Legendary Edition bricked?
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