Game crashing upon loading

[Unrak]

Is there a known reason for ME to load and then crash almost right away?

[insertcreativenamehere]

I assume you mean when you try to use the EA App to open it? There was something called the ♥♥♥♥ Off EA Patch made by someone in the community that makes it so the game opens from Origin instead of the EA App, so it actually opens. I got it a while ago so I don't have the link but I'm sure a simple search through even the community guides will find it, that's where I found it.

[Unrak]

We have tried running from EA's app and from steam, both crash. Drivers are all updated. Only thing different is that windows update ran last night and now the game crashes while loading.

[MightyBat]

Having the same issue on Linux. Four hours ago it worked, now it doesn't.

[insertcreativenamehere]

Originally posted by Unrak:

We have tried running from EA's app and from steam, both crash. Drivers are all updated. Only thing different is that windows update ran last night and now the game crashes while loading.

You cannot launch through Steam. Steam launches it through the EA App. Which has a tendency to do exactly what you're describing.

[Trickster_JMP]

you can thank EA app for that. try manually updating the app. you can find the updater in at ...\Program Files\Electronic Arts\EA Desktop\EA Desktop\EAUpdater.exe

[MightyBat]

I deleted the Proton prefix, after that the game launched again though the 'Resume' button on the ME1 and ME2 entry were gone. Had to launch the game and select the save manually, which worked.

For Windows users: The Proton prefix contains config files, saves and in case of ME:LE the EA app. Maybe uninstalling the EA app and reinstalling it could fix it on Windows?

[~Can't Hit Crap~]

Having the same problem. The game will load the splash screen and all of a sudden it disappears along with the EA launcher.

[Unrak]

Deleted the EA app then reinstalled seems to have fixed the issue, for now.

[insertcreativenamehere]

Originally posted by Unrak:

Deleted the EA app then reinstalled seems to have fixed the issue, for now.

It literally took me 10 seconds to find this, read this guide, it'll solve the issue permanently rather than temporarily. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3006639206

[Zsrai]

Originally posted by Unrak:

Deleted the EA app then reinstalled seems to have fixed the issue, for now.

You probably could have just run the EA App Updater, in the same Start Menu folder (and file location on your system) as the EA App.

[weiss]

Originally posted by Unrak:

Is there a known reason for ME to load and then crash almost right away?

if this happens, start the EA desktop app and login.
i had that recently too and then my win defender popped up saying that the launcher wanted to make a minor change in the game settings.cfg which is in my protected doc folder.
looked like this.
https://gyazo.com/f6b98985d4331bc1b457651072faea62
its in german but to translate it, it literarly blocked the launcher from making said change and it crashed inmediatly because of it. after i granted permission ran everything fine.

this is an issue for many peoples.
they have set their windefender notifications to off for example, so they never get notified unless they look into it what windefender blocks and what not. (or other anti-virus programs which dont notify them because popups are annoying right?)
a lot of peoples blame the EA desktop for the issues but it is really often just windefender stopping the launcher from making changes because you have ransomware protection enabled or you told windefender to protect your choice of folders. onedrive documents and the documents folder in general is by default protected by windefender.

so, to all of you which giving the EA desktop the fault, check what your windefender does because all mass effect games of the legendary edition have their settings.cfg or ini in your documents folder and it gets even more critical protected if it is a onedrive/documents path.

lol i had to edit the post because steam see´s settnings.cfg /ini appereantly as link without the backspaces xD.

[~Can't Hit Crap~]

***FIXED***
I found the problem with my system and it all came from a setting in Defender. MELE was being blocked, I guess this happened with the latest update. The first thing that I tried was to uninstall the updates and that didn't work. I finally found it MELE being blocked by Defender. To unblock it you have to find the settings and look for Controlled folder access, click on Controlled Folder access and on the next page click on Allow an app through Controlled access and then give it access, the file name is programs Files(x86)\steamapps\common\Mass Effect LegendaryEdition

[Jack Wagon]

After playing 12 enjoyable hours, suddenly it won't load, Bioware screen then crashes back to EA CRapp !
Followed a few guides but nothing seems to work.
F R U S T R A T E D !