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11 years ago
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EA ? Mass Effect 2 Installation Fail (not starting fix)

Origin causes a really crazy Issue with the Installation of certain Files from Mass Effect 2 what stops the Game from starting up. No its not any Patch issue,

Origin Downloads Patches by itself and no its not something about the awc.dll because the digital Game doesnt have it anymore. No nothing of this, the

Game messes around with File names and the result is you get four Files with wrong names what are still bound into the action script.

What happens ? You try to start Mass Effect 2 and nothing happens, no error, no Pop up, nothing. If you try to start the Game directly through the .exe

Files the only thing what happens is Origin popin up without any Logical way to fix it because how in the hell you should know that the Game messed up

Files with wrong names ? EA.... WTF !

The Issue ? What is caused only and really only by Origin. Only Origin handles the Files you download and Install for you Games !

 You have four Files named MassEffect2.exe with MassEffect2.par and ME2Game.exe with ME2Game.par, this Files are named wrong.

Change the following:

MassEffect2.exe into MassEffect2Launcher.exe

MassEffect2.par into MassEffect2Launcher.par

ME2Game.exe into MassEffect2.exe

ME2Game.par into MassEffect2.par

Not that this makes your Game finally start no it also fixes the Config Tool aswell, dont ask me who did this, i only come to this because i downloaded

the cracked .exe Files to make my Game work. I really hope someone from EA will fix this stupid f*** !

  • I had found another solution that involved deleting the config exe and another file.
    I found this as I was about to try it, I decided to try this first and it worked like a charm.
    Thank you very much

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  • you're the best, i love you, you save my soul from hell and my pc from my rage ❤️

  • I had found another solution that involved deleting the config exe and another file.
    I found this as I was about to try it, I decided to try this first and it worked like a charm.
    Thank you very much

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