Betreff: Mass Effect 2 won't launch from Origin [ Edited ]

[holger1405]

@TheAdm77

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@TheAdm77 wrote:

I disabled Secure Boot from BIOS.

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Then follow the instructions in post #6.

If the game don't works after that:

You need to wait a little after you put in "DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth"

The validation progress should start after a short wile.

After it reached 100% and if it didn't gave you an error message:

• Press the Windows key and "X" at the same time.
• Choose "PowerShell" (Adminisrator)" or "Command prompt (Administrator)"
• In the "PowerShell" or "CMD" window, at the prompt, type or copy and paste "sfc /scannnow" (Without the quotes and the S must be a lowercase inside the power-shell) > ENTER. 
• Post the concluding message.

[TheAdm77]

C:\WINDOWS\system32>DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 10.0.17134.1

Image Version: 10.0.17134.345

[==========================100.0%==========================] The restore operation completed successfully.
The operation completed successfully.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>sfc /scannnow

Microsoft (R) Windows (R) Resource Checker Version 6.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Scans the integrity of all protected system files and replaces incorrect versions with
correct Microsoft versions.

SFC [/SCANNOW] [/VERIFYONLY] [/SCANFILE=<file>] [/VERIFYFILE=<file>]
[/OFFWINDIR=<offline windows directory> /OFFBOOTDIR=<offline boot directory> [/OFFLOGFILE=<log file path>]]

/SCANNOW Scans integrity of all protected system files and repairs files with
problems when possible.
/VERIFYONLY Scans integrity of all protected system files. No repair operation is
performed.
/SCANFILE Scans integrity of the referenced file, repairs file if problems are
identified. Specify full path <file>
/VERIFYFILE Verifies the integrity of the file with full path <file>. No repair
operation is performed.
/OFFBOOTDIR For offline repair, specify the location of the offline boot directory
/OFFWINDIR For offline repair, specify the location of the offline windows directory
/OFFLOGFILE For offline repair, optionally enable logging by specifying a log file path

e.g.

sfc /SCANNOW
sfc /VERIFYFILE=c:\windows\system32\kernel32.dll
sfc /SCANFILE=d:\windows\system32\kernel32.dll /OFFBOOTDIR=d:\ /OFFWINDIR=d:\windows
sfc /SCANFILE=d:\windows\system32\kernel32.dll /OFFBOOTDIR=d:\ /OFFWINDIR=d:\windows /OFFLOGFILE=c:\log.txt
sfc /VERIFYONLY

[holger1405]

@TheAdm77

DISM did what it was suppose to do.

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TheAdm77 wrote:

C:\WINDOWS\system32>sfc /scannnow

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There is a "n" too much in "scannow"
Please try again.

[TheAdm77]

@holger1405

[holger1405]

@TheAdm77

That worked as intended.

You also did used the "bcdedit.exe /set {current} nx AlwaysOff" command and the game still don't lunches?

Make sure Origin is closed > Delete the "MassEffect.exe" and the "MassEffec2tLauncher.exe".

Run Origin as an Administrator (Right click the Origin shortcut on your desktop > Run as an administrator)

Go to your game library and click "Download" (Don't worry, Origin will only download a few files.)

Test.

If that also don't works, please post a new DxDiag.

[TheAdm77]

@holger1405:

You also did used the "bcdedit.exe /set {current} nx AlwaysOff" command and the game still don't lunches?

I did and It's still doesn't work.

[holger1405 · Accepted solution]

@TheAdm77

Ok, try this:

• Make sure Origin is completely closed.
  
  
• Go to "C:\Users\>your username>\Documents\BioWare\Mass Effect 2" and move the "Save" folder and the "BIOGame" folder to your desktop.
  (Just to make this clear, the named folders must be gone from the "C:\Users\>your username>\Documents\BioWare\Mass Effect 2" path.)
  
  
• Go to ">drive<:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Mass Effect 2\Binaries" and move the "MassEffect2.exe", the "MEGame2.exe" and the "MassEffect2Config.exe" (the last one could also be a level higher) to your desktop.
  
  
• Go to "">drive<:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Mass Effect 2" and delete the "data" folder.
  
  
• Start Origin > in the ME2 Game library click on "Download" again > after the installation finished > reboot.
  
  
• Test.

Edit:Typo

[TheAdm77]

It finally worked!

Thank you so much.

Sorry for your trouble.

Regards.

[holger1405]

@TheAdm77

No problem and you're welcome!

It was surely more trouble for you. Have fun gaming.

Edit: You can move your "Save" folder back to the original location.

I doubt that a save file is the culprit. If I am wrong and the game crashes again, test the save files, one after another.

[AvicusUK]

After doing everything everyone suggested it still wouldn't work. I was about to give up... On a hunch, using MassEffect2Config.exe i set it on Windowed mode and it worked. I have no idea what happened as I never had issues with this.

But it works!!!!