the error came up again.

Since I had already installed Dragon Age before installing the additional programs a hickup was created during the install of C ++ and another program, which later on affected the gaming experience.

I reinstalled with following the recipe here on the site, and will need to try again.

So you tried reinstalling with the c4p file? How did it go?

The c4p file automatically created a bottle and installed the game for me.

It was easier but it did not adjust any other setting that I noticed. I still had to manually change the ini file to turn on the sound, and the intro video still did not work.

I am hoping whomever created it is able to take the install advice from this forum and add it to the c4p file.

Yeah, it looks like right now the c4p only really adds in a direct3d flag in HKCU in the registry. Here is what I did today, along with my results:

Removed my original Dragon Age bottle, then created a new winxp bottle.
Installed .NET 3.0, DirectX Modern, Visual C++ 2005, then 2008, MSXML 3 then 6, and PhysX (in that order)
Inserted my DVD and used the c4p file to do an express installation of Dragon Age (I used the c4p so I didn't have to manually insert that registry key)
I naturally got the installation error, but I ran the configuration utility, set my settings, and started the game.

It loaded up fine, but I forgot to enable the sound in the .ini file so I closed it out, changed the appropriate entry, and re-started the game. Character creation went fine (I did the quickplay human noble warrior) and I made sure to get to at least the point where you wake up to the attack before I made the conclusion that it was working fine.

I reinstalled and did the same as last time with the same result. Same error. Actually made a screen cast video of it just to see how it went this time. But the same Visual C ++ error came up exact same as last time.

I'll need to try out your approach the next time. It is good to collect a working recipe for getting Dragon Age.

Time for me to sleep. Good night from Norway (1.23am here)

Thank you very much Mike!

Hopefully it works for you, Paal. Let us know how it goes!

I installed and for the first time ever the configure screen worked. So I could configure the video area for graphics and texture, so I set it on high.

Started the game it skipped the intro, so I do not know if it worked. I too also received the hickup/glitch at the startup of the Bioware logo intro.

I went into the game did a quick start of a character and started playing. I went into the options to test out texture and graphics but I could see no change. I clicked for full screen and right afterward a fatal error came up and I had to quit Crossover to get out of it.

I'll do some more testing tonight.

I have tried a few different installations with the recipe but everytime the game creates a fatal error so I have to quit not only the game but Crossover as well. (Hmm now that I think of it perhaps it has to do with me adjusting the graphics in the options from low to something else.)

One interesting this I am noticing is that sometimes the 3d is blurred (looking through water blurred) right now in the background I am testing out the human noble story and when the character comes in it's really blurred (it goes from blurred to not blurred and blurred again) and the last install I had it was clear. But in the last install I also installed with it physx 9. something which I downloaded from the Nvidia site a link someone mentioned.
But it went bad when I started moving the character around the game had a fatal error.

This install I installed the game, turned on the sound through the ini file and adjusted regedit as Jennifer mentioned in the other thread. The graphics are on low and texture details are on high. Anti-Aliasing is greyed/blacked out. I just turned Frame buffer effects off.

I am guessing that earlier install had problems because I adjusted the graphics to something else then low. Well I am testing out right now so I can find out if the game just quits on me when I adjust the graphics. I turned the graphics to medium and it was nice to see the graphics actually getting better, but it lagged. Vertical sync I turned off. As I went out of the options screen the dialog box came up saying "The program DAOrigins.exe has encountered a serious problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." "This can be caused by a problem in the program or a deficiency in Wine. You many want to check http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/ for tips about running this application." ----Guess I should do that then.

Sigh. o'well.

Anybody got any ideas as to what I should try next? I guess don't touch that graphic slider thingie....

I haven't tried to alter the settings in-game, but I have had success with both the Configure link in the launcher and by editing ~/Documents/BioWare/Dragon Age/DragonAge.ini. Medium texture and model detail both work for me without any major issues, although it is a bit laggy.

Your setup works pretty well!

I worked on adding the downloadable games to the mix.

There is a folder called AddIns. I added the ones I had from a PC installation.
There is also in the Settings folder a file named AddIns.xml with info which needs to be in place. So I also copied over the file I had from the PC installation.

I restarted the game and in the Installed Content I had the 3 addons. 2 of them it said unauthorized and 1 was authorized. I don't know if they work in the game or not.

I checked out some other downloadable content and it said that it needed a newer patch so I went to http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,764647/Dragon-Age-Origins-Patch-104-released-for-download/Download/

I continued testing out various installations.

I installed a fresh copy of Dragon Age (perhaps installing the physX first not sure yet) and then updated to the newest patch. One still needs to turn on the sound in the settings dragonage.ini file. It seemed to work pretty well.

It's been a testing of various installations day.

One more thing.

I looked some more at the ini file and changed these settings since I usually do this in game anyway.

ResolutionWidth=1280
ResolutionHeight=720
FullScreen=0
UseVSync=1
GraphicsDetailLevel=1

Changing the Graphics detail to 2 makes for better visuals but there is a sense of lag going on. So it is easiest to keep it on level 1. Changing it higher will as it is now crash the game.

Have a great continued weekend!

It sounds like it's working out better for you, Paal. Glad to hear it! Did DLC work after you updated Dragon Age? If not, you could try using DAO Mod Manager, daemox mentioned it in this forum link.

The only thing I hadn't seen working completely was adding Awakening into the mix, but then again, I have been slacking on trying to figure it out.

Hi.

 DAO Mod Manager

http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=7809

Cheers!

Hey Guys,

Been busy elsewhere but I'm going to give some of the ideas above a shot and see how they work for me. My install of DAO stopped after some .ini tweaking and I was never able to get it stable again. Unfortunately, I'm back playing it on the Xbox 360, but I'll give the above a try for you know and giggles.

Also, never had any luck with Awakening myself but the Mod Mananger did wonders for my sanity while installing Addons (both official and non).

Take care,
daemox

I continued the testing.
But it seems like something more is needed for this install. Like .net 3 or DirectX Modern etc. I do not know. I have just played a little bit and in one scene the character ran and ran in one direction without stopping, and heck it was only small mice. Maybe she is afraid of mice, hmm I have not thought of that...:) It was in the larder in the kitchen the noble human character. It seemed like it had something to do with the battle scene.

Installed physX 9.10.0224
Installed 6580.c4p (I do not think there is much of a change if I had installed using the regular DVD install approach, but perhaps the maker of it will also improve it.)
Installed the patch 1.04

Adjusted DragonAge.ini

ResolutionWidth=1280
ResolutionHeight=720
FullScreen=0
UseVSync=1
GraphicsDetailLevel=1(which is medium graphics setting and it might work with some lag, if there is problems I will sett it back to 0)

SoundDisabled=0

I am figuring out that if I want to use higher then low graphic setting I will need to run the game in a window, or else it will crash. It seems It will crash anyhow on anything higher then low on graphics. For this install.

The configure screen outside of the game comes up blank in the video and audio section.

Testing out addins

I copied over 3 addins to the AddIns folder I had from a pc install.
I Also copied the AddIns.xml file (did a backup of the one that exists that is almost blank) to the Settings folder. Opened up the file and changed RequiresAuthorization="1" to 0, as I do not want it to require the authorization. (Right now I am not even sure what it implies)

I copied&pasted over some more downloadable content to the AddIns folder and added the extra content info to the xml file.

<AddInItem>

the info for addins

</AddInItem>

I restarted the game and they were all listed under the Installed Content tab.

Some of the content files were items and they showed up in the inventory.

In some of the files it tells to run the daupdater.exe in the bin_ship folder where one installed the game. To find it I went to Manage Bottles -> advanced -> Open C:Drive in Finder -> Program Files -> Dragon Age -> bin_ship -> run daupdater.exe
Another I tried running it was with Program -> Run Command and located the file and pressed run.

But I got the error: Command results

The command (the file location) returned 255 StdOut:

StdErr:wine: Install the Windows version of Mono to run.net executables.

I'll test out DAO Mod Manager at a later time.

It was cool to see that one can also add downloadable content to Dragon Age!

Edit:
I continued some testing and followed the instructions on installing Leliana' Song.

I installed .net 2 (someone tipped about that in the other thread) into the dragon age bottle risking total destruction of the game install, but what the heck.

Programs -> Run Command
bottle dragon age
Program Files -> Dragon Age -> bin_ship -> run daupdater.exe

Yes it opened! I went to Manage bottles -> advanced Open C: Drive In Finder
Temporary found a place to put them so it would be easier for me to find them through the updater program.
Clicked Select DAZips highlighted all the files to install. Installed each one.

Next in the instructions was to run a .bat file. I did a search top right for .bat and info that Ken had shared came up.

Edit2:
I went to Programs -> Run Command -> in the Command bar wrote wineconsole cmd
Wrote Y: (for my Mac home folder, C: is inside the bottle, z: is inside the root of the drive )
cd desktop
cd name of the folder to where I need to go to find the .bat file.
When I came into the folder to where the .bat file was. I wrote the name of the bat file including the extension.

Eks.
Lets say the .bat file was inside the DLC folder on the desktop:
In the dos like wineconsole cmd write:
Y:
cd desktop
cd DLC
filename.bat

It runs the .bat file.

Locate AddIns.xml in "C:/(Username)/Documents/Bioware/Dragon Age/Settings" and edit it using WordPad/notepad/textedit or any XML editor. Replace all RequiresAuthorization="1" with RequiresAuthorization="0". One can search to easier find and change.

I then started the game to see if the new content showed up. It showed up under Other Campaigns. I started the new campaign. The intro video started. I played the game for perhaps 15 minutes and it worked fine for me.

• A recap
  I installed the newest patch 1.04
  Installed Downloadable content. Some of which was just to copy and paste into the addins folder and change the addins.xml. Other content needed some more work to install.