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Dragon Age II

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Dragon Age II
Dragon Age II cover
Developers
BioWare
macOS (OS X) TransGaming Inc.
Publishers
Electronic Arts
Engines
Lycium
Release dates
Windows March 8, 2011
macOS (OS X) March 8, 2011
Dragon Age II guide on StrategyWiki
Dragon Age II on Wikipedia
Dragon Age
Dragon Age: Origins 2009
Dragon Age II 2011
Dragon Age: Inquisition 2014
Dragon Age: Dreadwolf TBA

Key points

Saves can be imported from Dragon Age: Origins.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Requires online activation
CD key
SecuROM 7 DRM in .exe file.
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Origin
Origin
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam CD key can be activated on Origin.[1]

DLC and expansion packs

All of the DLC is now available in a bundle on Origin.
Name Notes
All-Class Item Pack Contains Mage Item Pack, Rogue Item Pack and Warrior Item Pack
Windows
All-Class Item Pack II Contains Mage Item Pack II, Rogue Item Pack II and Warrior Item Pack II
Windows
Black Emporium
Windows
Blood Dragon Armor Requires Dragon Age: Origins to be registered on same account
Windows
The Exiled Prince
Windows
High Resolution Texture Pack Free.
Windows
Legacy
Windows
Mage Item Pack
Windows
Mage Item Pack II
Windows
Mark of the Assassin
Windows
Promotional Pack Free on Origin.
Windows
Rogue Item Pack
Windows
Rogue Item Pack II
Windows
Ser Isaac's Armor Requires Dead Space 2 to be registered on same account
Windows
Warrior Item Pack
Windows
Warrior Item Pack II
Windows

Essential improvements

Hi-Res Texture Pack - greatly improves the texture quality. If the game is on Origin, then the texture pack can be downloaded as free DLC.

Patches

Patch 1.04 is the latest.

Skip intro videos

Edit config file[citation needed]
  1. Go to the configuration file location.
  2. Open DragonAge.ini.
  3. Change the line DisableIntroMovies=0 to DisableIntroMovies=1 and save the file.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age 2\Settings\DragonAge.ini
macOS (OS X) ~/Documents/BioWare/Dragon Age 2/Settings/DragonAge.ini
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/47900/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age 2\Characters\
macOS (OS X) ~/Documents/BioWare/Dragon Age 2/Characters/
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/47900/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Origin
Syncs save games. No cross-platform sync between Windows and OS X.
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video settings

Video settings
Video settings

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Input settings

Key bindings settings
Key bindings settings
Mouse settings
Mouse settings

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Audio settings

Audio settings
Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Russian
Spanish
Brazilian Portuguese
Fan translation, download.

VR support

Issues fixed

Won't launch on Retina display

Retina display does not support 1024x600 default resolution and fails to display window. Game otherwise runs in the background.
Edit resolution in DragonAge.ini[2]
  1. Edit ~/Documents/BioWare/Dragon Age 2/Settings/DragonAge.ini
  2. Change lines to:
ResolutionWidth=1280
ResolutionHeight=800

Won't launch on OS X

Play button appears but does not launch the game.
Delete wineserver folder[3]
  1. Go to ~/Library/Application Support/Dragon Age II/
  2. Delete folder /wineserver-computername/

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9, 11
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX
Cutscenes Bink Video 1.9n

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz
AMD Athlon 64 X2 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB (XP)
1.5 GB (Vista, 7)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 7 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 7900 GS
ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro
256 MB of VRAM
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6.6
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 1.86 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 9 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 9400 GS
ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro
256 MB of VRAM

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/47900/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (47900) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References