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montselles
Seasoned Newcomer
9 months ago

ME 1 LE minimizes to desktop after launch

hi everyone!

yesterday i re-installed MELE and played ME1 for a couple of hours with no issues. today I restarted it, but it keeps minimizing to desktop after launch.

I already tried everything i found online, but there's no way to make it run properly again.

  • my save folder is on my local disk, not on onedrive, and always has been there since i still have the last run's saved games
  • i tried to move the save folder to desktop but nothing changed
  • setting the game priority to high didn't change anything
  • i tried spam-pressing alt+enter to force borderless windowed mode when ME1 starts, but nothing happened
  • I can't manually change it because my gamesettings file doesn't show but three lines that have nothing to do with fullscreen:
[AppCompat]
CompatLevelComposite=5
CompatLevelCPU=5
CompatLevelGPU=5
  • running the game in admin mode had no effect
  • i closed any background apps to no avail
  • nvidia experience doesn't interfere because it says that MELE can't be optimised from there

i don't remember having any issues the last time I played, and in the meantime the only thing that changed is that I updated to Windows 11.

any other option? i'm not a ME1 hater, so I'd rally love to play the trilogy from the beginning and make my own choices. 

and by the way it's insane that I paid full price when MELE came out, but after all this time the same issues still persist.

2 Replies

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    montselles
    Seasoned Newcomer
    9 months ago

    I forgot, I bought it on the EA (ex origin) app, not through Steam

  • montselles's avatar
    montselles
    Seasoned Newcomer
    9 months ago

    and EA app overlay and notifications are turned off. everything is set to run as admin.

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