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LycanSprinkles's avatar
13 years ago
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Random Temporary Freezing

Today was the first day in a while since I've played Mass Effect 3, I downloaded Omega and the Alt. Appearance pack and when I launched, my game began to freeze and then unfreeze a few seconds afterwards. Now it isn't causing my game to crash but it is becoming annoying and is starting to ruin my experience, it happens whenever and is quite frequent, it's not here or there, the freezing happens a minute apart at best. It's mainly annoying because it happens during conversations and when it happens, it leads to some conversations becoming unsynced.

Now what have I tried:

- I've tried to lower my settings, it didn't help that much

- I've tried restarting my computer to see if it fixes the issue, it does not.

- I've disabled the Origin ingame interface, no luck there either.

I've tried a lot of things but it doesn't seem to be working, the game was working fine when I played it a while with no temp freezing at all, it's only today it started for me.

  • LycanSprinkles's avatar
    LycanSprinkles
    13 years ago

    Installed Omega DLC, everything is working, it must be the Appearance DLC pack! Thanks! I hope it all gets fixed, I can't be the only one with this problem!

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    Big bump but I've finally found a solution to this while trying to sort out a similar problem with another game.

    Start msconfig, in the general tab select selective startup and unselect load startup items.

    Go to services, click hide all Microsoft services, click enable all and then disable all. Apply and restart.

    This is definitely a hardware issue, I've had no trouble playing ME3 on a 275GTX. On a 660GTX though the game would freeze all the time.

  • warning: If you go into msconfig and disable all services your pc will restart and you will not be able to enter your pin/password you will have to do a system restore to get your pc back online. Not a good idea to stop all services and save.

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