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[Vangardt1]

Because of school I havne't had a chance to play Mass Effect 2 in over a month now. Before that, I've cleared it three times, never had any issues at all. Today I tried to boot it up and it simply doesn't load. I get the launcher just fine, can load any option except "Play". When I do click Play, it behaves as if it is loading, and it appears in my Task Manager, but never does anything past that. I don't so much as get an error or a black screen. In my task manager, Mass Effect gradually builds to be using 50% of CPU power and 36,640k Mem exactly every time. Computer's not frozen though, slightly slower, but I can do other things just fine.

I'm wondering if it's getting caught up at the point where it's supposed to check if I have the disc in. The first time I booted it up today, I forgot to insert the disc and it never gave me a message about that. Of course it didn't run at all either, so I'm not sure that's it, but normally it's pretty prompt about telling me that. It behaves the same if I load it from my shortcut, as I usually do, the launch file in th ME2 folder, or load it from the autorun off the disc.

So, I have a physical copy, legitimately bought on launch day and all that. It's worked just fine in the past for months now with not so much as one crash that I recall, not even really any lag. After struggling with it today I noticed a patch came out since I last loaded the game (1.02) and I downloaded that, but no luck. My drivers seem to all be up to date, but I can run through that all again to make sure. I haven't made any significant change to my PC recently, some minor Windows updates and I think I updated my sound driver since.

Running on XP, Service Pack 3, 32-bit (I believe)
Intel Core 2 Duo @ 3.00 GHz
Two Nvidia GeForce 8800 Ultras
Soundblaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio sound card
2G of RAM

[Kloreep]

Do you have the very latest drivers? That may actually be the issue. Nvidia made some serious mistakes with the 257 drivers. (See e.g. this thread.) I'm not clear on whether these drivers are actually causing crashes like this, but if you've updated drivers in the month since you've played ME2, that could potentially be the problem.

[Vangardt1]

Well, the issue is solved. It seems Nvidia released an update for the 8800's during the time I wasn't playing. It's odd that that seemed to solve it, but it did. Never would have guessed a graphics driver would prevent it from even launching without even an error message, but that seems to be it.



Thanks for the tip (and the new driver doesn't seem to have given me any graphics glitches like the one you linked above.)