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GhostLeviatha's avatar
3 years ago

MELE Fail to Launch through steam

I've had this issue since I bought the mass effect legendary edition through steam i go to launch it for the first time it tells me to install the EA app did that hit play on steam 

gives me the error "your game failed to launch an error on our end caused your launch to fail try again a little later" so then i look online on what the issue could be

found out that Origin exists gave that a go and i was able to play the game well for at least 91 hrs then yesterday wanting to start a new career i open origin then a pop up 

appeared telling me to update to the EA app. I can't get rid of the pop up so I tried to update to the EA app but no luck gave me the same error again so right now I'm stuck and can't play the game at all. 

And I have tried most of the troubleshooting methods nothing seems to work.

6 Replies

  • If you open it through Steam after installing the EA app, does it still give the pop-up? I'm sorry this is happening to you! This launcher just gets worse and worse, I swear.

  • Hm, I'm guessing you've already tried to verify the game files etc etc. I wish the error pop-ups would at least have a code like normal ones, so we could google it and see what's going on :-/ How are we supposed to help each other like this lol

  • GhostLeviatha's avatar
    GhostLeviatha
    3 years ago

    yeah I have literally tried everything. and I don't understand why it has to go through the EA app in the first place i bought it through steam let me launch it on steam. 

    PlayStation and Xbox don't have to go through the broken launcher. Why do you have to if you are on pc it makes no sense it's so annoying and tedious.

  • GhostLeviatha's avatar
    GhostLeviatha
    3 years ago

    so update 

     I did a complete reinstall of Windows and I got it to work through the EA app I don't want to jinx it but I think I'm good now thank god 

    lets hope I don't have any more issues

  • holger1405's avatar
    holger1405
    Hero+
    3 years ago

    @GhostLeviatha 

    If it is happening again after a EA app update, disable the "run as Administrator" setting in the"MassEffectLauncher.exe".
    Should fix this issue.

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