mass effect 3 Dream Sequence

[0Legolas0]

 I recently started playing Mass Effect 3 again, and i again have a problem i had before.

At the first Dream Sequence.... where you run after that annoying kid in a dream, i get a crash.

Basicly, right after the dream, Shephard wakes up and the game freezes. Immediately i get a pop-up that says ME3 has stopped working.

I know that this question has been asked before at (https://answers.ea.com/t5/Mass-Effect-3/Mass-Effect-3-keeps-crashing/td-p/505400)

but the solution presented there is for AMD Videocard users. I use Nvidia.

I cannot seem to get rid of the problem, after using a few tricks that others tried like turning Origin offline.

Does anyone know a solution for this, that works with Nvidia cards, rather than AMD?

[holger1405 · Accepted solution]

@0Legolas0

Do you use any mods?

Make sure Origin is completely closed > Go to your "Documents\BioWare\Mass Effect 3\BIOGame" (full path: C:\Users\>your user name<\Documents\BioWare\Mass Effect 3\BIOGame") folder and move the "Config" folder to the desktop. > test the game

If that don't works, preform a clean boot and test the Game afterwards.

[holger1405]

@0Legolas0

I moved your post to the Mass Effect 3 section.

Try to repair the game. (in Origin > Game Library > right click ME3 > Repair)

If that don't works, create a DxDiag in text file format, also go to your Reliability monitor (Press the windows key and "R" at the same time and copy or type "perfmon /rel" (without the quotes) in > ENTER and look if it has ME3 entries.

If yes double click at the last one, copy it to the clipboard, (Bottom left corner) save it to a text file and load it up together with the DxDiag.

You can do that with the "Browse" button at the bottom right corner of the reply window.

[0Legolas0]

Thank you for your swift reply.

Repairing the game did not work, so here are the two .txt files

PS: I am Dutch, so the .txt file for the reliability monitor was in Dutch. I translated everything (hopefully i did so correctly)

[holger1405]

@0Legolas0

That is a "Clevo P65_67HSHP"?

If so please go to your Nvidia control panel > Manage 3D settings > Program Settings > Go to "Mass Effect 3" and make sure that the "High performance Nvidia processor" is selected for the game.

[0Legolas0]

It was one of the first things i checked, and was already set to the High Performance Nvidia processor.

I just did a full re-install of the game, yet the problem is still there.

I'm running out of options (and out of patience for this game

[holger1405 · Accepted solution]

@0Legolas0

Do you use any mods?

Make sure Origin is completely closed > Go to your "Documents\BioWare\Mass Effect 3\BIOGame" (full path: C:\Users\>your user name<\Documents\BioWare\Mass Effect 3\BIOGame") folder and move the "Config" folder to the desktop. > test the game

If that don't works, preform a clean boot and test the Game afterwards.

[0Legolas0]

WITCHCRAFT! 

I moved the Config folder to Desktop and it worked.

I'm not sure what kind of wizardry this is, but i'll take it.

Thank you for this! You are a scholar and a gentleman/woman.

[holger1405]

@0Legolas0

Man, and it was a corrupt ini file.  

Have fun gaming! 

[Deathplatform]

Years later and this bug is still resolved through the suggestion of moving the config file. Thank you for unblocking me! I was stuck last night and glad this did the trick.