Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening is the first expansion pack to the succesfull role playing game Dragin Age: Origins. It offers a new area of the world to explore known as Amaranthine, featuring a story that will allow players to unravel the secrets of the darkspawn and their true motivations!
Players will face a range of horrific and terrifying creatures including an evolved, intelligent breed of darkspawn and other menacing creatures such as the Inferno Golem and Spectral Dragon. Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening provides exciting new ways for players to customize their heroes and party, including the ability to re-spec their character attributes, allowing even greater customization and replayability. Featuring an increased level cap, new spells, abilities, specializations and items, plus five all-new party members, players can continue their adventures from Dragon Age, or begin with a brand new party.
System Requirements
Alright please make sure your pc/laptop has the required hardware before installing… you might run into errors or bad gameplay if you dont.
| Intel CPU | - | Intel Core 2 DUO 1.4 GHz |
| AMD CPU | - | AMD Athlon64 X2 1.8 GHz |
| Nvidia Graphics Card | - | nVidia GeForce 6600 128MB |
| ATI & Intel Graphics Card | - | ATI Radeon X850 128MB |
| RAM | - | 1 GB |
| Hard Disk Space | - | 20 GB |
| Direct X | - | 9.0c |
Downloading
You can get Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening right here:
Installation & Cracking
Installation is simple but please make sure dragon age origins is installed
- optional: Install Dragon Age: Origins (the installation is required, but this step is optional since you might already have it)
- Extract RARs.
- Mount or Burn the cd image (iso file).
- Run the installer.
- When you are prompted for a serial browse the mounted iso and go to the crack folder. There is a keygen in there.
- Finish the installation but dont start the game.
- Go to the crack folder on your mounted iso again and copy all contents except for the keygen.
- Go to your installation directory and paste the files you just copied in there, when asked overwrite existing files.
- You should be good to go now!
Frequently asked questions
Q: How on earth do i start the expansion?
A: you start the expansion true Dragon Age : Origins main menu. Its under “other Campaigns”
Final Words
I hope this guide was usefull and you didnt run into any strange problems. However you might have and if you post a comment with your problem i will do my best to help you!
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31 Comments
Joshua Teh
Posted on: June 4th, 2010 at 19:01
I have downloaded Awakening and have tried to follow your instructions. However, when I try to run setup after mounting the iso file, it keeps telling me that Dragon Age: Origins needs to be installed on my computer. This is driving me crazy, as Dragon Age: Origins IS installed on my computer; I just finished the game yesterday! How do I get around this? Thanks!
Joshua Teh
Posted on: June 4th, 2010 at 19:09
Oh, and on top of that, if I run the setup with my original Dragon Age:Origins start-up screen on, it tells me that I have to close all my running components of Origins before I can install Awakening. So how come it can detect Origins AND not detect it at the same time? I can’t understand this!
Panuary
Posted on: June 4th, 2010 at 20:20
Hello, Joshua Teh.
This first problem you stated is often encountered when the installer cannot find the files it is looking for because it has insufficient user privileges or is looking for files that are non-existent (e.g. external hard-drive or portable devices).
Did you install DA Origins with another user account? If so, you need to change the permissions of the directory to allow Full Access to the Users group (right-click -> properties -> permissions).
The second issue is axiomatic – it is detecting the application. The installer is likely set up to detect programs that are being run and will usually request that you close them before continuing with the installation.
The ‘real’ problem you are trying to solve is in relation to the installation of the expansion. The quick solution that may also risk your game data (please backup your saved games and other files in your documents folder) is to reinstall DA Origins and then the expansion. You can then import the game data into the game save folder.
Joshua Teh
Posted on: June 5th, 2010 at 05:03
Hi Panuary,
DA Origins is installed on my computer, not on an external hard-drive or portable device. And there’s only one user on my computer – myself. So I’m guessing that’s not the issue.
Could the problem be cause by how I came to get the game in the first place? I copied the DA Origins file wholesale from my friend’s external hard-disk into my computer hard-drive. There was no installation process, but the game runs just fine. Could that be the cause it is unable to be detected, that it was not installed in the proper manner? There is no ‘setup.exe’ in the folder I have, because it was already the complete installed version. Hope this makes sense.
Thanks and cheers!
Panuary
Posted on: June 5th, 2010 at 18:24
Hi Joshua, seems like the problem has been found.
Yes, the registry entries are not on your computer and that’s why the expansion update didn’t work, so you will need to install it with the installer. I think there could be a workaround if you can copy the registry entries from your friend’s computer over to yours so the installer knows “where” you installed DA Origins.
Search for Origins in the Windows Registry, or to save the hassle, install DA Origins with the installer because that’s the only way to get things straightened out.
This also happened to me when copying over my friend’s Warcraft III and failed to install the expansion called The Frozen Throne. I solved the problem by making a string named “InstallPath” under the game’s registry key, and set its value to my game directory. After that the patches could be installed properly.
Also, please make sure you have the Awakening disc, and not the DA Origins, but that’s pretty much self-explanatory so I’ll be here to help however I can.
PS next time, install means that you ran the installer for the game. This is known as the installation process. The reason why this is so important is that when installing patches or updates (such as expansions) the patch tries to find the install directory via the Windows Registry under the game’s string, e.g. Blizzard Entertainment > Warcraft III > InstallPath.
If the entry is invalid (cannot be found) then the patch will say that it has failed to locate the game, in this case DA Origins.
Joshua Teh
Posted on: June 6th, 2010 at 10:16
Hi Panuary,
Thanks for the advice. Seems I’ve found the root of my problem. However, I don’t have DA Origins, and the friend I copied the game from is in another state! Is it possible for me to create a string by myself, and if so, how do I do that? I’m sorry if I sound like a noob, but I’m pretty much out of my depth here, haha… Thanks again for responding, and cheers!
Panuary
Posted on: June 7th, 2010 at 03:51
A possible solution is to make a key in your registry under HKLM.
right-click HKLM\SOFTWARE\-> new key ->name BioWare
right-click BioWare -> new key -> name Dragon Age
right-click Dragon Age -> new string
As shown below:-
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BioWare\Dragon Age]
“Language”=”en”
“ProductName”=”Dragon Age: Origins”
“Path”=”{PATH}”
“Flavour”=”DVD”
“GUID”=”{AEC81925-9C76-4707-84A9-40696C613ED3}”
“StartMenu”=”C:\\ProgramData\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Dragon Age Origins\\”
“GameExplorer”=”{ED152CFD-3634-42F3-8C91-A1F4D5329442}”
The above excerpt was found here.
However, for best results you should download DA Origins that Demon linked to in his post above.
No prob, I hope it works out for you.
OmegaGriever
Posted on: June 9th, 2010 at 16:50
for some ppl got installation problem
for example : install fail during the extracting v1.03 patch ,
try run the Setup under Windows 2000 compatibility
hope it able to help you guys
Grod
Posted on: June 24th, 2010 at 18:58
So it installed fine, but when I go into the game, the “Other Campaigns” button is still grayed out and I can’t click it. I tried installing again but it said Awakening was already installed. What should I do?
Yes, me and you have the same problem but it seems no one has a fix.
This might work for us, I’m about to reinstall again and try it: http://social.bioware.com/forum/Dragon-Age-Origins/Dragon-Age-Origins-PC-Technical-Support/Awakening-installed-amp-not-working-Are-you-serious-1806835-1.html
Shan
Posted on: June 29th, 2010 at 12:54
can i install dragon age awakening without completing dragon age orgins
bob
Posted on: July 3rd, 2010 at 14:54
so i got the razor and mounted it hit setup it goes all the way to registration code i use keygen hit next and it comes up …
“the installation of dragonage: origins – awakening has failed”
i cant find away around it
Hey, I think i figured it out, right click on the setup.exe, and choose troubleshoot compatability (windows 7) or properties-compatability mode.
Hope this helps!
Thanks Green, that helped
He is right, right click troubleshoot compatibility and let Windows make some changes. It worked perfect for me.
Green
Posted on: July 13th, 2010 at 20:21
I have the same problem as bob. Is there a fix?
I have the same problem, as bob it failes at the setup of 1.03 patch. Any solutions yet?
Michael
Posted on: July 16th, 2010 at 08:17
Both darkspawn chrons and awakening the enemies just sit and do nothing. Also companians just sit unless I command them.
Appears I install okay
Whats up?
if you’re on the computer, try pressing “H”
Thank you Justin,
Thats not the problem. I have the origional game and it plays fine (enemies attack, friends attack). When I start awakening they just stand there. I can hack away at them. When I press H it just causes my friends to stand still or move with me when I move, but they still wont attack unless I tell them to and then just once (my character also).
Any other ideas?
Michael
Posted on: July 17th, 2010 at 08:44
Figured it out. After some thought I tried removing some of my downloaded content by trial and error.
The item in question is ‘advanced tactics 2.3′. Once disabled the game plays fine.
Hope this posting helps others somehow.
Napalm
Posted on: July 17th, 2010 at 20:39
I am having trouble installing. I’ve tried every solution I can find. I downloaded the torent, extracted the ISO. Mounted with Daemon Tools Lite. I’ve run the setup.exe in every compatible version, and it still wont work. I’m running on Windows 7. Any ideas or solutions would be greatly appreciated.
robert
Posted on: July 24th, 2010 at 15:06
I’m having the same problems as bob is above. My DA origins work fine but I have problems installing awakening. I’ve already tried setting my compatibility to windows 2000 but that did not help.
robert
Posted on: July 24th, 2010 at 15:27
I finally figured out what the error message was that I was unable to see during installation. I was able to capture it on my computer screen and paste it on a word document.
*******************************************************************************
Old file not found. However, a file of same name was found. No update done since file contents do not match
******************************************************************************
my dragon age orgins version is 1.03.
pat
Posted on: August 7th, 2010 at 07:05
“Other Campaigns” is always greyed out and I’ve retried and uninstalled/reinstalled atleast 10 times now and have no idea what the problem is. I follow the instructions VERY carefully each time and get access to awakening. However the original campaign works flawlessly.
Peter
Posted on: August 15th, 2010 at 17:18
how do you extract the RAR files, and i cant mount the ISO, please help.
Right click and press “extract here”
the iso pops out and you should mount it with something like daemon tools
Ryan
Posted on: August 20th, 2010 at 12:50
same problem as robert
set it to 2000 but it doesn’tn work
please help!
Fire spinner
Posted on: September 2nd, 2010 at 04:08
I had skidrows DA origins installed (I didnt patch it so I dunno if it was patched automatically or there wasnt any patch), so I downloaded Awakening, installed, patched to 1.03, inserted crack, and when I want to play it says “Cannot find DA disc, please insert the disc and try again” if the DA origins disc is mounted, or “Failed to authenticate the disc, please insert the correct disc and try again” if the DA awakening disc is mounted. It also gives me a “fmod_event.dll” error when I try to launch the game without launcher but via crack. I have downloaded that .dll file and put it into system32 but it didnt help.
Anyone knows what to do? this is the second time i’ve played all the way threw origins as fun as it is i would hate to have to do it again…
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