Mass Effect on Windows 8

@dwu03; 

You asked

"how to do run it on compatibility mode??"

Answer

1.  Create a desktop shortcut to the game launcher ("\<user's game program path>\MassEffectLauncher.exe")

2.  Right-click on it and choose "Properties" at the bottom.

3.  Click the "Compatibility" tab at the top.  (You can actually do steps 2-3 during step 1.)

4.  Check the "Compatibility Mode"' box and select "WinXP (SP3) from the drop-down.  (NOTE:  For this kind of thing, I click the "Change for all users" first so that the change will work for everybody on my machine, even though no one else uses it regularly.)

5.  Start the game from the shortcut instead of from the EA/Origin client.

(While one can apply the "Compatibility Mode" setting directly to the program file, I found that ME1 still wouldn't launch from my EA/Origin client.)

Found that I had to set the EA/Origin client to "Run a Administrator" to be able to launch the game when clicking "Play" from within "My Games".

That's it! 😕mileywink:

Oh, and of course, one needs to apply the 1.02 patch in order to run the game on Win7 or Win8!

See this topic: [Information] Mass Effect 1 and Windows 7 - You need patch 1.02 to play, which is pinned to the top of this forum.