Dragon Age data error occurred fix

If you found this post, I'm sure you are desperate to find a fix to Dragon Age data error occurred when installing. There's a lot of people's are having the same issues and discussing over both EA (electronic arts) & bioware forum, but none of the official forum provide a fix to the problem. Can you believe that? Both company are just pushing the blame to each other and left us scratching our head. I swear I'll never buy a products that have anything to do with EA in future. What a blood sucking company that do not care about their customers, they just screw everything up.

Alright here's the good news, thanks to those gamer's who are kind enough to share their knowledge in fixing the data error occurred problems, I'm sharing it here too that's what work for me and it should probably be working for you too. It seems like many people's are experiencing the data error on different parts of installation, I've tested it both on my netbook & desktop, netbook installation stop at the very end before the data error message pop up and my desktop installation stop much earlier at around the textures extraction. But with the same copy of dragon age, it's working on my brother Dell laptop running on Windows 7 ultimate 32 bit. So yeah it's weird, it could be hardware compatible issues. Staff at EA told us that they can't reproduce the problem on their machine too, thus unlucky for a small group of people like us or large? We have to fix it ourself. Of course EA support do provide some possible fix such as moving all files to hard drive and some method are just too complicated to follow. I have one that are easier or so I think.

To fix Dragon Age data error problem, you need an extraction software 7-zip which can be downloaded free at www.7-zip.org. Winrar does not work as it does not allowed extration of corrupted files, on the other hand 7zip force extract even part of the files are broken. I'm going to post the solution in steps format to make it easier for you to follow:

1.) Copy all files from your DVD to your hard drive.

2.) Open the "installmanifest_en.ini" in data/

3.) Delete everything and left only (also change the NumberOfFiles to 0)
[Response]
NumberOfFiles=0
NumberOfInis=0
AdditionalFileSize=500000
Build=9353
SKU=ENESRetail

This will prevent the installation from extracting files from data folder and install only important registry key and some other infos.

4.) Run setup.exe and install the game into any folder in your HDDs. It should take only a few seconds as there's no files being extract to the game folder, but it's an important process to make the game work.

5.) Go to /data folder. See all those .rar files? You have to use 7-zip and extract all of them to your game folder.

6.) For example in /dragon Age folder. After extracting all files, you should see /bin_ship, /data, /modules, /docs, /packages & DAOriginsLauncher.exe in the main folder.

7.) Go to /bin_ship/ and double click daorigins.exe to start the game. You can create a shortcut on the desktop for easy access in future.

This method works for me and playing it right now. But maybe because of the CRC broken files in some .rar file, some movies & sounds do not work. For example most of the time I can't hear anything when Morrigan is speaking which isn't a big deal for me as you can still turn on the subtitle and read. Most other voice acting and movies are working perfectly fine though. If you really want to fix this problem, you can swap the broken files with your friends or other nice users on the internet.

This fix to data error problem is very easy, just a little bit more troublesome. Some other method suggested by other gamers including changing DVD rom, copying to files HDD and updating your software. But if none of above method works for you, try this method as it work for many others.

Post a comment here if you have any question. Hope after reading this, you'll be able to play dragon age in no time! Happy adventuring!