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Anonymous
14 years ago
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Question about server connection with friend in a different country...

Asked this over at BSN, but trying here too before I bother with EA support... Backstory: A good friend and I have been playing ME3 MP together almost daily since early summer. He lives in the UK, a...
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    monsieurconnard
    14 years ago

    For the language issue:

    - go to the registry:

                                   - type Windows key + R

                                    -regedit

                                    -go on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE

    Go on Wow6432Node for Windows 64bit and then Origin Games - >71402

    Or directly Origin Games -> 71402 for windows 32 bit

     

    After you will see a window on the right with  "Local                    "X."   Verify that the "X" is actually "en_US"

    Now return to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE and go on Bioware / Mass Effect 3 and look again on the right the "Local                    "X" and change it to en_US.

    If it doesn't work, download a language pack files, copy all files in your Mass effect main directory and retry what I said for the registry.

    For the connection issue, as I'm not an expert, I don't really know what I can advise you to solve it,


    But you can contact the EA support:

    https://help.ea.com/contact-us

    Change the Country: Select at the bottom on the right "Country selector", and choose "United States".

    Select:

    -Product: Mass Effect 3

    -Category: Technical support

    -Plateform: PC

    Click on the Live chat for a direct talk

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monsieurconnard
14 years ago

As you said in your post, your friend don't host the game because there's a lot of internet trafic in his house.

You live in USA, he lives in UK, so I think that the connection between you and your friend can't be stable because of the distance which seperate you.

He doesn't have a great connection himself, and the connection between you isn't really good.

So I think that as far as there's too much latency you'll (he'll) be disconnected.

There's still many problem on EA servers, maybe it worked before because your friend had a better connection than now, I don't really know, that's the problem about connection issues on EA servers, no one found a solution to fix it...

Try to play with a third player which live in UK, to see if that's really because of your friend connection, or a server issue.

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
14 years ago

Well, I don't know any other players in the UK unfortunately. The fact that my invites (usually) appear in Chinese is worrisome to me. My friend has been able to play on the host of another friend who lives in the same timezone as I do without getting disconnected - although I'm not sure where that friend lives, and he seems to play with that person at later hours.

  • monsieurconnard's avatar
    monsieurconnard
    14 years ago

    For the language issue:

    - go to the registry:

                                   - type Windows key + R

                                    -regedit

                                    -go on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE

    Go on Wow6432Node for Windows 64bit and then Origin Games - >71402

    Or directly Origin Games -> 71402 for windows 32 bit

     

    After you will see a window on the right with  "Local                    "X."   Verify that the "X" is actually "en_US"

    Now return to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE and go on Bioware / Mass Effect 3 and look again on the right the "Local                    "X" and change it to en_US.

    If it doesn't work, download a language pack files, copy all files in your Mass effect main directory and retry what I said for the registry.

    For the connection issue, as I'm not an expert, I don't really know what I can advise you to solve it,


    But you can contact the EA support:

    https://help.ea.com/contact-us

    Change the Country: Select at the bottom on the right "Country selector", and choose "United States".

    Select:

    -Product: Mass Effect 3

    -Category: Technical support

    -Plateform: PC

    Click on the Live chat for a direct talk

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