Launcher won't start - working solution

[Kernel32.dll]

Launcher need support AVX instructions, but what can we do, if we dont have AVX? We compile our own launcher.

Original post from:
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Mass-Effect-Legendary-Edition/Mass-Effect-Legendary-Edition-on-Origin-does-not-start/m-p/10341710#M1796
by: dvidebyzero




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TLDR: If the launcher is not running it may be due to old CPUs not supporting AVX instructions. The launcher itself requires AVX instructions support on your CPU, but the games themselves apparently do not. Below is linked a custom launcher to bypass the original launcher.

My mother was having the problem with lack of AVX instructions support on her older hardware, but I managed to help her by replacing "MassEffectLauncher.exe" with a custom one of my own. As the games themselves do not use AVX instructions, only the launcher, bypassing the launcher seems to work. I'm pleased to report ME1 seems to run pretty well on my mother's older hardware now, with decent FPS.

Below I have linked to a AutoHotkey script that achieves this. You need to download AutoHotkey and install it. Then copy-paste the code linked below into a fresh text file, and name it "MassEffectLauncher.ahk". Edit the first line of the script to point to your personal Mass Effect LE directory and save the file. My mother's game is installed in her Steam Library on the D:\ directory, but you should edit yours appropriately. Then right click the "MassEffectLauncher.ahk" file and choose to compile the script. This creates an EXE file from the AutoHotkey script.

Make sure your EXE is called "MassEffectLauncher.exe". Rename your original "MassEffectLauncher.exe" to "MassEffectLauncher.exe.original", so that you have a backup of the original launcher. You should be able to get the original launcher back anyway by verifying the game integrity, but it's still probably best to make the backup. Then replace the original EXE with the new one you that compiled from the AutoHotkey script. Then you should be able to run the game through Steam or Origin like normal.



https://pastebin.com/7Sa5irQi



The original launcher has some options to change the language and subtitle font size etc., but if you need to change those you should be able to edit the command line parameters in the script file. I don't know what options are valid though, as I left everything on default.

Hope this helps some people. Hopefully BioWare will patch this soon anyway.

PS. When you choose a Mass Effect game to run from my custom launcher, the launcher will hide but will still be running. When you exit the game, the launcher show up again. I tried to replicate the original launcher's behavior here. However, this means you that you need to be sure to close the launcher using the x when you're done, if you don't want Steam to constantly count you as playing the game when you're not. It's harder to miss with the original launcher, since it's a full-screen application with music etc, but with this launcher you could easily just idle with it running in the background for hours without realizing it.
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P.S. plz go on EA forum and thank original author, if this solution help you.

[[D]Mit.]

if only there was a way to bypass the windows 10 requirement, am running win 7....

[Sonozaki]

Thank you so much for linking this!

[Koganei]

This worked for me!

[ACG_Seb]

THANK YOU IT WORKED FOR ME TOO!

[Matt]

This also worked for me

[ste.rovers85]

My cpu i5 9400f comes with AVX tho right?

[ste.rovers85]

And we have to become programmers just to get a game to bloody work?

[Kernel32.dll]

Originally posted by ste.rovers85:

My cpu i5 9400f comes with AVX tho right?

Yes, i5 9400f support AVX and AVX 2.0

Originally posted by ste.rovers85:

And we have to become programmers just to get a game to bloody work?

Seems that way :)

[pikmonwolf]

This industry is a damn joke. Modders constantly show-up publishers and devs.

[tynian87116]

Heads up for anyone having issues with these instructions. EA locked down the ME: LE folder, to successfully compile the script you'll have to put the .ahk in an unprotected folder or a folder that you have full access to like desktop. You still will want to do every other step including changing file directory to point to your ME install, just compile it elsewhere.

I.e. : I dropped the .ahk into my mods folder on my desktop and compiled it there.

Will edit this comment if I find other things that need to be done.

[pikmonwolf]

Mass Effect 1 keeps saying "Session data could not be saved, please try again." And when testing if that is true, it did not keep my settings.

[pikmonwolf]

Got it fixed, unrelated issue it seems, this thing is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mess. Here's the solution if anybody else has this problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJjuVfGVzhM

[Rev7]

Worked for me, thanks a lot !
For french language, just replace INT by FR in the launcher script !