Hi, this is a reply to DividebyZero, thanking for their custom launcher, which solved the issue for me, even though my i7 CPU has AVX support (post #122 here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Mass-Effect-Legendary-Edition/Mass-Effect-Legendary-Edition-on-Origin-does...)
I just wanted to thank you for creating your custom launcher to bypass the official launcher. Like everyone else on this post, I was finding the official launcher would not launch the games (which is literally the only thing it needs to do). This post runs to 40 pages of people having the same problem, and I find it appalling that EA has not fixed this. They will not be seeing any of my money in future (and I own over 3,000 games).
FYI, I have an Intel Core i7-8700, these were released in 2018 and support the AVX instruction set. Since you advise the only other thing the launcher does is enable additional languages, I suspect the issue is something to do with languages or language packs. FYI, I have seen a similar issue with another North American company's game (MS Flight Simulator) failing to launch from their launcher if you do not have the English (US) language pack installed in Windows - see https://www.reddit.com/r/XboxGamePass/comments/o8nvxn/why_does_my_microsoft_flight_simulator_crash/. I am in New Zealand so of course use English (New Zealand) language pack, so that spelling, etc is correct. My guess is that both Microsoft and EA, being North American companies, might have testers and developers exclusively using English (US), or might always have the US language pack installed as part of their standard corporate desktop image.
BTW, I found the following re MELE:
-setting the .ini file for Mass Effect 1 to borderless window, and setting X and Y resolution, got ME1 to launch exactly once. After that though, the problem kept happening on a dozen subsequent attempts to launch.
-setting ME1 executable (not the launcher) to run as administrator in properties for that file, got ME1 to launch exactly once. After that though, the problem kept happening on a dozen subsequent attempts to launch.
-installing your launcher worked first time, and has worked flawlessly for at least 6 subsequent play sessions.
For clarity for anyone else reading this, I reverted the properties on ME1 executable so that "run as administrator" is NOT ticked, I installed the unofficial launcher from Nexusmods (https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffectlegendaryedition/mods/46), I left English and English voiceover selected in the unofficial launcher, and I am opening the launcher from Origin client.
Obviously there is no issue with my PC hardware or my Windows installation or my drivers or anything else I have running, if the official launcher works occasionally. But when it fails to resume or launch any of the games the other 20 times I try, this is just incompetent programming or testing by EA. And I also find it really frustrating that the so-called Hero on here (Holger1405) is blaming users for the issues and suggesting all sorts of weird and wonderful causes and fixes and settings changes on users' PC (which might even work for a period), when in fact the issue lies squarely with the EA launcher and with EA.
Anyway, I wanted to provide these details in case anyone from EA ever reads this forum, and for the benefit of other users, and to thank you for writing this launcher and to assure you it is absolutely of benefit to a lot more people than just those with an older CPU that does not support AVX.
Thank you so much!
