Mass Effect - Will now work

buchtis · 29 Dec 2010 at 15:34

Afternoon people,

Installed Mass Effect which I bought from the Steam sale and it just does not want to work with Windows 7. I've tried every possible combination to my knowledge...

- Verifying game through Steam
- Defragging through Steam
- Re-downloading the game
- Running as Admin, both the launcher and .exe in the Steam folder
- Every other combination possible i.e comparability mode/admin right
- Changing the names of some .dll files

Really doing my head in as i'm not back till the 4th so want to start playing now. Already re-downloaded the 15GB game, twice. Looked all over Google and tried all the suggestions, still won't work.

Help please, before I break something!

Craig321 · 29 Dec 2010 at 15:36

In what way doesn't it work? Does it not start, does it give an error, does it crash?

Craig

buchtis · 29 Dec 2010 at 15:39

'Mass Effect has stopped working

Windows can check online for a solution to the problem.

-> Check online for a solution and close the program
-> Close the programe

View problem details'

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: MassEffect.exe
Application Version: 1.2.20608.0
Application Timestamp: 4a55fea1
Fault Module Name: MassEffect.exe
Fault Module Version: 1.2.20608.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 4a55fea1
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 008b752d
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 2057
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

Craig321 · 29 Dec 2010 at 15:40

Strange, mine worked just by running as admin, although I have the standalone version.

Did you try checking the "run this program as administrator" on MassEffect.exe and then starting from within Steam as normal?

Some people have had to run Steam in admin mode, then start Mass Effect from there to make it work.

Craig

Sleepery · 29 Dec 2010 at 15:40

Graphics drivers up to date? It's working here on Win7 64 bit, so it's not a windows problem.

buchtis · 29 Dec 2010 at 15:44

Christ...

Started fine when I clicked run as admin on the .exe this time but didn't work yesterday...

What in the ****.

Thanks for the help, love it how it decides to work now...

Is there any way to make every bit of software run as administrator by default? I've just started using Windows 7 and this is really starting to get on my ****.

Craig321 · 29 Dec 2010 at 15:45

buchtis said:
Christ...

Started fine when I clicked run as admin on the .exe this time but didn't work yesterday...

What in the ****.

Thanks for the help, love it how it decides to work now...

Is there any way to make every bit of software run as administrator by default? I've just started using Windows 7 and this is really starting to get on my ****.

Only way to do that is to switch UAC off, but then you lose that entire section of security. I really wouldn't recommend it.

Craig