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

Hi. 

The mass effect legendery wont open at all. When starting it it steam it says starting. origin opens (sometimes) and it then closes itself. 

Ive tried the unicode solution, restarted the computer, but issue persist. 

Ive tried to turn of windows defender, but issue still persist. 

Ive also updated the graphics driver and restarted, but issue still persist. 

Ive checked the crash dump folder, and there are several crashdumps there. 

Any clue what the next steps is?

@Whitehands 

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@swvenom37 

The "igo64.dll" (Origin overly) and the "gameoverlayrenderer64.dll" (Steam overlay) are still loaded in this dump files.

But the module that is responsible for the Null Pointer Read is the "bink2w64.dll". (Responsible as in the module that accessing the blocked Ram area, not necessary the module that is at fault) 

That is a Game DLL and we already tried to repair that.

• Make sure Origin and Steam are completely closed.
• Go to your ">Drive<:\Program Files (x86)\Origin" folder and rename the igo64.dll to Old_igo64.dll.
  (This should disable the Origin overly completely.)
• Go to your ">Drive<:\Program Files (x86)\Steam" folder rename the  GameOverlayRenderer64.dll to Old_GameOverlayRenderer64.dll
  
• Restart the PC >  Test.

If that don't helps:

• Please 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.

@swvenom37 

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swvenom37 wrote:

Dumb question. Think there's any issue of me having steam on my D: drive and Origin on C:? I've played other steam/origin linked games without problems this way. Probably not the issue but I'm desperate to find any solution at this point. Thanks.

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Not that dump. 🙂

It happens, I don't think it is the reason here, but I can't be sure.

Besides that:

• Go to your ">drive<:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Mass Effect Legendary Edition\__Installer\vc\vc2015\redist" folder.
• Run the "vc_redist.x64.exe" as administrator. (Right click on the exe > Run as administrator.)
• Restart the computer.
• Run the "vc_redist.x86.exe" as administrator. (Right click on the exe > Run as administrator.)
• Restart the computer.
• Test.

If you get an error that says that another version of the vc_redist is already installed:

• Go here.
• Download the "vc_redist.x86.exe" and the "vc_redist.x64.exe"
• Run the "vc_redist.x86.exe" as administrator. (Right click on the exe > Run as administrator.)
• Restart the computer.
• Run the "vc_redist.x64.exe" as administrator. (Right click on the exe > Run as administrator.)
• Restart the computer.
• Test.

@swvenom37 

Please look at this post and try the game in Save boot mode.

@Firealkon 

Try to repair the game.

(Origin > Game Library > right click ME3 > Repair / in Steam > right click at MEA > Properties > Local Files > Verify integrity of game cache)
(Steam > right click at ME3 > Properties > Local Files > Verify integrity of game cache.)

@Zzamb🤭 

Please check your PMs.