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[taglag]

   I love the mass effect trilogy

 

But every time My system melts down, or I have to re install windows. I takes days to get this trilogy re installed, and back to a comfortable play-ability.

 

   This is insane, and one of the many reasons I can see why people hate purchasing any game that has to go through a third party in order to play it.

 

  I am not sure what could, would, or should be done to improve this, but God! I wish they would do something to improve this re installing bull crap.

 

   I mean it would be nice if I could go through it once, and back it up, and then just paste it back in somehow, if I ever have to rebuild my system, which seems to happen way more than I desire, but hard drives break, virus infestations, and just general Screw ups cause it to happen, and then its back to square one, and flustration, of having to walk through dozens of Hoops to get most of your stuff back up.

 

  I spent about 4 days last time trying to get everything back on, and many tech chats, and actually before I got everything back to normal here it was over a week, spent, and wasted.

 

   I don't even want to talk about the trouble steam gave me. it was also a night mare.

 

I am going through it again, with the do half an install, and then shutting down.. it is really sucky

[taglag]

Yepper same as last time 3 or 4 hours latter, and some tech support, and I finally get ME1 installed.

 

But then I decide to go ahead and install ME2.. well it gets all the way to installing, after I sit through the labouriously slow install from disk. just to tell me there is a DirectX error, and it aborts the whole installation..

 

The game is fun, but installing it a far more of a quest than the game it's self. This is really intolerable, to pay for some thing, just to spend day's, and day's trying to get it installed, every time you want to play it.

[BronzTrooper]

Not to sound rude or anything, but it seems like the issue might be with your PC instead of the games themselves.  Have you tried installing the games on another PC?

[Pee Jae]

Do yourself a favor and buy a My Passport external hard drive. It plugs right into a USB port. Delete all of the software that comes with it. Done that? Okay, good. Now, go get Aomei Backupper. It's a free program that will make an exact copy of everything on your hard drive. Unlike a lot of backup software, it literally backs up everything on your hard drive. 

[taglag]

Not to sound rude or anything, but it seems like the issue might be with your PC instead of the games themselves.  Have you tried installing the games on another PC?

 

First time was a computer swap,  second time was a hard drive melt down either virus or just decided to mess up, anyway each time involved re installing windows 7. This time was a new hard drive.

 

  and its not just Origin, I also always have to jump through about 5 or 6 hoops with Steam as well. It is just such a pain in the Wha-zoo to finally get the games all back installed.

 

  I just wish there was some way to make the Re-installation easier. If I had a T1 line or something well I guess just re downloading would be okay.

    But I have a terrible ISP, and no Options where I live for a different ISP, I never play games on line anyway, I am a single player game user, and avoid any, and all online actions that I can.

 

  As to having external USB drives I have 2 that I do back up everything with, but if you don't go through the installation, then the back ups are of little or no use other than the save games.

 

  I did back up the EA registry this last time, maybe if it happens again That will work to foil the time wasted when I go to install them,  and the Back ups will actually be of some real use, but I hope I never have to do that again.

 

   I mean if this DRM stuff is to save me from the terrible My Dog chewed up My CD syndrome then it's not a very big help at least for me.

 

    I very much love the ME series, but just hate the installation problems, and memorization of pass word's, and then for some reason they will just force me to change my PW at the drop of a hat, and all is stopped until I do that.. It is just agravating Not totally intolerable, as I still keep jumpng through the hoops each time in order to keep playing the games.

 

PS. as to backing up everything [ as in full HD back up ] that can quite often lead to re installing the same problem that caused the melt down in the first place, but I will consider that.

[capn233]

Ideally, you would have the games on a separate partition (or even separate physical disk) from your Windows installation, and so would not have to delete the data to reinstall them.  In such a case, both Steam and Origin will install fairly rapidly because they will see that the data is already in the installation directory and they will not have to download anything, just update the registry.

[AlanC9]

But every time My system melts down, or I have to re install windows. I takes days to get this trilogy re installed, and back to a comfortable play-ability.

How often does this happen to the rest of you folks? I never have had to reinstall Windows yet, though in 30 years of computing I have had three hard drives fail on me.

 

   I don't even want to talk about the trouble steam gave me. it was also a night mare.
 

Steam? Hmm... I just installed Steam on a new partition when I installed the Windows 10 preview. No issues. Am I just lucky?

[AlanC9]

  As to having external USB drives I have 2 that I do back up everything with, but if you don't go through the installation, then the back ups are of little or no use other than the save games.
 

I believe both Origin and Steam are clever enough to recognize that the files for a game they're trying to reinstall are already present on the disc, though I think there's an extra step with Steam. When I installed Steam to the new OS partition I just pointed it at my old library.

[Monica21]

How often does this happen to the rest of you folks? I never have had to reinstall Windows yet, though in 30 years of computing I have had three hard drives fail on me.

Never. The only problem I've had was with Securom but that was years ago. It wouldn't let me install one of the Lara Croft games because I had a disc imaging program installed. So I just didn't play the game. But that's hardly a hardware problem. I've had one hard drive fail in 20 years.

I'm confused that OP keeps talking about Steam and Origin though. I didn't think ME was available on Steam.

[AlanC9]

ME1 and ME2 are. By the time ME3 launched EA had Origin.

[Whitering]

I haven't had to reinstall any version of Windows since XP64, but I have migrated my games drive to other computers. Here's the deal, good programs will rebuild their registry entries on load anyway. Plenty of games will run when migrated, I don't know if this is one of them. Here's what I would do.

 

Back up the documents folder for the games you want, and also backup the game directory. Reinstall windows or whatever, then move the folders back into the relevant locations and do a repair on Origin. voila, I expect that would work, but it might not.

 

Also, you can either register your previously owned games on Origin or it links to your Bioware account. I have never purchased ME1, 2 or 3 or Origin, but I have the games there along with all the DLC, which I also did not buy on Origin (I can download all the DLC from my bioware social account).