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xXTheBingsXx
4 years ago
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Unable to locate configuration file

I have been playing ME Legendary Edition via EA Desktop, via the EA Play subscription service. Everywhere I look online, I am told the configuration file should be located here

C:\Program Files\EA Games\Mass Effect Legendary Edition\Game\ME2\BioGame\Config

However, there is no Config folder in this location. The only folders I have are CookedPCConsole, DLC, Movies, and Splash.

I have played the first game, in it's entirety, and have played an hour or two of the second. Neither of the game folders have a config folder, in the BioGame folder.

Am I missing something stupid obvious here?

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  • xXTheBingsXx's avatar
    xXTheBingsXx
    4 years ago
    @holger1405 Yes installing it onto another drive/location seemed to have worked.

    Unknown, if the solution is due to it being in another location, or if it any ole reinstall woulda fixed it. If I was a betting man, I'd say it was likely, that the location was the problem.

    Thank you.

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  • sundance31us's avatar
    sundance31us
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    4 years ago

    I don't have EA Play, so my file path is a bit different:

    C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Mass Effect Legendary Edition\Game\ME2\BioGame\Config

    I haven't finished playing ME1LE, so I didn't see the file at first. I fired up ME2LE to see if the Config file would appear and it did faster than a Collector attack.

    Is it possible that the file may be hidden?

  • xXTheBingsXx's avatar
    xXTheBingsXx
    4 years ago
    @holger1405 Yes I did, interestingly enough, C:\Users\Carl\Documents\BioWare\Mass Effect Legendary Edition only contains a save folder, launcherconfig.cfg and trilogygamerprofile

    it does not contain the game's config file or, a folder called config.

    But, for the regular ME games, the documents folder does contain BIOgame/config with, everything you'd expect to see



    C:\Users\Carl\Documents\BioWare\Mass Effect 2\BIOGame\Config

    There is PCConsoleTOC.bin file.
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    holger1405
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    4 years ago

    @xXTheBingsXx 

    Yes, in the old games the "Documents" folder was the standard folder for the "Config" folder.

    I thought that the game might have got back to Momm if it had a problem creating the folder in your "BIOGame" folder in the game folder.

    Search your PC for the "GamerSettings.ini" file. If you have the original games installed you should have 5 of them.

    The two for the original ME2 & ME3 and three for the MELE. (If you have started LE3 already)

    Wherever the "GamerSettings.ini" file is, your "Config" folder should be there as well.

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    xXTheBingsXx
    4 years ago
    @holger1405 Yeah already did that, the only GamerSettings.ini files are for the regular ole mass effect games, nothing regarding the legendary edition which makes me wonder if this is a EA desktop subscription sorta thing, similarly to how Microsoft's game pass has their installs, which are sometimes, similarly nebulous.
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    4 years ago

    @xXTheBingsXx 

    The files in the "Config" folder are created from the "Coalesced_INT.bin". (or the local equivalents.)

    (If you delete the "Config" folder it is just recreated from the settings in the "Coalesced_INT.bin".)

    So it is possible that the game reads directly from the"Coalesced_INT.bin" if it can't find a "Config" folder

    It is also possible that the EA Play subscription version has a different file structure, I just saw no other reports about the "Config" folder missing, neither here nor on the Nexus. 

    What about a "BIOWeapon.ini"?

  • xXTheBingsXx's avatar
    xXTheBingsXx
    4 years ago
    @holger1405 I do have Coalesced_INT.bin

    I also have BIOWeapon, BIOGame and BIOEngine.

    Out of curiosity I decided to attempt to create a config folder, in the proper location, and I was told I needed administration permission to do so.

    I am now wondering if the issue is, the game cannot create the folder itself. I am going to reinstall the game on another drive, and see if this is the problem.
  • holger1405's avatar
    holger1405
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    4 years ago

    @xXTheBingsXx 

    xXTheBingsXx wrote:
    I do have Coalesced_INT.bin

    Yeah, it had to be there, without it the game would not work.

    Is that "BIOWeapon.ini?"

    If yes, in what folder is it?

    @xXTheBingsXx wrote:

    Out of curiosity I decided to attempt to create a config folder, in the proper location, and I was told I needed administration permission to do so.

    I am now wondering if the issue is, the game cannot create the folder itself. I am going to reinstall the game on another drive, and see if this is the problem.

    I assumed from the start that some permission isuue is the problem, the "C:\Program Files (x86)" and "C:\Program Files" folder have special protection inside Windows. 
    (It normally still should work.)
    That is why I said it might be possible that the game reads directly from the "Coalesced_INT.bin", or the language variants if you play the game in a different language than English, if it can't find a "Config" folder.  

    Installing it to another drive could very well solve the problem.

  • xXTheBingsXx's avatar
    xXTheBingsXx
    4 years ago
    @holger1405 Yes installing it onto another drive/location seemed to have worked.

    Unknown, if the solution is due to it being in another location, or if it any ole reinstall woulda fixed it. If I was a betting man, I'd say it was likely, that the location was the problem.

    Thank you.

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