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ihaterhyl's avatar
10 years ago

Mass Effect 3 wont launch

as the title says, Mass Effect 3 wont launch on windows 10, it does however seem to launch in the background.

I did a search for this problem and people were getting this error back in 2012 or whenever and i tried their solutions and nothing worked. Never got this problem before updating to windows 10 (64 bit)

would it matter if i sad that it says the ME3 version is 32bit?

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  • Did you do a clean install of the game after Windows 10, or was it installed on a old version of windows originally?

    Windows 10 is a bit more iffy on access level, and if say Mass Effect 3 was installed as an Admin back in the days, and now is trying to be run by Origin who is not an Admin, it could be causing problems.

    As a quick first step: Try marking the ME3.exe file as to always run as Admin, and see if it launches then. 

    Otherwise, try a full repair of the game from the option inside Origin. (This should repair both the base game, as well as all the DLC)

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