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NickWride1979's avatar
13 years ago

Mass Effect 3 used to run bun now won't run but appears in processes HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!

I purchased Mass Effect 3 for pc (Disk Version) and It started off running with no problems but now when I run it (either from shortcut or from origin) it wont start but appears in proccesses menu in task manager.  How do I get this game to run again?

my specs are:

Quad Core I5 (4.2GHz)

2x Geforce 550 GTX ti (SLI)

16 GB Ram

Nvidia 3D Vision 2 (with helix mod for game 2 fix render bugs)

4 Replies

  • Same problem here, arrived with the last update of origin, VERY annoying...

    Ok, solved it. Exit origin, go to your origin install folder, rename the igo32.dll file to something else, start origin, should work.

    Origin seems to be coded by monkeys, so their customers have to solve the problems by themselves...

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Same issue here.  It does load, but after an abnormal amount of time (2 minutes+).

    It appears in the Task Manager processes menu but that's about it.  After 2 minutes or more it will finally load.

    Edit:  Just tried glasofruix's suggestion by moving igo32.dll to my desktop and the game launched instantly after that.

  • I have the same problem as the OP. I have the Collectors Edition (disk). I've played it since launch, but this past week or so the game won't launch. It shows up in Task Manager processes but it doesn't start.

    I tried renaming igo32dll. That didn't work. Then I tried to move it to my desktop as you did. Didn't work.

    Last night I got the game to launch, but it took about 8-10 min before it started. This is really, really odd.

  • While checking out possible answers, having left the process running in Task Manager, the game now suddenly started. I figure it took about 10 min this time (about the same as yesterday).

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