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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...
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    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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Anonymous
13 years ago

I'm glad that this solution worked for you. Unfortunately, when I try to install the older version of Nvidia PhysX from MS2 Dsk2 Windows refuses to do so.  So I updated the PhysX versions to the msot uptodate, as this worked for others and alas that instals but I stll get the 'failed to launch PhsX environemtent error message.

Suggestions?

I have to say that Mass Effect Trilogy is proving to be a real pain in the neck. I would have though all bugs would be resolved by now. And Origin just gets i the way, with yey another buggy system. This is proving to be a real disappointment.

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    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Thank you very much for this fix. Glad you could help. Seems strange that the community can fix a problem that the games company should have. Ho hum but thank you again.

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