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Anonymous
8 years ago
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[PC] There is a problem connecting to the server. ME1 authorization issue.

I installed Mass Effect 1 on Friday afternoon, on Windows 7 64 bit (Home Premium, Service Pack 1), using an install disk that uses the 5 authorizations style DRM. Due to personal preference, I'm not ...
  • EA_Mai's avatar
    EA_Mai
    7 years ago
    :D You were fast!

    We made some changes in order to try to fix this issue, but you didn't give us enough time to test it for all the games. 😉

    Glad to hear it's working for you with Need for Speed Undercover! If anyone tries other games, please let us know how it goes!

    Thanks,
    -Mai
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Anonymous
8 years ago

@holger1405

@Jocobai

many thanks for the help for both of you.


Well, I cannot remember 100% sure but AFAICR this error message only started to pop up after the manual installation of patch 1.02. Therefore you must be right that this copied the 2 DLLs into the Binaries.

However I could not start ME1 before the 1.02 install either (it was the main reason why I installed the patch). The only difference was that before the patch there was no error message at all . Actually the exe file behavied very similarly in the memory (I monitored it in the Task Manager) - it has loaded approximately 20 MB. After the patch, after clicking on the OK button in the message window the exe disappeared from the memory. Before the patch the exe simply disappeared on its own at that stage - I guess it terminated itself upon failed verification without any kind of message. I have heard today that yesterday the EA servers were down but I am not sure if it could cause the pre-patch issue. So it was still a weird thing because I think it is a right expectation that a Steam installed game would give a message if an error happens during load.

The learning for me is that I will have to be cautious after the disk install if a problem arises.


Anyway, do not waste more time for my issue now.

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holger1405
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8 years ago

@Nyemasanya

Alright then.

If you get a similar problem with ME1 from the Trilogy, just create a thread in this section.

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    beerxced79000
    8 years ago

    The problem came from patch 1.02 installed manually on the steam version of the game.

    The game under steam is already delivered to date from the customer steam!

    the startup problem before installing patch 1.02 was something else.

    I wanted to indicate it rather but I had some difficulty to return to the forum since the last time. Anyway you have come to understand yourself the eurre that was done.

    I do not know if the problem is still relevant! But Need for spped undercover seemed to have the problem with the version of paul.dll 1.0.1.10


    Atari the game alone in the dark 5 (2008) uses the same version of paul.dll in 1.0.1.10 and the activation is done correctly but visibly live from the securom license server.

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