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Traviesa
9 years ago
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Cerberus HQ - Black Screen & Infinite Loading Screen

 I have played this game multiple times and with the soon release of Andromeda, I wanted to play the trilogy again. I have also always played as a female Shepard so this time I played as John, for something different. I had my typical bugs that I am used to, playing all three games, but ME3 seemed to have more then usual. Besides falling off the map, very annoying, and having to start the mission again, the audio was not working on some dialog and now I am on the last mission, attacking Cerberus base, I got a blank screen after having the nightmare and waking up narrative portion. No problem, saved the game, loaded it and the black screen gone. I go to dock at the base and am stuck at loading. 

I have read previous threads about this and have done EVERYTHING suggested since back in 2012. It is now 2017 and you would think this bug has been fixed. Any suggestions? In game is disabled. Narrative is turned on, Reinstalled origin, reinstalled ME3, I even used my original DVD disk and still getting same error. 

HELP!

  • holger1405's avatar
    holger1405
    9 years ago

    @Traviesa

    If it still not works with the new card you also could try a save game that is older as that one you currently use.

    And as an IT guy myself, while I can't guarantee that chkdsk will help, it can't hurt either. 😉

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    I know this is really late. When I initiated the mission I had a romance scene with both Ashley and Liara, then the screen goes black. If I moved around I could hear movement in the game but couldn't see anything. I fixed this in my game by loading a prior save, then performing a quick save just before starting the mission again. I then closed the game and edited my save file with "Gibbed's Mass Effect 3 Save Editor"

    http://www.moddb.com/games/mass-effect-3/downloads/mass-effect-3-save-editor1

    Under Plot-->Mass Effect 3-->Romance I unchecked Ashley and Liara (everyone but Tali) saved over my quicksave then loaded the game. 

    After re initiating the mission I had a romance scene with Tali then progressed to the war room (Where I was previously getting the black screen).

    This may require some testing. I chose Tali since I started the romance sequence with her by choosing her over the Geth and getting the gift photo of her for the Captains Quarters.

    I just figured I'd update this thread with a solution found in 2018 as I'm sure others will continue playing this.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago
    Thank you for the 2018 update. Indeed others are playing ME3, especially since Andromeda all but flopped. I haven't tried your idea yet, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago
    This idea worked. Woo hoo. Thank you so much.
  • ThandalNLyman's avatar
    ThandalNLyman
    8 years ago
    @ck8191 wrote:
    ... especially since Andromeda all but flopped.

    This is actually a fairly common mis-perception.  MEA didn't "flop" at all.  After the annual sports franchises, (FIFA, Madden NFL, etc.) ME: Andromeda was EA's highest grossing (and highest profit) title of 2017.

    But it almost didn't get released at all after having gone seriously off the rails.  It took being rescued by the "home office" to get it out the door, and the decision to disband BioWare Montréal had been made even before the release.  So while we all wish they'd been able to continue the story (Quarian Ark?  Kett Home World? Jardan?) that's going to have to go into the comics and (graphic-)novels.

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