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DJTrioxide
10 years ago
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Mass Effect 2 - Illium crashing

Hi, I have every ME game with all the DLC available installed via Origin. My problem is: everytime I try to go through the hallway (under Liaras office), the game crashes - it also crashes from tim...
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    DJTrioxide
    10 years ago

    Ok for some reason, when you enter the hallway, you hear a random ad playing.

    And if you let it play through to the end, you can pass the hallway without crashing, I mean how is that even possible that a random ad causes the game to crash...

    Seems to me, that this isn't a graphical issu but a sound issue, with playing sounds and clashing while one is still paying and a second one tries to play over the active one...

    In any case, I just managed to get past the hallway, hopefully this was all that is wrong...

DJTrioxide's avatar
DJTrioxide
10 years ago

Ok for some reason, when you enter the hallway, you hear a random ad playing.

And if you let it play through to the end, you can pass the hallway without crashing, I mean how is that even possible that a random ad causes the game to crash...

Seems to me, that this isn't a graphical issu but a sound issue, with playing sounds and clashing while one is still paying and a second one tries to play over the active one...

In any case, I just managed to get past the hallway, hopefully this was all that is wrong...

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    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    My setup is similar to yours. I5-6600K, 970 GTX, 16GB mem. Unfortunately, waiting for that ad to play does not solve it for me.

    I'm doing a play-thru of all three old ME games before I play Andromeda which just released today. It was probably just luck for you on the sound thing. I still crash in that exact same spot, every time. So far it has been proven impassable without changing settings.

    To get past that area, I set ALL graphics settings to as low as they would go, and put the game in windowed mode at 1680x1050. I also stared at the wall and strafed left as far as I could. That allowed me to get down the hallway. Once I got down and took the taxi to Samara's mission, I quit and set everything to full screen (1920x1200 was my resolution) and all settings to maximum again and it's working fine.

    I also had the one where I was crashing after Kasumi's mission. The command to turn off the video, when added to the ME2.exe launch shortcut fixed that, but needed to be removed afterward, as it caused crashes getting to certain areas of Omega. That fix is here: http://answers.ea.com/t5/Mass-Effect-2/Solved-PC-Kasumi-Stolen-Memory-DLC-Crashing-at-the-end-of/td-p/347550

    Bizarre errors.. hope this helps someone else.

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