mass effect: andromeda won't launch
Click play, nothing happens. It says I am playing, but nothing in the task manager. I tried repairing and uninstalling and reinstalling. Also says none of my friends play, yet I see them playing on the list.
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I had the same problem today. I got a message saying my graphics drive was broken or had been uninstalled and the game would not load. I checked in task manager and the game did not show in apps, but a lot of memory was being used. I scrolled down in "background processes" and found that ME A was running in background. I closed it and retried starting it in origin. Mo go. I have GForce experience installed and tried starting it there (also to check that I did have the up to date driver). It worked fine, but Origin would not go online. At least the game is working again.
@kanaioti wrote:What about the remaining 5%?
None of the presented solutions worked for me. So for me IT IS NOT SOLVED!!!
What's the point of rolling out update if this will crash the product?
The game was working fine before your FIX...
No solution posted here thus far has worked for me either, I even went as far as doing a full restore of Win 10. The game worked perfect for me right up until the latest patch, I sure as hell didn't break it.
Look around more thoroughly. THIS is a peer to peer forum, on a game player community website. No one from Bioware has ever dropped in here to say "hello". WE never patched anything from here, we sell nothing whatsoever, we just help out with the less complex of game troubles that a gamer can solve for himself / herself.
From where I sit, it's been more Microsoft's meddling than EA's.
Absolutely @Gorath_the_Elder I keep trying to point out that its not the game its generally a problem with the Windows installation being incorrectly configured and Microsofts recent updates, especially to Windows 10 havent helped at all. Contrary to some players personal beliefs there are 10s of thousands of users playing the game without any real issues.
I dont work for EA either, just a gamer trying to help others.I would be very tempted to look outside of ME:A itself and look more towards a VCRedist 2015 x86 re-install or repair as this VCRedist has given other users issues during this 1.07 patch install.
They do exist in your games install folder for ME:A but install can be grabbed from microsoft themselves. install it with a right click and RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR to ensure full elevated rights even in a profile that is administrator on your pc in windows 10 needs this elevation for some installs.
You have nothing to lose whatsoever by trying this repair installation i'm sure, and as you've exhausted all other things, trying this shouldn't be a problem.
@kanaioti wrote:What about the remaining 5%?
None of the presented solutions worked for me. So for me IT IS NOT SOLVED!!!
What's the point of rolling out update if this will crash the product?
The game was working fine before your FIX...
It can be extremely frustrating to be in the 5% group of players whose game won't launch. I do think it's more of a Windows OS issue as opposed to anything that patch 1.07 did. I don't really like Windows 10, but I'm stuck with it as it was my only option on a new PC I bought about 6 months ago. I also had a similar issue with FO4 & Witcher 3, where after playing for 60-70 hours, the game(s) just would no longer launch. I did the following, which made my gaming life much less frustrating:
1-Created an exception for Origin/Steam/and GOG in my AV program (Trend Micro). I also create an exception for any game that I'm playing.
2-Created a desktop short cut for any game that I'm playing, then start the game by right clicking on that icon to "run as administrator". I keep Origin/Steam/GOG (which ever service is relevant to the game I'm playing) minimized in the task bar, but I never start the game from within them.
Since doing these things I haven't had any launch issues with any games that I'm playing, which is currently MEA. You may have already tried these things, but I thought if you haven't, it might be a fix for you. Much easier than uninstalling and reinstalling your game or OS.
