Mass Effect (1) crashes

Hi, greetings from Belgium and Happy new year to every one.

First of all, I would like to thank you for making probably one of the best Sci-fi rpg in History,
the saga Mass Effect.

I recently bought the mass effect trilogy on PC.

I installed the first one and finished it with "only" 3 crashes (first gotrough lv50 in 37 hours).
So I installed the second one (got a problem with the first disk of the installer, so I downloaded it)
Worked like a charm after 4-5 hours of game I thought myself why not replay the first one to have the lv 60 import
bonuses.
That's where the problem started ...
I launched mass effect 1 choose a new game + and after the intro , just before exiting the Normandy (while Anderson make a speech
to the team) the game crashed. With no return to desktop, screen freezes and I have to manually reboot my PC.
And it crashed every single time on the same event.

I know ME has sound issue. And I try everything I read in the forum.
Software mode - hardware mode lower the settings - play windowed ...
Reinstall new OpenAL soft (event replace the DLL with new one)
Tweaking the .ini
Repair the install
nothing seems the work.

It get worse, I got now the same type of crashes in ME 2.

So I uninstall the whole thing (ME and ME2) and reinstall a fresh ME.
Guess what ? exactly the same crash on the same moment (while Anderson make a speech
to the team).


Is it hopeless ?


My spec

Intel core 2 duo E6750 2.6Ghz
6 gigs of ram
1To HDD
GeForce GTX 550 Ti (last driver 310.70)
Sound Blaster X-fi Titanium (driver up to date)
Fresh install of win7 pro 64 bits (2-3 month old) and up to date)

I am monitoring the heat and it is quite good
GPU 50-55° while playing  30° not playing        
CPU 40-47° while playing (brand new fan)  23° not playing
So it is definitely NOT a heat issue !

By the way, i am  playing
Doom 3 BFG edition
Bioshock
Fallout 3
Painkiller
Titan Quest
Dead Space
Stalker
Oblivion
Diablo 3
wow
Lotro
Star wars the old republic
Fear
Super Street fighter 4 AE
Street fighter x Tekken
Aion

They work like a Charm and i run most of them maxed out at 1650x1080@60Hz.

I can of course, paste a dxdiag too, but it's long


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this is my MAss EFFECT log
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[0.019] Log: Log file open, 01/05/13 02:56:28
[0.019] Init: BioWare Final Build Version: 1.2.20608.0
[0.019] Init: Command line:
[0.019] Init: Base directory: E:\games\Mass Effect Trilogy\Mass Effect\Binaries\
[0.574] Init: CPU Page size=4096, Processors=2
[0.574] Init: High frequency timer resolution =2.604248 MHz
[0.575] Init: Memory total: Phys=4194303K Pagef=4194303K Virt=2097024K
[7.888] Log: Failed to load 'Material None.': Failed to find object 'Material None.'
[7.888] Log: Failed to load 'Material None.': Failed to find object 'Material None.'
[7.888] Log: Failed to load 'Material None.': Failed to find object 'Material None.'
[7.888] Log: Failed to load 'Material None.': Failed to find object 'Material None.'
[7.888] Log: Failed to load 'Material None.': Failed to find object 'Material None.'
[7.917] Log: Failed to load 'Material None.': Failed to find object 'Material None.'
[9.290] Init: Audio Driver: Haut-parleurs (Creative SB X-Fi) ({0.0.0.00000000}.{15176ebb-1f1b-48d9-ab0a-937247d944ce})
[9.391] Init: Audio Device: Generic Software
[9.650] Init: 64 Free Sources, 2 Reserved
[13.469] Log: >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Initial startup: 13.47s <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
[13.911] Log: Bio2DA.cpp::CheckedGetIntEntry(): Failed to read row(1902, isNum=0), column(4) in Bio2DA(Talent_TalentEffectLevels)
[13.912] Log: Bio2DA.cpp::CheckedGetFloatEntry(): Failed to read row(1918, isNum=0), column(4) in Bio2DA(Talent_TalentEffectLevels)
[32.850] Log: Failed to load 'BIOG_2DA_Vegas_Music_X': Can't find file 'BIOG_2DA_Vegas_Music_X'
[56.399] Log: Loading Kathrynn00_QuickSave on device Id 0...
[56.790] Log: *** WARNING - PATHS MAY NOT BE VALID ***
[57.575] BioChallengeScaling: UBioPawnBehavior::ScaleSecondaryAttributes: Warning! Attribute table could not be found! No scaling done for pawn 'BioPawn_7' with type 'human_female'.
[57.576] Warning: Warning, bio2daprop::SetProperty: Could not find property named m_aspect in class BioGameEffectAttributeString. Object=BioGameEffectAttributeString_0
[57.576] Warning: Warning, bio2daprop::SetProperty: Could not find property named m_modifier in class BioGameEffectAttributeString. Object=BioGameEffectAttributeString_0
[57.576] Warning: Warning, bio2daprop::SetProperty: Could not find property named m_aspect in class BioGameEffectAttributeString. Object=BioGameEffectAttributeString_2
[57.576] Warning: Warning, bio2daprop::SetProperty: Could not find property named m_modifier in class BioGameEffectAttributeString. Object=BioGameEffectAttributeString_2
[57.615] Warning: Warning, attribute (m_nMaxTargetZones) is of a type that we can't handle
[57.620] Warning: Warning, attribute (m_nMaxTargetZones) is of a type that we can't handle
[57.626] Warning: Warning, attribute (m_nMaxTargetZones) is of a type that we can't handle
[57.632] Log: Bio2DA.cpp::CheckedGetIntEntry(): Failed to read row(1902, isNum=0), column(4) in Bio2DA(Talent_TalentEffectLevels)
[57.632] Log: Bio2DA.cpp::CheckedGetFloatEntry(): Failed to read row(1918, isNum=0), column(4) in Bio2DA(Talent_TalentEffectLevels)
[57.657] Warning: Warning, attribute (m_nMaxTargetZones) is of a type that we can't handle
[57.851] Warning: Warning, bio2daprop::SetProperty: Could not find property named m_aspect in class BioGameEffectAttributeString. Object=BioGameEffectAttributeString_4
[57.851] Warning: Warning, bio2daprop::SetProperty: Could not find property named m_modifier in class BioGameEffectAttributeString. Object=BioGameEffectAttributeString_4
[392.427] Warning: Warning, Entering a zone with no BioTriggerStream defined
[489.210] Warning: Warning, attribute (m_nMaxTargetZones) is of a type that we can't handle
[489.211] Log: Attribs is NULL!
[489.211] Log: Attribs is NULL!
[489.212] Log: Bio2DA.cpp::CheckedGetNameEntry(): Failed to read row(56, isNum=0), column👿 in Bio2DA(Items_Items)
[489.212] Log: Attribs is NULL!
[489.212] Log: Attribs is NULL!
[489.212] Log: Bio2DA.cpp::CheckedGetNameEntry(): Failed to read row(57, isNum=0), column👿 in Bio2DA(Items_Items)
[489.212] Log: Attribs is NULL!
[489.212] Log: Attribs is NULL!
[489.213] Log: Attribs is NULL!