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10 years ago

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ME3 crash after Hackett tells me to go to mars

So I recently got the mass effect trilogy for {PC finally, and after 2 weeks I'm finally done replaying the first two to get my perfect playthroughs for ME3 for the first time. I've been playing the multiplayer just fine and went through the beginning before you get your armor no problems, but at the first in-game loading screen the game brings up an error box and crashes; I've went and fixed my DirectX installation problem that has been plaguing all my EA games (my tip, try turning off your antivirus to let it install before you scourge the web-er-net for 3 hours) and then repairing ME3 but to no avail, and the only other person i can find with the same problem ( https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120309103808AAAhBCA ) only has 2 answers, one with an outdated link that goes nowhere and another that doesn't even attempt to help. I've been waiting years to finally finish the trilogy and I'm going to be VERY disappointed and pissed off if I wasted money on the trilogy to not be able to play the actual game I wanted.

Specs:
Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor
PowerColor Radeon R9 285 2GB TurboDuo Video Card
Team Elite 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory

Lemme know if anyone needs anything other info to help, been going at this for hours

Clisel
10 years ago
Update: I've uninstalled the game and re-installed it without the extended cut or trilogy art and was able to get past that loading screen on windowed mode; now I'm re-installing the extended cut and all the free DLC minus the trilogy art and hopefully now the game will work fine, I'll update if anything goes wrong.

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Fred_vdp
Hero+
10 years ago
When a crash always occurs at the same spot, the likely cause is data corruption. In Origin, right click the game and select the option to repair it.
Clisel
10 years ago
yeah I've done the repair already, that's what made me go fix the directx problem, now it says there's no problems in the repair and still does the same.
Clisel
10 years ago
Update: I've uninstalled the game and re-installed it without the extended cut or trilogy art and was able to get past that loading screen on windowed mode; now I'm re-installing the extended cut and all the free DLC minus the trilogy art and hopefully now the game will work fine, I'll update if anything goes wrong.