Mass Effect 1 Crashes During Saren Citadel Fight

@muddymindPT 

Did you tried to repair the game?

(Origin > Game Library > right click MELE > Repair)
(Steam > right click at MELE > Properties > Local Files > Verify integrity of game cache.)

I tried the following and nothing worked:

1) Repair the game as suggested;

2) Lower the resolution to 2560x1440 (16:9)

3) Closing MSI afterburner and RTSS

4) Disabling G-Sync

5) Closing all apps (chrome and such)

6) Lowering all graphic settings

EDIT: Also tried playing in window mode but no luck ☹️

Event viewer has the following:

Faulting application name: MassEffect1.exe, version: 2.0.0.48204, time stamp: 0x609c94ed
Faulting module name: MassEffect1.exe, version: 2.0.0.48204, time stamp: 0x609c94ed
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000880006
Faulting process id: 0x6304
Faulting application start time: 0x01d74e466ab072ce
Faulting application path: E:\Origin Games\Mass Effect Legendary Edition\Game\ME1\Binaries\Win64\MassEffect1.exe
Faulting module path: E:\Origin Games\Mass Effect Legendary Edition\Game\ME1\Binaries\Win64\MassEffect1.exe
Report Id: e2cfe073-6085-4684-a256-9a74cd6937ee
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID: 

I had the exact same crash at the same place but I'm playing on Xbox Series X which leads me to believe it's not an issue with your PC.

EA plz notice this!

@muddymindPT 

Please create a DxDiag in text file format and post it with your next reply. You can do that  with the "Choose file" button at the bottom right corner of the reply window. 

Here it is the requested DxDiag file.

@muddymindPT 

Either the DxDiag can't access the Windows error reporting or WER itself is down. 

• Press the Windows key and "R" at the same time.
• In the new Window, type or copy and paste "%LOCALAPPDATA%\CrashDumps" (Without the quotation marks) > Press ENTER
• Look if there are any "MassEffect1.exe.Xxxx.dmp" or "MassEffectLauncher.exeXxxx.dmp" files in the "..Local\CrashDumps" folder.
• Zip 2 - 3 "MassEffect1.exe.Xxxx.dmp" or "MassEffectLauncher.exeXxxx.dmp" files together and upload them at a free file hosting service like Dropbox or Onedrive.
• Post the link here.

If there aren't any dump files of ME:

• Press the Windows key > Write: Command Prompt > Right click on "Command Prompt" in the search results > Run as administrator.
• Copy and paste reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps\devenv.exe" /v DumpType /d 2 /t REG_DWORD into the prompt Window > Press ENTER.
• Play the game until it crashes.
• After the game crashes, let all Windows crash dialogues finish.
• Press the Windows key and "R" at the same time. > Type "%LOCALAPPDATA%\CrashDumps" (Without the quotation marks) into the new window > Press ENTER.
• Zip 2 - 3 "MassEffect1.exe.Xxxx.dmp" or "MassEffectLauncher.exeXxxx.dmp" files together and upload them at free file hosting service like Dropbox.
• Post the link here.
  
  
  If you want to undo the automatic dump creation, use the command below in a elevated command prompt (As in point 1) reg delete "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps" /f

Here are 5 crash dumps:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hSoyw9MLukx6n-dH6AeGSeW1XVXm0DOl/view?usp=sharing

@muddymindPT 

The game crashes because it tries to read or execute code from a invalid memory address. 

• Follow this manual to the letter to cleanly uninstall all NVIDIA components.
• Install the graphics driver and the PhysX software > Go online.
• Restart again.
• Test.

I made the clean install of the nvidia drivers as instructed but it still crashed.

Meanwhile I followed a suggestion given by a reddit user to not use any powers (including from the squadmates) during the battle and that worked. According to the reddit user this issue was also present on the original game (although I never had it in the original).

I won't mark this as a solution since there's clearly an issue to be solved in this battle.

same problem.. crashing, going to attempt to put my squad on passive and not use any powers? thats a mess of a fight in the first place on insanity..