Mass Effect 1- General Protection Fault Error
I am getting a general protection fault error when I start Mass Effect 1. The splash screen comes up and then I get the message. I believe this all started happening after I moved my games library to...
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Well Fred, I just tried that. I did a clean installation of the drivers and still got the same error. I installed the legacy driver and ran that and I still got the error. I also tried deleting the Open Al files and using a new version of Open AL from the Mass Effect Wiki. I will say that sometimes now I am getting the error and sometimes it just crashes at the splash screen. Do you guys have any other ideas? This is really starting to get old. Oh yeah before that I installed the official 1.2 patch from the Bioware site, and when I do that it asks me for my cd key, I put it in, and then it keeps asking me. It never accepts it. I have also tried running every compatibility mode of Windows there is. I've ran Origin in compatibility mode. I'm about to give up. It just looks like I will never play this game again. I've seen multiple posts about this error. I don't know why they haven't fixed this yet after so many years. Is there any possible way to get the file it says is missing, or is it really missing? I don't even see a list of files that looks like that.
@Kienowa wrote:
I've seen multiple posts about this error. I don't know why they haven't fixed this yet after so many years. Is there any possible way to get the file it says is missing, or is it really missing? I don't even see a list of files that looks like that.
There is no file missing, the "General protection fault" means (in simple terms) that protected resources (most of the time memory) are accessed by a task that don't have the right to access it.
- Ok. I will look into this DDU then. I thank you Holger for helping me out. I have been in contact with EA support off and on troubleshooting this error. They suggested installing the game in the default Origin location, using generic audio (not quite sure how to do that, but I did use my default sound device), one rep also said uninstall Origin and reinstall it. I may try that just to say I did. Why not? lol. The rep said he was escalating the issue and they would be assessing my problem and will be getting back in touch at a later date. In the meantime I will try this DDU. I will keep you posted if they find anything that fixes the issue.
