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13 years ago
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Mass Effect 2 not launching after downloading Arrival and Shadow Broker DLC

I have the Mass Effect Trilogy (disc version for PC) and I've played through Mass Effect 1 with no major problems.  I imported my ME1 save file with no issues and finished the main missions of Mass Effect 2 also with no problems launching or loading, until I tried to download Arrival and Shadow Broker DLCs.

System details:

Intel Core i5-3470 CPU/ 3.20 GHz / 8 GB RAM

AMD Radeon HD 7700 / 1.0 GB

Windows 7 Professional (64-bit)

DirectX 10.0


Details about problem:

After I finished the suicide mission, I was able to play a few side missions without problems launching Mass Effect 2.  But after I downloaded and installed Arrival and Shadow Broker from the BioWare Social Network site using my Origin/EA account, I was suddenly unable to launch Mass Effect 2 at all.

The first time I got an awc.dll error, and after looking through all the help forums I was unable to find a solution that worked (downloaded Adobe AIR, etc).  I ended up uninstalling both DLCs.  This got rid of the awc.dll error, but now I cannot open Mass Effect 2 at all.

When I try to open ME 2 as Administrator either from the Desktop shortcut, Program Files folder, or Mass Effect 2 Launcher the browser immediately opens Origin and shows a brief "launching" pop-up before it disappears and nothing happens.  I've tried repairing the program from Origin but it comes back with no errors found.  If I start Origin from Program Files as Administrator then try opening Mass Effect 2 I still get the same problem.  This happens when I have cloud save on or off.

When I try trouble-shooting using XP compatibility mode, I get an "ssleay32.dll" error.

I have not modded the game or altered any of the file locations.


Can I please get some help with this?  It's frustrating because I don't want to risk losing my save files by reinstalling ME2, and I didn't have any problems before trying to download Arrival and Shadow Broker.  I paid for both DLCs so I really want to play them, but now I can't even play the main game anymore.

Thanks for the help.

  • Sigh, I reinstalled Mass Effect 2, then downloaded all DLCs using Origin, instead of installing from the BioWare Social Network site.  It took a few hours, but it worked.

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  • An update: I uninstalled then reinstalled Mass Effect 2, and the game started working again.  Downloading the Kasumi DLC from the BioWare Social Network site caused no issues, but the problem started again after I tried to download Arrival (from the BioWare Social Network site directly to my computer).

    After I installed Arrival, trying to open Mass Effect 2 gives me an "awc.dll" error.

    Is this a problem with the DLC itself?  I don't want to reinstall Mass Effect 2 yet another time and still have this problem occur for a DLC I bought.

  • Sigh, I reinstalled Mass Effect 2, then downloaded all DLCs using Origin, instead of installing from the BioWare Social Network site.  It took a few hours, but it worked.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    you don't need do anything. same happen to me. you need re-crack. when you copy v1.02 crack, game start.

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