June 2021
Hello everyone. First time poster here.
I'm having an issue with running Mass Effect 2 from the Origin launcher. I can run ME1 and ME3 just fine. This is only affecting ME2 for some reason. Every time that I try to launch the game, it will run for like 3 seconds, then it closes back out to the launcher. I have read over several posts on the several different forums, and have done all the "solutions" that I have found. I have even contacted support twice about it and have done what they have instructed. Still nothing works. Here is a list of things that I have tried so far.
-Rename MassEffect2.exe as MassEffect2Launcher.exe
Rename ME2Game.exe as MassEffect2.exe
-Uninstalled/re-installed the game 3 times.
-Repaired the game more times then that.
-Tired running the game in offline mode.
-Turned off the cloud storage option.
-Tried linking the game through Steam.
-Did everything the tech support person told me to do in regards to the DNS,
-Allowed the game access through the firewall
-Turned off my Anit-virus
I think that is all of it. If anyone can give me a hand here, it would be greatly appreciated. I'm wanting to play the trilogy in order and I just finished ME1. But I don't want to start ME3 until I've done ME2.
Thanks in advance
Solved! Go to Solution.
June 2021 - last edited June 2021
No on both.
UPDATE:
After doing everything that was suggested over the past few days, I woke up this morning and, just out of curiosity, to ran the repair function on the game. After it was completed I tried to start it up. And, to my surprise, it actually started!!! I don't know what fixed it, if it was a combination of several things that did. All that really matters to me at the moment, is that it's fixed. So thank you for all those that gave me advice/ideas on the matter. Now to see if it will actually stay running long enough for me to do a run through.
June 2021
@Maviak Please go into this folder:
[install path]\Mass Effect Legendary Edition\Game\ME2\BioGame
and move the Config folder to the desktop. Then try to play.
If that doesn't help, please run a dxdiag and attach it to a post.
https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/
June 2021
I moved your thread to the Mass Effect 2 board.
June 2021 - last edited June 2021
Turned cloud storage off and removed the folders that you asked me to. Still no change.
Edit:
I don't know if this matters or not, but I have tried running it from Origin, using the MassEffect2.exe and MassEffect2Launcher.exe. Now with the MassEffect2Launcher.exe, I get a pop-up that says: Invalid or missing .par file. Please reinstall your game. I received this error a couple of times before, and I reinstalled on both occasions. But that didn't solve the problem.
June 2021
Do you use a Proxy Server or a VPN?
If so disable them.
June 2021 - last edited June 2021
No on both.
UPDATE:
After doing everything that was suggested over the past few days, I woke up this morning and, just out of curiosity, to ran the repair function on the game. After it was completed I tried to start it up. And, to my surprise, it actually started!!! I don't know what fixed it, if it was a combination of several things that did. All that really matters to me at the moment, is that it's fixed. So thank you for all those that gave me advice/ideas on the matter. Now to see if it will actually stay running long enough for me to do a run through.