Legendary Edition bricked?

HELP

After a couple of hours playing, my Legendary Edition ME1 doesn't go past the start/resume button in the launcher. Only thing I did before this happened was disabling dynamic shadows and going from Fullscreen to Borderless to see if it fixes the annoying stutters.

After pressing start/resume it freezes on the launcher screen.

I bought the game through Epic and launch through EA. Windows 11, Ryzen 5 5600, RX6700XT all stock. No issues in other games.

I don't have third party Anti Virus.

Windows up to date.

All related software allowed in Firewall

Disabling Firewall didn't help.

GPU Driver is latest version (way before I installed the game)

I cleared EA Cache.

Disabled EA Overlay.

Disconnected peripherals.

Tried changing Windows Graphic settings (From Automatic to Card/High Performance.

Ran as Administrator.

I tried the fixes recommended on Steam Page, Changing system locale and clearing EA Cache.

I tried running it in Win8 compatibility mode.

I tried removing my save files from the folder.

ME2 and ME3 are launching.

Is this a case of a clean install?

Posted Feb 21, 2026, 5:26 PM UTC

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