Anyone tried Expanded Galaxy Mod for ME3?

No I am referring to when replacing a texture in the ME3Explorer there is the ability to upscale the picture. If you upscale more than just biggest it usually breaks the texture and can give errors. Not sure if it is the same though with the most current version.

The second one though not because using to big a picture but more than likely up-scaling more than just the biggest picture which is usually what leads to errors. If you ever get rainbow armor in game this is one of the proofs of this error.

An example is say a dds file for Shepards' face mask and in the ME3explorer it would be listed as one picture file and on right click(in old version anyway) would give multiple sizes for same file.
Example:
Shepard123CB_2048x2048.dds
Shepard123CB_1024x1024.dds
Shepard123CB_512x512.dds

In my opinion to draw the textures at distance. 512 for farther away 2048 for far closer to screen.

Well one of the easiest ways is to start fresh and new with only vanilla files.
Then Install the mod that is causing problems FIRST.... I think it is EGM for you. So install it first.

Then try running the game with EGM loaded and see if it crashes where it has before and if it successfully goes beyond that then -SAVE & BACKUP game directory. IF IT DOES NOT try downloading the file again. It could be a corrupted download and not working as intended.

Then afterword start installing one mod at a time -AGAIN saving the directory each time the game runs correctly.
IF it does NOT run correctly delete the most current version of the game directory and restore it via the backup of the previous mod install just before the one that bonked the game.

Don't forget to mark the mod off the list that caused the error and bugs. After which try another until gone through the whole set of mod you plan to use. If they fail take note of which ones do and the reasons as to why.

The TPFTools "FIX" function does not always succeed and sometimes will say a texture is not found in the tree structure. Another possible solution is to implement extraction and conversion of the textures in texture mod into the dds picture format and then manually and permanently inject them into the game via ME3explorer.

Another option is hard-wall manual install... but that should be last resort.




All that said it would be my inclination that more likely than not it is either Backoff and or JAM that is conflicting with EGM. Backoff even mentions compatibility patches needed if those other mods are installed.

No.
I am not meaning it is a corrupt install of EGM but more likely that something you install after it breaks/corrupts it.
Can you list all the mods you are using and the order in which you are installing them?

EGM rocks.

Thanks for the update. I've seen too many issues with textures lately and I don't know why. I admit that once I got my textures working that I haven't messed around with other textures because of all the problems I read. I think most people don't have issues but when they come up, it's brutal since a texture can affect many, many files. Once the standard trick of manually AutoTOCing all DLC and the main game fails, then it's a long hunt and peck session.

CTO has no official versions I can tell, but contrary to what I had assumed, have been using ME3 Explorer 2 since I downloaded it earlier this year.

Heh... That could be my problem. That's where I got the mod.

Ironically, I'm having problems still in using this recent version (The textures will regularly fail due to the aforementioned Memory Overflow Error), but this explains why it caused crashes with version 2. I downloaded it upon the reading of "It works with both ME3Explorer 2.0 and the new Me3Explorer 3.0." on the mod download. Perhaps it was just that my version of 2 was an updated one or that my computer just couldn't use it properly.

Regardless, my crashing problem should be solved. Thank you very much, Deager and VanguardofInfinity for the help.



For the record, the game seems to hate replacing the eye texture (I got red eyes for my PC the last test I tried)

I tried it and then decided to Video it and put it on youtube. Spoilers. You really have not tried it until you played it this way. I used all these DLC's and individual mods.

This Game is Mod Heavy, Base Mod is EGM ( Spoiler Alert)*girlplaygame and Drengin for mods and directions made easy. VinBron for taking the time to help a disable vet understand things
I hope I have not missed anyone, if so Let me know. I have also used these following Mods to the game.

JeanLuc761
Magentaman215
KurauAmami
Titandestroyer
Nameislooney's on Deviontart
Aneksunamun Dang on Deviontart
Charming - Mushroom on Deviontart
Bomma72
Ottemis
Drengin
Shanlii
Gatorex
RMAM
Magentaman215
Knight-Commander Meredith
User Domain error ( Hate I can't Find these mods anymore, Armor Mods)
aristaea's blog
MrFob
ELE08
moho25
HelixSpiral
KkJiro
AVPen
Cxyrtyx
olson367
Getorex
PoophairJones
pudgethefish
ElysiumFic
Largon133
LusoryPrime
Tahira
Chashan
princessdemeter
De4thDr4g0n
Mwraight2013
birefringent
survivor686
rubydorje
sulezraz
mssedated54
Expanded Galaxy Mod 1.03 - Executable Installer-350-1-05
ME3Explorer Stable Release v2.0-409-2-0
TPF Extractor
DLC_CON_BACKOFF
BackOff patch-2-v1 with CELwithegm
CEM Full - Beta-2-1-4-0
ME3Recalibrated v1.1-411-1-1
ThaneMOD v2.0D-180-2-0 (1)
EGM Custom Extras Pack-350-1-05
EGM Bioware DLC Compatibility Pack - Full version-350-2-0
EGM Hotfix 5-350-1-05
MEHEM_v0_5_Installer
MEHEMv0.5_to_CEM_vC
Extended Final Anderson Conversation 2.0-173-2-0
DLC_MOD_Respawn
DLC_CON_CPR
GPG FemShep Hair Mod 064 Mila DLC
HR Bearded Kaidan by VoodooSeason
Restored Zaeed Conversation v3 - BackOff Compatible-245-3
femtex C3No Liner-455-1-0
Liara Default Replacer - Ajax and Science-274-1-0
DLC_CON_BPPack1 and 2
femshep_shirt_and_jeans_by_drengin_by_drengin-d7iugav
Kaidan's Shirt and Jeans-390-1-0

I found out the ME3 Toolset was the cause of all of my problems. It turns out that my computer had too low of RAM, and it was causing the program to break TPFs since it couldn't finish compiling.













After a bunch of Reinstalls, all is going well, but now I have a minor (Potentially spoilerific) question. Are the mechs ever going to be used in the story, or are they just there as decoration for your ship?

If I could guess they may apply to some level I haven't been to, or they count for your Readiness score at the end. However, I'm curious if there are or were plans to have mechs backing you up in some large land map during a Search and Rescue mission or something similar.







I also have a minor visual "glitch" I noticed during my playthrough. A marine plays the sitting animation in the Recreation Cabin (The room with the bar and card table) but he isn't on the proper side, so he walks up and floats in a seated positon. Oddly enough, later in my game, the chair appeared on the left of him and he then sat in it like normal.
 

I had a second slightly more humorous glitch happen in my playthrough where the Mako and another vehicle somehow merged. Still it looks pretty cool as some sort of concept vehicle.. I believe this may have been due to me purchasing the Mako after recieving the Hovercraft, and as a reward somehow didn't replace the Hovercraft with the Mako, they were spawned in the same area.
   


Lastly, there is a minor visual glitch with the position of one of the planets that has also existed in ME2.
The planet view shows the sun instead of the planet, and the sun and planet are impossibly close to eachother in the Solar System view 

(I had to use Spoiler Tags as my screenshots are freakishly massive, and I ran out of my attachment limit )

SPOILER: Click to show

I think it might be because the sun is tagged as the planet, or the planet is simply too close to the sun..



Other than those minor visual issues, I haven't had any problems so far with my game using this mod, and am looking forward to actual ground battles for some of the many planets.

I've used it before. Never had any problems. If a clean install still has ME3 broken then I have to assume something other than the mod is the problem.  That being said, perhaps you could leave a note for the author of the mod at NexusMods?

sebas379: Have you tried to use the repair function in Origin? That insures that the game is reset to default settings. This way, in case some random file was left behind in a random folder, Origin would remove it.

Update. I now really have no idea whats going on. I quit messing around with it yesterday, planning to continue the fight today. I got back home, fired up ME3 to see the problem.....It's gone. Vanished in thin air. I'm completely clueless as to what changed, but glad to report the game at least works properly again. Think I'll lay off on the mods for now though, if y'all don't mind