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Gamingnewslink.com’s self-help guide for Mass Effect 2 Errors, Freezing, Slowdown, Install and Crash to Desktop problems
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IMPORTANT NOTE : If you encounter errors or issues with Mass Effect 2 that are not included in the list below, issues which the solutions listed does not resolve, Tell us about it by Posting it in the comment box at the bottom of this page (No registration required). Include details about the Mass Effect 2 error and the specifications of the system you are running ME2 on. It doesn’t have to be a fullblown dxdiag log, just the Video Card, Processor and amout of RAM and of course the Operating System (and service pack versions) you are playing Mass Effect 2 on. REMEMBER to check the comments at the bottom of this post.
First thing’s first, ensure that you’re PC can handle Mass Effect 2. Here’s Mass Effect 2’s minumum system requirements
List of Known Mass Effect 2 errors and solutions/workarounds
Problem #1 : Mass Effect 2 random crash to desktop
Fix #1 (for location specific crashes):
-Resume from the last save before the location where it crashed
-Move up to the area before it crashed
-Save to a new save slot
-Continue to the crash area, game will crash
-Open Mass Effect 2 and load up the save you made
-The area should no longer crash.
credits: Okrean via gamingnewslink.com comments(for the location specific crash fix)
Fix #2: Reinstall the NET 3.5 Framework
credits: Gromenawer
Fix #3: Checkout the discussion about random crashes and stuttering for Single Core machines running Mass Effect 2 here : http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/106/index/905917/2
credits: Rhadok
Problem #2 : How to Enable Anisotropic Filtering (AA) for Mass Effect 2?
Fix : You have to force enable it with the tools provided by your graphics card vendors (Nvidia CP or ATI Catalyst) because AA is not supported in Mass Effect 2 due to DX9’s limitations
credits:
Problem #3 : How to adjust Mouse Acceleration in Mass Effect 2?
Fix : Navigate to the ‘Mass Effect 2/Biogame/Config/Pc/Cooked/Coalesced.ini’ folder and search for the lines for the mouse settings then adjust it from there
credits: Roostercoq
Problem #4 : I bought Mass Effect 2 Collector’s Edition but the cerberus code does not work/invalid
Fix : There’s a problem with codes that came with some PC Collector’s Edition of Mass Effect 2, you might want to check this thread out : http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/106/index/769145/1
Problem #5 : Mass Effect 2 Black Screen Problem / Mass Effect 2 Black Screen on Startup/Midgame then Crash to Desktop
Fix 1: If you have forced Vsync to OFF in your video card settings (Nvidia Cpanel or ATI Catalyst), then set it to Auto/Default or ON. Try whichever one works
Fix 2: Install the latest video Card drivers available for your Graphics Card
credits:
Problem #6 : Mass Effect 2 Freezing Intermittently
Fix #1: Try Fix#4 for Problem#8
Fix #2: Checkout the discussion about random crashes and stuttering for Single Core machines running Mass Effect 2 here : http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/106/index/905917/2
credits: Rhadok
Problem #7 : Mass Effect 2 Slowdown/Freezing on outdoor areas
Solution :
1. Pause your game (hit esc.).
2. Press Alt-Tab, so you back to desktop without quitting the game.
3. Press Ctrl-Alt-Del.
4. Choose the “Processes” button.
5. Find “Masseffect2.exe” (or something like that).
6. Right click on it, and set the priority high (I choose the “realtime” and it works fine, no more sudden lag. Maybe the “AboveNormal” or “High” would help you too depends on your CPU)
credits: Rivian via GNL comments
Problem #8 : Mass Effect 2 Stuttering/Skipping sound problem
Solution #1 : Turn down or disable Directsound Acceleration. If this doesn’t fix it remember to reenable it
Solution #2 :
Check your soundcard drivers as well. Most people tend to ignore those. If you have built in sound, go to your motherboard/computer (Dell, HP etc) manufacturers website and look for an update OR conversely, uninstall it, reboot and see what windows comes up with instead OR uninstall it, reboot and reinstall from the website or CD (even if there isn’t an update).
Check and make sure you don’t have AntiViri running ( or SpyBot S&D etc). If you do, disable it (them).
credits: low8all for the soundcard driver suggestion via ME2 forums Problem #9 : Cannot Install Mass Effect 2. Error message “Error: Switch from current encoding to specified encoding not supported. Line 1, Column 40 in inter XML settings.” during autorun Problem #10 : Mass Effect 2 Freezing on loading screen Problem #11 :Mass Effect 2 Crashing at the Galaxy Map Problem #12 : Mass Effect 2 character voice volume problems / speech dialogue volume too low
- open speakers properties credits: tetracycloide Problem #13 : Mass Effect 2 Opening Cinematic Slowdown/Lagging Problem #14 : Mass Effect 2 freezing on the main menu Problem #15 : Mass Effect 2 error message during install “A required Setup file is missing [Z:\\\\\\\\data\\\\\\\\english.rar]”
1. Copy ME Disc 1 using an image burner (used Daemon Tools Lite and saved it as a .ISO not .mds) 2. 3. 4. It should run through, no disc swaps. Daemon tools download here – http://www.disk-tools.com/download/daemon
credits: Brian from the comments and torrin, lyssol from the ME2 boards YOU! Problem #16 : Mass Effect 2 IFF Crash/Black screen problem (Reaper IFF crash)
Ok people. IFF problem (black screen)resolved (single core AMD): credits: muller and aries32487 from the comments YOU! Problem #17 : Post Your Mass Effect 2 error at the comment box below if you are experiencing errors that are not listed here Important!: If you are experiencing errors with Mass Effect 2 that are not listed above or is not solved by the specified fixes, Tell us about it by posting in the comment box below (include system specs, OS, and description of the error you encounter in Mass Effect 2, NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED TO POST/ASK QUESTIONS/POST SOLUTIONS Related posts:
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Solution #3Go to Start, then Run, then type in DxDiag. Find the audio/sound tab(s) and change the acceleration from full to a lower setting such as basic acceleration.
credits: CodeR3d
credits: Scorpion
Solution #1 : Extract contents of english.rar to your Mass Effect 2 installation. (Found in Disk 2)
credits: Shadow328 for the DA disc conflicting with Mass Effect 2 installer fix
Solution #2 : If you have multiple drives, Eject the other disc ESPECIALLY IF IT’S A DRAGON AGE DISC!
credits: Inverness Moon via ME2 Forum for english.rar fix. nice catch there btw!
Solution : No known fix at the moment. If you know the solution or if you get this error, post your system specs on the comment box below
Solution : No known fix at the moment. If you know the solution or if you get this error, post your system specs on the comment box below
Solution : For Realtek users
- go to enhancements tab
- check disable all enhancements box
then I opened ’sound’ by right clicking the speaker icon in the system tray and clicking ‘playback devices’ (this is also accessible from the mass effect 2 configuration utility among other places in the OS)
-click on the icon for the ’speakers’ from the playback device menu
-hit the ‘configure’ button in the bottom left corner
-from this menu i selected ’stereo’ from the options and hit next
-from this menu i selected both front speakers as ‘full range’ by checking the box and hit next
finally i hit ‘finish’ and then ‘ok’
Workaround #1 : Create a shortcut to the game exe, then changing the command to
“X:\Programs\Mass Effect 2\Binaries\MassEffect2.exe” -nomoviestartup
credits: Kheldrion (in gamingnewslink comments)
Solution : Freezing in the main menu was can be caused by Zone Alarm (firewall) denying MassEffect2.Exe accest tp internet. Allowing it to access the net can fix the problem
credits: Andrzej (through gamingnewslink comments)
Solution :
Finish copying Disc 1 and then repeat the process for Disc 2 (my disc 2
appeared to quit at about 50%, and disc 1 was only about 2.67 gigs big).
Virtually mount Disc 1 (using Daemon) and let it install, leaving Disc
2 inside the tray after burning (I can’t say if you should or shouldn’t
burn disc 2, but mine was in the tray and I did not have to mount the
.ISO from disc 2 so you do the math).
5. After install put in Disc 1 and play. Confirmed. No errors. Succesfully connected to cerberus network and started game.
Solution :
1. copy original movies(load*.bik) back to the …\BioGame\Movies\ directory
2. run the game (do not press any key)
3. wait for play the movie (trailer)
4. load your game
5. enter the galaxy map
Solution : Help out and post solutions to ME2 errors at the comment box below if you know one 
credits: YOU!
Mass Effect 2 freezes on the loading screen right after it starts animating. Can’t even start a game because of it.
Im having problems with the freezing on the beggining of the game. after new game and gender select starts loading screen and it freezes. i trien male,female and import character and also tried many video audio changes like lowering it as much as posible and so on. nothing helped. updated all whats to update. phisix,c++,graph card drivers and so on… tryed no intro mods didnt work ither. never had that much problems with a game like this one. my friend tell me it works fine. i guess im one of those “just an unlucky colateral damage case” with no known solutions… ill try smack the PC maby that will work. if yes ill update you. XD PLEASE HELP!!!
overlapping menu item graphics + game crashes after the initial intro
blacks very black regardless of setting in and out of game. Shadow are just black. Nvidia GTX 185
Game freezes after been playing for a while. It unfreezes after a couple seconds then it will repeat the process.
AMD P2 955
ASUS M4A79XTD EVO
EVGA 8800GT
Installing game (have tried both C: and D: drive partitions, running 64-bit so installing in programfiles(x86), error comes up during last 90% of movies extraction:
Unable to load file. Installation failed.
Please help! Waited so long and I am really sad at not being able to play this!
The Dialogue is virtually non-existent in game. I tried getting all new drivers, everything pretty much. What the hell is going on?
Game doesn’t seem to be compatible with Steam. Can’t verify the integrity of Game cache through Steam, nor launch the game. Steam’s launch window doesn’t even pop-up when you try and launch it. And the Game cache validation window doesn’t even load fully (as you can hover over the taskbar icon and see it’s not fully loaded) plus it gets stuck at the top-left of my screen which means it’s not totally initialized. I hope they make an update soon to fix this.
Ah, you can disregard what I said earlier. I have now fixed all my issues by simply running the game as administrator (doing this by going to the properties of the game’s exe).
My game freezes after I choose male or female, during the first loading screen. Can’t start the game.
“My game freezes after I choose male or female, during the first loading screen. Can’t start the game.”
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“Mass Effect 2 freezes on the loading screen right after it starts animating. Can’t even start a game because of it.”
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“Im having problems with the freezing on the beggining of the game. after new game and gender select starts loading screen and it freezes. i trien male,female and import character and also tried many video audio changes like lowering it as much as posible and so on. nothing helped. updated all whats to update. phisix,c++,graph card drivers and so on… tryed no intro mods didnt work ither. never had that much problems with a game like this one. my friend tell me it works fine. i guess im one of those “just an unlucky colateral damage case” with no known solutions… ill try smack the PC maby that will work. if yes ill update you. XD PLEASE HELP!!!”
All of the Above!!!!!
Ok, are you guys experiencing major slow down (the frame-rate goes extremely) choppy after Shepard went into peculiar point of location or open area? Maybe I can help.
(Currently, I’m using Windows XP SP2 and ME2 works beautifully.)
1. Pause your game (hit esc.).
2. Press Alt-Tab, so you back to desktop without quitting the game.
3. Press Ctrl-Alt-Del.
4. Choose the “Processes” button.
5. Find “Masseffect2.exe” (or something like that).
6. Right click on it, and set the priority high (I choose the “realtime” and it works fine, no more sudden lag. Maybe the “AboveNormal” or “High” would help you too depends on your CPU)
And now, I’m thinking about disabling the multi-core blah blah. It’s definetly a CPU setting problem.
There is a fix for those who freezes after new game. The loading files are not compatible with mostly solo core computers due to the loading files are 720p. You have to find and replace those loading files with a modded version.
I hit a critical freeze when I activate the galaxy map during the part of the game, “The IFF is almost complete”
“A data error has occurred, installation aborted” – occurs during installation, usually after the cutscenes have been unpacked, not sure what exactly is going on since it gives no further explanation.
@Shadow.
Know where I can find those modded loading files?
as a renegade soldier after 20 hours of gameplay the game goes into black screen after the reaper iff has been installed (everytime even tried reinstall and keeping saves), dunno if its my system or the game release itself but pretty damn annoying!
so if any1 could confirm they got past that point or completed the game as a renegade would be awesome!
My game can’t even start, I’ve installed the game successfully however I can’t start it after pressing the shortcut. It says disk authentication error. I’ve tried inserting the disks through the two drives but that doesn’t work. The game itself is obviously open since after the error box closed when i press no , the main menu for the game pops up for a second and closes itself again. Please help!
Thanks in advance
When the Game starts everythinh works fine till the point where it reads “press any button”. After any button is pressed the game coninues to the main menu but there is no visible mousepointer and the enter button doesn’t work.
i am experiencing the same problem as no 3…menu items leave traces and the game crashes after loading the character creation part…any kind of help would be appreciated, please help
Problem solution #7 sadly doesn’t seem to Work on my computer. I Have “Intel core duo quad”, and tried to do as said, but that made the problem even worse. The game started to freeze even more often. But thanks for the advice anyway! It was worth to try!
To fix crash problem after creating new char – u can DL a pack of other loading screens (green ones). Sm1 even posted it on official forums (bioware me2 official forums)
I have the same problem as 17 – map crashing after Reaper IFF part – game has “running” status, but the screen is black
Any1?
The mouse pointer isn’t visible when i start the game in fullscreen. howerver it IS visible, when i play in windowed mode. This is really annoying, i’d greatly appreciate any kind of advice.
Same problem as nº16 i go to galaxy map when the iff reaper is installed do the convesrtaion with joker and then i get a black screen and dosent move on…
Someone help plz?
I have Windows Vista, have an install problem. When it asks for the 2nd CD, I put it in but the installer can’t see it. *I* can see it, explore it etc., but the install just has an infinite “retry” loop.
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I fixed my stuttering issue (knocks on wood), it was my video card driver. Updated from 195.62 to 196.21. This is on Windows 7 Pro 64bit
@Shadow i have the same problem as you. Have you installed the DLC cause after i installed it on my computer have been constantly getting bugs and random crashes but now after i accsess the galaxy map i get a cutscene and after that a black screen.Can anyone help?
m having problems with the freezing on the beginning of the game. after new game and gender select starts loading screen and it freezes.I tried male,female and import character and also tried many video audio changes like lowering it as much as possible and so on. nothing helped. updated all whats to update. PhsyX,c++,graph card drivers and so on…
I am trying to import character from mass effect 1, but it is not working, please help!!
i have the freezing problem when itry to start new game to her’s my specs sorry for long messige
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System Information
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Time of this report: 1/27/2010, 21:11:09
Machine name: KIRALY
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_rtm.090713-1255)
Language: Romanian (Regional Setting: Romanian)
System Manufacturer: VIA Technologies, Inc.
System Model: KT600-8237
BIOS: Phoenix – AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Processor: AMD Sempron(tm) 2600+, ~1.8GHz
Memory: 1536MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 1536MB RAM
Page File: 650MB used, 2420MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
DxDiag Version: 6.01.7600.16385 32bit Unicode
ok i have black screen bug after trying to enter shuttle i walk to galaxy map speak to edi joker etc…. then i have to go to shuttle but screen goes black and i can’t do anyfing so if eny1 know how to fix this black screen please write to xexe@gala.net or clawnkiller@gmail.com btw if some of u cant start creating char (then loading is freez…) just go to google and write “ME2 no intro single core fix” this shud help u and sorry for my english
Game worked fine until I was finally able to connect to Cerberus Network Server some 24 hours after buying teh game. After the game updated/installed all of the DL content to ME2 (Armor, Normandy Crash Site, Merc. Character) game will freeze, then lock up and crash to desktop whenever I try to adjust weapons in ANY weapons locker or right before a mission.
Had anyone else experienced this problem?
Win 7 x64
Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme X2
Skulltrail MB
8gb RAM
AMD/ATI Radeon 5870
go here it fixed my freeze problem
http://www.kickasstorrents.com/mass-effect-2-single-core-fix-t3419678.html
Been having a Stuttering problem, can run the game maxed settings, But it stutters for 15-20 seconds every 3-4 seconds. However during that short time i’m running a smooth 30-45 FPS, I have no idea how to fix it. I’ve updated just about every driver, Lowered ingame settings etc.
For those who experiencing performance issues, free application like Game Booster 1.3 could help you to subdue the problem. You can find the download link, here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/317222466/Game_Booster_1.30.rar
(the software is in Rar, no viruses or any other malacious software)
Hope it helps.
Having same problem as #14, installation aborts because of a “data error”. Using Windows 7, 64. Game installs on Vista laptop, so it’s not bad disks. Tried installing from HD, in XP compatibility mode, and other things. No luck. Suggestions are more than welcome.
My computer freezes shortly after I select the gender of the character to be made. A loading screen appears after this selection, but then locks up and the computer appears to stop processing. There are no apparent problems with video, but I turned the video options very far down to be sure. Sound was causing some skips in the opening cinematics, but was fixed by changing the level of sound acceleration.
System Specs: 2.4 Ghz AMD Turion 44-ML, XP 32 bit, 2 GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce Go 7900 GS 256 MB, with all updated drivers (Alienware Laptop)
Figured out the Stuttering during the opening scene seems to be related to Bink video systems. Every time a bink video is played the game will start to go into stutter mode, I’ve also noticed the majority of people with this problem are on AMD systems single, duo, triple AND quad cores are all affected it seems. There’s no known fix other than to sweat it out and save the game and reload and it’ll fix itself.
Just did the Single core fix and got past the loading freeze. But now, during the first video, it freezes every 2 seconds for about 2-3 seconds non-stop. The sound is perfect though.
Thus far, I have fixed my freezing at the loading screen by downloading a single core no intro fix (can be googled). However, the cinematic following new character creation is lagging with extreme pauses (similar to Phil #38 above, etc). The sound does work flawlessly though. I’m looking into a way to fix this problem.
I seem to be getting intermitted freezes that can last for 0.5-3 seconds. Usually happens during combat (or maybe that’s when I notice it most). Also happens sometimes when I try to run.
in case this is related to hardware, i have a ati 5870 and a core i7.
there is a workaround for the black screen after reaper iff has been installed tought id share it, just go to gamecopyworld find mass effect2 and download the save file it make u start after that mission as a paragon soldier..
nevermind the savegame didn’t help at all now i just got 0 quests and nothing to do
Still having problems with the voices in Mass Effect 2,they are very low,and hard to here.Music,sound effect’s all ok.Just voice’s are to low,and sometimes none at all.The Game run’s great otherwise.Shouldn’t this game run in a 7.1 audio environment? Will they have a patch to fix this low voice problem on 7.1 audio systems,and Realtek on board sound?
Running on;
Windows XP Pro Sp2
Athlon 64 X2 4400+ cpu
Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939
2 Gig OCZ Platinum Dual CH Ram
ATI X1950 PRO 512mb AGP Video
Realtek On-board AC97′ALC850 8 channel audio
Creative Labs 7.1 Speaker System
Error: Mass Effect 2 load screens take an exceptionally long time on multi-core systems. (45s to 1m+)
Fix: Alt-tab when not in a loading screen, Ctrl-Alt-Del to open task manager. Scroll down to MassEffect2.exe, right click and go to Set Affinity. Turn off all but your first core in the list, click Okay. Wait about 15 seconds, Set Affinity again and turn the cores back on. Load times will correct themselves back down to sub 10 seconds in most cases, in very rare cases 10-20.
Having problems during install. Asks for 2nd cd and when the 2nd disc is inserted it won’t detect the cd and continue with the install. Just keeps asking to retry or cancel!!!???
same problem as poster #3 (aybee) and poster #19 (Burek).
there are strong trails left in the options screen and other menus that don’t disappear, and the game crashes right after the first sequence, where you are about to select class etc.
let’s try to find a common point, i have a 9600gt video card, and 2gb of ram on vista 32 bit. i have the latest drivers etc, tried all the common solutions.
Same problem as number 14. data error during install.
@nca I have 8600gt video card, 2 gbs of ram, vista 32, amd athlon dual core 5600…I’ve tried every possible update, even fiddled with my nvidia cpanel settings…please post any possible solutions you find, including your own clues.
If you replace all the original “load” files with these from the fix,you wont get to finish the game,and it will hang at that IFF mission and you wont be able to play any further,just replace the files i told you about!
If you already replaced all the original load files with one from the fix,do this:
Insert your DVD1,go to the data folder,and then open up movies cab and extract only the file that have “load” in front of them!
Then replace the fallowing files,with the files from this fix!
replace the original files with these:
oad_f01
load_f02c
load_f02d
load_f03
load_f03b
load_f05
load_f06
load_f08
load_f08b
load_f08c
load_f08d
load_f09
load_f09b
load_f09c
load_f09d
load_f14
load_f15
load_f80_ESN
load_f80_INT
Having problem during play.When I talk to Dr.Mordin after operating three fans,the game suddenly freezes,even if I set the priority but it still doesn’t work.Can u tell me what’s going on?
I’m having a problem with sound. Every time I load the game, the BioWare and EA screens have sound, but most (but not all of the time) the game will not have sound after that. I don’t think this is a driver problem since sometimes the game will have sound and I’ll be able to play, but more often than not, I’ll lose sound after the EA screen.
I have the same problem as Chris (#44). I’m installing game, and when they are asking me to insert second cd, my computer can’t detect it.
After importing my me1 char, I get through the loading screen just fine. But then after the menu where you can review major plotlines from the previous game, I press continue and everything goes black. I can still hear gunsounds and can enter the menu, but cant see any of the actual game: only black.
Starting the loader;
Waiting a while;
Black screen;
Mass Effect Stopped working….
This is all i get…. no workaround yet, searched over the whole internet, doing my head in!
please, PLEASE PLEASEEEEE find a solution, its driving me mad >.<
I bought this game because it's awesome, i haven't bought a game in months…. And when you buy something, it would be fun to be able to play it =P.
Danco
P.S.
1.9 GHz dual cpu
3 GB DDR2 ~667
386 MB VGA 500/600 MHz core with turbocache
80 GB free on C:\ ¬¬
Laters drivers, checked it 3 times, even used old drivers
Windows XP, Vista and 7 (32 and 64 bit) Tried them all!
Latest DirectX
With and without internet
With and without Antivirus
With and without a clean install of Windows
Trying 4 days straight!
Mass Effect 2 crashes to desktop randomlly and very often. It happens lots and lots of time so it made game unexciting and unplayabe. I need a fix or some patch for this crashing problem. Pleae help.
For those of you with sound problems, the first thing I would suggest is: Go to Start, then Run, then type in DxDiag. Find the audio/sound tab(s) and change the acceleration from full to a lower setting such as basic acceleration.
im getting the same problems than 6 and 35 unable to read data and then the installation just closes no more info into it
im having same problem then 6 and 35 unable to read data while installing the game during movie install phase
Can’t get past the first Loading screen right after choosing gender.
60$ game + 6000$ power computer + BioWare = fail
if u wanna do the fix from 48# and have a single core u gotta replace those files when u are ingame or it will freeze on loading
For all experiencing the UI problem, here’s the fix…enjoy ME2!
http://scc-tds.com/DL/BIOG_UIWorld.rar
Had the same Problem starting the game. After choosing male/female/import game froze. Found the following workaround: Create a shortcut to the game exe, then changing the command to
“X:\Programs\Mass Effect 2\Binaries\MassEffect2.exe” -nomoviestartup
you simply add -nomoviestartup to the command
this lets you skip the intro movie. Worked perfectly fine for me. My guess is that I´ll run into another movie sequence sooner or later, freezing the game again, but at least i can start playing the game, hoping that they´ll fix the issue in the meantime.
I am out of my mind with the stupid stutter problem after animations. I can ply the game solidly with 30+ FPS, and 50+ while walking around. I am amazed how good this game goes with old hardware. But every time i see a animation my FPS slows to shit.I get 1-2 sec gameplay and 5-6sec game freeze, only way to fix it is to save and reload the game, and here we go..40+ FPS again. Ingame animations go smothly, i guess there is a problem how this game uses stupid Bink movies.
Amd 3200
2gb ram
Radeon 1950 pro
Exactly the same as #62.
I used the fix of #48 Vetrelec as I’m running on a single core AMD 3500+.
Bink videos run smoothly, then it freezes 5-6 seconds with about 1-2 seconds gameplay, and as soon as there is a reload, it runs perfectly smoothly, with details maxed.
I’m sceptical…
(Nvidia 8800 GT by the way, 2GB Ram, AMD 3500+)
I’m getting the loading screen freezes and the intermittent crashes during regular gameplay. The worst place I’ve gotten both so far is Korlus. When the game is going to lock up on a loadscreen, I get two different actions. When I’ve got the game on fullscreen, the video for the loadscreens will play for about 5 minutes just looping and then stop. The audio stops after about a minute and a half. If it’s on windowed, the video will stop after about 30 seconds and the audio will loop for a long time, but the mouse will appear on the mass effect window in the waiting animation. About a minute after the video stops, windows will error out that MassEffect2.exe has caused an error and is no longer responding.
Computer stats:
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9400 @ 2.66GHz
8GB DDR2
Nvidia GTX260 896MB VRAM (Drivers updated to 196.21)
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional (6.1.7600)
Oh, and I just tried the green loading screen fix just to see if it impacts what happens at all. It doesn’t, same behavior just with a green square instead of the video. It still freezes and the audio does the same thing it was doing before. That officially puts me at having no idea what the heck is going on.
Having same problem as #24 and #44 on Vista. Installation goes fine until it asks to insert the second cd and then retry just keeps popping up. The cd shows up in my computer and I can explore it and all, but it does nothing during the actual installation.
Installer work around:
I manually installed the game by going into and extracting all the .rar files on both cds to the Mass Effect 2 folder and the game runs. However after the initial game scene on the ship and after, it unexpectedly crashed to desktop… Great…
Game is crashing when I access the galaxy map. I had before a GeForce 6600 so I went out and purchased a 9400, but unfortunately got the same problem. I have a core duo, xp, everything meets minimum requirements. Any solutions yet to Problem 11?
Problem #6 : Mass Effect 2 Freezing Intermittently-FIX! save game,exit,load, works for me
i keep getting a freeze in the Jahhre (sp?) Station. the freeze occures when the laser comes on in the research lab after i try to adjust the first mirror. it is the only glitch or crash i’ve encountered so far in over 20 hours of gameplay.
In my case, freezing in the main menu was caused bu Zone Alarm (firewall) denying MassEffect2.Exe accest tp internet. Allowing it to accest the net fixed the problem instantly for me
i am having problems in sound synchronization with the lips in every dialogue.I uninstalled the game and reinstalled it but it keeps interupting the dialogues because there is no lip synchronization…any solution?
updated the fix guide with you’re solution submissions
I try to start the game and then it just freezes at loading screen can’t even start playing my comp has 1.5 gb ram nvidia geforce 8800 gt 512 mb my processor is amd 64 athlon and I have windows xp media center could there been a problem while installing the game
My ME2 problem is that the whole game lags
I am running a Windows XP SP3
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
Graphics card name: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512
3324MB RAM
Some help would be great thanks =)
for # 17, freezing in main menu, install NVidia Physx Drivers, even though you might have ATI.
Problem #11:
Fixed this by enabling the sound in the configuration menu. I had turned it off before.
Game crashed when entering the quarantine area in Omega. Doesn’t show any loading screen; the screen goes black, you still can heard some background sounds from the game during 3 or 4 seconds and then stop completely.
XP64b SP2, Q6600, 2GB DDR2, Nvidia 9800GT, P5KPL (has Raeltek audio, just reading some Bioware games has troubles with that in the past) Last version of DX Physic, drivers, etc…
The game always crashes to desktop. Sometimes I play an hour or more, sometimes I play 15 minutes…But the game always crash. I changed all options trying to fix it, But the game still crash.
My OS is Windows 7 Ultimate…My PC configuration is:
MB. ASUS P5KPL-AM /Proc. Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3Ghz / VC. ATI Radeon XFX 4870 512Mb GDR5 / HD WD Green Caviar 500Gb. All Drivers are up to date!
“I hit PLAY and nothing happens.” (Windows XP)
FIX (for me):
1. Install Directx 10 for Windows XP
here: http://www.techmixer.com/download-directx-10-for-windows-xp/
2. Run Windows Automatic Updates manually and make sure you have WIndows .NET 3.5 Framework.
I’m pretty sure just Directx10 fixed it but I did both of the above and clicking “Play” worked when I had Disc1 inserted in my drive.
The game crashes the entire computer during the first cutscene. I’m running digital sound via my mobo’s coaxial output and when i disable the game’s sound it works. Any ideas. My computer has three 5870’s and core i7 and everything is perfectly up to date.
DOOOOOOOOD those of you who have the freaking Freeze Movie problem, (Loading freeze, lag after movies etc) Just create shortcut to desktop for your masseffect2.exe (NOT LAUNCHER), right click it, and press PROPERTIES, there should be target slot with something like this “C:\Program Files\Mass Effect 2\Binaries\MassEffect2.exe”, Just type in -nomovies in the end of the freakin Target, and the game goes flawlessly! It must look something like this “C:\Program Files\Mass Effect 2\Binaries\MassEffect2.exe” -nomovies (Don’t copy the freakin target from me cuz I don’t know for shiz where you installed your freakin game
) SIMPLE AS ALL HELL
From some of the responses on other sites, it looks like it’s the .NET Framework that fixes the issue with clicking play and nothing happening.
my game is pretty much unplayable. cutscenes lag, conversations lag, gameplay lags, its just non stop skipping and stopping. The first cutscene took like an hour just to play and the game kept lagging. I got a 8800gt and 3gigs of ram, it runs mw2 fine on high. Guess not i/r/t me2
Location specific Mass Effect 2 crashes:
Certain locations in Mass Effect 2 will crash (Perhaps only on systems just meeting or below the system requirments). No known fix at the momment but I have put together a workaround:
-Resume from the last save before the location where it crashed
-Move up to the area before it crashed
-Save to a new save slot
-Continue to the crash area, game will crash
-Open Mass Effect 2 and load up the save you made
-The area should no longer crash.
This workaround is irritating as it doesn’t always work 100% and I have had to do it several times, but it may help.
Had issue with movie lag and loading freeze. since using the nomovie tag on desktop shortcut had no issues playing at all. hope they fix it so the movies work, i like watching them…
running AMD FX57, 2GB RAM, Geforce 8800GTX
Saved by this post again! been here thrice, first was when Empire total war was being a pain in the ass to run (crashing at startup) then second time was back in DoW 2 (crashing too)
Freezing on loading screen and lagging after movies.
Solution: Create shortcut of Masseffect2.exe, open properties, and type -nomovies at the end of the target. Fixed freezing on loading screen and lagging after movies. Only all movies are removed, ‘least can play the game. Thanks #83!
Problem: Yellowing screen
This problem start immediately in the main menu, making it very hard to read. It continues on to the first cutscene with the Illusive man, stops in the Normandy, but resumes being bright yellow when Shepard is in the cutscene and immediately during gameplay, rending the game unplayable. There is currently no fix available.
Door hack [with symbol matching] does not respond to mousing. Am left clicking on symbols to match and some matches unlock and other won’t – any ideas?
I solved my problem, I don’t know which one of the follow solved it:
-Reinstall the NET 3.5 Framework
-Save in a new slot before enter (its doesn’t crash again as state before, I did can go without rebooting the game)
-Disable movies with -nomovies (restore again after enter the quarantine area)
Hi my system is(laptop M1530 dell :Nvidia Geforce 8600gt/Memory(RAM):4GB/windows :vista 32bit/processor:intel (R)Core(TM)2duo cpu T9300) i can run and play The game but when the automaticlly save game save my game or when i save manually the game, i have not any save game or any profile in the load game and when i exit of the game and restarted i have to start the new game again plz HElp me i can not figur out of this problem
Hi I’ve been playing the sims 3 for a while now and it kepps on flashing on and off, everytime i play it till it finally crashes.I really need help trying to fix,because i get really really mad everytime.Is it a rip-off or something.I REALLY NEED HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had encountered freezing,crashing and even an occasional blue screen after about 1-3 minutes of starting the game. I had tried nearly all of the compatible nvidia drivers with no success. But I had installed the windows default driver and it works perfectly. I tried to reinstall nvidia drivers again just for kicks and the problems come back. If i uninstall the drivers and use the windows default driver it works perfectly. I am using windows 7 64 bit and an 8800gt. I hope that helps, good luck!
So.. I just installed Mass Effect 2 and this is my problem :
The game works fine except that the camera won’t move at all. My mouse works in every other ways (shooting, aiming, doing stuff in the menu), but it won’t move the camera. Won’t let me chose dialogues option either.
Of course I just started the game and obviously I cannot pass the very first mission.
Since you just solved some mouse issues (and I may actually use your tips once I get it to work), could you guess what my problem could be?
I have a DualCore 6850 with 2Go Ram, Geforce 8800 GTS, Windows 7 32bit premium, and I use a Logitech MX Revolution as my mouse.
I use dual screen for my computer (may be related.. who knows)
I have the last Nvidia driver, DirectX11 (I did also install DirectX9c just to be sure)
I run MassEffect2.exe as administrator.
I’m taking any guesses at this point.. shoot.
#93 tianna. if you read….ANYTHING on this page you would know that this is for mass effect 2 not sims 3 >:/
#95 qae if you have a joystick, unplug it. and if anyone else is having trouble moving the cursor a pluged in joystick may be the problem
About Freezing Intermittently:
This happened to me during the combat missions, the screen at some point freezes and the pixels gained different colors and the sound glitches. I have changed the drivers video, chip set, audio and still nothing. I thought that the game deserves a path and than I came with the idea to run a benchmark (3Dmark vintage) and of course the video card test revealed that it has artifacts. So, in my case the the Freezing Intermittently was because of the damaged video card. For those who are experiencing the same problem have a test with a benchmark, you’ll never know. I have replaced the card and everything is going well. Cheers!
I was suffering from the error “Mass effect 2 has stopped working” on Vista on startup. I tried various suggestions but nothing worked. Eventually managed to fix it, can’t guarantee it will work for everyone but might help some of you.
For me, I think the problem was related to having 2 DVD drives and some kind of DVD copy protection system that the game ships with, can’t be sure but just my suspicion due to the fact that no other discs give me errors with my drives.
Firstly, I was getting an error on disc swapping during install if the 2 discs were in separate drives (“Please insert disc 2″). Ignored this at first but after installing and trying to run, an error came up saying please insert the disc. Swapped the disc into the other drive which seemed to bypass this before just crashing on a black screen.
Uninstalled, then re-installed and only used my primary DVD drive to install both discs from (rather than having 1 disc in each drive, probably didn’t make a difference but tried it nonetheless). Tried to run – “Please insert the disc” (It’s already in there you B*ST*RD!!!), downloaded a nocd crack and game works fine.
I won’t post any links to possible illegal files and wouldn’t normally suggest it but it bloody annoys me that a brand new game won’t read properly because of lazy/incompetent publishing, probably due to some system there to stop pirating, the irony being it’s the pirates who have allowed my £35 product to work.
AMD Turion(tm) X2 Dual-Core Mobile RM-70, 4 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS 512 MB
can’t start game, always get ‘The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b)’ crash message.
Does anyone know fix for the crash after installing IFF and taking the shuttle? The game just freezes. And I have PC way above recommended specs. :/ Bioware really blew it on this one, such a hype, but it’s full of bugs and freezes and glitches and shit.
I experience the same as number 40:
”Thus far, I have fixed my freezing at the loading screen by downloading a single core no intro fix (can be googled). However, the cinematic following new character creation is lagging with extreme pauses (similar to Phil #38 above, etc). The sound does work flawlessly though. I’m looking into a way to fix this problem.”
I did update my sound drivers lately (Realtek), my Nvidia 275 GTX video cart is also updated as of today. Latest DirectX 9.0c for Windows XP SP3 is also installed. I have set sound to basic or no acceleration (at none, the sound has a distortion in it, with basic it works nice). Has anyone found somethings that I can try?
Cheers
When i finished a section of the game, i tried to go into the normandys crew quarters , the game just crashes to the desktop with a error report. Any idea whats happening?? Other than that its loadin up fine
Your installation problems section should be updated with this information please:
http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/106/index/766531/1
My specific problem as stated on here #24, #45 and #67 was that the second DVD would not continue the installation and I was left with pressing RETRY forever. I thought I had that worked out by simply extracting all the .RAR files to the correct folder since I was able to run the game and when I inserted DVD 1 it was recognized as a legit installation. However this way of doing things gave me graphic problems in the options menus and crashed my game after the Lazarus scene right before the character creation every time.
The fix as stated on the Bioware forums in the link I provided is to image both discs as .ISO, which can be done with a program such as Daemon Tools Lite. You then mount the first image and it brings up the installation menu and should run through the entire installation fine with no second disc insertion. As the solution says on the forums though, you might want to have DVD 2 in the drive when you’re doing this. I noticed that when I did it there appeared to be activity on my drive when it was suppose to be going through the second disc image instead.
After it was all done everything was up and running fine. Hope this helps some people out. Good luck.
FYI – system specs include:
Windows Vista 32
AMD Phenom II X4 965 3400
nVidia Geforce GTX260
all updated drivers
@Jkjk – “Does anyone know fix for the crash after installing IFF and taking the shuttle? The game just freezes. And I have PC way above recommended specs. :/ Bioware really blew it on this one, such a hype, but it’s full of bugs and freezes and glitches and shit.”
I have exactly that problem. I get passed the dialogue with joker and edi, telling me to take the shuttle then it cuts out and nothing… just darkness. I can hear faint sounds of the crew still though, weird.
For everyone having install issues, the resolve is really simple. Just copy everything from the disks into a folder, from both disks. You’ll end up overwriting the language files, but that’s okay. It will continue the install through to the end.
I was having the issue of it not installing but rather than it just saying insert disk, my computer locked up. So I ripped the disks and it didn’t help at all. I then ended up extracting the ISOs to a folder. Copying them from the disk directly into a folder of both disks combined in 1 folder is exactly the same.
Another issue involving game stutter for some of you that have Nvidia cards, I found a trick that Helps but does NOT cure it. Before I was having it lag every second for just a split second. Really annoying as it made the game aggravating to play. If you go into your Nvidia settings and change the Maximum Pre-rendered frames to 8, it helps quite a bit. Now I get the skip every other second rather than every second. It makes it a lot more playable, but damn is it annoying.
I had the solve fixed before in the past but I forgot what I did exactly. Since it did it with all the Bioware games. Jade Empire, ME1, etc. I think it had to do with just one driver.
For anyone tempted to update their Nvidia drivers to 196, I strongly recommend against it. I’m Running W7 and it caused some seriously instability. 195 is a good alternative. And even when I had the system stable, 191, 195, 196 and the beta versions inbetween did not fix any of the lag.
I’m running a Nvidia 9600 GT (2GB) on an AMD 4200 X2 on the Asus Crosshair motherboard. Running AC97 onboard sound.
I’m going to tinker with more of the other options, including sound to see if I can fix it. I hope what I posted here helps someone.
I guess you probably already know this, but there is an interesting thread going on in the BioWare forums about single cpu’s freezing and lagging movies. Lots of stuff have been discussed here, but there is something about a Coalesced.ini in BioGame\\Config\\PC\\Cooked. This might be responsible for a lot of problems.
Check the forum for more info.
http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/106/index/905917/2
Page 1 has the info already discussed here, but page 2 comes up with the .ini and several other fixes for duo and multi cores.
I was having the same problem with the second disk not detecting during the install. I got it to work though. I copied all the files from both discs into seperate folders on the harddrive. Then I created the folder within my Program Files directory (Mass Effect 2) All the .rar files from both discs were then extracted into that directory. It should sort it’s own folders when extracting so don’t panic. Run the launcher then close it quickly. Note sure why or if it makes a difference but I was following someone else’s steps to try and get this to work. As long as the launcher comes up you’re all good. Not sure where this next file goes but there should be a “Mass Effect 2_code.exe” file somewhere in there. I think it was the Data directory. Run that file and input your code. After it closes rerun the launcher and you should be good to go.
Happy shooting peeps
Well… looks like i’m not alone… maybe if i comment here, it will get a feedback. Ok, first i have problem with loading screen after i import my ME1 save character, glad it was solved after read social.bioware.com forum. Afer a while load looks normal, nothing seems problem, but its still far from end problem, when opening conversation the lagging that abnormal, its so frustrated rate in game, the weird is scene when Joker and ship got shoot, that scene smooth running then suddenly damn lag again. I try with all low setting and still no luck. I realize about single core CPU but I believe its not my rig spec, i use AMD 3800+, 1.5 GB RAM, 9500GT 512MB. Hope the patch release soon…
Okay. Completely fixed all problems on my end.
Don’t know about you guys, but I have the G15 keyboard. And when I was running LCD Misc, it caused the game to stutter. Completely exited all of the G15 apps and the stutter is solved on my end! Good luck to everyone else!
mass effect 2 game goes to black screen when entering quarantine zone, no other problems at all with my version
Ok people. IFF problem (black screen)resolved (single core AMD):
1. copy original movies(load*.bik) back to the …\BioGame\Movies\ directory
2. run the game (do not press any key)
3. wait for play the movie (trailer)
4. load your game
5. enter the galaxy map
Worked for me.
Thanks for aries32487
re ME2/get a physx error when tryingbto start game. tried to reinstall physx off disc2 /says invalid drive /g.
vista 4 gb ram nvidia 8700 toshiba laptop.
Same problem as Chris. I put in the second CD and it wont read it. Everything (hardware, software) is way above Recomended settings. It just wont read my 2nd cd.
Problem: Can’t install/ will not read 2nd DVD of Colectors Edition.
Solution:
Step 1) Create folder C:\ME, Step2) Copy all the contents of DVD2 into folder,
Step3)Copy all the contents of DVD1 into the same folder overwriting files (accept all defaults when coping including overwriting of files),
Step 4) Leave DVD1 in DVD drive, but run the install file from within the folder ME.
Hi
My computer Freezes at the menu or after 2min gameplay.
I have played 9 hour`s and I am on my ship, this dident happen befor.
My specs:
Windows 7 32bit (7600 build)
Intel Core i7 920 2.6GHz (quad Core)
ATI 5850
patriot 6 GB Ram (3 GB because of 32bit system)(1600hz)
3 years old 250GB Harddrive (Samsung SP2504C ATA Device)
Please help..
i have the same problem as number 3 =( please can someone assist me?
For Single Core Users:
I beat the game yesterday despite my single-core platform. The workaround is to use -nomovies on your shortcut targeting the masseffect2.exe file (not the launcher!). There are examples above in this forum.
When you need to go into the citadel, replace all of the original movie loading files with the single core fix files temporarily and boot the game without the -nomovies. This will play the Citadel movie and get you on it. I recommend you keep those settings as your on the citadel. When you get off the Citadel, restore your game to the “normal settings” meaning enabling -nomovies.
After the IFF mission, there is a point where the game will black screen after the galaxy map. The only workaround which proves effective is to replace the following load files: load_f01.bik, load_f80_ESN.bik, and load_f80_INT.bik with the single core fix files. Then boot the game without the -nomovies. This will play the movies after this point if you did it right. Unfortunately, the game will give you a lag bomb after the first movie. You can’t save for a short time after this movie due to it being a “special scenario” let’s say. You’ll have to play through this scenario with the lag, but it won’t last too long so just man it out. When its all done (about 3 movies) and a few minutes of horrendous lag, you can save again. Save, then reload the game with -nomovies enabled.
Hope that helps. You miss out on the endgame movies, but there is likely a way to get around that. Either way, you can play the game and see all the ingame cutscenes (which comprise almost the entire game anyways).
I have the same exact problem as skwareballz. I’ve tried changing my graphics settings, both in game and forcing it from the Nvidia control panel. Nothing seems to work.
The laser will reactivate after positioning the first mirror, and the game will crash approximately 2 seconds after becoming visible.
“skwareballz — January 30, 2010 @ 5:22 pm
i keep getting a freeze in the Jahhre (sp?) Station. the freeze occures when the laser comes on in the research lab after i try to adjust the first mirror. it is the only glitch or crash i’ve encountered so far in over 20 hours of gameplay.”
My specs:
Windows Vista with the current service pack
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T8300 @ 2.40GHz
NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GT (driver version 11.28)
4GB RAM
Please, if someone could upload these files i will be very grateful!
load_f01
load_f80_ESN
load_f80_INT
For those on vista 32 bit with a realtek soundchip try:
http://downloads.guru3d.com/Realtek-3D-SoundBack-Beta-0.1-download-1996.html
Yes it’s very old and beta but I had some of the described problems,
specificaly with the game crashing after the operation of shepard
at the beginning of the game, after installing and utilizing
3d soundback the game no longer crashed at that point.
The program adds a number of dll(s) to the game dir
- dsound
- realtek openal wrapper
- ini file with nr of buffers and voices
It does not need to run in the background the dll’s
are called through directX.
It’s excact function seems similar to alchemy of creative
and allows backward compatibility with directsound dx9
functionality that’s been dropped with vista.
See:
http://forums.creative.com/t5/Windows-Vista/Audio-in-Windows-Vista/m-p/302341
Note: the topic of hardware acceleration.
According to some sources Realtek HD audio is not supported
by ea (does not mean the the game will not work, but could not work properly)
The unreal engine or it’s audio parts (fmod, wise, etc) seems to
be more directsound driven (for example distance of source and it’s relative volume)
this could be the reason that, at least with me, the problem was
fixed and in general the audio experince was generally better.
If you want to find out if audio is the probelem you
can also switch it off in the:
C:\Users\yourname\Documents\BioWare\Mass Effect 2\BIOGame\Config\GamerSettings.ini
DisableAudio=False
to
DisableAudio=True
If the game no longer crashes at a specific point then
there is a reasonable chance that it is audio related
(not 100% because texture lod settings can trigger frame rate
issues which in turn *can* manifest in audio problems)
Tip:
Use realtek loudness equalization (in the hd manager of realtek)
if you want in general louder audio.
On a side note rise of the argonauts which crashes a lot on
my system (laptop acer) has become a lot more stable, was
crashing a lot on the fmod audio dll.
with regard to:
#3 overlapping menu item graphics + game crashes after the initial intro
#61 Burek — January 29, 2010 @ 10:17 pm
> For all experiencing the UI problem, here’s the fix…enjoy ME2!
Mucho kudo’s that did the job.
I, and many others, using Nvidia cards have a problem with the blue lightning effects used by praetorians and the reaper core. Looking at the eyes of the bugs while they’re firing, or the core while it is opening or closing makes us crash with “this program has stopped responding”.
The current workaround for this is when fighting the praetorians do not look at them. Fire with heavy weapons or a sniper rifle only when they’re not looking at you or using their beam. With the reaper core, look away from the doors until you hear them be fully open then fire the Cain hw or anything hard hitting you can. As soon as the door begins to close again look away.
Intel Core2 quad Q6700 @2.66ghz
Nvidia Geforce 9500 GS (latest drivers)
6GB RAM
Vista 64
So far I’ve had ME2 lock up on the Omega 4 relay loading screen and after creating a new game, it locks up when I get the loading screen for trying to recruit Archangel.
Specs:
Windows 7 Pro 64bit
6 gigs RAM
Intel Core 2 Duo @ 3GHz
GeForce 8600 GT @ 512MB with the latest drivers
i have the same problem as number 47:
“there are strong trails left in the options screen and other menus that don’t disappear, and the game crashes right after the first sequence, where you are about to select class etc.”
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My Mass Effect 2 was running just dandy until my computer overheated
midgame. Since then, it’s crashed everytime. I tried reinstalling the
game, clearing temp files, removing and then updating video/sound
drivers, removing save games, going through EA tech suppor twice (who were stupendously, staggeringly unhelpful) – nothing.
Here’s the error in full:
General protection fault!
History: memcpy() Address = 0×748d500a (filename not found) [in C:\\Windows\\WinSxS\\x86_microsoft.vc80.crt_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_8.0.50727.4053_none_d08d7da0442a985d\\MSVCR80.dll]
GImage::GImage() Address = 0×9248ae (filename not found) [in c:\\program files (x86)\\steam\\steamapps\\common\\mass effect 2\\Binaries\\MassEffect2.exe]
GImage::GImage() Address = 0×9a3b96 (filename not found) [in c:\\program files (x86)\\steam\\steamapps\\common\\mass effect 2\\Binaries\\MassEffect2.exe]
GImage::GImage() Address = 0×902313 (filename not found) [in c:\\program files (x86)\\steam\\steamapps\\common\\mass effect 2\\Binaries\\MassEffect2.exe]
GImage::GImage() Address = 0×902202 (filename not found) [in c:\\program files (x86)\\steam\\steamapps\\common\\mass effect 2\\Binaries\\MassEffect2.exe]
Anyone who can help me out would receive my eternal love.
Im having the same problem that people have repeated, with the Black Screen after the IFF has been installed, and the response is to reload the old files. The only issue I have with this, is that Ive got the Deluxe Digital Edition copy, so I dont have the CD to just copy those filed back to their original directory. Also, in order for the game to run, I need the single core fix, which replaces all the loading screens with a green screen. Without that, the game just freezes up during the initial Continue Game load. Any way to get those replacement files from a DL?
Having issues with achievements not saving and saved games not being able to load, appear under the save menu but are not shown in the load menu, seems to be a problem with character save game folders
Problem 10 solved with solution of problem 13
ok i found solution for IFF mission. you only need download 1 core fix but replace only
load_f01
load_f02c
load_f02d
load_f03
load_f03b
load_f05
load_f06
load_f08
load_f08b
load_f08c
load_f08d
load_f09
load_f09b
load_f09c
load_f09d
load_f10
load_f10b
load_f10c
load_f10d
load_f12
load_f12b
load_f12c
load_f14
load_f15
load_f80_ESN
load_f80_INT
work for me AMD Athlon LE-1640
All I get when I attempt to start up Mass Effect 2 is a windows dialog screen of “Mass Effect 2 has stopped working”. I tried the solutions to Problem #5 (seemed the most related to the problem) but no luck. Any suggestions?
I had the same problems as #126, #47, #19, #3
After I installed newest drivers and directx, I uninstalled the game and installed it again – then it WORKED!!!!
(WindowsXP, Geforce 7900GTO, Intel DualCore E6600)
solution to problem #10
from http://www.overclock.net
“The nice guys over at SCC-TDS have found the bug and have just released a fix for it
The link: http://scc-tds.net/games-fixes/69285…tml#post796717
Thanks for the help! ”
Said solution is a file BIOG_UIWorld.pcc which you should place into \MassEffect 2\BioGame\CookedPC folder.
This file didn’t exist there before, not on my installation anyway.
Before that my game would crash on the first loading screen (with Shepard scull) before you can even save for the first time. It also solved all “blurry” interface issues.
I tried everything else – new drivers, PhysiX, fiddling with nVidia controls, enforcing AA etc. Nothing affected anything but this file solved everything. Hope it helps someone.
Note: my PC is Win XP SP3, 8800GTX
I run MassEffect2Launcher as-is without any modifying arguments (don’t use -nomovies or anythig else)
I did not have any sound or stuttering issues prior this fix and my .bik files all intact.
I obviously only just started to play (because before I couldn’t pass over damn scull
so can say nothing about “in game” issues.
regarding problem No11
can confirm that it worked once I enabled sound (had it off previously)
can not install the game because it will not be completed setup I get this message “the installation of mass effect 2 has failed. a data error has occured”
please help
I can’t install! It kept saying error while extracting on or several files when I’m installing!
WEll first sorry for my english
my first problem was after import or create i try both
it freeze this i resolve with the
Mass Effect 2 No-Intro – Single core fix
then when you get to horizon the pratoerian -i belive- begins to shoot me with the blue beam, this i resolve to fight very far away, the same in the collector ship, now i am in the reaper iff mission and between 5 and 10 secs i freeze an i can try far away dont work.
now if i do the reaplace the movies, wont will happen my first error
i play the game very good
windows 7 ultimate
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz
1 gb of ram
this doesnt work for me
# Doyem — February 16, 2010 @ 7:12 pm
ok i found solution for IFF mission. you only need download 1 core fix but replace only
load_f01
load_f02c
load_f02d
load_f03
load_f03b
load_f05
load_f06
load_f08
load_f08b
load_f08c
load_f08d
load_f09
load_f09b
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work for me AMD Athlon LE-1640
ME2 crashes when I try to select new weapons at the armory screen. It worked previously for 5 hours of gaming, but has crashed for the last 3 attempts, so I will avoid until solution is found
my game keeps crashing in the praetorian fight at the same point every time is there a way to get around it or is there a fix for it
anothr fix for “Problem #9 : Cannot Install Mass Effect 2. Error message “Error: Switch from current encoding to specified encoding not supported. Line 1, Column 40 in inter XML settings.” during autorun”
I’m runnning Vista Home Basic x64, SP2 on Intel DC CPU and NVidia 1Gb card – none of fixes mentioned worked for me so click right on masseffect2.exe and run in XP mode as administrator and it worked fine; from time to time is still crashes but I can live with that
My computer crashes during the scene when the warlords genetic creation comes out of the pod.
There is a new Nvidia driver (beta) for vista and win7 that cured all my weapon selection crashes and the general slow loading. Game hasn’t crashed since and performs much better.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista_32bit_196.75_whql.html
I put in the ME2 disk and click install but nothing happens, just a ping sound.
I just installed Mass Effect on my computer with the following specs:
Windows 7 x64
3.00 Ghz dual core processor
NVIDIA 9800 GT
4GB ram
At this point the game is physically impossibly to play with how horribly slow it is running. The first two opening movies play just fine, but as soon as you hear the music for the main menu the whole thing screeches to a halt. It’s nearly impossible to navigate through the menus because of how slow it is running, and even getting into the game it’s still just as bad. I’m guessing ME2 isn’t compatible with windows 7 x64 or something, because I can’t figure out anything that helps at all.
I PURCHASED ME2 AND INSTALLED IT I HEAR THE SOUND FINE BUT I CANT SEE ANYTHING JUST A BLACK SCREEN ALL IT SHOWS ME IS THE MOUSE ARROW
MY COMP SPECS AMD ATHON 64 PROCESSOR 2.06 GHZ 1.25 GIG RAM ATI RADEON X800 GPU 256MB
Okay so my problem is i just got ME2 today and i started installing it and the first disc ran through just fine in a few minutes, once the second disc got started though it got to 11% and froze. After about ten minutes the program said install has failed due to a failed data retrieval. I’ve tried to disc image them and i got disc on but i couldn’t get disc 2 to image it said that there was a block on it. So please help i’m really pissed and frustrated.
System specs-
nvidia 9800gtx, Win7 64bit proffesional, Intel 2.66ghz quad core, 4gig ram.
Ok, so this is weird: I was doing the mission with the Reaper IFF and made it all the way to the iff, but decided to hack the wall safe first. Messed up and tried to reload – except I couldn’t. The reload takes literally forever, and now so do all my other reaper ship saves. I can reload a pre-iff save, but I can’t enter the reaper IFF mission anymore – loading it up takes forever as well.
Three words: WTF?