ME2 crashes after Intro / Windows 10
Hey everyone,
since I pre-ordered ME4, I wanted to play all previous ME games. Mass Effect 1 worked fine, but then I wanted to play ME2, which doesn't start. I tried almost every solution to get i...
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Try to repair the game. (in Origin > Game Library > right click ME2 > Repair)
If that don't works, make sure that Origin and the Game are completely closed.
Go to your ">drive<":\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Mass Effect 2\__Installer\vc\vc2005\redist" folder and run the "vcredist_x86.exe" > reboot > go back to the same folder and run the "vcredist_x64.exe" > reboot > test.
If that don't helps, please report back.
I tried to reinstall and repair the game several times, actually. I updated VCRedist, DX and my graphics driver, but that dowsn't help. Everytime I start the game, I see the intro scenes and then the screen, wehere I have to push a button, as soon as I do that, the game crashes.
Funny thing is, I installed Windows 8.1 yesterday and Mass Effect 2 runs perfectly. But I really want to use DX12 within some of the newer games, but to be brutally honest, I want to play Forza Horizon 3, which doesn't work on 8.1, so I need Windows 10.
To make things easier, here is a list of things, I already tried:
- Reinstall the game
- Repair
- Disable Cloud Sync
- Disable Origin InGame
- Updated graphics driver
- Updated every other driver (such as chipset, etc)
- Reinstalled Windows10 (with and without Annyversary)
- Compatibility mode (Windows 7, 8)
- Changed the name of the MEGame.exe too MassEffect2.exe (as mentioned in another thread)
- Reduced graphic details and even resolution
- Swapped my GPU with the one from my girlfriend (7970 -> 290X)
- Swapped the GPU with one of the old ones I have lying around (9800GTX+ / GTX480)
- Swapped out RAM
And a whole other things I can't remember right now. As mentioned, the game runs perfectly now, but not with Windows 10, so that's not really the best solution.
Did you reinstalled the 2005 VC++ run-times from Microsoft or the Packages that come with the game?
It is strange that the game don't runs on Win 10, but runs on 8.1.
A dual boot system would be a workaround. But it is of course a lot of effort for just one game.
I tried both methods to reinstall VCRedist. A dual boot would be a solution and it actually wouldn't be such a big effort, but whats bothering me about that is, that I can't install Windows XP, which would be a much better second system, because of some old games, which doesn't run on any NT6 based Windows. But there has to be some kind of solution, to get Mass Effect 2 running on my system, if Windows 10 is installed.
But you're right, it is kind of strange, that it works perfectly with Windows 8.1, but doesn't even start with Windows 10. If I remember correctly, I played Mass Effect2 on Windows 10, back when 10 was released. But some reason I often have such kind of luck with a Bioware game. First with Dragon Age II which was stuttering like hell on a system, which should have been able to play the game with the highest settings, then with Dragon Age Inquisition, which I had exactly 8 month, before I was able to play it (and no, the problem was my system), then with Mass Effect 3, which crashed severeal times during the game, sometimes at crucial points in the game. And now the problem with ME2. Maybe I'm just cursed, if it comes to Bioware games, but I really love them, so I just have to keep trying.
