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holger1405
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5 years ago

[PC] Possible workarounds for Mass Effect Legendary Edition launch problems.

If the game does not start for you, there are several possible workarounds: Notice: Mass Effect  Legendary Edition will not run on Windows 7. LE1 & LE2 will not run on CPUs with only 2 physical ...
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5 years ago
@holger1405 Hmm ok let me play around with the region and see if that does anything
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5 years ago

@ALTBOULI313 

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
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    ALTBOULI313
    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 👍
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    ALTBOULI313
    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

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