Please preform a clean boot and test the installation in clean boot mode.
Make sure your virus scanner and other security software and also Afterburner and similar software is disabled.
I think it was just formatted wrong. It works now though. I downloaded and ran it as administrator, but it's the same deal as before. No visible popup to show it's doing anything.
OriginThinSetup and OriginThinSetupInternal show up in the task manager and seem to have resources allocated to them, but nothing visible happens. No popup asking to allow it to make changes to the computer, nothing. ThinSetup sits at 0 CPU usage and 1.6 MB of RAM. ThinSetupInternal sits at ~9.6% CPU usage and 2.6 MB of RAM.
Please preform a clean boot and test the installation in clean boot mode.
Make sure your virus scanner and other security software and also Afterburner and similar software is disabled.
This seems to have worked...sort of.
Performing a clean boot did allow me to install and run Origin. When I boot normally, however, I cannot run Origin even though it is installed, meaning I still can't run the game. Performing another clean boot once again allows me to access Origin and, in turn, to play the game.
I guess this just means I'll have to perform a clean boot every time I want to play Mass Effect. Definitely a lot better than not being able to play it at all, so thank you kindly for that.
If you have any tips that might allow me to run it without the clean boot, I'd appreciate it, but otherwise my problem seems to be solved.
EDIT: I decided to try re-enabling things bit by bit until it stopped working again and what I found was...unexpected. I was able to re-enable all the msconfig services (all the ones I recognized, anyway) so then it was time to start messing with the Task Manager startup items. As it turns out, my Huion Tablet utility, for WHATEVER reason, was the thing not playing nice with Origin. So...a warning to anyone who uses a Huion tablet and wants to use Origin, I guess.
Very good!
And yes, Trial and Error is the only thing you can do in such a case.
Good that you found the culprit.
Have fun gaming!
