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Hedge

01-27-2010, 04:25 AM

So, right now I'm tired and pissed. I bought this game on steam and predownloaded it the other day before I went to work. Well away for 48 hours I got home and was eager to get going.

So I un-encrypted it though steam and set about trying to go too it...well steam said it was starting it up. The window disappeared, I got a pointer with a hourglass next to it...the hour glass went away after a few seconds, then my computer freezes. I can't move the mouse, no buttons work, can't ctrl+Alt+Del either.

So I look this up and read about nVidia PhysX problems. Soooo I uninstall the physX drivers, and reinstall the newest drivers for the graphics and physX drivers. ...boom same exact result. computer freezes and unable to do anything.

I turn off the physx drivers, and uninstall them, try starting up the computer goes though the start up process for the game BUT after the hourglass goes away I get an error about needing PhysX.....

I've heard tails that people with the CD version can just install the PhysX from the DVD and that solved their problems with PhysX. However, I've not been able to locate such things in steam folders.

Any help?

EDIT
Oh yea I'm using Windows XP SP3
Nvidia 8800GTS cards

Brains

01-27-2010, 08:18 AM

so this isn't a mass effect 2 problem if it happens when you start up steam ??? or am I reading this wrong?

netwalker

01-27-2010, 10:11 AM

so this isn't a mass effect 2 problem if it happens when you start up steam ??? or am I reading this wrong?

Looks like its freezing on the game startup. Have nothing other than that to contribute to the thread though. Game looks epic, will be downloading soon.

Hedge

01-27-2010, 11:40 AM

Right it freezes or crashes what ever you want to call it when i try to start the GAME itself via steam.

Brains

01-27-2010, 12:16 PM

Right it freezes or crashes what ever you want to call it when i try to start the GAME itself via steam.

o0o0o0o00o0oHHHHHH!

i'll do some browsing of the interwebz to see if others have been getting your problem

Hedge

01-27-2010, 12:32 PM

Thanks, I've done tons of trouble shooting and what not. I just can't figure it out.
Like I said It might be something to do with PhysX on my Nvidia but I've reinstalled that manually and what not. On top of that, it just straight up freezes my whole rig! So I don't get any error messages that I see which only complicates it.

Hedge

01-27-2010, 04:27 PM

I thank you for checking it out or looking up information. But I've solved my problem.

Ulitmatly I did ALOT of shit, most of it didn't solve my problem. But...after that i did a reinstall, changed some settings on my nvidia control panel and bam..game started up first try.

netwalker

01-27-2010, 04:53 PM

Hedge

01-29-2010, 10:55 AM

Now...its no longer working again. I shut off my computer, went to work came home started steam..and I'm having the same problem I did before!

*boggles* I'm confused now :-(

Homfry

01-29-2010, 01:08 PM

Maybe something ninja updated when you weren't looking?