Mass Effect 3 will not start.
Every time I try to play ME3 it fails to launch. ME3.exe appears in my process list for a few seconds but then vanishes. There's no crash report, the screen doesn't flash black or anything, there's j...
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@BlueBrew Are you using mods at all? If installed incorrectly they could be causing problems.
Out of curiosity (because it's a problem with DAI at the moment for people with AVG and Nvidia GPUs, and it does the exact same thing you describe, or maybe because I'm really tired so my brain is just making random guesses 😛 ), do you have AVG on your computer? If you do, could you try making exceptions for the game and Origin in it (see this post if you need instructions)? If that doesn't work, try temporarily disabling AVG protection and see if that will let the game launch. Worth a try, even if the two games are on completely different engines. (Another program which causes this issue with DAI is something called Teamviewer. Again, worth a try).
No, I don't use mods or AVG or teamviewer. just trying to get the vanilla game running and finish my playthrough.
Do you have ME3 and Origin installed to your C: drive?
Please go to your "<drive>:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Mass Effect 3\Binaries" folder and run the "MassEffect3Config.exe".
Under "Grafic" set the game to windowed mode > Test.
No I have ME3 installed on my F: drive. My C: drive only has Windows and the Witcher 3 on it.
And I have already tried the windowed mode fix several times with the exact same results.
The DLL file you replaced, was that the "awc.dll"?
- If not shout down Origin completely.
- Download the awc.dll zip file from here.
- unzip the file.
- Navigate to your ME3 "Core" folder. (should be "F:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Mass Effect 3\Binaries\Win32\Core"
- Make a backup copy of your AWC.dll.
- Move the new "awc.dll" file from the location you unzipped the file into the "Core" folder.
- Start origin and test.
If that still not helps, I would suggest to install ME3 to your C: drive because there were reports that sometimes ME3 can't get lunched from another drive.
I don't know the reason for that error because I myself run ME3 on my D: drive, but it happened.
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