Hello
I have been playing through the Mass effect games again since I finished Mass Effect 3
I am having problems starting Mass Effect 2. It starts OK until it gets to the Cerbrus net loading page and then just hangs. I have to power down the PC to recover as even Alt Tab or Alt Cntrl Del fail to work and I have left it for over an hour to see if it would recover its self.
My internet connect is working fine and I have tried switching off by firwall to see if that was the problem.
It worked find the last time I played the Game which was last year.
Any ideas anybody?
Mass Effect 2 Hangs at Cerbrus net
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Lensman1963
, mai 12 2012 08:12
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Posté 13 mai 2012 - 05:19
Gorath Alpha
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I don't know what's wrong, and there really is just no one around these days. It's a weekend, the weather is lovely outside, and the season for game forums is over until next fall.
Try the official support: http://support.ea.com
P. S. I had a friend who really loved E E Smith. Personally, I found the fantasy he wrote to be more like Burroughs than like the SF for the time frame he was writing in, very retro, even for the 1940s.
Try the official support: http://support.ea.com
P. S. I had a friend who really loved E E Smith. Personally, I found the fantasy he wrote to be more like Burroughs than like the SF for the time frame he was writing in, very retro, even for the 1940s.
Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 14 mai 2012 - 01:58 .
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Posté 16 mai 2012 - 07:21
Bogsnot
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1) Is it the same installation from a year ago, or a new installation?
- If the same, try an uninstall/reinstall. You will get asked if you want to keep your old save games and settings.
- If its a Steam installation, you can tell it verify the cache integrity, and it will only download and install the files it detects as being corrupt.
- If its Steam on Win8/Win7/Vista, you may have to manually download and install DirectX9 (and possibly Visual Basic 2005/2008 redistributables) from Microsoft's website, as Steam will not instal it if it detects DX10/11 installed. ME2 specifically requires the DX9 runtimes, and 10/11 are not backwards compatible.
2) Another task the game does while at the CN login screen, is to load up any DLC packages it finds, in order to verify them against your account. It could be either a DLC, or your BioPersistentEntitlementCache.ini file is corrupt.
- Browse to your Mass Effect 2 installation directory (not the one in My Documents), and in the BioGame\\DLC folder, cut and paste the contents to another location. If ME2 then fires up successfully, you can try moving the DLC folders back to their original home one at a time until you find the culprit, and just download that again, or you can just redownload the lot and try to reinstall them.
If any of these work, then once you have logged in the first time, and verified all of your DLC with your account, you can disable the login. From the main menu, select Extras -> Options -> Online. Set both options to Off.
The only reason why I've stepped out from the shadows to offer support is because of his username.
*slinks back into the shadows*
- If the same, try an uninstall/reinstall. You will get asked if you want to keep your old save games and settings.
- If its a Steam installation, you can tell it verify the cache integrity, and it will only download and install the files it detects as being corrupt.
- If its Steam on Win8/Win7/Vista, you may have to manually download and install DirectX9 (and possibly Visual Basic 2005/2008 redistributables) from Microsoft's website, as Steam will not instal it if it detects DX10/11 installed. ME2 specifically requires the DX9 runtimes, and 10/11 are not backwards compatible.
2) Another task the game does while at the CN login screen, is to load up any DLC packages it finds, in order to verify them against your account. It could be either a DLC, or your BioPersistentEntitlementCache.ini file is corrupt.
- Browse to your Mass Effect 2 installation directory (not the one in My Documents), and in the BioGame\\DLC folder, cut and paste the contents to another location. If ME2 then fires up successfully, you can try moving the DLC folders back to their original home one at a time until you find the culprit, and just download that again, or you can just redownload the lot and try to reinstall them.
If any of these work, then once you have logged in the first time, and verified all of your DLC with your account, you can disable the login. From the main menu, select Extras -> Options -> Online. Set both options to Off.
Gorath Alpha wrote...
P. S. I had a friend who really loved
E E Smith. Personally, I found the fantasy he wrote to be more like
Burroughs than like the SF for the time frame he was writing in, very
retro, even for the 1940s.
The only reason why I've stepped out from the shadows to offer support is because of his username.
*slinks back into the shadows*
