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3 years ago

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EA app won't let me play Mass Effect 1 but Origin does.

On the same Windows 10 system: Mass Effect 1 crashes after a minute or so of gameplay using EA app, while it plays fine using the Origin app. My new problem is that Origin is now forcing me to "upd...

FaceCombat
3 years ago
There is a workaround to use Origin without being forced to migrate to the EA app. Follow the steps here. Though, I am not sure if this will fix the crashes in the game itself.

Squeegee2020

2 years ago

I'm on Windows 11, and can confirm that ME1 works fine through Origin, but not the EA app. I'm currently using the F**k_off_EA_App_installer workaround. There is also a way to still download Origin. Just google. Hope that helps.

Now, if only there was a workaround to put Windows 11 back to 7... sigh, wish me luck.