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The download from Impulse does something to the install that breaks the game's startup process. Every time I try to start the game either from the desktop icon or from the Impulse menu itself, the error noted above displays. Since I cannot re-download the game and start from a fresh install, I cannot see if that clears the error. I found a work aound that requires opening the game files and starting a coreserver exe and then click on the ME 2 icon in that folder. This starts the game,

I pre-purchased Mass Effect 2 and downloaded and installed it. On the day the game became active/available to play, I received my activation/registeration codes. I open Impulse and click on the game to start playing. Here's what I see; Error:Switch from current encoding to specified encoding not supported. Line1, Column 40 in inter XML settings. Hmmm, grrrr! So I go into the Electronic Arts folder and click on the Mass Effects 2 icon to start the game from there.