MassEffect 2 help.

Ok, so ive had me2 for almost 6 months now and have only just found a computer that will play the game. BUT it is sooo scratched up now that when it gets to the loading new game/resume/load screan, it freezes.Annyway is there annyway ican bypass the disk or self repair the disK?

Oh and it's for pc.

Take better care of your CDs :)

You can find patches, but I am not going to discuss that because GS is paranoid when it comes to these things.

Take better care of your CDs :)

You can find patches, but I am not going to discuss that because GS is paranoid when it comes to these things.

Resistance_Kid

i try to take care of them but when you've installed the game on about 50+ times it tends to get scratched. I have stuff for it but it diddnt help. Neither did toothpaste.

Take it to the local game store, They have a machine for cleaning disks, if they cant get the scratches out nothing can. Its a buffer they have for used games.

Game Stop diddn't have a buffer when i went today

6 months and it hasn't worked at all? Did you try to contact Bioware for help?Treflis

I think she said that she installed it 50+ times... not sure though :?

[QUOTE="Treflis"]6 months and it hasn't worked at all? Did you try to contact Bioware for help?Resistance_Kid

I think she said that she installed it 50+ times... not sure though :?

i did. On 2 laptops, and 2 pc. i finnaly have a laptop that will play it too....but of course as i said its scratched

[QUOTE="Treflis"]6 months and it hasn't worked at all? Did you try to contact Bioware for help?Resistance_Kid

I think she said that she installed it 50+ times... not sure though :?

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[QUOTE="Treflis"]6 months and it hasn't worked at all? Did you try to contact Bioware for help?Treflis

I think she said that she installed it 50+ times... not sure though :?

It has installed 50+ times, just the computer was not good enough to run it.

Am I the only one who doubts that it's a disk scratching issue?

My Brood War disk has more lines on it than all of my high school books combined, and it still works.

Besides, if it was a disk scratching issue, wouldn't the problem appear during installation, when the disk is actually read, rather than during gameplay, when the disk is not used at all after the copy protection check when the game is launched?

This is why I use Steam for my PC games.
There's not much you can do besides the obvious.

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[QUOTE="Treflis"]6 months and it hasn't worked at all? Did you try to contact Bioware for help?Treflis

I think she said that she installed it 50+ times... not sure though :?

Thank you SOOOOO much for making me look like a dumb blonde. NOT. Mosst of them were on the computer i'm on now cause the install would corupt. I finnaly got it to install thismorning but it wont play!

[QUOTE="Treflis"][QUOTE="Resistance_Kid"]

I think she said that she installed it 50+ times... not sure though :?

BigBadGamerGirl

Thank you SOOOOO much for making me look like a dumb blonde. NOT. Mosst of them were on the computer i'm on now cause the install would corupt. I finnaly got it to install thismorning but it wont play!

No because ive gone to gamestop, ebgames, target, walmart, my dad, here and the internet.

So it installs, what happens when you try to play it? Does it have any error messages?

freetoex

No error messages. All it does it pause when the pointy thing with the spining circle is up...

Thing is I CAN PLAY THE DEMO and it really is annoying that my $60 game is messed up

Pourquoi dois-je cette malchance!

What you can do in these types of situations is get a virtual drive such as Daemon Tools Lite and make an ISO of the disc itself. I believe if you have a physical copy of the disc itself, this isn't illegal, but you need to have both on hand for that purpose. This would take up a couple gigs on the computer or other HD, but with an external HDD or whatever medium you have this installed on it will use that ISO and virtual drive to load from. choonyos

Copy protection?

Pourquoi dois-je cette malchance!

BigBadGamerGirl

You have this bad luck because you really need to take care of your CDs. Using a CD should not scratch it, either you have a dirty CD drive, or you just misplaced the CD.

The game stayed on my wall for about 3 months. Maybe my stupid broken laptop scratched it.... :/

and now it is magikly uninstalled and comment, dans tous les enfers ne le désinstaller ????!!!!! i think my hoodie jinxed me...

I wouldn't be so sure that it is a problem with your disk. Pretty convenient that it stops working just as you try it out on a new machine.

Can you provide the spec of your computer?

I wouldn't be so sure that it is a problem with your disk. Pretty convenient that it stops working just as you try it out on a new machine.

Can you provide the spec of your computer?

Tresca_

amd prossesser

atimobility radeon 4250 graphics up to 893 hyper memory

2 gb ram

250 gb hdd

What's ur CPU exactly?

Just AMD isn't enough lol

Browsing the Bioware forums, there appears to be a large contigent of people with single core AMD processors that happen to have the same loading screen freezing issue that you have.

i downloaded a patch and now....somehow.......mass effect was uninstalled

i downloaded a patch and now....somehow.......mass effect was uninstalled

BigBadGamerGirl

Where did you get it? Was it an official patch?

i got the patch off of here... i'm reinstalling it now

i got the patch off of here... i'm reinstalling it now

BigBadGamerGirl

OK. According to the release notes for the v1.01 patch, they fixed some issues with single core CPUs. So, you can cross your fingers.

hope i can.

it stuck again

Don't know what to tell you. If your processor is a dual core, it could be a graphics driver causing the problem.

If it's a single core, there have been some attempts at fixes ->http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/106/index/905917/1

Seems the .bik files playing during the loading screens cause problems for some users. They suggest replacing them with blank .bik files.

Sounds like a messy process, and might be more trouble than it's worth.

Download EA Download manager, you can register your Mass Effect 2 CD Code on the program and it will allow you to download the latest version of the game itself :)

Download EA Download manager, you can register your Mass Effect 2 CD Code on the program and it will allow you to download the latest version of the game itself :)

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