Mass Effect 3

Here's the secret: rename or delete IGO32.dll in Origin's directory. It doesn't matter for me now and the game starts just fine after disabling the In-Game Overlay (that's what IGO stands for) but a couple of months before ME3 crashed right after the video intro sequence with the overlay DISABLED in settings and that confused me. After some googling I've found this solution on EA's forums. Give it a try, renaming won't break anything irreversibly. Maybe Origin didn't respect this option and tried to load this very intrusive library no matter what. Maybe it was something in Wine.

Currently, I'm undergoing frequent shutdowns because the cpu temperature reaches an eccessive value. I didn't have such problem using Wine 1.5.8, but I don't know, my sistem has changed since then, there are many variables at work.

At the resume/load game/new game/... screen all my 4 cpus are already at steady 50%.

I would suggest to try wine 1.7.1. Compare to wine 1.5, the last version offers a much better graphics performance. I can play ME3 in full resolution.

Just take the following measures:

- Disable IM in wine as shown in BUG 34367
- Disable Origin in game because the overlay makes ME3 crash.

err:winediag:wined3d_dll_init The GLSL shader backend has been disabled. You get to keep all the pieces if it breaks.
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x1fee138,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x1fee310,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x1fedee8,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0xa4): stub
fixme:thread:SetThreadIdealProcessor (0xa8): stub
fixme:gameux:GameExplorerImpl_VerifyAccess (0x11b180, L"C:\\Program Files\\Bioware\\Mass Effect 3\\Binaries\\Win32\\MassEffect3.exe", 0x1fee384)
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x1fecf78,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x1fed150,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x1fecd28,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x1fee498,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x1fee678,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x1fee248,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x1fee268,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x1fee468,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x1fee640,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x1fee218,0x00000000), stub!
err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from multi-threaded to apartment threaded
fixme:winediag:AUDDRV_GetAudioEndpoint Winepulse is not officially supported by the wine project
fixme:winediag:AUDDRV_GetAudioEndpoint For sound related feedback and support, please visit ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1960599
err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from multi-threaded to apartment threaded
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 59 (SPI_SETSTICKYKEYS)
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 53 (SPI_SETTOGGLEKEYS)
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 51 (SPI_SETFILTERKEYS)
err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from multi-threaded to apartment threaded
fixme:d3d:debug_d3dformat Unrecognized 0x34324644 (as fourcc: DF24) WINED3DFORMAT!
fixme:d3d:wined3d_get_format Can't find format unrecognized (0x34324644) in the format lookup table
fixme:dbghelp:validate_addr64 Unsupported address ffffffffb53d0000
fixme:dbghelp:validate_addr64 Unsupported address ffffffffb53b0000
fixme:dbghelp:validate_addr64 Unsupported address ffffffffb5360000
fixme:dbghelp:validate_addr64 Unsupported address ffffffffb5330000
fixme:dbghelp:validate_addr64 Unsupported address ffffffffb5310000
fixme:dbghelp:validate_addr64 Unsupported address ffffffffb0dc0000
err:dbghelp_msc:codeview_process_info Unknown CODEVIEW signature 0187fce4 in module L"masseffect3"
fixme:d3d9:D3DPERF_SetOptions (0x1) : stub
fixme:d3d:query_init Unhandled query type 0xc.
wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to 0x1e732000 at address 0xaee391 (thread 0009), starting debugger...
err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code c0000005 flags 0 addr 0x7bc4d134

Somebody?

I'm playing Mass Effect 3 on a

Hardware 64bit
Card Radeon Cedar
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD CEDAR
Debian Jessie/Sid testing distribution
Wine 1.5.7

I've played the game for many days quite flawlessy and I've reached the point I'm seizing Cerberus Headquarters. Recently I've noticed some temporary freezes, and now a complete freeze. I cannot play the game beyond this point.

In the log I find errors such as

err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x110060 "heap.c: main process heap section" wait timed out in thread 0055, blocked by 0066, retrying (60 sec)
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0x7bcadc24 "loader.c: loader_section" wait timed out in thread 0066, blocked by 005a, retrying (60 sec)

It's quite sad not being able to finish the game at this point!!!

The game plays at incredibly low fps, not more than 10fps,
possible?

If run glxgears (disabling vsync) I get to more than 2000fps.

I have a Radeon HD 54xx card.
I use native radeon driver with Gallium CEDAR 0.4.
OpenGL is the mesa implementation.

At the initial welcome screen when you see asteroids falling to the right, this the fps that I get

trace:fps:glxdrv_SwapBuffers @ approx 9.72fps, total 9.03fps
trace:fps:swapchain_gl_present 0x2a77688 @ approx 9.72fps
trace:fps:glxdrv_SwapBuffers @ approx 9.99fps, total 9.09fps
trace:fps:swapchain_gl_present 0x2a77688 @ approx 9.99fps
trace:fps:glxdrv_SwapBuffers @ approx 9.66fps, total 9.12fps
trace:fps:swapchain_gl_present 0x2a77688 @ approx 9.66fps
trace:fps:glxdrv_SwapBuffers @ approx 10.66fps, total 9.20fps
trace:fps:swapchain_gl_present 0x2a77688 @ approx 10.66fps

The game works for me on

wine 1.5.8
Origin
downloading manually the game zip
Importing data about the game in regedit as described elsewere

The rendering is a bit limping,
I'm looking around for hints about how to improve it.

I managed to vastly improve performances by installing the fglrx proprietary ati radeon driver (I have a 5xxx Mobility Radeon card).

Yet, in this configuration, in the gnome shell and in fullscreen, the game does not receive keyboard events.

The same problem does not surface running gnome in fallback mode, so it appears to be linked to the interaction between wine, the window manager and the display driver.

Best, Carlo.

Today I was picking origin all day. I can confirm that last origin (8.6.0.357) cant proper install and update mass effect 3 even on any windows (I've tested on xp, 7 and 8). Tech support know about such problems but it can help only with installing old version of origin (8.4), but in this version game updates wont work. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME ON ORIGIN!

1. buy game. developers of mass effect 3 have created real cool game and they are not blame that the executive director invent this origin
2. install last wine and winetricks (wine-9999 and winetricks-99999999 in gentoo)
3. unpack game
// insert 1 dvd
cp /mnt/cdrom/Mass\ Effect\ 3.z01 ~/temp/Mass\ Effect\ 3.z01
// insert 2 dvd
cp /mnt/cdrom/Mass\ Effect\ 3.zip ~/temp/Mass\ Effect\ 3.zip
cd ~/temp
zip -FF Mass\ Effect\ 3.zip --out Mass\ Effect\ 3.zip.fixed
mkdir Mass\ Effect\ 3
unzip -d Mass\ Effect\ 3/ Mass\ Effect\ 3.zip.fixed
du --total Mass\ Effect\ 3
>> 10466048 (~10.5 GB => success)
4. check that WINEARCH=win32 and make new WINEPREFIX
5. winecfg
Graphics -> Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows
Graphics -> Emulate a virtual desktop (preffered full screen size)
6. winetricks physx
7. rsync -r --progress ~/temp/Mass\ Effect\ 3 $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/Program\ Files/
8. google for "mass effect 3 reloaded 1.3" and apply the crack with last patch (just in case block the network for cracked binaries)
9. wine Binaries/MassEffectConfig
ignore the message "you do not have the correct version of directx installed to play this game"
select full-screen option. select other options according to your wishes
10. check that you have ~/BioWare/Mass\ Effect\ 2/Save/ to import character from ME2
11. wine Binaries/Win32/MassEffect
enjoy the game ^____^

Good stuff...

ME3 not being on Steam is stupid greedy EA for you. Shame that, steam works damn near perfectly and origin as you say is the biggest lump of privacy invading rubbish.

Again, good guide.

Running Ubuntu 11.04 with wine 1.4 rc4.

I own the the Digital deluxe edition via Origin, Origin was installed via playonlinux.

Every time I start up the game, it tells me that my From Ashes DLC couldn't be verified and to log into the Alliance Network with the account I used to buy From Ashes.

All other DLC works, and I can play multiplayer.

Hello all,

I installed the game successfully, but have 1 big problem; fullscreen mode won't work right.

My desktop resolution is changed to the correct (game set) resolution, but the screen itself has really thick black borders, and shows only part of the game (about one quarter). When I run the game in a virtual desktop, it works fine (even the fullscreen mode, which is then obviously not full screen anymore).

Can anybody point me to a way of getting this game to run fullscreen.

change the game settings from masseffectconf.exe file
and change the resolution to same as your desktop one..
works fine then
if u have dualmonitor setup, then use the metamodes to switch one screen off before you start the game and u can keyboard shortcut it back after game is launched with correct resolution.

Can anyone confirm input problems with the new xorg-server?
I have "xorg-server-1.12" and "xf86-input-evdev-2.7.0" and my aim in ME3 jumps around wildly.

I am using wine 1.5.0 but also tested 1.4.

After a downgrade to xorg-server-1.11 and xf86-input-evdev-2.6.0 it worked again.

Might be worth doing a bug report for it? I can see from my gentoo install that it wants to upgrade to 1.12 but I might give it a miss now you've said that!

Thanks for heads up!

Can you please try it?
Its no big deal going back in gentoo anyway. I am on Gentoo too.

I didnt want to do a bug report before ruling out plain stupidity on my part. So if anyone confirms this, I will make one,

Well I'm having a few issues actually getting the game to run at all. The game will sometimes load but only show the first video intro and then pause halfway through it, onlyway to recover is to kill the entire wineserver.

Every other time it's just crashing before it loads that up. Not happy. Let me look into this (I updated to latest xorg as well so curious to see what's going on).

Oh, did you re-emerge your nvidia drivers as well? I want to assume you did but better check

I've seen this issue in other games, so far Tomb Raider Underworld and Skyrim.

I'll get a bug report going

I found that the Steam overlay in Skyrim was causing some serious issues with the mouse, so I disabled it. Also turn off your numlock in order to rebind keys. 1.5.11 and on have had nothing but issues with, so sticking with wine 1.5.10 (works perfectly smooth)

Cheers!

I installed the game from the disc and updated it by deleting the old files. The game says that it's installed and up to date, but it crashes on startup.

Here is the crash report:
Unhandled exception: unimplemented function msvcp90.dll.??0?$ basic_ostringstream@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@QAE@H@Z called in 32-bit code (0x7ecf75e2).

Register dump:
CS:0023 SS:002b DS:002b ES:002b FS:0063 GS:006b
EIP:7ecf75e2 ESP:01feb180 EBP:01feb1e4 EFLAGS:00000246( - -- I Z- -P- )
EAX:7ece3245 EBX:7ed60ff4 ECX:00000000 EDX:80000100
ESI:80000100 EDI:f6b23850

Stack dump:
0x01feb180: 01feb204 00000008 0013bbb0 80000100
0x01feb190: 00000001 00000000 7ecf75e2 00000002
0x01feb1a0: f68701a0 f68745cc 00000000 01feb1c4
0x01feb1b0: 00fbebb6 00000028 00000000 00000000
0x01feb1c0: 00110000 03f9bca0 d19ef100 00fbda6e
0x01feb1d0: 03f9bd00 03f9bcd0 7ecf759a 1cc01c80

Backtrace:
=>0 0x7ecf75e2 RaiseException+0x52(code=0x80000100, flags=0x1, nbargs=, args=0x1feb204) [/home/colt/Downloads/wine-1.4/dlls/kernel32/except.c:84] in kernel32 (0x01feb1e4)
1 0xf6870118 __wine_spec_unimplemented_stub+0x37(module="msvcp90.dll", function="??0?$ basic_ostringstream@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@QAE@H@Z") [/home/colt/Downloads/wine-1.4/dlls/winecrt0/stub.c:34] in msvcp90 (0x01feb214)
2 0xf683bf5d __wine_stub_msvcp90_dll_357+0x28() in msvcp90 (0x01feb2f0)
3 0x00ff6bae in masseffect3 (+0xbf6bad) (0x01feb2f0)
4 0x00fe8a98 in masseffect3 (+0xbe8a97) (0x01feb384)
5 0x00fe837f in masseffect3 (+0xbe837e) (0x01feb3dc)
6 0x00fe76b3 in masseffect3 (+0xbe76b2) (0x01feb938)
7 0x00fb1528 in masseffect3 (+0xbb1527) (0x01febc00)
8 0x00fb1003 in masseffect3 (+0xbb1002) (0x01febc34)
9 0x00fafa11 in masseffect3 (+0xbafa10) (0x01febc54)
10 0x00b7e9e3 in masseffect3 (+0x77e9e2) (0x01fec368)
11 0x00b7e685 in masseffect3 (+0x77e684) (0x01fec374)
12 0x00bc6164 in masseffect3 (+0x7c6163) (0x01fec3b4)
13 0x00d3d5e0 in masseffect3 (+0x93d5df) (0x01fec3c0)
14 0x00452bea in masseffect3 (+0x52be9) (0x01fec840)
15 0x00441f7f in masseffect3 (+0x41f7e) (0x01fec860)
16 0x00453088 in masseffect3 (+0x53087) (0x01fec8d0)
17 0x004532cc in masseffect3 (+0x532cb) (0x01fec958)
18 0x006d7561 in masseffect3 (+0x2d7560) (0x01fec970)
19 0x006d4869 in masseffect3 (+0x2d4868) (0x01fec984)
20 0x006cd560 in masseffect3 (+0x2cd55f) (0x01feeb48)
21 0x00d1ee92 in masseffect3 (+0x91ee91) (0x01feeb64)
22 0x00bf0f62 in masseffect3 (+0x7f0f61) (0x01feebe4)
23 0x00bee8b8 in masseffect3 (+0x7ee8b7) (0x01feec30)
24 0x00beea97 in masseffect3 (+0x7eea96) (0x01feec40)
25 0x0112c84f in masseffect3 (+0xd2c84e) (0x01feecd0)
26 0x40019692 in awc (+0x19691) (0x01feee60)
27 0x01b1158f in masseffect3 (+0x171158e) (0x01fefe70)
28 0x7ed170fc call_process_entry+0xb() in kernel32 (0x01fefe88)
29 0x7ed1836f start_process+0x5e(peb=0x7ffdf000) [/home/colt/Downloads/wine-1.4/dlls/kernel32/process.c:1083] in kernel32 (0x01fefec8)
30 0x7efa30d0 call_thread_func_wrapper+0xb() in ntdll (0x01fefed8)
31 0x7efa5ead call_thread_func+0x7c(entry=0x7ed18310, arg=0x7ffdf000, frame=0x1feffc8) [/home/colt/Downloads/wine-1.4/dlls/ntdll/signal_i386.c:2532] in ntdll (0x01feffa8)
32 0x7efa30ae call_thread_entry_point+0x11() in ntdll (0x01feffc8)
33 0x7ef7a1ee start_process+0x1d(kernel_start=0x7ed18310) [/home/colt/Downloads/wine-1.4/dlls/ntdll/loader.c:2612] in ntdll (0x01feffe8)
34 0xf76586ad wine_call_on_stack+0x1c() in libwine.so.1 (0x00000000)
35 0xf765876b wine_switch_to_stack+0x2a(func=0x7ef7a1d0, arg=0x7ed18310, stack=0x1ff0000) [/home/colt/Downloads/wine-1.4/libs/wine/port.c:59] in libwine.so.1 (0xffc98928)
36 0x7ef7fece LdrInitializeThunk+0x3bd(kernel_start=0x7ed18310, unknown2=0, unknown3=0, unknown4=0) [/home/colt/Downloads/wine-1.4/dlls/ntdll/loader.c:2668] in ntdll (0xffc98998)
37 0x7ed1e48a __wine_kernel_init+0xa19() [/home/colt/Downloads/wine-1.4/dlls/kernel32/process.c:1255] in kernel32 (0xffc99b38)
38 0x7ef8062b __wine_process_init+0x25a() [/home/colt/Downloads/wine-1.4/dlls/ntdll/loader.c:2877] in ntdll (0xffc99bb8)
39 0xf7655bec wine_init+0x28b(argc=0x2, argv=0xffc9a104, error="", error_size=0x400) [/home/colt/Downloads/wine-1.4/libs/wine/loader.c:831] in libwine.so.1 (0xffc99c18)
40 0x7bf00d2b main+0x8a(argc=0x2, argv=0xffc9a104) [/home/colt/Downloads/wine-1.4/loader/main.c:230] in (0xffc9a068)
41 0xf74af0f3 __libc_start_main+0xf2() in libc.so.6 (0x00000000)
0x7ecf75e2 RaiseException+0x52 [/home/colt/Downloads/wine-1.4/dlls/kernel32/except.c:84] in kernel32: subl $4,%esp
84 RtlRaiseException( &record );

System information:
Wine build: wine-1.4
Platform: i386
Host system: Linux
Host version: 3.0.0-16-generic

I'm running Wine v1.4 on Ubuntu 11.10 and I have a Phenom II processor and a GTX 460 graphics card.

Here is the Modules section of the crash report if that helps:
Modules:
Module Address Debug info Name (150 modules)
PE 240000- 256000 Deferred xinput1_3
PE 400000- 1b12000 Export masseffect3
PE 2210000- 23f5000 Deferred d3dx9_42
PE 2400000- 2470000 Deferred d3dx10_42
PE 2470000- 249b000 Deferred physxextensions
PE 2f70000- 3ad8000 Deferred eacore
PE 6b50000- 6b62000 Deferred physxloader
PE 6c80000- 6cdd000 Deferred physxcooking
PE 6df0000- 714a000 Deferred physxcore
PE 7150000- 71bd000 Deferred cudart32_41_4
PE 10000000-1068c000 Deferred igo32
PE 18000000-1803b000 Deferred binkw32
PE 40000000-400f0000 Export awc
PE 78aa0000-78b5e000 Deferred msvcr100
ELF 7bf00000-7bf04000 Dwarf
ELF 7de32000-7de50000 Deferred libgcc_s.so.1
ELF 7de73000-7def0000 Deferred rpcrt4
\-PE 7de80000-7def0000 \ rpcrt4
ELF 7def0000-7e017000 Deferred ole32
\-PE 7df10000-7e017000 \ ole32
ELF 7e02d000-7e063000 Deferred uxtheme
\-PE 7e030000-7e063000 \ uxtheme
ELF 7e063000-7e069000 Deferred libxfixes.so.3
ELF 7e069000-7e074000 Deferred libxcursor.so.1
ELF 7e0bc000-7e0e6000 Deferred libexpat.so.1
ELF 7e0e6000-7e11b000 Deferred libfontconfig.so.1
ELF 7e11b000-7e12b000 Deferred libxi.so.6
ELF 7e12b000-7e12f000 Deferred libxcomposite.so.1
ELF 7e12f000-7e138000 Deferred libxrandr.so.2
ELF 7e138000-7e143000 Deferred libxrender.so.1
ELF 7e143000-7e149000 Deferred libxxf86vm.so.1
ELF 7e149000-7e16d000 Deferred imm32
\-PE 7e150000-7e16d000 \ imm32
ELF 7e16d000-7e174000 Deferred libxdmcp.so.6
ELF 7e174000-7e193000 Deferred libxcb.so.1
ELF 7e193000-7e199000 Deferred libuuid.so.1
ELF 7e199000-7e1b3000 Deferred libice.so.6
ELF 7e1b3000-7e2e9000 Deferred libx11.so.6
ELF 7e2e9000-7e2fc000 Deferred libxext.so.6
ELF 7e2fc000-7e305000 Deferred libsm.so.6
ELF 7e305000-7e3a0000 Deferred winex11
\-PE 7e310000-7e3a0000 \ winex11
ELF 7e3a0000-7e3b5000 Deferred libz.so.1
ELF 7e3b5000-7e44c000 Deferred libfreetype.so.6
ELF 7e46f000-7e571000 Deferred comctl32
\-PE 7e480000-7e571000 \ comctl32
ELF 7e571000-7e795000 Deferred shell32
\-PE 7e580000-7e795000 \ shell32
ELF 7e795000-7e7fd000 Deferred advapi32
\-PE 7e7a0000-7e7fd000 \ advapi32
ELF 7e7fd000-7e8c8000 Deferred gdi32
\-PE 7e810000-7e8c8000 \ gdi32
ELF 7e8c8000-7ea19000 Deferred user32
\-PE 7e8e0000-7ea19000 \ user32
ELF 7ea19000-7ea8b000 Deferred shlwapi
\-PE 7ea30000-7ea8b000 \ shlwapi
ELF 7ea8b000-7ea98000 Deferred libnss_files.so.2
ELF 7ea98000-7eaa4000 Deferred libnss_nis.so.2
ELF 7eaa4000-7eabd000 Deferred libnsl.so.1
ELF 7ecbd000-7eee1000 Dwarf kernel32
\-PE 7ecd0000-7eee1000 \ kernel32
ELF 7eee1000-7ef0b000 Deferred libm.so.6
ELF 7ef14000-7ef2e000 Deferred version
\-PE 7ef20000-7ef2e000 \ version
ELF 7ef2e000-7f000000 Dwarf ntdll
\-PE 7ef40000-7f000000 \ ntdll
ELF f4d25000-f4d6c000 Deferred dinput
\-PE f4d30000-f4d6c000 \ dinput
ELF f4d6c000-f4db4000 Deferred dsound
\-PE f4d70000-f4db4000 \ dsound
ELF f4db4000-f4dd8000 Deferred gameux
\-PE f4dc0000-f4dd8000 \ gameux
ELF f4dd8000-f66e9000 Deferred libnvidia-glcore.so.280.13
ELF f66e9000-f67bb000 Deferred libgl.so.1
ELF f67de000-f67f3000 Deferred faultrep
\-PE f67e0000-f67f3000 \ faultrep
ELF f67f3000-f680a000 Deferred powrprof
\-PE f6800000-f680a000 \ powrprof
ELF f680a000-f6900000 Dwarf msvcp90
\-PE f6830000-f6900000 \ msvcp90
ELF f6900000-f692f000 Deferred msvcr90
\-PE f6910000-f692f000 \ msvcr90
ELF f692f000-f6947000 Deferred userenv
\-PE f6930000-f6947000 \ userenv
ELF f6947000-f6971000 Deferred msacm32
\-PE f6950000-f6971000 \ msacm32
ELF f6971000-f6a22000 Deferred winmm
\-PE f6980000-f6a22000 \ winmm
ELF f6a22000-f6a86000 Deferred dbghelp
\-PE f6a30000-f6a86000 \ dbghelp
ELF f6a86000-f6aa9000 Deferred iphlpapi
\-PE f6a90000-f6aa9000 \ iphlpapi
ELF f6aa9000-f6ac4000 Deferred wsock32
\-PE f6ab0000-f6ac4000 \ wsock32
ELF f6ac4000-f6b5f000 Deferred msvcrt
\-PE f6ae0000-f6b5f000 \ msvcrt
ELF f6b5f000-f6ca3000 Deferred wined3d
\-PE f6b70000-f6ca3000 \ wined3d
ELF f6ca3000-f6ce1000 Deferred d3d9
\-PE f6cb0000-f6ce1000 \ d3d9
ELF f6d2c000-f6d98000 Deferred setupapi
\-PE f6d40000-f6d98000 \ setupapi
ELF f6d98000-f6da1000 Deferred librt.so.1
ELF f6da1000-f6da6000 Deferred libgpg-error.so.0
ELF f6da6000-f6dbd000 Deferred libresolv.so.2
ELF f6dbd000-f6dc1000 Deferred libkeyutils.so.1
ELF f6dc1000-f6e0a000 Deferred libdbus-1.so.3
ELF f6e0a000-f6e8f000 Deferred libgcrypt.so.11
ELF f6e8f000-f6ea1000 Deferred libtasn1.so.3
ELF f6ea1000-f6eaa000 Deferred libkrb5support.so.0
ELF f6eaa000-f6eae000 Deferred libcom_err.so.2
ELF f6eae000-f6ed7000 Deferred libk5crypto.so.3
ELF f6ed7000-f6fa0000 Deferred libkrb5.so.3
ELF f6fa0000-f6fb3000 Deferred libavahi-client.so.3
ELF f6fb3000-f7063000 Deferred libgnutls.so.26
ELF f7063000-f70a1000 Deferred libgssapi_krb5.so.2
ELF f70a1000-f70f3000 Deferred libcups.so.2
ELF f70f7000-f70fa000 Deferred libnvidia-tls.so.280.13
ELF f70fa000-f7116000 Deferred dinput8
\-PE f7100000-f7116000 \ dinput8
ELF f7116000-f7153000 Deferred winspool
\-PE f7120000-f7153000 \ winspool
ELF f7153000-f7237000 Deferred comdlg32
\-PE f7160000-f7237000 \ comdlg32
ELF f7237000-f724b000 Deferred psapi
\-PE f7240000-f724b000 \ psapi
ELF f724b000-f7263000 Deferred wtsapi32
\-PE f7250000-f7263000 \ wtsapi32
ELF f7263000-f728a000 Deferred mpr
\-PE f7270000-f728a000 \ mpr
ELF f728a000-f72ff000 Deferred wininet
\-PE f7290000-f72ff000 \ wininet
ELF f72ff000-f7339000 Deferred winhttp
\-PE f7310000-f7339000 \ winhttp
ELF f7339000-f736d000 Deferred ws2_32
\-PE f7340000-f736d000 \ ws2_32
ELF f736d000-f7383000 Deferred wbemprox
\-PE f7370000-f7383000 \ wbemprox
ELF f7383000-f7490000 Deferred oleaut32
\-PE f73a0000-f7490000 \ oleaut32
ELF f7491000-f7496000 Deferred libdl.so.2
ELF f7496000-f7610000 Dwarf libc.so.6
ELF f7611000-f762c000 Deferred libpthread.so.0
ELF f762c000-f7630000 Deferred libxinerama.so.1
ELF f7632000-f7640000 Deferred libavahi-common.so.3
ELF f7640000-f7644000 Deferred libxau.so.6
ELF f7644000-f764e000 Deferred libnss_compat.so.2
ELF f764f000-f7792000 Dwarf libwine.so.1
ELF f7794000-f77b4000 Deferred ld-linux.so.2
ELF f77b4000-f77b5000 Deferred [vdso].so

Hmm... Yeah... ever since I updated to wine 1.4 this morning the game always crashes on start up. How are you getting wine? I wonder if it's a bad build or something.

The game wouldn't even come close when I tried using my old Wine v1.3 so I first tried building v1.4 from source and then from the Ubuntu repository. No luck either way.

| Unhandled exception: unimplemented function msvcp90.dll.??0?$

Try winetricks vcrun2008

Just tried it now, still crashes on startup. Now the backtrace points to d3d9, other times it points to kernel32. This is all for a game that was working perfectly fine for me until I updated to 1.4.0.

I also tried uninstalling vcrun2008 and reinstalling it and I too got the d3d9 error. I tried adding that library to winecfg and it still crashed.

Found a possible fix here: social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/344/index/9671154/1

Seems like it's a problem on native too. It worked for me. Let us know if it works for you too.

When I looked for the file, I found that I had one that was over 900 kB. I tried deleting it and that didn't fix it. I may try copying the "Local_Profile.sav" from my (working) Windows laptop, but I doubt that will fix it as it didn't even recreate the file after I deleted it and tried the game again.

Oops, that was the wrong link. I meant to post this one, which suggests replacing some of the Origin files with new ones.

Did you mean help.ea.com/mx/article/mass-effect-3-pc-crashing-issue? I tried it too and it still doesn't work. I'm getting what seems to be a d3d9 error of some sort.

Error:
Unhandled exception: unimplemented function msvcp90.dll.??0?$basic_ostringstream

Backtrace shows:
=>0 0x7ecf75e2 RaiseException+0x52(code=0x80000100, flags=0x1, nbargs=, args=0x1feb204) [/home/colt/Downloads/wine-1.4/dlls/kernel32/except.c:84] in kernel32 (0x01feb1e4)
1 0xf6810118 __wine_spec_unimplemented_stub+0x37(module="msvcp90.dll", function="??0?$ basic_ostringstream@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@QAE@H@Z") [/home/colt/Downloads/wine-1.4/dlls/winecrt0/stub.c:34] in msvcp90 (0x01feb214)
2 0xf67dbf5d __wine_stub_msvcp90_dll_357+0x28() in msvcp90 (0x01feb2f0)
3 0x00ff6bae in masseffect3 (+0xbf6bad) (0x01feb2f0)
4 0x00fe8a98 in masseffect3 (+0xbe8a97) (0x01feb384)
5 0x00fe837f in masseffect3 (+0xbe837e) (0x01feb3dc)
6 0x00fe76b3 in masseffect3 (+0xbe76b2) (0x01feb938)
7 0x00fb1528 in masseffect3 (+0xbb1527) (0x01febc00)
8 0x00fb1003 in masseffect3 (+0xbb1002) (0x01febc34)
9 0x00fafa11 in masseffect3 (+0xbafa10) (0x01febc54)
10 0x00b7e9e3 in masseffect3 (+0x77e9e2) (0x01fec368)
11 0x00b7e685 in masseffect3 (+0x77e684) (0x01fec374)
12 0x00bc6164 in masseffect3 (+0x7c6163) (0x01fec3b4)
13 0x00d3d5e0 in masseffect3 (+0x93d5df) (0x01fec3c0)
14 0x00452bea in masseffect3 (+0x52be9) (0x01fec840)
15 0x00441f7f in masseffect3 (+0x41f7e) (0x01fec860)
16 0x00453088 in masseffect3 (+0x53087) (0x01fec8d0)
17 0x004532cc in masseffect3 (+0x532cb) (0x01fec958)
18 0x006d7561 in masseffect3 (+0x2d7560) (0x01fec970)
19 0x006d4869 in masseffect3 (+0x2d4868) (0x01fec984)
20 0x006cd560 in masseffect3 (+0x2cd55f) (0x01feeb48)
21 0x00d1ee92 in masseffect3 (+0x91ee91) (0x01feeb64)
22 0x00bf0f62 in masseffect3 (+0x7f0f61) (0x01feebe4)
23 0x00bee8b8 in masseffect3 (+0x7ee8b7) (0x01feec30)
24 0x00beea97 in masseffect3 (+0x7eea96) (0x01feec40)
25 0x0112c84f in masseffect3 (+0xd2c84e) (0x01feecd0)
26 0x400197b2 in awc (+0x197b1) (0x01feee60)
27 0x01b1158f in masseffect3 (+0x171158e) (0x01fefe70)
28 0x7ed170fc call_process_entry+0xb() in kernel32 (0x01fefe88)
29 0x7ed1836f start_process+0x5e(peb=0x7ffdf000) [/home/colt/Downloads/wine-1.4/dlls/kernel32/process.c:1083] in kernel32 (0x01fefec8)
30 0x7efa30d0 call_thread_func_wrapper+0xb() in ntdll (0x01fefed8)
31 0x7efa5ead call_thread_func+0x7c(entry=0x7ed18310, arg=0x7ffdf000, frame=0x1feffc8) [/home/colt/Downloads/wine-1.4/dlls/ntdll/signal_i386.c:2532] in ntdll (0x01feffa8)
32 0x7efa30ae call_thread_entry_point+0x11() in ntdll (0x01feffc8)
33 0x7ef7a1ee start_process+0x1d(kernel_start=0x7ed18310) [/home/colt/Downloads/wine-1.4/dlls/ntdll/loader.c:2612] in ntdll (0x01feffe8)
34 0xf75ff6ad wine_call_on_stack+0x1c() in libwine.so.1 (0x00000000)
35 0xf75ff76b wine_switch_to_stack+0x2a(func=0x7ef7a1d0, arg=0x7ed18310, stack=0x1ff0000) [/home/colt/Downloads/wine-1.4/libs/wine/port.c:59] in libwine.so.1 (0xfffa2bb8)
36 0x7ef7fece LdrInitializeThunk+0x3bd(kernel_start=0x7ed18310, unknown2=0, unknown3=0, unknown4=0) [/home/colt/Downloads/wine-1.4/dlls/ntdll/loader.c:2668] in ntdll (0xfffa2c28)
37 0x7ed1e48a __wine_kernel_init+0xa19() [/home/colt/Downloads/wine-1.4/dlls/kernel32/process.c:1255] in kernel32 (0xfffa3dc8)
38 0x7ef8062b __wine_process_init+0x25a() [/home/colt/Downloads/wine-1.4/dlls/ntdll/loader.c:2877] in ntdll (0xfffa3e48)
39 0xf75fcbec wine_init+0x28b(argc=0x2, argv=0xfffa4394, error="", error_size=0x400) [/home/colt/Downloads/wine-1.4/libs/wine/loader.c:831] in libwine.so.1 (0xfffa3ea8)
40 0x7bf00d2b main+0x8a(argc=0x2, argv=0xfffa4394) [/home/colt/Downloads/wine-1.4/loader/main.c:230] in (0xfffa42f8)
41 0xf74560f3 __libc_start_main+0xf2() in libc.so.6 (0x00000000)
0x7ecf75e2 RaiseException+0x52 [/home/colt/Downloads/wine-1.4/dlls/kernel32/except.c:84] in kernel32: subl $4,%esp 84 RtlRaiseException( &record );

Modules shows:
PE 400000 - 1b12000 Export masseffect3
PE 2210000 - 23f5000 Deferred d3dx9_42
PE 2400000 - 2470000 Deferred d3dx10_42
PE 2470000 - 249b000 Deferred physxextensions
PE 2f70000 - 3ad8000 Deferred eacore
PE 6b50000 - 6b62000 Deferred physxloader
PE 6c80000 - 6cdd000 Deferred physxcooking
PE 6df0000 - 714a000 Deferred physxcore
PE 7150000 - 71bd000 Deferred cudart32_41_4

Have you tried (on a new prefix) installing vcrun2008 and trying with the settings as both native, builtin and then builtin, native.

Were having an issue on eve online right now where patching requires one thing and running the game requires the other so worth a go. I can't do much more to diagnose since it works here.

The fact you are on nvidia as well makes me curious to what it could be.

So, I tried to install ME3 via the disk, via download, inside wine, inside a VM w/ XP sp3 on Virtual Box, nothing worked. I couldn't get the game to install or download.

Eventually I created ISO's using Brasero and attached them to my VM, then installed the game that way. Copied everything over into Wine 1.4 and it works great.

System:
Linux Mint 12
Gigabyte z68x motherboard
i7 Proc
16GB Ram
Nvidia GTS 250