I wanted to try replaying DA:O on the PC for the first time (previously only played on 360), so a few days I go I purchased the ultimate edition off of EA Origin client, downloaded it and all the DLC from origin and started playing. I'm about 20 hours in and just realized that NONE of the DLC content is showing up (never showed up from the beginning). On the start page of the game when I click the DLC tab, nothing shows up - nothing is available, nothing is installed. When I look at the game details in Origin, it says all of the DLC (e.g. stone prisoner, awakening, witch hunt, etc) is installed.
I tried searching online and found a lot of different threads, but most of them seem to relate to past issues with having downloaded it from Steam or problems with compatibility between people who bought the game on disc and then downloaded DLC from online. I have never purchased, downloaded, played or done anything with DA:O or any other dragon age game on this computer (or any computer actually), so my download and installation from Origin should have been totally clean without any old files around to create problems.
I did find this thread, and attempted to follow the steps on the last post in the thread regarding running SetupAddins.exe and Touchup.exe:
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Dragon-Age-Origins/Possible-fix-for-DLC-not-showing-up-in-game-with-Origin...
However, this did not change anything. These files were located at: C:/Program Files (x86)/Origin Games/Dragon Age/ From that location, I went into the _Installer folder and clicked SetupAddins application, but nothing happens when I click that. I also clicked the Cleanup and Touchup applications in that folder, after which I get the message asking if I want to allow changes, I click yes and then nothing happens. So also not sure if that's actually doing anything either. I also went into the addins folder and it does appear all the DLC is appropriately installed there. I went into each DLC folder and clicked the touchup and cleanup applications if they had them (not every DLC folder had them). The same thing happened as before, but I went through and did it on every folder just in case.
Of course none of this helped and still none of the DLC is showing up. I did find the bioware folder where my game save is as well: C:\Users\atkru\Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age; and that folder also has an AddIns folder. When I clicked that folder, there was nothing in it. I tried copying all the folders in the addins folder from the program files just to see if that did anything, which it did not.
I made a help request on EA live chat, which was completely useless, after the basic stuff didn't work, the guy literally sent me to an EA user forum post from 2013 and told me to do what it said on that post, which I KNEW was not the issue as that post was talking about issues with having downloaded the game off of Steam (which again, I did not, I downloaded off of EA's Origin client). The chat ended up kicking me out after back and forth, I kinda wonder if he did it on purpose but at that point it was super late and I just gave up. I started a new chat and literally after I explained everything all over again, he then told me that their "internal system was down" and asked me to try contacting them again in a few hours. Such complete garbage.
So, that leads me here - if there is anyone out there who had the same or similar problem and has a solution? I seriously don't understand how I can buy this game as a single package (ultimate edition) from the company that produced the freaking game and download it fresh and none of the DLC be working from the start.
Don't know if this matters but I'm using a PC running on Windows 10.
