Re: Mass Effect 3 has stopped working

And now the damned thing won't accept my PW......OMFG

Disregard the PW thing.  I forgot that newer PWs need the uppercase letter.

Anyone? Bueller?

UPDATE: The only way I've found to be able to get into the game WITH the DLC and play normally follows:

Start Origin

Start ME3

"Press Any Key to Continue"

Let ME3 connect to EA servers

AFTER the first flash of the "Checking DLC", but BEFORE the second flash  -  Disconnect from the internet

Wait until the game tells me that I have lost my connection to EA servers

Click  OK

Alt-Tab out of the game

Reconnect to the internet

Log back in to Origin

Go back into ME3 (by clicking on the minimized taskbar icon)

Click the button in the lower right area of the screen to "Connect to EA Servers"

Play the game normally.

However, after playing, I have to disconnect from the internet BEFORE I leave the multiplayer menu to return to the main menu....otherwise the game will crash again.  My system specs are listed farther up in a spoiler.  If someone would like me to repost them or some other informaton, let me know.

This is an annoying issue and is very similar to what I have been getting.  It is random, so sometimes it is during the intro movie, sometimes right after the DLC check, and sometimes after I click "Multiplayer."

This is a recent happening, since around the last DLC.  It has affected a several of my friends as well.  Maybe this is not client related and the ME3 server is returning some junk data when you run DLC checks...  I don't know.  The fact that you can get the program to run normally offline or not connected to EA could be evidence of this.

edit: so usually I get a crash or two and the game will run normally.  Not tonight.  I finally tried the above trick and it worked to get me into the multiplayer screens.  Unfortunately I got a hang on a Join Game screen as I suppose I couldn't talk to the host, so I exited and was booted to the main menu where it promptly crashed at the DLC check as I didn't think about disconnecting again.  Subsequently when I tried the trick to start the program I did not have any DLC.

Game still not running, i press Start ,few seconds later only black screen and then just comeback to the Desktop..

Well on a whim I ran Repair Install tonight and it appears to have worked.

So perhaps some of you should try it again, or run it if you haven't.  At least if you are getting the crash at DLC check that you can bypass if you disconnect from the network, and reconnect at the DLC check.