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FishSmellBad
3 years ago
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Mass Effect 1 will not launch

So I bought the legendary edition and am really excited to get into the trilogy but ME1 will not work for some reason. The LE launcher works just fine and the 2nd and 3rd games also launch, it's just that whenever I launch the 1st game it gets stuck for about 30 seconds then kicks me back to the LE launcher. 

I've tried:

- reinstalling / repairing game files

-clearing steam and origin cache

-clean install of origin

-allowing firewall access

-starting in safe mode

-running as administrator

me legendary edition
  • holger1405's avatar
    holger1405
    3 years ago

    @FishSmellBad 

    Please preform a clean boot and test the Game in clean boot mode.

    Make sure your virus scanner and other security software and also Afterburner and similar software is disabled.

    Make also sure that your GPU & CPU are not overclocked.

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    holger1405
    Hero+
    3 years ago

    @FishSmellBad 

    Please preform a clean boot and test the Game in clean boot mode.

    Make sure your virus scanner and other security software and also Afterburner and similar software is disabled.

    Make also sure that your GPU & CPU are not overclocked.

  • FishSmellBad's avatar
    FishSmellBad
    3 years ago

    Ok so it worked in clean boot, that means there was some software interfering right? How can I narrow it down to find the problem? (thank you)

  • FishSmellBad's avatar
    FishSmellBad
    3 years ago

    okay nevermind it just works normally now? I don't quite understand but thank you so much for your help. I had no idea what a clean boot even was.

  • holger1405's avatar
    holger1405
    Hero+
    3 years ago
    @FishSmellBad wrote:

    Ok so it worked in clean boot, that means there was some software interfering right? How can I narrow it down to find the problem? (thank you)

    It normally means exactly that and trial and error is usually the only way forward.
    But here you seem to have been lucky.

    It could be that some registry entries were missing and got written when the game could start.

    In the end we will never know, the main thing is that the game runs.

    Have fun gaming!

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