mass effect 1 wont launch

Hello

I am new to modding and PC gaming in general and couldn't find anything about my specific issue.

Today I reinstalled mass effect, played for a bit, and activated the mods I have used in the past via me3 tweaks and took great pains to ensure compatibility again just in case something had changed.

At first when I launched ME from the launcher it would take a very long time for the game to actually start with the occasional crash. When the problem persisted, I went to backup and the backups I made are gone, maybe I screwed something up on Me3 tweaks unknowingly? So I uninstalled and reinstalled the game twice now. ME2 and ME3 launch perfectly fine from the launcher and ME crashes in less than a minute and sends me back to the launcher.

I thought it was perhaps the EA app at one point so I now launch from origin, steam, and from me3 tweaks directly and nothing works as far as ME1 goes.

Have I irreparably screwed this thing?

And apologies that I'm not very knowledgeable about computers. This is the first issue I've run into with modding anything and I did a full playthrough of the trilogy last year on PC with several mods and it went very smoothly.