Blazerdragoon

Not sure if this was addressed elsewhere, but I recently started playing again, and I have this problem. Every time I leave Earth for Mars, the game stutters briefly on the loading screen, then crashes. Sometimes I get lucky and it'll crash on the loading screen after leaving Mars instead...but I never make it to the Citadel. Even worse, my saves for that character are borked as well (game crashes when I try to load any of them). I painstakingly checked my mods to see what the problem was, and I thought I narrowed it down to the Ark mod that went with EGM. The game seemed to run fine after that, and my mods appeared to be working. However, after installing ALOT, I started the game over again, leave Earth, loading screen and....CRASH!!! Same damn problem as before, complete with borked save. Running autoTOC through the ME3 mod manager did nothing to fix the problem, repairing the game through Origin fails due to Origin's recurring "directx internal setup" issues (don't get me started with what I went through just to reinstall the damn game), running as admin (both game and Origin) does nothing, compatibility mode does nothing, switching off the in-game overlay does nothing. Mod list attached. Anyone else having this issue? EDIT: I disabled a couple of mods, primarily ones I wouldn't need for this playthrough (playing Femshep, Ashley's dead) and suddenly the damn game is playing normally again. Still not sure what exactly is causing the issue, but I'm likely gonna just end up doing away with ALOT and start over with the mod setup I had that was actually working BEFORE I installed ALOT.

This workaround did it for me. INSTEAD OF speaking to Shaun behind the glass (which you likely did more than once already while trying to figure out this crap, like me! *lol*), put in this console command: setstage mq207 40 Father will walk in and immediately give the code. Shaun will get up and immediately shut down, and the quest progresses normally.