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TriRIKK
New Novice
25 days ago
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Mass Effect LE takes 5-10 minutes to start

Every time I start the game, it shows up the "preparing" screen for a while and then it disappears. But after 5-10 minutes the game actually starts. After start the game runs fine with no issue. Wha...
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  • holger1405's avatar
    holger1405
    23 days ago

    TriRIKK​ 

    It seems to be a game-specific upload problem, so I would leave it here for the time being.

    Lets test something else:
    Make sure Steam and EA app are closed.

    1. Disable the internet connection of your PC.
    2. Go to your "C:\Users\<Your User Name>\Documents\Bioware\Mass Effect Legendary Edition\Save\” folder. 
    3. Move the "ME1, ME2, and ME3 folders to a different playce. (The folders must be gone from the original path! Crating a backup of the save files can't hurt either. )
    4. Start a new game. (The cloud save files should be purged by this.)
    5. Close the game 
    6. Copy your saves back and test. 

    If that doesn't help, move the folders for the games you don't play, as well as all but the last 10 saves for the games you do play, out of the above path and test again.

    It's also worth looking to see if Windows security features such as "Controlled folder access" are interfering.







TriRIKK's avatar
TriRIKK
New Novice
23 days ago

This prompt me to try this in Offline mode as I didn't thought EA App support it. Well, the game starts instantly when I press play. Unfortunately the host file addition did not work in making it start faster. As for the cloud syncs, they do eventually sync up, just takes a long time.

So this issue seems to be definitely EA App related, not Mass Effect and should be move to it's category. holger1405​ 

holger1405's avatar
holger1405
Hero+
23 days ago

TriRIKK​ 

It seems to be a game-specific upload problem, so I would leave it here for the time being.

Lets test something else:
Make sure Steam and EA app are closed.

  1. Disable the internet connection of your PC.
  2. Go to your "C:\Users\<Your User Name>\Documents\Bioware\Mass Effect Legendary Edition\Save\” folder. 
  3. Move the "ME1, ME2, and ME3 folders to a different playce. (The folders must be gone from the original path! Crating a backup of the save files can't hurt either. )
  4. Start a new game. (The cloud save files should be purged by this.)
  5. Close the game 
  6. Copy your saves back and test. 

If that doesn't help, move the folders for the games you don't play, as well as all but the last 10 saves for the games you do play, out of the above path and test again.

It's also worth looking to see if Windows security features such as "Controlled folder access" are interfering.







  • TriRIKK's avatar
    TriRIKK
    New Novice
    22 days ago

    This worked, but it was my fault 😅

    I have put ME3TweaksModManager folder into the ...\Documents\Bioware\Mass Effect Legendary Edition\ folder so they are all organized in one place.

    So the EA App was probably trying to sync up all my mods archives and backup of the games (several GBs) along the save files (and the reason it took a long time to launch and sync up on closing). After moving the ME3TweaksModManager folder away from the save files, the game launches instantly now.

    Thank you for your support.

    • holger1405's avatar
      holger1405
      Hero+
      21 days ago

      TriRIKK​ 

      Glad that you found the culprit, have fun gaming! 

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