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Anonymous
13 years ago
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Mass Effect 2 - Physx error

I purchased the Mass Effect 2 game on disk from Half Price Books.  After installing, when I attempt to launch the game, I get an error that says, "Failed to initialize the physics system.  Please ens...
  • monsieurconnard's avatar
    monsieurconnard
    13 years ago

    I don't know exactly where the physx setup can be found on the disc.So do not launch automatically your disc, but open it (right click and "open") and make a search on it with keywords "physx".

    If you find the setup, launch it (after you uninstalled the version of physx you had before).

    Another solution would be to, like the first one, uninstall physx from your computer, uninstall Mass Effect 2 and reinstall it.

    To be clear, the issue seems to be that Mass Effect 2 is working with the version of physx provided in the disc, and not with the latest.

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sonevar
Seasoned Rookie
13 years ago

I am truely happy that it's working for you, honestly on my old machine which has an NVidia card, it runs fine at higher versions of PhysX. However when I tried to install my Origin copy on this machine which has a Raideon HD 7560A (??) I got the Physics failed error after clicking play on the launcher. I tried reinstalling it from my Disc copy which launched the older PhysX setup and it ran fine, however since I also have an Origin copy that doesn't require the disc to play (and all of the DLCs installed) I copy/replaced that content over hoping to save time and hassle. After doing so I got the load failure error again until I reinstalled the older PhysX from the Disc at which point the digital overwrite began working fine. On a whim I tried to manually upgrade PhysX after that and the error cme back again. I had to uninstall the newer PhysX (because the older launcher aborted after detecting a newer version) so that I could once again reinstall the older PhysX from the Disc (which fixed the problem again).

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ThandalNLyman
13 years ago

@sonevar;  Weird!  Glad this workaround does the job for you, cumbersome as it may be if you have other games requiring a more recent version of PhysX!

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    sonevar
    Seasoned Rookie
    13 years ago

    Update: A full Uninstall and clean reinstall of my Origin copy works fine now, haven't tried to upgrade PhysX beyond default install yet though *shrug*

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