@holger1405 Thanks for the advice.
I ended up getting so annoyed at ME, that I uninstalled before I received your reply.
I've reinstalled it via Steam and manually added it to my Origin launcher using its CD key. This also deleted all my save games.
The game now seems to be running properly, if I disable UAC and Windows' anti-virus utility, have Origin running, and start the game by running masseffectlauncher.exe as an administrator – not by starting it via Steam.
UPDATE: I posted too soon. I just tried to play Mass Effect, and it froze while loading my last save game. Same issue as before.
I did try your suggestions, including a clean boot, but the problem remains.
- Richard
Additional to @ThandalNLyman, please create a DxDiag in text file format and post it with your next reply. You can do that with the "Choose file" button at the bottom right corner of the reply window.
richard_cosgrove wrote:
This also deleted all my save games.
This is strange.
The game still loads normally if you don't have a safe in the folder?
Run "chkdsk" on your the drive the "Documents" folders are on:
