July 2019 - last edited July 2019
I have Mass Effect 1 through Origin. It's run fine for awhile now. All of a sudden, the game crashes everytime I click Resume Career or Load Game. No save files work.
All the save files appear, but when I click "Load Game" the game completely locks up. The menu music continues to play in the background, but the game is completely locked up. I can't close the game, I can't even access task manager, because the game will never minimize. I have to restart my computer everytime.
If the game is set to windowed mode, it will actually display as Not Responding and Windows will let me close it.
I can create new careers and the game loads fine, but any attempt to load a save results in a crash. I have changed nothing in the game files. It literally worked fine last week and now it doesn't.
I tried adjusting compatibility settings, repairing the game files, even reinstalling the game. In amongst my troubleshooting, I was able to get an Auto Save to load exactly once without crashing. At the time, the game was windowed and the resolution was so awful that half the game wasn't visible, but it worked and was playable. I tried to reproduce the steps I took to get to that point, but it has never worked since then.
For reference, I am running on Windows 10.
Any ideas? I'm at a loss.
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July 2019 - last edited July 2019
July 2019 - last edited July 2019
July 2019
Thank you for the reply! I will try this as soon as I can and update this thread.
July 2019
July 2019
vspr417GPXpohf schrieb:
I don't get it. These are the exact same save games that didn't work earlier, and now they work fine. Does that mean the config files got messed up somehow?
Yeah, that's the most likely conclusion.
Have fun gaming!
January 2020
January 2020
First it would be of interest if both, the "Save" and the "Config" folder are on their destined location and filled with the right data.
Cold you provide a screenshot of your "Documents\BioWare\Mass Effect" folder and the subordinate folders?
January 2020
I should note: I had Mass Effect installed twice on my computer in different folders and that was causing my issues. This can happen if you owned Mass Effect through another store (physical copy or bought through another website) and you used your key to get it in Origin too. Also, if you back up your game files to install mods like ALOT.
You can end up with multiple shortcuts to Mass Effect and not know which is correct and apparently even Origin can become confused. I'm almost positive this lead to my issue (among others).
Just a thought!
December 2021
December 2021
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