Mass Effect 3 Preload PhysX Problems

#1
IntuitionJo

Posté 03 mars 2012 - 02:51

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To absolutely nobody's surprise, PhysX has decided to have another issue. First, it was the inability to play Mass Effect 2 after installing the Mass Effect 3 demo.

And now? After pre-loading and attempting to install, I am being told "Error: A redistributable package (PhysX) was not installed successfully. Setup cannot continue. (1603.)

I could sit here and ****, but I merely want a solution to this, and I'd prefer it to be expedient. How do I fix it and avoid any unpleasant surprises on launch day?

Modifié par IntuitionJo, 03 mars 2012 - 03:43 .

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Gorath Alpha

Posté 03 mars 2012 - 03:38

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Contact EA Help.

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Rollingcabbage

Posté 03 mars 2012 - 07:51

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Have this problem as well. Some pointers would be nice.

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Psynonamous635

Posté 03 mars 2012 - 08:49

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I had a similar problem with ME2 a while back that was caused by glitchy graphics drivers, not the games. I had to remove all of my graphics drivers through "add/remove programs", install an older version of the nvdia/evga drivers to roll-back the physx version, then install the latest version of the driver package. Avoid the 'beta' drivers at all costs, every time I've used beta's it totally screwed up the physx software.

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Rollingcabbage

Posté 03 mars 2012 - 09:14

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OK. It was a driver issue. Updated mine and had no problem installing -- hope this clears the matter up for anyone else.

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White_Jedi

Posté 03 mars 2012 - 08:07

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I had a similar issue running ME2 after installing the ME3 Demo. Apparently the Demo for ME3 uses a later version of the PhysX system software then ME2 does. This can be corrected by installing the PhysX system software under the mass effect 2/redist folder in order to play ME2 again. You will then have to reinstall the PhysX system software from the origin/Mass Effect 3 demo/_Installer/physx/redist folder to get the ME3 demo to play. I hope this turns out not to be the case for the game, but we will have to wait to see.

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IntuitionJo

Posté 05 mars 2012 - 02:43

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Psynonamous635, which drivers did you use?

And Gorath Alpha? EA help is worthless. Told me to wait until launch.

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#8
Darkman596

Posté 05 mars 2012 - 05:00

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IntuitionJo wrote...

To absolutely nobody's surprise, PhysX has decided to have another issue. First, it was the inability to play Mass Effect 2 after installing the Mass Effect 3 demo.

And now? After pre-loading and attempting to install, I am being told "Error: A redistributable package (PhysX) was not installed successfully. Setup cannot continue. (1603.)

I could sit here and ****, but I merely want a solution to this, and I'd prefer it to be expedient. How do I fix it and avoid any unpleasant surprises on launch day?

Here is how I fixed the issue. I use ATI so I needed just to update the software but that wasn't happening. I couldn't uninstall the early version of Physx. There is this thing called Microsoft Fix It and through that I was able to uninstall the Physx software and update to the newest version of Physx and once I did that I was able to install ME3 without that error popping up.

Hope that helps

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#9
Psynonamous635

Posté 05 mars 2012 - 01:44

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IntuitionJo wrote...

Psynonamous635, which drivers did you use?

And Gorath Alpha? EA help is worthless. Told me to wait until launch.

I'm currently running Nvdia/evga 285.62-desktop-win7-winvista-64bit-english-whql, but I'm going to upgrade to 295.73 later today. When I had the problem with ME2 and PhysX I was running one of the beta drivers, if you're having the problem with PhysX you need to download an older version of the graphics drivers - after manually removing the current set, and then run the install for the newest drivers.

The problem I had was, the beta drivers screwed up the PhysX drivers so I couldn't even remove them, the only work around I found was loading an older version... took a bit of time but finally got everything fixed.