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[Manimal]

So this is the error message that I get each time I try to launch the ME3 demo:

"Failed to initialize the physics system."
"Please ensure you have an updated version of the PhysX System Software installed."

The what now?  ...so I do some research, and I found out.  Now NVIDIA says:

"Your PC's NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT  is below the game's recommended specification."
" The recommended GPU to enjoy Mass Effect 3 is a GeForce GTX 550 Ti or higher."
"Check below to see some upgrade options."
"View full minimum and recommended Mass Effect 3 system requirements."

So even though I played through ME a couple dozen times on my PC, and transferred my most favorite of those saved games to ME2, and then played through ME2 another half dozen times or so...I won't get to play ME3 at all (saved game or not) unless I buy a new laptop, or hope that I can upgrade my old one?  This is unacceptable.

Please advise of a workaround to be able to run ME3 on a system that ran ME and ME2 just fine with no issues.

[CaptCleanoff]

If you could run ME2, you will be able to run ME3, if someone saying differently, then they're full of crap.

The below may or may not help, it's worth trying though.

Try using Driversweeper to remove the old Physx drivers (select only the Physx box) and then install the latest from:

http://www.nvidia.co...111-driver.html

I hope this helps out.

[Manimal]

I played both ME and ME2. I'm willing to try your suggestion, but I don't have DriverSweeper. Should I just Google it, or do you have a good link for a trustworthy place to download it from?

[DTKT]

Actually, it might just be easier to download and install the most recent Physx drivers.

Here is a link:

Modifié par DTKT, 18 février 2012 - 10:15 .

[CaptCleanoff]

Manimal wrote...

I played both ME and ME2. I'm willing to try your suggestion, but I don't have DriverSweeper. Should I just Google it, or do you have a good link for a trustworthy place to download it from?

Try here: http://www.guru3d.co.../driversweeper/

Guru3D are safe, very well respected  PC Hardware review site/community.

Once again, this may or may not help.

Good luck.

[Manimal]

(duplicate post, sorry)

Modifié par Manimal, 19 février 2012 - 04:52 .

[Manimal]

I used DriverSweeper like you suggested
http://www.cnet.com/...weeper&tag=srch
Then I installed the PhysX driver as well
http://www.nvidia.co...111-driver.html
I haven't had time to play the demo yet, but it is loading now, and I am no longer receiving the error.
Thank you very much for your assistance, CaptCleanOff.

[CaptCleanoff]

No worries mate, glad I could be off some help.

[DocHolliday47]

Im having the same problem, but the funny thing is i was palying the ME3 Demo since it was released. I had this error too but after I installed everey driver known to man it worked. Today i was playing again evereything was fine. And now? Im getting this error again. Drivers did not work....

[Nadia]

I'm not sure but I think I have some problems with nvidia drivers too. I played demo twice and nothing bad happened (it was amazing in fact!) but when I try to play more my screen goes black and I can't do anything except to reboot my laptop. It happens only while playing this demo and every time I try to show the game to someone and play it crashes faster, today it crashed after 10 min. Anyone knows what that could be? And what can be done about it?

[Eriongtk]

I have the same error, and i cannot do anything about it. I can run ME1 & 2 just fine, but this one gives me headache. Tried reinstalling, tried using sweeper, tried completely uninstalling ALL nvidia drivers and softwares, no dice. If i delete the physxextensions.dll file, i can move past that error, but it stucks, and gives me another error (not surprised)

Also tried different, earlier drivers, latest drivers.. I have searched high and low, tried black magic, exorcism, still nothing

Modifié par Eriongtk, 26 février 2012 - 03:57 .

[Gorath Alpha]

There are four inter-related softwares involved, and you may have to go through all four. First, this is a Dx9 game, not Dx10 / 11, as are ME1 / ME2, but it might use some of the APIs in a unique manner. Second, drivers are frequently at fault. Third, PhysX is a separate part of the driver package, since it also has to run on the CPU for AMD graphics cards. Last is the game (Demo). Any of the four could have a corrupted file that affects ME3's demo without disturbing ME1 / ME2.

[Eriongtk]

Gorath Alpha wrote...

There are four inter-related softwares involved, and you may have to go through all four. First, this is a Dx9 game, not Dx10 / 11, as are ME1 / ME2, but it might use some of the APIs in a unique manner. Second, drivers are frequently at fault. Third, PhysX is a separate part of the driver package, since it also has to run on the CPU for AMD graphics cards. Last is the game (Demo). Any of the four could have a corrupted file that affects ME3's demo without disturbing ME1 / ME2.

Have tried reinstalleing all 4, im beginning to believe that its the fault of the demo itself, because there is no way in hell that the first 2 games (and newer ones --->directx error is dismissed) would operate perfectly if i had problem with physx drivers.
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OH MY GOD!!!! Found the solution!!!

Those who are having this error, simply copy the PhysXCore.dll from
NVIDIA Corporation\\PhysX\\Engine\\v2.8.3\\
(copy, do not cut/move!)
and paste it to :
\\Mass Effect 3 Demo\\Binaries\\Win32\\

It solved the problem for me...

Modifié par Eriongtk, 26 février 2012 - 04:23 .

[White_Jedi]

There is unfortunately an incompatibility issue with the Physx system software that works for ME2 and the same software for ME3/ME3 demo. The Version that comes with ME2 can be found in the Mass Effect 2/redist folder. If you have a steam version of ME2 it's in Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/mass effect 2/redist. On my install it is PhysX_9.09.0814_SystemSoftware. The version that comes with ME3 is in the folder Origin Games/Mass Effect 3/_Installer/physx/redist and on my system is PhysX-9.11.1107-SystemSoftware. Going from ME2 to ME 3 isn't much of a problem, as the later version of the PhysX system software will overwrite the earlier version. Unfortunately if the PhysX system software from ME3 is installed it will need to be uninstalled and the version from ME2 installed to play ME2, the later version can't be overwriten by a previous version of the software.  Hopefully these issues can be addressed in the future.

Modifié par White_Jedi, 29 mars 2012 - 11:18 .

[Moirha]

Ok, I've been trying to figure this out for over a month now. Installed ME3 with no Physx problems. Went back to ME2 to flesh out some save games. Had to uninstall Physx and let Steam reinstall the older version. Finished those saves. Uninstalled Physx again. Attempted to reinstall latest version from the redist folder in the ME3 directory. Upon reinstall I get a fatal error. Searched NVIDIA forums and it said that it was registry keys. I've cleaned all my registry keys, done a driver sweeper, and still, for the life of me, cannot get this damn game running.

System:
Windows 7 64-bit
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 560v

-Edit-
Found a work around...finally:
Right click the PhysX .exe or .msi file and create a shortcut
Right click the shortcut and edit properties
In the Tab “Shortcut” there is a field called “Target” which contains the path to the .exe or .msi file, at the end of this you simply need to add a blank and then /quiet
Then OK, to save the changes and run the shortcut

Modifié par Moirha, 24 avril 2012 - 03:06 .

[mikeloeven]

Manimal wrote...

So this is the error message that I get each time I try to launch the ME3 demo:

"Failed to initialize the physics system."
"Please ensure you have an updated version of the PhysX System Software installed."

The what now?  ...so I do some research, and I found out.  Now NVIDIA says:

"Your PC's NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT  is below the game's recommended specification."
" The recommended GPU to enjoy Mass Effect 3 is a GeForce GTX 550 Ti or higher."
"Check below to see some upgrade options."
"View full minimum and recommended Mass Effect 3 system requirements."

So even though I played through ME a couple dozen times on my PC, and transferred my most favorite of those saved games to ME2, and then played through ME2 another half dozen times or so...I won't get to play ME3 at all (saved game or not) unless I buy a new laptop, or hope that I can upgrade my old one?  This is unacceptable.

Please advise of a workaround to be able to run ME3 on a system that ran ME and ME2 just fine with no issues.

i am running mass effect with no issues and fairly good performance on a geforce 8600 M GT that is a laptop version btw.

your best bet would be to update your video drivers most of these errors are not hardware but software based. the missing feature will probibally be in the latest release


not just the physix driver but the whole nvidia package for your card.

Modifié par mikeloeven, 24 avril 2012 - 03:12 .

[Melca36]

Moirha wrote...

Ok, I've been trying to figure this out for over a month now. Installed ME3 with no Physx problems. Went back to ME2 to flesh out some save games. Had to uninstall Physx and let Steam reinstall the older version. Finished those saves. Uninstalled Physx again. Attempted to reinstall latest version from the redist folder in the ME3 directory. Upon reinstall I get a fatal error. Searched NVIDIA forums and it said that it was registry keys. I've cleaned all my registry keys, done a driver sweeper, and still, for the life of me, cannot get this damn game running.

System:
Windows 7 64-bit
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 560v

-Edit-
Found a work around...finally:
Right click the PhysX .exe or .msi file and create a shortcut
Right click the shortcut and edit properties
In the Tab “Shortcut” there is a field called “Target” which contains the path to the .exe or .msi file, at the end of this you simply need to add a blank and then /quiet
Then OK, to save the changes and run the shortcut

Can you please show an example of how the shortcut line looks. I tried doing this and it didnt work for me.

[Moirha]

Mine looks like this:
"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Electronic Arts\\Mass Effect 3\\__Installer\\physx\\redist\\PhysX-9.11.1107-SystemSoftware.msi" /quiet

When you double click it, it looks like it does nothing but it actually does the installation without opening a window. Double check your program files folders for "NVIDIA Corporation" which is where the newest version of Physx gets installed. The ME2 version gets installed under "AGEIA Technologies."

-Edit-
I also just discovered with this workaround that both ME2 and ME3 work for me now without having to do any uninstalls/reinstalls of Physx.
So happy!

Modifié par Moirha, 25 avril 2012 - 01:29 .

[Kevnochi]

I am running Win7 64 bit with an NVIDIA gtx 580, and had the same issue of unable to load physx when running ME3. I tried reinstalling origin, video card drivers, physx, and ME3 and none of it worked. I tried, repairs, regedits, and reinstalling C++2008 runtime and it still didn't fix it. I finally figured out the game was looking for the Physx DLL files it needs to run the game. The game must not know where to look, because just putting them with MassEffect3.exe fixes it.

Goto C:\\Program Files(x86)\\NVIDIA Corporation\\Physx\\Engine\\v2.8.3\\ (or whatever is the most recent physx install directory you can get your hands on from the net). Copy all the dll files PhysxCooking.dll, PhysxCooking64.dll, PhysxCore.dll, and PhysxCore64.dll. Paste them into the same location as where you're mass effect 3 executable is located. For me it is C:\\Program Files(x86)\\ Origin Games\\Mass Effect 3\\Binaries\\Win32\\. After I did that, the game ran just fine.