Dragon Age: Origins

Game: Dragon Age: Origins → (Windows, 2009)

A static recompilation of the Xbox 360 version into a native x86-64 Windows program, with a Direct3D 12 renderer based on Xenia’s. The download is an installer with nothing from the game: it checks your ISO, downloads the tools, translates the game’s code to C++ on your machine, and builds it (30–60 minutes the first time); afterwards it works as a launcher for settings, mods, and updates. It renders at up to 4K or more, with temporal upscaling and anti-aliasing through FSR 4, FSR 3.1, XeSS, or DLSS 4.5 (experimental), FSR 3.1 frame generation, HDR, and optional motion blur; it runs at 60 fps (the original is locked to 30) or, experimentally, up to 240 or uncapped, with low latency through Anti-Lag 2 or Reflex and an adjustable field of view. It adds a Graphics tab in the game’s own options, a photo mode, a cheats menu that runs the debug scripts BioWare left in the game, an on-screen keyboard for the controller, SDL3 controllers (DualSense included), mods with a converter for PC-version mods, save backups, the DLC (Awakening included) from your own packages, and the text in English, Italian, or Spanish. As an experiment, on AMD RDNA 4 cards it can apply DLSS 5’s neural rendering as ported by lmxxf, with the network’s weights downloaded separately. On Linux it runs through Wine or Proton, still untested. The latest release is 0.9.0 (October 14), with later development builds. 153 of its 158 commits list Claude as a co-author.

You needYour own ISO of Dragon Age: Origins for Xbox 360 (title 454108C0), the English, Italian, and Spanish edition (media 186A1115), which is also disc 1 of its Ultimate Edition; the French and German editions aren’t supported. For Awakening and other DLC, Title Update 6 or 7 and the DLC packages from your console. Plus Windows 10 or 11 (or Linux with Wine or Proton) on an x86-64 PC with an AVX CPU and a Direct3D 12 graphics card, and about 25 GB of free space.

How it gets to PC

Static recompilation

Console

Xbox 360

Architecture

PowerPC

Author

96dot

Original studio

BioWare

Year

2009

Stars

49

Last activity

2026-10-29 · 2 days ago

License

MIT

Language

C

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