I'm currently working my way through Dragon Age II for the first time (about seven years late, but whatever). I encountered a bug that causes the game to freeze and makes progression impossible. The fix is easy but cumbersome.
This particular bug happens in Act III, with the Companion quest entitled, "Faith." One part requires going to the Viscount's chambers at night. Hawke + party shows up, kills some blood mages, and - the game froze. I was able to unstick the game by hitting the Escape key; while that did not cancel the following dialogue, it did cancel cut-scene following the combat and preceding the dialogue. At the end of the dialogue, however, the screen froze again, for good this time.
The problem is discussed in this forum. Apparently the Exiled Prince dlc has some compatibility issues with Game Patch 1.04.
The fix:
1. Progress to immediately before the fight with the blood mages. Save and exit Dragon Age II.
2. Find the folder the Exiled Prince dlc is installed to. In my case, that was F: > Origin Game Library > Dragon Age II > addins > da2_prc_drk.
3. Within da2_prc_drk there should be a folder called "patch". Cut and paste this folder to some place outside of the game folder. It doesn't matter where you put it - the desktop is fine - but don't delete it because we'll need it again later.
4. Start Dragon Age II and play through the fight with the blood mages and the subsequent conversation with "Sister Nightingale" (lol at the name. Seriously, it was good to see her). After that conversation is concluded, save and exit Dragon Age II.
5. Paste the "patch" folder back into the da2_prc_drk folder.
6. Start Dragon Age II back up and continue playing.
That should do it. Cumbersome, but hopefully not hard to do.
Thank you so much for this fix....it's much easier than trying to use a console command that you have to enter blindly because Bioware hides the console in the game. I tried for over an hour and couldn't get that fix to work but this worked GREAT!!
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