Mass Effect 2 - Shadow Broker DLC Crash
So, I'm playing through Mass Effect 2 again (same disc) and on my pervious playthrough I went through the Shadow Broker DLC just fine. But this time, right when you get to the cinematic at the end of...
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Hi i understand i am late to the party but i am leaving this here for future generations... I have found a solution for the multiple crashes this dlc has... the crashes I experienced were the car/taxi chase crash (black screen with music only) and the leaving the shadow broker lair crash (program crash).... playing ME2 through Origin
For the car crash I got through it by playing the dlc in "window" mode... I also chose "no" for all the video options yes is the default... and I selected the lowest screen resolution... ended up playing this dlc using a small window.... all these options can be found in the "options" under the graphics tag
** for the car crash I chose zaeed and miranda the first 2 crashes... I went with totally different characters tali and jack for the successful run through... worth trying different characters...
Leaving the lair walking up to the door and selecting the leave to normandy I was given a windows " program has stopped " error message and was forced to end this processe then alt+con+del and close the game... this is after saving the game after getting through the car crash... I found that i even with the graphics alterations it still crashed at the end.... to pass this go to liara and when she asks about visiting the normandy select the top option to come with me now she will say ok ... youll jump to a loading screen where shep and liara are in the capt room... so no need to go to the door and leave that way...
I have stayed away from the shadow broker lair since completing the dlc and cannot say anything when it comes to revisiting and leaving again..
before all these fixes i went into the default engine and disabled anything vsync and motion blur ( i think there were only 1 or 2)
path way (mine) D:>Origin>MassEffect2>BioGame>Config>defaultengine
to change the parameters Example : vsync=True (fix just delete True replace by typing false) vsync=false .... its easy
not sure if this was a factor or not but i read about it and tried it in my desperation but still was unsuccessful I had to follow my steps above to get through and yet to go back and replace what I altered in the defaultengine I see no difference in gameplay or look...
after completing the dlc I returned the game back to graphic defaults and alls good!.... hope this helps some human out there... dont see how this is possible with the computer specs I have but for what its worth you are not alone with the frustrations regarding this dlc
dont forget to save!
just set game to windowed fulscreeen in settings.
works on my windows 10 pc
The graphical fixes didn't work for me but this one did it for me.
https://www.reddit.com/r/masseffect/comments/33etqa/origin_fix_for_nomoviestartup_command/
steam player here, win7. i completed the dlc, liara is the new shadow broker. was able to leave without any issue. then came back to liara after a while but this time when i try to leave to the normandy it crashes. every_single_time. when i talk to liara, she just says thanks for stopping by, so no interactions here.
i tried opening the game as admin, changing gfx settings, repaired the game files, reverted changes in the coalesced.ini (only related to mouse), reverted to the unmodified gamesettings.ini, started the game without connecting to cerberus, ran around and accessed every display on the ship, nothing helped.
any ideas?
i can play the collector ship mission again, but it looks like i'll just never be able to visit liara again (which will break my shep-heart) ☹️
SURPRISE UPDATE: fixed with -nomoviestartup switch! phew..- Approved
Thanks for your time, but your solution did not work for me. Neither did any other proposed solutions for that matter.
- made a shortcut of the original MassEffect2.exe from Binaries to the Desktop and added -nomoviestartup to the end of it's 'target' field, with the space and without any quotes.
- changed the program to run compatibility settings to Windows 7
- Disabled all Graphics Options, selected 800 x 600 and changed it to "window"
- Chose Tali and Jack as crew mates
- Set all "vsync" options in that configuration file you mentioned to "vsync=False" and saved the file
- run the shortcut as administrator
I did all of these, and yet none worked. Still the cut scene at the car chase, goes black and there's only audio, nothing works.
:-(
:-(
What should I do?
Is this a Steam or Origin Installation?
Did you repaired the game?
Is it always crashing at the same spot?
- Approved
Hi,
I just managed to fix it. When it worked, i had done this:
- set all my graphics to minimum
- made sure my system was using my dedicated graphics card for the game
- updated all possible drivers
- patched the game to 1.02
- removed the command argument -nomoviestartup from the shortcut. I figured, what the hell, sounds like it could be messing something up as well, let's switch to default.
And it finally did it. I'm not quite sure which of these did it (for all i know, just by having removed the -nomoviestartup thing i made it work. I tried playing straight after patching but still no good.)
...You know, it's been such a long time since I played the game now, I'm not even sure what i was supposed to do. I'll have to do a quick read up, i guess haha.
Good luck!
removing the -nomoviestartup fixed the black screen freeze during the car chase for me. Its funny because i had to turn it on to even make it that point and then it turned out to be the cause of for this particular issue.
i hate everything to do with illium right now. its a constant battle of trying different configurations just to get past one bug only to run face first into another.
Thanks to everyone who has posted there solutions thus far.
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