Crashing at Start Up (Mass Effect 2)
#1
Posté 03 février 2010 - 06:28
Basically, I have mass effect 2 and I have it installed. However, whenever I click "Play..."
It transitions into a black screen as if its going to load the game, but then all of a sudden...the game crashes. With a message "Mass Effect 2 has stopped working"
If anyone has had similar problems and may know how to fix it, all help is appreciated.
#2
Posté 03 février 2010 - 06:53
#3
Posté 03 février 2010 - 07:27
#4
Posté 03 février 2010 - 08:52
#5
Posté 03 février 2010 - 09:10
#6
Posté 03 février 2010 - 09:25
#7
Posté 03 février 2010 - 09:35
#8
Posté 03 février 2010 - 11:10
(Clean boot, clearing temp folders, updating drivers, un- and reinstalling, removing the game's appdata folder)
#9
Posté 03 février 2010 - 11:24
System specs:
XP SP3
AMD X2 6400+ (dual core 3.2 Ghz clock speed)
GTX 260 nVidia card with 896 MB DDR3
2 GB memory, Corsair
Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty sound card
#10
Posté 04 février 2010 - 12:24
#11
Posté 04 février 2010 - 12:24
#12
Posté 04 février 2010 - 12:28
#13
Posté 04 février 2010 - 12:30
#14
Posté 04 février 2010 - 12:32
http://social.biowar...06/index/766790
Here's the summary:
The ME2 folder should be 11.4 gbs when installed correctly, without DLC. What was happening with me and a bunch of others was that the game was not fully installed. Our folder was less than 11.4 gbs.
There were 2 possible problems/solutions.
1. When installing the game, take out all discs, except Mass Effect 2 disc 1 of course. I and others noticed that if you had 2 DVD drives and the other drive had a disc in it, it would eject that disc when asking for disc 2 (instead ofthe tray with disc 1.) Somehow this caused files to be missed during the install.
(Note: It happened for me and others when DragonAge was in the 2nd tray, not sure about other discs, but it's worth a shot)
After this, reinstall and check the folder size again.
2. If 1) didn't work or doesn't apply you can try manually searching disc 2 for the files you are missing. The installer pretty much straight extracts the files to your install path. So you can try comparing the two. Extract the files yourself and make sure you extract them to the right place. Again 11.4 gbs is the target.
(Note: For most people, the file that seemed to be missing was the "english.rar")
Lastly, make sure you install DirectX off disc 1, even if you think you have the latest version.
Good luck.
#15
Posté 04 février 2010 - 12:34
Here's the error from the Event Log:
Faulting application MassEffect2.exe, version 1.0.1593.2, time stamp 0x4b2845cd, faulting module MassEffect2.exe, version 1.0.1593.2, time stamp 0x4b2845cd, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x00494505, process id 0x1a28, application start time 0x01caa531273e84c4.
#16
Posté 04 février 2010 - 12:55
#17
Posté 04 février 2010 - 01:08
Shadow328 wrote...
I had the same black screen and "ME has stopped working" pop up. There's a few other threads on this issue, but since there's no search function...Here's the link to the one that helped me to fix it.
http://social.biowar...06/index/766790
Here's the summary:
The ME2 folder should be 11.4 gbs when installed correctly, without DLC. What was happening with me and a bunch of others was that the game was not fully installed. Our folder was less than 11.4 gbs.
There were 2 possible problems/solutions.
1. When installing the game, take out all discs, except Mass Effect 2 disc 1 of course. I and others noticed that if you had 2 DVD drives and the other drive had a disc in it, it would eject that disc when asking for disc 2 (instead ofthe tray with disc 1.) Somehow this caused files to be missed during the install.
(Note: It happened for me and others when DragonAge was in the 2nd tray, not sure about other discs, but it's worth a shot)
After this, reinstall and check the folder size again.
2. If 1) didn't work or doesn't apply you can try manually searching disc 2 for the files you are missing. The installer pretty much straight extracts the files to your install path. So you can try comparing the two. Extract the files yourself and make sure you extract them to the right place. Again 11.4 gbs is the target.
(Note: For most people, the file that seemed to be missing was the "english.rar")
Lastly, make sure you install DirectX off disc 1, even if you think you have the latest version.
Good luck.
The first option worked for me. I uninstalled ME2. Took my DragonAge disk out of the second drive and installed ME2 with only the disk 1 in the drive. Thanks!
#18
Posté 04 février 2010 - 01:16
#19
Posté 04 février 2010 - 01:25
I was able to fix it by following Shadow328's tips (thanks Shadow!):
1. Uninstalled my broken installation.
2. Removed all disks from my DVD drives, apart from the ME2 disk 1 (like Ketrilla I had my Dragon Age disc lurking in my other drive
3. Installed the DirectX from ME2 disk 1 (from the AutoPlay menu).
4. Installed ME2 again.
#20
Posté 04 février 2010 - 01:28
#21
Posté 04 février 2010 - 01:44
idk
#22
Posté 04 février 2010 - 02:15
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Posté 04 février 2010 - 02:26
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Posté 04 février 2010 - 02:58
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Posté 04 février 2010 - 03:19





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