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Anonymous
12 years ago
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Mass Effect won't start

just bought the ME trilogy today. i have been messing around with it for 4 hours and i can't seem to get Mass Effect to work. it goes to start and then the screen just goes black and all i have is audio for the main menu. the other two games work fine. I have installed it and uninstalled it several times, installed and messed around with origin, no difference. i have tried to run it in compatability mode on all of the choices offered, nothing works. when i run it through 7, it just cuts to black, when i am in compatabilty mode, it claims that ssleay32.dll is missing. i copy the file from one of the other ME games, and it still can't seem to find it on start up. my drivers and direct x are up to date. i've ran it as an administrator, ive tried the patches (computer claims ME can't be found). Help would be greatly appreciated. thanks

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  • Fred_vdp's avatar
    Fred_vdp
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    12 years ago

    Mass Effect 1 is the most demanding of the trilogy, so even if you can run the sequels, there's no guarantee you will be able to run the first game.

    First of all, post your system specs. GPU, CPU, RAM.

    Second of all, when you say you updated DirectX, which one are you talking about? You need the latest DirectX 9, and since the other DirectX versions (10 and 11) are not backward compatible with DX9, updating those wouldn't have an effect. If you got the DirectX version from the game's installer, that should be fine.

    Lastly, if you run the game in Windows 7 or 8, you absolutely need patch 1.02: http://masseffect.bioware.com/me1/pc/updates/index.html

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago
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    windows 7 professional 64 bit

    AMD FX-4100 Quad CPU

    8192MB RAM

    Direct X11: (tried using the one that came with it on disk and also tried downloading it.)

    ATI Radeon HD 5770 CPU

  • Fred_vdp's avatar
    Fred_vdp
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    12 years ago

    AMD FX CPUs aren't compatible with Mass Effect 1, but problems only start occuring on Noveria and are limited to graphical glitches.

    When you say "computer claims ME can't be found", you're talking about the patch, right? There's a fix for that in one of the sticky threads. (Run Origin as admin.)

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