[Old Report] PC - DLC crashing
Hi, I have a problem with a DLC mission Stealing Memory (Kasumi). I can complete the whole mission, however, in the mission summary, when I click "Exit" and want to continue, the game just crashes. Tried it many times, without any change. I tried to change all the graphics settings, becouse in some cases of those crashes it helped - without success in this case. I also tried "Repair install" tool in Origin, which didn't find any errors or corrupted files. Any advices?
I managed to get past it just now! Happy guy here.
What I did was a complete new install. I uninstalled it with Revo uninstaller to get all the files away (there are some files that isn't in the mass effect 2 folder that need to go away aswell to make it all go away.) So if you download a trial and use it for that, then you will be fine.
After I installed ME2 from disks (if you have the physical edition). Then updated it as usual. But I didn't install/download the DLCs from Origin, I stopped all the downloads and removed them as soon as they started. Instead I went to https://social.bioware.com/user_entitlements.php and downloaded all the installers there instead. I installed them 1 by 1 and sometimes windows said "Is this program installed properly?" just press the reinstall button (if you are using Windows 7 that is, otherwise it would show.) After all is done, then you probably will get this when you try to start the game "awc.dll failed to load" and you can't start the game. Just do a repair of ME2 (not the dlcs) and wait for it to finnish, then you are done. But I also did the "-nomoviestartup" shortcut and launched from there, just to be safe.
Summarise:
- Uninstall with revo uninstaller (or similiar programs) to remove all the files for me2
- Install everything from the CD (or download from origin if you don't have the physical edition)
- Stop all the dlcs from download via origin.
- download all DLCs from https://social.bioware.com/user_entitlements.php
- install DLCs via the installers you downloaded in step 4. If promted by windows "This program might not have been installed correctly" press "Reinstall using recommended settings"
- Make a shortcut from Masseffect2.exe in the Binaries folder of your mass effect 2 folder. Add in target the parameter "-nomoviestartup" without the quoatation marks " and after \MassEffect2.exe" so in the end it will look like this at the end: "\Binaries\MassEffect2.exe" -nomoviestartup (just so it is right)
- If "awc.dll failed to load" comes up, just go into origin and right click on Mass Effect 2 and press repair.
- Play and hopefully it will work.
I continued playing since my last post. ignoring the loyalty mission so I had to redo the whole mission.
Good Luck!
