Need Info from players. (ME2 crashing/not starting after importing ME1 save)

[jawood1989]

Hi everybody,

Found a potential easy fix.  Before reinstalling or doing anything drastic, simply try going back into config, reimporting saves, going offline in origin, then launching ME2.  Worked like a charm first time for me, and I didn't lose the ME2 game i'd already started with my ME1 shepard.

[elshmed]

@jawood1989

Man I love you so much. I really didn want to have to re-download 11 GB of game since I have a bandwidth limit! What you said totally worked! EA should be able to do a quick fix for that. It doesnt seem like the bug is a corrupt binary or anything since just not going online after changing the config fixed everything. Thanks again man!

[eXsc]

A fix for those that has ran the config utility:

1. Navigate to your ME2 installation folder. (for me this was: C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Mass Effect 2)

2. Delete the Binaries folder and the BioGame\Config folder.

3. In Origin, it will say that you have to re-download the game, do so. (Since you have only deleted the binaries and the config files it will only re-download those)

4. Import ME1 Savegames the manual way. DO NOT LAUNCH THE CONFIG UTILITY.

5. Run the game.

It worked for me on Win7 64-bit.

Hope this helps.

[p3g4man]

I got a trilogy edition. Im playing on a windows 7 pc My ME1 worked fine and so did ME2 before I imported the safe files, it didnt work afterwards though. Edit: Good that there is finally someone working on this issue: Good Luck!

[drx3314]

importing me 1 to me 2 on playstation 3

[Donenzonen]

Wait, this issue was reported in 2013. Now it's March 2015 and EA still didn't fix it with a patch?

Good job EA.... Good job...

[Elmujram7]

Same problem, bought the trilogy from origin an now I cant play me2 after importing the me1 save. Im on Windows 8 btw.

[Yogi-Bear-2185]

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@OneGamingSheep wrote:

I had the same problem, but rather than reinstalling the entire game I just deleted the config file and then ran a repair through origin. Now I can launch the game again. Saves quite a bit of time compared to reinstalling the entire game.

Hope this helps anyone else.

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WOOT!  TYVM TYVM TYVM.  Your instructions worked perfectly.

[cemyl95]

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@eXsc wrote:

A fix for those that has ran the config utility:

1. Navigate to your ME2 installation folder. (for me this was: C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Mass Effect 2)

2. Delete the Binaries folder and the BioGame\Config folder.

3. In Origin, it will say that you have to re-download the game, do so. (Since you have only deleted the binaries and the config files it will only re-download those)

4. Import ME1 Savegames the manual way. DO NOT LAUNCH THE CONFIG UTILITY.

5. Run the game.

It worked for me on Win7 64-bit.

Hope this helps.

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In my experience, all you have to delete is masseffect2.exe and me2game.exe then redownload through origin (less download time). It also recognized my ME1 saves after reinstalling.

[goodros_nemesis]

I had this problem.  In my case, I struggled to import the character.  I had to follow some tweaks to make my character appear in the list of saves I could import.  When it finally did work, it only worked on that same session I imported the character.  The next time I started the game, it wouldn't load.  This same thing happened both times I played through the trilogy.

I was using the trilogy edition.  OS was Windows7.  It was on a PC with an Intel i5 vPro processor with 8GB memory and an integrated Radeon Mobile video chipset.

I had to uninstall and reinstall to get the game to work.