Thread is a bit old but just in case it's still being looked at...
I also had the issue where the game would crash right after the prothean vid (after activating the first pod data).
Thomas Abram wrote...
Hey everyone,
We are aware of this issue and are currently working to resolve it. If you could post the following information it would be greatly appreciated:
- Gender
- class
- Armor
- Loadout (including any modifications)
Thanks!
Male
Infiltrator
Base armor except "HelmetID 1"
Valiant 4 (time dilation & damage)
Hurricane 1 (stability & accuracy)
My first playthrough (different machine) was fine.
On this playthrough it just kept crashing right after the prothean video ended (this is the data point on the right-hand side when you walk in the area). I'd load a save from a couple minutes earlier, and it would still crash after the video. Eventually I re-loaded an earlier save from when I'd just arrived on Eden Prime, spacebared through everything, headed to the data pod pretty quickly (instead of exploring everything first) and it worked just fine.
Presumably something I originally did between the time I arrived and the time I hit that pod data was causing the issue. Since I did pretty much everything (gathered all the intel, explored all areas) before touching either of the pod data points it's tough to narrow down what it might be.
Just for fun I tried reloading again to see if I could reproduce the crash, but didn't have any luck. The only thing that I noticed that was different was I wasn't getting the "War Asset" achievement thing any more but I somehow doubt it would have been the cause of the earlier crashes anyway.