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You are running the game from Origin directly, no Steam involved?
I can't find your DxDiag?
I have a look at your Dump files and DxDiags again, and I need to think this through again after looking what I already suggested to you.
Will be back tomorrow.
- 5 years ago
So the problem I have is that when I try and launch the game the M logo application will appear in the taskbar, and nothing will happen for a couple minutes (I still see my desktop). If I click to tab to it, it'll come up as a black screen, and then crash to desktop again.
If I leave it running for a couple minutes, it will eventually pop up itself and actually (finally) run the intro cinematic for the launcher. And then when the cinematic ends, it'll crash.
However when I first installed the game, it worked. And then the day after, I had all this trouble, but eventually got back into the game again somehow. This was after a bunch of stuff like deleting nahamic (which keeps coming back) and verifying the game install files etc.
Today though, nothing works. So far I have -
- Deleted / stopped A-Volute and Nahamic (though they keep coming back).
- Turns on the unicode beta (though my username has no special characters)
- Installed newest nvidia drivers
- Tried the third party launcher (my cpu is new and has AVX support, but figured it was worth a try. Didn't work).
- Unplugged usb peripherals
- turned off antivirus
- added origin and mass to firewall
- turned off firewall entirely
- Verified game files
- deleted the entire origin cache
Probably some other stuff too. Nothing is working today.
- 5 years ago
So the problem I'm having is that when I launch the game the Mass Effect logo will appear in the taskbar, and nothing will happen for a few minutes (it just stays on my desktop). If I click on the taskbar tab to it, it'll come up as a black screen, and then crash to desktop again.
If I leave it running for a while (several minutes), it will eventually pop and actually (finally) run the intro cinematic for the launcher. And then when the cinematic ends, it'll crash back to desktop.
However when I first installed the game, it worked fine first time. And then the day after, I had all this trouble, but eventually got back into the game again somehow (after a LOT of trouble). This was after a bunch of stuff like deleting nahamic (which keeps coming back) and verifying the game install files etc.
Today though, nothing works. So far I have -
- Deleted / stopped A-Volute and Nahamic (though they keep coming back).
- Turns on the unicode beta (though my username has no special characters)
- Installed newest nvidia drivers
- Tried the third party launcher (my cpu is new and has AVX support, but figured it was worth a try. Didn't work).
- Unplugged usb peripherals
- turned off antivirus
- added origin and mass to firewall
- turned off firewall entirely
- Verified game files
- deleted the entire origin cache
Probably some other stuff too. But I just can't get it running.
- holger14055 years agoHero+
There are many crashes of the "Radeonsoftware.exe", do other games work?
There are also crashes of the "EADesktop.exe" does it work for you?
Did you checked your EA regional setting?
What motherboard do you have? (Manufacturer and Type.)
Deinstall A-Volute.
There are only error reports of the "MassEffectLauncher.exe", but you say the Launcher works and the game is crashing?
There is a PAC2 error for the Launcher, do you have any compatibility setting in place for the "MassEffectLauncher.exe"?
If so disable them.
- 5 years ago@holger1405 Yes other games work fine for me, I bought the original Mass Effect 3 along side the Mass Effect Legendary Edition (just so I could play the MP) That game works perfectly fine both in single player and multiplayer, I have also downloaded and played Starwars squadron with no issues.
I have tried these games on both Origin and EA Desktop with no issues, this is the first and only game I have so far that has had issues.
I should point out that I saved the game to an external hardrive and even re-downloaded Origin on my brothers computer (He has a an RTX 2060 and Intel CPU so completely different to my AMD setup) and the issue still persisted on his machine so I dont think its my graphics card or drivers tbh - holger14055 years agoHero+
You logged in with your account on your brothers computer?
Did you checked if the regional settings of your EA Account are correct?
- 5 years ago@holger1405 Yes my account on brothers computer, this was just to test that it wasn't some strange config/graphics manufacturer issue.
Yes I believe the region should be fine im set to UK in Origin though strangely when I went into the windows defender settings to check if Mass Effect Legendary Edition was being allowed it did seem to indicate it is a US version of the game, could that be the problem?
In windows defender it has the game name as Mass Effect Legendary Edition en_US.
Looking at May Effect 3 and Starwars Squadron they don't have this - 5 years ago@holger1405 Yes, I think that I ckeck properly te EA regional. I check in the page web and everything seems normal. I don't know if you ask for other setting.
About your second question, I don't know if i'm going to put the right information. My computer say that the product it's B150M-A version Rev X.0x and fabricated by ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. - 5 years ago
Anyone know if Mass Effect Legendary Edition is region locked?
- 5 years ago
I've uninstalled A-Volute and Nahamic several times, but it keeps coming back. I've currently got it disabled in device manager and the service disabled in the msconfig.
Origin Launcher loads up fine, but when I try and run the game (either through origin, or using the main desktop shortcut) it does as I described.
Last night I managed to get it working in the end, after disabling nahamic in msconfig, but today that's not working, so I suspect its unrelated it was just a coincidence.
The only compatibility setting I have is 'run as administrator', because that seemed to work the first night I had this problem. But doesn't work anymore. And I've turned that off, and it still doesn't work.
- holger14055 years agoHero+
You need to check it at EA.com, follow this link.
Windows update is probably reinstalling it because MSI flagged it as a necessary driver component.
- Press the Windows key and "R" at the same time.
- Write or copy and paste hdwwiz.cpl into the new Window > Press Enter.
- In the device manager right click the "Nahamic" entry > Properties.
- Choose the "Details" Tab > expand the "device description" and select "Hardware ID"
- Copy the Hardware id to notepad or the editor.
- Press the Windows key and "R" at the same time
- Write or copy and paste gpedit.msc into the new Window > Press Enter.
- Go to: Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Device Installation > Device Installation Restrictions
- Double click the "Prevent installation of devices that match any of these device IDs"
- Activate the policy. > Click on "Display" beneath.
- Copy and paste the hardware ID into the "Value" box > Apply (OK)
- Check "Also apply to devices that are already installed" (Or similar, my Windows is not English 😉) beneath > Apply > OK.
- Deinstall the Nahamic device and the software.
Thanks, I will look it up.
May I ask what exactly worked for you?
- 5 years ago@holger1405 sorry not sure what you mean? What am I supposed to be checking? If its my profile region then yes its United Kingdom but I don't know if that means I can't launch a US version of the game or not? CDKeys state that the code they gave is a world wide 1 so assuming they mean it doesn't matter what region it is
- holger14055 years agoHero+
Yes, if the right region is set for your EA account.
The game is an international version, so it should still launch, but if the EA account is set to the wrong region, there may be problems.
- 5 years ago@holger1405 Hmm ok let me play around with the region and see if that does anything
- 5 years ago
@holger1405 Any progress in my case? Got a problem with another game after updating from Win 7 to Win 10, read that the problem may be caused after such an update, and started wondering if that could've caused problems with MELE as well. Will do a clean OS install this week anyway, but could my problem be related to something screwing up during the update?
- holger14055 years agoHero+
If it is set correctly, leave it that way.
- Press the Windows key and "R" at the same time.
- In the new Window, type or copy and paste "%LOCALAPPDATA%\CrashDumps" (Without the quotation marks) > Press ENTER
- Look if there are any "MassEffect1.exe.Xxxx.dmp" or "MassEffectLauncher.exeXxxx.dmp" files in the "..Local\CrashDumps" folder.
- Zip 2 - 3 "MassEffect1.exe.Xxxx.dmp" or "MassEffectLauncher.exeXxxx.dmp" files together and upload them at a free file hosting service like Dropbox or Onedrive.
- Post the link here.
If there aren't any dump files of ME:
- Press the Windows key > Write: Command Prompt > Right click on "Command Prompt" in the search results > Run as administrator.
- Copy and paste reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps\devenv.exe" /v DumpType /d 2 /t REG_DWORD into the prompt Window > Press ENTER.
- Play the game until it crashes.
- After the game crashes, let all Windows crash dialogues finish.
- Press the Windows key and "R" at the same time. > Type "%LOCALAPPDATA%\CrashDumps" (Without the quotation marks) into the new window > Press ENTER.
- Zip 2 - 3 "MassEffect1.exe.Xxxx.dmp" or "MassEffectLauncher.exeXxxx.dmp" files together and upload them at free file hosting service like Dropbox.
- Post the link here.
If you want to undo the automatic dump creation, use the command below in a elevated command prompt (As in point 1) reg delete "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps" /f
- holger14055 years agoHero+
The overlays are still disabled? If not please disable them again, also shut down Discord for the time being.
To be clear, all 3 must be disabled at the same time.
If you did not already done it, try to repair the game.
(Origin > Game Library > right click MELE > Repair)
(Steam > right click at MELE > Properties > Local Files > Verify integrity of game cache.)Then preform a clean boot and test the Game in clean boot mode.
Make sure your virus scanner and other security software and also Afterburner and similar software is disabled.
Make also sure that your GPU & CPU are not overclocked.
- Go here
- Choose your OS > Install all the newest drivers that are available. (Only the drivers, not Software or Utility.)
(Restart your system after any driver you installed.) - Test.
- 5 years ago@holger1405 Thanks I will give that a try tomorrow when I'm free and will update the thread with how I get on 👍
- 5 years ago
@holger1405
Did those thing already, but just now did them again for good measure:
1. Completely disabled overlays on both apps with Discord off, tested, didn't help
2. Verified files through Steam (did that 4-5 times already but just did it again), all files successfully verified
3. Checked for any modifications to settings I'd have forgotten about, GPU is in factory settings, my CPU has overclocking locked, OC Genie was off
4. Just did a clean boot with Microsoft Defender completely disabled, tested, game didn't change in behaviour in any way, games still crash after selection and send me back to the launcher - 5 years ago@holger1405 Hi, thanks for your time but nothing changes. I'm in the same loop. I try to play in the three games, but the three do the same thing.
- 5 years ago@holger1405 Unfortunately those steps did not work ☹️ there was no mass effect file present in the crash dumps folder only one or two other files (1 for EA Desktop) but none were recent.
I ran the command you mentioned in the command prompt then try to run the game (usual thing happened were it minimized the Origin window as if it was a bout to start a game then went straight back into it) checked the CrashDumps folder again but still didnt see any file - 5 years ago
@holger1405 Attached is the DxDiag file you mentioned.
As a reminder, this issue is on my sister's PC; she does not have an AVX CPU. When using the custom launcher (launched via Steam or Origin) and clicking Mass Effect 1, we get the splash screen (the original ME1 logo) and a spinning circle, but the game never loads (even after two+ hours). On task manager, it says that Mass Effect Legendary Edition is not responding.
She is able to play many other games on her PC, including The Sims 4 (via Origin) and even Cyberpunk 2077 (which she plays at low settings).
- holger14055 years agoHero+
The error code points to missing files inside Windows but could also be triggered by a hardware error.
This CPU however is really old, has only two cores and is clearly under the minimum system regiments for the game. Meaning this problem might not be solvable.
- Hit Windows key and X.
- Choose either “PowerShell (Administrator)” or “Command prompt (Administrator),” whichever option is offered.
- Inside the PowerShell or CMD, enter “DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Checkhealth” without quotes. > ENTER.
- If errors are found, notify us. If no errors were found reaped steps 1 & 2.
- Inside the PowerShell or CMD, enter “DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth” without quotes. > ENTER.
- The system will start validating soon. If it throws an error, please list it here.
- After it reaches 100%, hit Windows key and X again.
- Again, choose “PowerShell (Administrator)” or “Command Prompt (Administrator)”
- Inside the PowerShell or CMD, enter “sfc /scannow” without quotes. >ENTER.
- Post the message you receive at the end of the processes here.
- Make sure Origin and Steam are closed.
- Delete the "bink2w64.dll" and the "MassEffect1.exe" from under "D:\Steam\steamapps\common\Mass Effect Legendary Edition\Game\ME1\Binaries\Win64"
- Start Steam > In the library it should say "Download" now > click it. (Stem should only download the missing files and verify the rest of the files again.
- Test.
The UOTrace is fine.
Make sure Origin and Steam are completely closed.
Clear your temp files:
- Press the Windows key and "R" at the same time
- Into the new window, type or copy & paste: "%temp%" (Without the quotes.) > hit "ENTER"
- Now your Windows Explorer should have brought you to the "C:\Users\>your user name<\AppData\Local\Temp" folder. > Delete all files and folders in it.
(If some files or folders can't be deleted, reboot and try again.)
- Try to clear your Origin cache.
All settings in Origin (only in Origin not in the games) are back to default settings after this.
- Press the Windows key and "R" at the same time.
- Type or copy and paste "%ProgramData%/Origin" (without quotes) into the new window > hit ENTER
- Delete all the files and folders in the Origin folder, except for the "LocalContent" folder.
(The "LocalContent" folder must remain untouched.) - Delete the "Mass Effect legendary Edition " folder inside the "LocalContent" folder.
- Press the Windows key and "R" at the same time.
- Type or copy and paste "%AppData%" (without quotes) into the new window > hit ENTER
- Now your Windows explorer should have brought you to your "C:\Users\>your user name<\AppData\Roaming" folder.
- Delete the "Origin" folder inside the "Roaming" folder.
- In the address bar of your Windows explorer click on "AppData".
- Open the "Local" folder.
- Delete the "Origin" folder inside the "Local" folder.
- Restart your PC. > test.
If you use EA Desktop. https://help.ea.com/de-de/help/faq/clear-cache-to-fix-problems-with-your-games/
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Go to your ">Drive<:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Mass Effect Legendary Edition\__Installer\vc\vc2015\redist" folder.
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Run the "vc_redist.x64.exe" as administrator. (Right click on the exe > Run as administrator.)
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Restart the computer.
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Run the "vc_redist.x86.exe" as administrator. (Right click on the exe > Run as administrator.)
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Restart the computer.
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Test.
If you get an error message that another version of vc_redist is already installed:
- Go here.
- Download the "vc_redist.x64.exe" and the "vc_redist.x86.exe".
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Run the "vc_redist.x86.exe" as administrator. (Right click on the exe > Run as administrator.)
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Restart the computer.
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Run the "vc_redist.x64.exe" as administrator. (Right click on the exe > Run as administrator.)
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Restart the computer.
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Test.
Thanks!
@Pepedono
Very good. 🙂Have fun gaming!
You might have a problem with the Origin (Steam, Discord) Overlay.
Try to disable them. - 5 years ago@holger1405 Dumped and re-verified the files. Unfortunately no luck.
I also disabled Avast before re-verifying and running to make sure nothing was getting blocked. Error message seems the same:
Faulting application name: MassEffect1.exe, version: 2.0.0.48204, time stamp: 0x609c94ed
Faulting module name: bink2w64.dll, version: 2.7.19.0, time stamp: 0x5e4b32c2
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000010f25
Faulting process id: 0x50c
Faulting application start time: 0x01d74fe8f19bb4d1
Faulting application path: D:\Steam\steamapps\common\Mass Effect Legendary Edition\Game\ME1\Binaries\Win64\MassEffect1.exe
Faulting module path: D:\Steam\steamapps\common\Mass Effect Legendary Edition\Game\ME1\Binaries\Win64\bink2w64.dll
Report Id: db962318-e452-4e0d-b666-bc9058155a5a
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID: - holger14055 years agoHero+
- Press the Windows key and "R" at the same time.
- In the new Window, type or copy and paste "%LOCALAPPDATA%\CrashDumps" (Without the quotation marks) > Press ENTER
- Look if there are any "MassEffect1.exe.Xxxx.dmp" or "MassEffectLauncher.exeXxxx.dmp" files in the "..Local\CrashDumps" folder.
- Zip 2 - 3 of the newest "MassEffect1.exe.Xxxx.dmp" or "MassEffectLauncher.exeXxxx.dmp" files together and upload them at a free file hosting service like Dropbox or Onedrive.
- Post the link here.
If there aren't any dump files of ME:
- Press the Windows key > Write: Command Prompt > Right click on "Command Prompt" in the search results > Run as administrator.
- Copy and paste reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps\devenv.exe" /v DumpType /d 2 /t REG_DWORD into the prompt Window > Press ENTER.
- Play the game until it crashes.
- After the game crashes, let all Windows crash dialogues finish.
- Press the Windows key and "R" at the same time. > Type "%LOCALAPPDATA%\CrashDumps" (Without the quotation marks) into the new window > Press ENTER.
- Zip 2 - 3 "MassEffect1.exe.Xxxx.dmp" or "MassEffectLauncher.exeXxxx.dmp" files together and upload them at free file hosting service like Dropbox.
- Post the link here.
If you want to undo the automatic dump creation, use the command below in a elevated command prompt (As in point 1) reg delete "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps" /f
- 5 years ago@holger1405 Here's a few of the latest crash dumps.
I threw in a few ME2 ones as well from when I was troubleshooting yesterday. Thanks
https://www.dropbox.com/t/IoStUXekfRwoo29U
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