Mass Effect 3 won't Start
When I click on Play to start on Mass effect 3 Nothing happens no errors no anything. Please help this has been going on for over 6 months now. I have attached my DxDiag.txt. Thank
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@Essential_713 It sure looks like you've been getting errors, your dxdiag is full of APPCRASH errors for ME3.
They all seem related to the awc.dll file, which seems to have been a common issue in the past. Please see this thread and see if the posted solution works for you. If not, please let us know. Thanks 🙂
I replaced both of those files and I still have the same thing happen. Is there anything else I can try? Thanks.
Repair your game. (in Origin > my games > right click ME3 > Repair Game)
After that test. If it still not works, shut down Origin completely and replace the "awc.dll" with the one from this link.
Do it this way:
- Make sure Origin and your game are not running.
- Unzip or extract the contents to your desktop.- Go to your binaries\core folder: ">drive<:\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 your desktop into the ">drive<:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Mass Effect 3\Binaries\Win32\Core" folder.- Test the game (run it from Origin)
I tried both of those suggestions still doesn't start. Any other suggestions. Thanks.
For anybody reading this and have gone this far, I suggest one other thing, try uninstalling Origin all together and then reinstalling. It turns out, every time I attempted to play I would get an error message and it would not launch ME3. Prior to all of this I was moving some stuff around on my desktop and moved Origin to my second monitor, which for some reason forced my PC to crash. After that, I was never able to actually play, just continued to get the error message and it would never start. I uninstalled Origin, then reinstalled and voila, it now works.
Having this issue ever since I got a new laptop that came with Win 10 back in 2020. Cannot run the game even if my life depended on it. Tried everything. Still won't work. Safe mode doesn't even let me install the EA app, because I apparently am low on space. Which I am not.
Does anyone still have this problem? Or had it, and fixed it via some "unorthodox" means? If so, I would appreciate the help.
