For some reason neither mass effect nor crysis will work on my
machine after loading. When I try to load up a single player game on Crysis it works perfectly but then when loading the first level always freezes at 41%. Mass Effect won't even load up the menu after installation. I've tried installing on both hard drives and on a variety of gfx settings. Nada. I'm currently using my motherboard's sound card, so I ordered a new sound card because I need one anyway, but I doubt that's the cause of my troubles. I also updated my video drivers after I tried initially and that didn't do the trick either.
Age of Conan and Bioshock are the only other game I've tried and they work perfectly (or in the case of conan, as well as can be expected). Thoughts?