CycloKyle Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 (edited) Ok, the title may sound confusing, but I'll do my best to explain it. When I load up DA, the normal process of connecting to the DA servers happens. But today, and other times too that I've noticed, my xbox cannot connect to these servers. So why is that a problem, you ask? Well, because my xbox cannot connect to these servers, I cannot play Dragon Age, at all. This is because I have some Collector's Edition items, and some from Dragon Age: Journeys as well. I have downloaded these items, and have used them in-game before. But when I cannot connect to these DA servers, my xbox seems to 'forget' that I ever downloaded these, and I get a message when I try to load my game up that "These DLC items are not found and are needed to play, please download them or connect the correct storage device, etc etc". So I go into my download history, and these items are not listed. The items to game asks me to download again are: Embri's Many Pockets Helm of the Deep Memory Band Feral Wolf Charm Dalish Promise Ring And the problem is, I can't download these things again as I have already used the code, and the ones from DA:J just appeared in my list of DLC to download without a code, simply because I was able to connect to the DA servers when I did download them. Also, sometimes when the game can't connect to the server, the main menu doesn't appear at all, and all I can see is the background of those two swords. Sorry for the mountain of text, I hope this all makes sense. So pretty much the problem is that, because I can't connect to the DA servers, I cannot play the game at all. If anyone has any solutions, that would be appreciated. It's late here at the moment, so I may not be able to reply until later tomorrow, but feel free to reply . Also, this does not happen all that often, it's just very annoying when I have free time to play and thus can't. This also happens when my internet cord is unplugged from the xbox. EDIT: I also cannot play BF:1943, but that's understandable if the servers are down. UPDATE: I have searched the DA forums, and it appears that many other people have this exact problem. There's a whole thread of people with the problem HERE. Also, I found that someone has made a fix for this problem, which can be read HERE. If this fix works for you, please reply saying so. That would greatly help people with this problem in the future . Edited February 18, 2010 by CycloKyle Added an update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sizzlebuzz Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 That's something we can do nothing to help. I can't think of any advice we could give you. Have you searched their forums for similar problems? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HC_AFC Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 I have also found I can't connect so I don't have the main menu Guess I'll have to play another game for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HC_AFC Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 Right, I tried again and it said the servers were unavailable but then checked for DLC content. After this the main menu popped up. Don't try to sign into the servers though otherwise the menu will disappear again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Drumber 1 Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 (edited) I also have this problem. Why on earth does it rely on ea servers for a single player game. HC_AFC, what do you mean when you say check for DLC content? The is no menu at all, I can't do anything. EDIT: Ok, so I tried restarting dragon age a bunch of times, and it worked for some reason. This has put me off the whole idea of cloud computing though. Edited February 16, 2010 by The Drumber 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoodleII Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 This happened to me today, so I went back to the dashboard and fired up a quick game of UNO over XBL, finished that, and came back to DA and it connected right away. It is entirely possible the DA servers were having an issue during that 10-15 minutes, but my money is on the game code/Xbox having an issue that reset itself when I went to another game online and connected successfully there. Try that and see if it works for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CycloKyle Posted February 16, 2010 Author Share Posted February 16, 2010 (edited) This happened to me today, so I went back to the dashboard and fired up a quick game of UNO over XBL, finished that, and came back to DA and it connected right away. It is entirely possible the DA servers were having an issue during that 10-15 minutes, but my money is on the game code/Xbox having an issue that reset itself when I went to another game online and connected successfully there. Try that and see if it works for you. I did try that. I first tried to play DA, and when it didn't work I went and played MW2 for half an hour. I came back to DA and it still didn't work. It is fustrating that an offline game needs online to work! And at Sizzlebuzz: No I haven't yet, but I will later today. Thanks for the suggestion. Edited February 16, 2010 by CycloKyle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CycloKyle Posted February 18, 2010 Author Share Posted February 18, 2010 Sorry for the double post, but I found a fix for this problem and edited it into my original post, and I want people to know about this so nobody else has to go through as much frustration as I, and others, went through. So consider this a bump of sorts . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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