Hi all, I had a general Sophos related error in that ME LE launcher at large would not start. This was solved by resetting one property in Sophos. However, and this is the reason that I write, reexperienced problems Sophos related when starting ME2 LE , I got a blocking error 'unable to load dbdata.dll' which was not fixable by repairing. I tried repairing three times. The last time, I completely unabled Sophos Home Premium and repaired : the game played again ME2 LE started and ran.
Thank you everyone for your efforts! Enjoy playing Gerard van der Kooij
@ALTBOULI313 indeed, it is on the forum here. I have made a screenshot of it, it is kind of hard to find. This is for the general MELE launcher (so no image at all....).
For the MELE 2 error I disabled the full Sophos to get the result of foregoing the blocking error 'unable to load dbdata.dll'.
So for the lanncher at large you should be ok with just the setting "prevent code cave utilization" as you can observe in the third screen shot (zoom in to the document with + in pdf).
It would seem that disabling Sophos altogether to repair the game files to forego the Mele 2 error should be enough. playing could be with sophos enabled, haven't tested this yet. Succes, Gerard
If the settings not help, something I saw more then one time, deinstall Sophos to test if it is the culprit.
You can reinstall it afterwards.
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.
That is good to hear. Have fun gaming! 🙂
It starts fine then I quit. When I try to play again, I get to the launcher, choose my game, then just a black screen and it never loads. Until I start my pc again.
edit: Worked yesterday, now nothing works.
@ALTBOULI313 it was a blocking error when starting up ME2 "unable to load library dbdata.dll" . I had to disable sophos completely for it, repair the game in Origin and re-enable sophos again. Hope you have a lot of fun playing, I just finished ME 1 and continued with a few of the first missions (there are plenty in ME2 ;-) ) So far I haven't encountered in play heavy bugs , so far so good ;-) have fun!
So now the MELE is not starting at all?
I'm also getting the same launch error when trying to resume ME1, I've tried the steps 2,4,5,6,7 and 10 from this post as well as clearing Origin cache, uninstalling oneDrive, self-repair, reinstalling the game and clean boot. I've been able to play the game after fresh installs but that's not working anymore I can only see the icons in the game launcher but instead of resuming the game it blinks to black and freezes user input on launcher.
The launcher works, but when you choose ME1, ME2 just a black screen, no splash screen.
@WanderingRaven01 & @Aiendreas
@holger1405 Thank you for the help, I've tried doing this but I couldn't find the "Config" folder so I just moved the save folder and tried with and without cloud save data, on both attempts the resume option wasn't present but the same problem is there.
To be clear this is only happening on ME1, ME2/3 are able to load normally and they created the Config folder after running them.
This is strange and might be the reason for the problem.
Did you tried to start directly from the MassEffect1.exe? (>drive<:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Mass Effect Legendary Edition\Game\ME1\Binaries\Win64)
well new patch came out and now I get a launcher so that is nice, ME1 and ME2 still will not launch however, I click them to go and the splash screen appears and just sits there forever, I have to use task manager to close the windows.
ME3 works though.
Please create a DxDiag in text file format and post it with your next reply. You can do that with the "Choose file" button at the bottom right corner of the reply window.
Here is the DXdiag, thanks for the help
The MELE system requirements list 4 core 4 threads CPUs as minimum, your CPU has only 2 cores 2 threads so I can't say if there is a hardware limit causing this, even if ME3 runs.
The error message in regards to ME1 is one that is often related to driver problems.
Use a different audio output and if that don't works disable all audio devices in the device manager > Restart the PC > test.
If that don't helps:
Sophos has a page on this, don't uninstall it that is just poor advice, add exclusions in for affected program, be patient for your local install to update,
below link has number of games that don't play nice/act lick viruses and need additional exclusions to allow them to run.
