Mass Effect won't start

Given such limited information, WHY have you not retraced yiour steps to return to the graphics driver you used before? 

I've rolled back to the previous driver, no luck.  Uninstalled then reinstalled the game, no luck.  Restored my pc to a point 3 days before this started happening, and still no luck.  I've also ran 'repair install' in Origin and still no luck.

^you are a lifesaver. I love you.

am having the same problem...mass effect won't start. Wat do u mean by running Origin as admin?

If the program is already running close it.

1) Mouse over the icon and right click to bring up the menu.
2) From the menu select "Run as administrator".

Same thing happened to me.

Closed Origin and ran Origin as administrator and then it worked.

**bleep**, mine still won't work, even after running as administrator. What now?

I have spent up to 4 hours searching and testing fixes to this problem, NOTHING works. lets face it, the game is dead. and the hacks on EA haven't got a clue of what to do. :robotmad:

How DARE you lable it solved!

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@Vigo75 wrote:

Tried running Origin as an Admin and ME works now.

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There are two stickies on top.  One is about the patch and the Administrative Rights, the other is about providing a full set of diagnostic information.  A poor quality graphics solution is SUPPOSED to fail, that's the nature of buying the cheap stuff.  The programmers should have included a failure error message, and did not do so.  That is inexcusable. 

All of that is entirely beside the point when you want to complain.  This place is unofficial.  The answers are from fellow gamers, and complaints about getting no answer have no reason to exist based on that. 

Official support is on the EA Help Center's site.  You can complain there.