Ok so my game was working fine a couple days ago. Now Mass effect 3 crashes right after checking downloaded contentPeculiar things about the crash:- eacoreserver .exe doesn't seem to be starting up right, seems to either not start up at all or close very quickly- if I play the game with origin in offline mode single player works- putting origin back online lets multilayer work but without any dlc- my voice input/output seems to be not working, both boxes are blank and will not allow me to select a deviceThings I've already tried:reinstalling me3 and originrepairing the installupdating all sound and video driversdisabling sound devicesdeleting local content in the my documents/bioware foldersystem restore to back when it was workingchecked firewall, antivirus and router to make sure nothing was getting blockedany help/suggestions would be apreciated

Bump, I also have this issue and I tried all the workarounds by the EA support, this is just frustrating, if I buy a game, I want to play it.

Just wanted to let you know,I was able to fix my issue by deleting everything in the Documents>BioWare>Mass Effect 3 and keeping only the Saves>Your character name(Remember to backup your saves, in any case).I don't know what was wrong, I guess corrupted files or something.then just start your game without cloud sync at first.For me it worked.

Alright, I finally found a workaround that works (for me). Here's what it is:You need to find your Bioware folder, the one that contains all your saves. For me, the path was My Documents > BioWare > Mass Effect 3 > Save >Then, you need to dig out the "Local_Profile.sav" file. Back it up. There might be multiple copies.Save the backup in a folder. I have a generic backup folder in My Documents. Whatever. Just get it out of there!Delete the file "Local_Profile.sav"Game should run.Back on the main subject, however, this is a serious bug and it needs to be solved. There are multiple threads on multiple forums complaining about this issue, and all of them look similar to this one. Please fix it!

Quite perculiar. This bug has been here for over 2 years, and EA hasn't done anything about it. As far as I know, a guy from EA has posted asking if we have all tried the workarounds posted. What the... ? What about fixing this?I have tried all the suggestions here. None have worked. My money is on, that the game saves some odd setting that makes the game crash. I can't believe that the game fetches savegames 1-2 seconds into the loading of the game. I refuse to believe that. I installed the game after some months away from the game yesterday. It worked like a charm on first launch. The day after, broken.

I dont even get to the ea symbol and i have no saves to delete. I tried the rest of the stuff in here. I dont have the retaliation dlc, and origin doesnt seem to be the problem. I just bought this last night. If this continues to be an issue, I will conclude you no longer care for your customers and i will cease playing your games.

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Credit2team
13 years ago
adittional information about the crash:
Description
Faulting Application Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Mass Effect 3\Binaries\Win32\MassEffect3.exe
Problem signature
Problem Event Name: BEX
Application Name: MassEffect3.exe
Application Version: 1.4.5427.111
Application Timestamp: 504fa5f7
Fault Module Name: MassEffect3.exe
Fault Module Version: 1.4.5427.111
Fault Module Timestamp: 504fa5f7
Exception Offset: 007ab0e0
Exception Code: c0000409
Exception Data: 00000000
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 52a6
Additional Information 2: 52a60efe69cbe83f937dae507325a028
Additional Information 3: 989c
Additional Information 4: 989cc03101454c4d2200fcb86e148db2
Anonymous
13 years ago
What system and drivers do you have?
Credit2team
13 years ago
windows 7 home professional
graphics is ATI Radeon HD 5400
Credit2team
13 years ago
BUMP
Credit2team
13 years ago
Bump
Credit2team
13 years ago
BUMP
BiO_besTech
13 years ago
The problem seems to be with Retaliation DLC. Have you tried deleting it manually from ME3's folder, then running the game normally? I know, it's hardly a solution, as you can't play with 99% of the player base, but I'm just curious if we've got the same problem.
In any event, bump for great justice.
Credit2team
13 years ago
Omg yes, we have the EXACT same problem. No retaliation mean no new conent and no playing with any friends. Bioware please adress this issue
BiO_besTech
13 years ago
I think I've found a temporary solution, but it's very ghetto - unplug internet cable > start ME3 offline mode > wait for it to load up completely > plug internet cable > connect to EA servers.
If done properly, it should verify all DLCs and not crash. But it doesn't work all the time, sometimes it does, other times it will just say that it can't verify that you own any of the DLCs.
Credit2team
13 years ago
I've tried a similar strat only I start origin in ofline mode instead of yanking the cord (but that always results in the dlcs not working). I'll try your method when I get home today. Even if it works only sometimes it would be a vast improvment.

Also, theres a small posibility that the problem is ISP related, do you use comcast perchance?

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