Re: Mass Effect 1 Crashes after launching EA App

Hi, OP Here.

@Resztaczasu has solved the problem!

I have been playing without issues after trying the solution!

Now I can do my Trilogy playthrough.

@Resztaczasu you have my sincerest thanks for finding the (utterly confounding, seriously how DID you figure this out?) solution and saving this game!

God Bless!

DV3

Hi @K0mbatKatie , hope your game works on steam.

If not, you should try the EA launcher again using @Resztaczasu 's solution.

It did wonders for me!

Hi @DarthVega3 thank you for kind words and xp.

It is a confusing solution - normally one would assume that all extras (overlays, screen recorders etc.) will cause problems not solve them. 🙂

If you are curious how I figured it out - I've read like half of the Internet and tried various solutions, then after one EA App reinstall the game miraculously worked. For one time. But after I played other game, restarted PC ME1 started crashing again. After I ruled out antivirus blocking access for something I started to think if I've changed anything else in my setup and remembered that that one time when ME1 was working I probably didn't change some of the EA App settings. It turned out to be it. I was so happy when it worked, because after a long week of seeking solution I was ready to give up.

The steam version did work fine for me. I also had to go through the long process of installing the ALOT and MEIMTU mods for Mass Effect, if you're familiar. Long process... that I had to go through several times now for this... I had the EA app overlay disabled for sure, so it's a safe bet this would work for me. I had it turned off due to some really aggravating shenanigans it did in Battlefield V, and specifically when playing it on Windows 11 a while back. Thanks for the fix though, only a matter of time before I want Bring Down the Sky back. Only way to be able to biotic toss Batarians around in OG Mass Effect.