Re: Mass Effect 3 crashes when importing ME2 character - PC
@holger1405 Thanks Holger and you are absolutely right.
However, the mod that caused the issue was the "Ashley Marksman Fix". Apparently, the game was shipped with Ashley's Marksman skill not working.
And I want to be really clear here. I regard the Mass Effect games to be one of the greatest Science Fiction narratives to ever be written. They are certainly richer than Star Wars or even Star Trek and deserve remakes over the next 50 years or so. Where would we be had Beethoven decided that he had performed his 9th Symphony for the people he wanted to impress and so had no need to preserve the score?
Regardless, I make no claims about what happened after this but I do want to explain since most people will do as I did. The moment I got past the game's introduction, I saved and re-installed the Ashley fix. When I tried to re-launch the game I got the error that my DLC could not be authorized. The fix for this error was to paste binkw23.dll and binkw32.dll to ...\Mass Effect 3\Binaries\Win32. These files can be found with a quick Google search and I'm sure that the end result is a game closer to what the developers intended.
However, the mod that caused the issue was the "Ashley Marksman Fix". Apparently, the game was shipped with Ashley's Marksman skill not working.
And I want to be really clear here. I regard the Mass Effect games to be one of the greatest Science Fiction narratives to ever be written. They are certainly richer than Star Wars or even Star Trek and deserve remakes over the next 50 years or so. Where would we be had Beethoven decided that he had performed his 9th Symphony for the people he wanted to impress and so had no need to preserve the score?
Regardless, I make no claims about what happened after this but I do want to explain since most people will do as I did. The moment I got past the game's introduction, I saved and re-installed the Ashley fix. When I tried to re-launch the game I got the error that my DLC could not be authorized. The fix for this error was to paste binkw23.dll and binkw32.dll to ...\Mass Effect 3\Binaries\Win32. These files can be found with a quick Google search and I'm sure that the end result is a game closer to what the developers intended.
