Mass Effect 3 will not launch

I have the exact same issue, I've tried everything.

I have had this same issue the ME3 task only appears for a few seconds before it closes and origin's window reappears on the screen it gives no error text or anything. The windows event screen says that it is a faulty application path and the component is the awc.dll and when I replace the dll with a file that was posted it still pops up with the same error that the dll is bad I am running it on windows 10 and about 3 weeks ago I changed the hardware in my computer and it worked on windows 10 before that I even went as far as to reinstall origin and ME3 and it still does not work and origin is being ran in admin I even went and tried to run the game in compatibility mode with windows 7 and admin and still does the same thing. I even read people saying that EA told them that their bios was not supported by the game if that is the case they should be doing a patch to make the game work since they are still selling the game. I have disabled origin in game and cloud saves and it still does the same thing. It is just throwing me into a rage. None of the solutions I have tried have made any difference I think its not my PC its the game or origin itself that is causing this.

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@historywiz wrote:

I have had this same issue the ME3 task only appears for a few seconds before it closes and origin's window reappears on the screen it gives no error text or anything. The windows event screen says that it is a faulty application path and the component is the awc.dll and when I replace the dll with a file that was posted it still pops up with the same error that the dll is bad I am running it on windows 10 and about 3 weeks ago I changed the hardware in my computer and it worked on windows 10 before that I even went as far as to reinstall origin and ME3 and it still does not work and origin is being ran in admin I even went and tried to run the game in compatibility mode with windows 7 and admin and still does the same thing. I even read people saying that EA told them that their bios was not supported by the game if that is the case they should be doing a patch to make the game work since they are still selling the game. I have disabled origin in game and cloud saves and it still does the same thing. It is just throwing me into a rage. None of the solutions I have tried have made any difference I think its not my PC its the game or origin itself that is causing this.

I'm with you that I've tried all options given on forum. nothing seems to work, yet I played this in May and it was fine. Played Andromeda decided to come back to it and now it won't. What on Earth Origin??? seriously frustrated

Just tried second part of Holger 1405;s solution.

"If that don't helps:

- Disable "Origin in Game" and "Cloud Saves" in Origin.

- Close Origin.

- move the "Mass Effect 3"  folder from your "Documents\Bioware" folder to your desktop.

- Start Origin Test the game."

this worked for me but lost all my saves. I started a new game so a save file would appear on the computer c drive again then took the saves from the desktop file and transferred them into the new saves and got my saves back and the game played. not sure where the problem is, but wasn't in the save folder. Has to be in one of the other files in that Documents \Bioware folder. Hopefully this gets you back in the game

@momgames

This means either one of the "INI" files, the profile file or one of the save games got corrupted.

If the problem was one of the first two, you probably will not have future issues, if it was a save game it can be that the game will stop working again if you try to load the particular save. 

@historywiz

It is unlikely that the Bios is the culprit, but it is for sure something going on on your system that causes the problem.

First, did you also moved the "Mass Effect" folder from the "Documents\Bioware" folder, as I suggested, after you disabled "Origin in game" and "cloud saves"?

Second, did you replaced both DLLs and rebooted your machine at last once?

Furthermore, your Windows 10 is still at build 10240, that is the first (public) windows 10 build, delivered at the release of Windows 10.

MS changed the WDM (Windows driver Model) in the later major future upgrades for Windows 10 two times, and the NVIDIA drivers you use are written for this new driver model.

Is there a reason why you're still on build 10240?

I replaced both 4 times and it didn't amount to anything the game still won't launch. I had a similar problem with the first Mass Effect when I got it 5 years ago but that popped up a text window saying a DLL file was missing I then used a program to search for and re install the missing DLL files one after another It eventually worked. It am using build 10240 because for some reason the computer does not update to any of the newer builds at all the creators update it got to the point that it told me to restart I did and then it comes up applying update the computer will restart a few times it gets to 25% restarts and then it comes up reverting back to a previous build of windows 10 and I have tried to update windows 10 to a newer build a few times with no success I have tried it with windows update, update assistant and a while back I tried the windows creators tool none worked it may also be that my internet is complete garbage downloading anything is a long and frustrating process. Also this is the only game that seems to have this issue all the other Mass Effect games work including Andromeda.   

@historywiz

And you also moved the "Mass Effect 3" folder from the "Documents\Bioware" folder?

What kind of Hardware did you change?

For the Windows update problem, you might want to check in the Windows Disk management if you have a at least 500MB big partition (System, Active, Primary Partition) in front of your Windows partition.

If it is not there or smaller than 500 MB you should use a partitioning tool to create or advance this partition.

If that don't helps you should think about a fresh installation of your system with a update-medium created with the MS Media Creation tool.

You will get more and more problems with this build regarding multi-media features.

Motherboard cpu and memory is what I changed in the PC then with the aide of Microsoft got windows 10 re-activated since the 10240 build doesn't have the troubleshooter. A clean installation of windows 10 is not a option it would take weeks and even months to get every game that I have on my PC back on it to put it in perspective to download Mass Effect Andromeda it took 3 days would of taken longer if I had not left my PC on all night GTA 5 it took 9 days to download that is how crappy my internet is. Or are you saying that I should attempt to update Windows 10 with the creation tool and keep my files? I also tried moving the Mass Effect 3 folder out of documents bioware and it still didn't run. I am not the most tech savy of people tampering with disc partitions is a thing I prefer not to touch as I could f up and kill the PC for good also it often requires tools that are expensive to buy and I do not have allot of money to spend on it. It seems very odd that Mass Effect 3 is the only game that has this issue.