ME1 won't install after downloading
Basically as the title implies, I download the game, try to install, no error shows (barely anything happens in fact) then if I try to go and play the game after the origin client says that it instal...
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Try this:
- Make sure Origin ins closed.
- Press the Windows key and "R" at the same time.
- Copy and past or typ "%programdata%\origin\downloadcache" (without the quotes) in the opening field. > hit ENTER.
- Look if the Mass Effect installer is in this folder and run it by hand.
Should the folder be empty, delete the "MassEffect.exe" under ">drive<:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Mass Effect\\Binaries"
- Start Origin as Administrator. <- important
- Origin menu top left corner > Origin > Application Settings > Diagnostics > Troubleshooting > Download in save mode > on.
- In the Origin Game Library > Start the download again. (Don't worry, it will download a few files only.)
Ok so I did both, but the second one got me a bit further/showed that something more fundamental might be wrong.
What I mean by that is that after I deleted the masseffect.exe in the binaries folder (while origin was closed) and then re-opened Origin, Origin hadn't even recognized that it had been deleted, it just tried to install ME1 like normal and once again said complete even though I very much knew there was a missing file.
So now I am supremely confused as to why Origin didn't even recognize that it had been deleted.
I'm going to independently try to delete it and download it again now that I have safe mode on if that'd make a difference, but I am stumped.
Thanks for the help and if you think of anything else I'd really appreciate it.
Make sure that Origin runs in Administrator mode this time.
Yeah, that's not as much of a worry. Since trying to figure this out I've set origin to always run in Admin mode.
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