Dragon Age PS3 Patch Enters BioWare Testing

05 May 2010 at 16:18:36 by Tim McDonald

Dragon Age: Origins players on PS3, sit up and pay attention: your woes may soon be at an end.

Following constant crash issues faced by many players after updating to the PlayStation 3's 3.30 firmware, BioWare appears to be finally closing in on a patch.

According to BioWare producer Fernando Melo, posting on the official forums, "The team now thinks we've been able to find a code-side workaround from our end to patch DA to play nicer with firmware 3.3, which was one of our investigation threads."

Melo notes that there's no date estimate for the patch and that, sadly, there's no word of a manual workaround for the time being, but the team is "currently testing the proposed code-change."

If that works, the patch will then end up at EA's certification, who are "aware of the importance of this and will give this priority in the queue of titles/patches across EA," after which it'll finally go into Sony certification testing.

Progress is being made, and there'll hopefully be further news soon. Considering the patch sitll needs to go through two lots of certification if it turns out to work, we'd wager it'll still be a little while before it hits, but this is a very good sign.

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