Re: Launcher works fine but can't start any of the three games (WIN10)

Same for me as well nothing works.

I got all three games to work, but only if I run Origin as an Administrator, which is a stupid idea.

Launching game from another windows profile helped me. Problem might be that my main windows profile system folder name in 3 english symbols long and the game cannot write files or something. A windows profile system folder name from which the game launched succesfully is 7 english symbols long. I hope this information will help.

would not be so bad if EA or BW would say hey we know this is a issue and are looking in to it or something like that

100%.  When your launcher works but the game doesn't on "launch day", it's time to say something.  I've tried all the recommendations (accent in username, disconnect headset), nothing.  It's a really nice loading screen!  

Disabling OneDrive folder protection helped me to start ME1 finally

You can try this guide, option 2

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/116029-turn-off-onedrive-pc-folder-backup-protection-windows-10-a.html

Also try to turn on this:

Start > Control Panel > Region > "Administrative Tools" tab > click the "Change Locale" button.
Here you have the option : "Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support".

Then reboot and try starting the games

@DistortedShapesThis helped! thank you. Also, creating a new win user helped.

@DistortedShapesThis worked for me, it's seems my issue was linked to the fact that my Windows account folder name had special characters in it.

@DistortedShapes

Thanks dude, this worked!

Here are my conclusions, maybe this will help someone ! I think the game is trying to create a save file in the Documents folder, unfortunately I had moved this folder to a folder named with special characters (é and è, salut les francais). So I moved my Documents folder to a folder without accents and it works ! So don't just check the special characters in your windows username, but the entire path to the Documents folder!

@DistortedShapes wrote:

Also try to turn on this:

Start > Control Panel > Region > "Administrative Tools" tab > click the "Change Locale" button.
Here you have the option : "Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support".

Then reboot and try starting the games

Thanks, it worked ! I also had a "é" and a "è" in my name. I had changed the name of my Microsoft account to remove those characters but it did not work until I activated that option in the control panel.

Bon jeu les français !