Mass Effect 1 WIll Not Start
I recently purchased Mass Effect 1 on Steam. I have Mass Effect 2 installed and running perfectly, and I enjoy it a lot, and I wanted to play through Mass Effect 1 to get the backstory before I cont...
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I'm affraid that I haven't been able to find anything about error code 53. However, I found a comment regarding "Application load error 5:0000065434". It says that you should run the launcher instead of the masseffect.exe file. Haven't had the problem and there were no respons so I have no clue if it's going to help.
You could always do a check to see if the game was correctly installed trough steam by following these instructions from Steam.
I tried running it from the launcher and I still get the same error. I've already uninstalled and reinstalled it a few times to see if that would help, but it hasn't. I've run the thing to verify cache files via Steam before but I did it again after reading your answer to see if it would help, but nope.
So far nothing seems to be able to make this game run.
Ditto, Steam version of Mass Effect, will work a bit then fail either from the Steam window or the EA launcher.
Did not occur before Nvidia's 310.90 driver. Reinstalled Mass Effect from scratch as I assumed the data might have a problem, but still fails.
I assume EA will have more clout than I would in checking things out with NVidia.
@Ghostwise7 wrote:Did not occur before Nvidia's 310.90 driver. Reinstalled Mass Effect from scratch as I assumed the data might have a problem, but still fails.
I assume EA will have more clout than I would in checking things out with NVidia.
You are not in contact with any part of Bioware / EA that is corresponding or otherwise communicating with the hardware suppliers. This is a forum that replaced the Social Site's Self-Help Gamer to Gamer forums. While we have assistance from paid moderators here, they are not official support. That is still only offered by the EA Help Center
What I want to know is if that driver broke the game, why in the world haven't you rolled back to a driver that actually worked?
For what it's worth, I was using an older driver (280.something) when I initially purchased and downloaded ME. The game didn't work then either. I upgraded my driver to the latest nVidia drivers (310.90) in an attempt to try to see if that would help. So I do not think that this is a problem solely with nVidia's drivers, or at least it is not a problem that is solely due to the 310.90 driver.
One thing that I have noticed is that many people who have posted on the Steam forums have mentioned that they are running a 64-bit version of Windows (as am I), and I am wondering whether there might be a specific problem with ME handling either a 64-bit OS or 64-bit drivers?
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