Re: Mass Effect 3 won't Start

I had the same problem, I would click on either the mass effect icon, or in origin.

Nothing worked just a loading wheel for a few seconds and nothing happends. No errors just nothing.

I did all the things I read on the forums online these include:

1. replace de awc.dll and de EAcore files

2. reinstall both ME3 and Origin

3. reinstall origin on my C drive instead of one of my other drives.

4. read somewhere that the DLC Retaliation could lead to complications, so I kept that one uninstalled.

5. downloading the DLC's one by one manually and checking after each.

6. clean boot and reinstalling my graphical drivers

7. turn off origin in-game for ME3

8. use the repair files option

9. removing my save files to see if they might have been corrupted.

9. turn screen mode to windowed in the config.exe ME3 file (read that it had helped someone solve their problem)

All of the above things did not work for me and the frustrating thing was that I had checked almost every info source on this and for a lot of people the problem was either solved

or it remained a mysterie and no follow up answers were there.

I wanted to check 1 more thing, so I removed everything (origin and ME3) than started my windows 10 in safe mode with network and reinstalled both (first without DLC's later with)

it worked everytime, however as soon as I would switch to normal mode it wouldn't run anymore. So I made a list of all processes running in normal mode and the ones running in safe mode.

What worked for me, was when I found the one of the processes called RazerIngameEngine.exe when I terminated that process ME3 would always start for me.

So I looked it up and as far as I've seen it's non essential for running the razer software, so I went to the razer map and removed the whole RazerIngameEngine folder. So that I don't have to terminate it everything I fire up my pc.

I hope this helps for some of you. If not I hope you'll find a different solution to this problem. Don't know if it is necesarry, but here are my specs just incase:

hardware specs:
case: Corsair Graphite 780T
Mobo: Asus RoG Rampage V extreme
memory 16 GB DDR4 3200 Mhz
CPU: Intel i7 - 5820k CPU 3.30 GHZ
GPU: Asus GTX 980 RoG edition
SSD: intel 250GB
HDD: 6 TB HGST NAS disk
HDD : 3TB WD
CPU Cooling: NZXT Kraken x62

Keyboard: logitech G910

mouse: Razer Mamba