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Anonymous
12 years ago
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Can I play my game without Origin being involved?

I've seen this launcher format before, it's a nice tool for you guys to try to sell me other games, BUT in the middle of gameplay (Mass Effect 3) the game suddenly closes with a message saying it's a...
  • lonori's avatar
    lonori
    12 years ago

    Quite understandable that you're frustrated with a game that doesn't work :/

    Googled a bit and found some more possible solutions to your problem (not that they are particularly fun but they might help):

    As you can see most of the solutions that I found seams to be circling around reinstalling the origin client, not that fun but it was what I was able to find.

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lonori
12 years ago

It's impossible to play mass effect 3 without origin as far as I know. However, there seams to be a way to disable Origin in game. According to EAs official help you can do this through these steps:

  • Click "Origin" on the top menu bar and select  "Application Settings...".
  • Select the "In Game" tab.
  • Uncheck "Enable Origin in Game", then restart Origin.

I hope it solves your problem. If not, give us feel free to ask again and I'll see if I can find some other solution (a bit more information would be appreciated though. Eg. any error codes you can find, origin version, game version, system preferences, etc.)

Note, step by step for disabling Origin in game comes from this article at EAs official help center.

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
12 years ago

Yah I figured that out on my own right after I posted that... I went through all the Origin stuff and unchecked near all of it.  I checked out all the system req stuff and it should be alright as well (as well as firewall checks, etc)

I managed to get another 10 mins of gameplay in, finally taking down the 2 nasties that I was having trouble with (cuz I'm not a shooter girl), and bam.. sucker crashes on me.. right as the second nasty did.  That's the 8th time it's crashed since I started playing it 6 hours ago.

I downloaded this game because I wanted a cool game, where I can be a strong female character, and not have to deal with the annoying people on chat like my other regular mmorpg.  Just a nice single player I could immerse myself in, relax and enjoy the ride...

Now I'm about ready to punch the crap out of my monitor.

The visuals are amazing, the storyline is gripping; a stellar rpg, from what I can see.  I figured to download meant I'd just get a game, like back in the old days where you bought a nintendo cartridge, and just jammed it in the machine. Done.

Now I just charged my Visa for a super beautiful game, free with advertising and social networking I don't want, that won't play.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    Sorry for RAWRing.. I'm just sad.

    • lonori's avatar
      lonori
      12 years ago

      Quite understandable that you're frustrated with a game that doesn't work :/

      Googled a bit and found some more possible solutions to your problem (not that they are particularly fun but they might help):

      As you can see most of the solutions that I found seams to be circling around reinstalling the origin client, not that fun but it was what I was able to find.

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        12 years ago

        Okie dokes.  After playing with settings and restarting a couple times, it's now staying on a fairly long time.  I made an extra character in easy mode, so it's just such a big deal when it poofs, and I've managed to stay on for at least 3 hours. 

        I'll wait a day or two and see if it settles down, and if not I'll just try re-downloading.  I'm also going to try to run it as administrator right now and see if that makes a difference.

        Thanks. 🙂

  • vladdy1sims's avatar
    vladdy1sims
    8 years ago

    Can so relate. Origin sucks, EA launcher sucks -- I have all the EPs and SPs -- some so old the boxes long since disapeared. Sometimes 4 games show up in launcher -- sometimes 2 -- sometimes 8. In origin -- some show up, some don't. In pull-down, some show up, some show up 3 times. It's ridiculous. I don't do stupid messaging. No desire. Playing Sims because it's better than communicating with real people -- who turn out to be like EA, who say, Oh, just pay for another game.

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