Mass Effect Trilogy: ME2 doesn't start with Origin after install

Well, I figured why Origin won't validate the DLCs.

Seems like all my purchases from last year, except for the trilogy itself, reverted to "Processing".

Breaking the laucher wasn't enough, you had to go and steal my DLCs, just in case I figured a way around the launcher thing.

Good show!

This just worked for me.

I installed the ME Trilogy off disc, and I had not added any DLC. After playing all the way through ME1 multiple times, I was playing the Archangel recruitment mission on 27 December when my system rebooted.   After that, I got a launch error every time I tried to launch. 

I tried clean boots and reinstalling, with no effect.  Brutalinistanbul's fix worked - it launches with no problems.

Caveat: I have ony launched it once since fixing, and I have only played 5 minutes past where I was when it quit on me on 27 December.

Nothing works. It's end of story.

I have literally tried everything. Renaming the launcher, importing manually, re-installing countless times.

It boots up the first time, then if you move the saved games in, it instantly does not work and no fix other than a complete wipe again. Which I'm not doing.

Renaming the exe files greets you with "Invalid or missing.par file" "please re-install". After this, Origin thinks the game isn't on the computer- So says install on the menu. Just lol. 

EA you really are a steaming pile of **bleep**. My friend who has the games as they originally are has literally no problems. This is your disgustingly poor origin client base that has destroyed the best gaming trilogy ever made. I'm just glad I played them on the 360 first so I could experience all my saves no problem.

The fact that you have members of your team on here and still haven't been able to sort this problem is pure testament to your business model. All profit, no function. 

I also won't even begin to discuss Battlelog on Battlefield games. I'd like to literally punch the person who thought of that. I'm going straight to ME3 now just to simply be able to continue the story. 

I won't be buying anything from Origin ever again. I hope other people see this and do the same. 

An utter disgrace. 

I had the same issue. I was able to fix it by reinstalling the game (I made a backup right after downloading). Now I avoid the Configuration Tool like the plague. This little application ruined the game for me the first time. Never ever use it if you don't have to.

I was able to play the game again by renaming the EXE files like mentioned on page 3 of this thread but from there on the game was in English and I had no option to change the langue. Therefore I tried the reinstall. This costed me about 5 hours and some money since I only have a limited bandwith.

Now I'm happy I can finally play and enjoy ME2 but I'm heavily disappointed about Origin/EA/Bioware.

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@dook3 wrote:

I had the same issue. I was able to fix it by reinstalling the game (I made a backup right after downloading). Now I avoid the Configuration Tool like the plague. This little application ruined the game for me the first time. Never ever use it if you don't have to.

I was able to play the game again by renaming the EXE files like mentioned on page 3 of this thread but from there on the game was in English and I had no option to change the langue. Therefore I tried the reinstall. This costed me about 5 hours and some money since I only have a limited bandwith.

Now I'm happy I can finally play and enjoy ME2 but I'm heavily disappointed about Origin/EA/Bioware.

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Go to game ".exe" (C:\Program Files x86\Origin Games\Mass Effect\Binaries\) right click, then select properties. Select to run as admin and compatibility mode for Windows 7. Nothing else worked for me, but I got the idea on a whim, just to try it. Worked immidiately as Origin was already running. If you use a different os, obviously you would cater the steps to locate and for running compatibility mode.

couldent have said it any better my friend. EA has just lost yet another customer to its terrible abomination of a gaming client. 

I have the same problem. I renamed both the .exe files and it worked. Now I'm able to play Mass Effect 2 but the game is in English. Is there a way to change the language of the subtitles?

I have ME2 on disc, it works when installed on win 8. But when i added it to origin and uppdated through it, i cant launch it anymore. Remn

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@Brutalistanbul wrote:

I found a solution to it (it worked for me).

In binaries directory:

Rename MassEffect2.exe as MassEffect2Launcher.exe

Rename ME2Game.exe as MassEffect2.exe

Now It Works fine and it can import Mass Effect 1 saves.

Hope work for everyone.

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I have no idea what black magic this fix uses but it worked B-E-A-UTIFULLY! Thank you so much I was getting so frustrated!

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@vinnieb58 wrote:

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@Brutalistanbul wrote:

I found a solution to it (it worked for me).

In binaries directory:

Rename MassEffect2.exe as MassEffect2Launcher.exe

Rename ME2Game.exe as MassEffect2.exe

Now It Works fine and it can import Mass Effect 1 saves.

Hope work for everyone.

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I have no idea what black magic this fix uses but it worked B-E-A-UTIFULLY! Thank you so much I was getting so frustrated!

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Worked for me too. Amazing job by brutalistanbul.

It's really sad that EA hasn't fixed this problem.