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Willem086's avatar
13 years ago
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Mass effect Game failing to launch

To whom it may concern,

I have recently purchased Mass effect 1;2 and 3.

I have installed Mass effect 1 through Origin using the dvd's.

Once the game was installed I tried to "Play".

Origin informs me that it is syncronising the game with Cloud.

It runs through to 100% and then nothing happens.

I have restarted my PC.

I have also through Origin selected "Repair installation" which completed without finding an error.

Please assist

  • I finally solved it as follows

    I downloaded both patches.

    Started Origin in Admin mode.

    Tried to install the pathes and got the error "cannot find Mass effect"

    Tried to run Mass effect in Origin as administrator and got nowhere.

    Restarted my PC in desperation.

    Ran Origin in administrator mode.

    And then Mass effect launched.

    Hope this helps someone outthere who is dying of frustration.

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Please read the pinned information threads on top, first about Windows 7, then about tech problems generally.

  • Hi

    I noticed that people were having similar problems.

    I have since then downloaded both patches "Mass effect_EFIGS 1.01" and "Mass effect_EFIGS 1.02a" from http://masseffect.bioware.com/me1/pc/updates/index.html

    However now it does the other thing where my PC says - Can't find mass effect.

    I have opened Origin as Administrator and tried running them again.

    However it still responds by saying it can't find mass effect.

    Any ideas on how I can solve this?

  • Hi

    I noticed that people were having similar problems.

    I have since then downloaded both patches "Mass effect_EFIGS 1.01" and "Mass effect_EFIGS 1.02a" from http://masseffect.bioware.com/me1/pc/updates/index.html

    However now it does the other thing where my PC says - Can't find mass effect.

    I have opened Origin as Administrator and tried running them again.

    However it still responds by saying it can't find mass effect.

    Any ideas on how I can solve this?

  • My PC stats are:

    Lenovo laptop

    Running: Windows 7 Professional (Service pack 1)

    Processor: Intel (R) Core (TM) i7-3520M CPU @ 2.9 Ghz

    RAm 8gig

    64 bit

    Graphics card: Nvidia Quadro K1000M

  • I finally solved it as follows

    I downloaded both patches.

    Started Origin in Admin mode.

    Tried to install the pathes and got the error "cannot find Mass effect"

    Tried to run Mass effect in Origin as administrator and got nowhere.

    Restarted my PC in desperation.

    Ran Origin in administrator mode.

    And then Mass effect launched.

    Hope this helps someone outthere who is dying of frustration.

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