How to Play Mass Effect in 22 Easy Steps

Launch Origin, which can’t update, log in, or reset password.
Search the web, find that Origin has been rebranded to “the EA app” (I think “Origin” is a better name, but whatever.) Download and install the EA app, which requires the PC to restart. Nothing suspicious there.
The newly downloaded EA app requires a password reset. Given the existing password was some weak variation of “busywork”, I suspect the previous Origin password a) had requirements that prevented it from being all that secure and b) was generally a pain to set up. No matter. The reset process here was relatively straight forward and I could use a much stronger password.
Finally launch Mass Effect.
The screen goes black.
The screen remains black even after various keyboard shortcuts to go back to Windows.
Restart the PC, which has now defaulted to 1024×768.
Try to change the resolution back to 4K and Windows says it did a great job, but the it’s still 1024×768.
Poke around in Windows Settings to find that HDR has been enabled. Disabled HDR and successfully changed the resolution to 4K.
Launch Mass Effect again.
The screen goes black again.
Pull out HDMI cable and see it’s rather flimsy as well as GE branded.
Try a newer HDMI cable.
I CAN SEE!
Audio doesn’t work.
Exit to Windows. See that HDMI audio output is selected. This is good. This is what we want and yet there is no HDMI audio output.
Meditate.
On a lark, try switching the output to built-in audio before switching right back to HDMI audio.
I CAN HEAR!
Graphical glitches abound.
Do the same thing with the game’s graphics settings as I did with the system audio. (It worked once already!) Toggle the resolution and HDR settings to something else before immediately changing them back to their original settings.
Play Mass Effect with working graphics and sound.