I have purchased the game through Steam and have had nothing but problems after about 2 and a half hours of gameplay. Mass Effect continually crashes after launching the cutscene that takes you to the Citadel for the first time. I've heard Jokers quip about taxpayer's money at work more than I care to admit. Mass Effect 2 will launch, however it immediately goes to "Not Responding" and freezes up an entire monitor and I'm unable to do anything. I've tried all kinds of work-arounds, opening the game in windowed mode, freezing my anti-virus while launching the game, and the fix to the region among other tiny fixes I found on various websites.
Update, Mass Effect 3 also crashes about 20 seconds after booting it up. I get the first loading screen and some menu music and then crash.
Thats exactly whats happening to me right now. Did you solved it?
