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[Shaitan11]

 So I just installed Mass Effect 1 on my computer through steam.  I have loaded it up and from the second I get to the main menu it has a strange glitch.  Every second or 2 it freezes and doesn't respond for a quarter of a second or so.  If it happened once in a while then it would'nt be a problem, but at the moment the game is effectively unplayable.  If I am shooting then it will only register 4/5 mouse clicks.  At the main menu at the start the blocks in the background move, and then freeze, and then jump.  It's different from normal lag or low framerate, because it deosn't requognize my clicks or movement commands when it's frozen.

I have a new computer, quad core, windows vista, 4 gigs ram, Nvidia GeForce 9600m GT.

[eshrafel]

Have you made sure that any forced settings in your nvidia control panel are off, such as anisotropy, full screen anti-aliasing, vertical sync etc? You can usually get to the control panel by right clicking on your desktop.

[Gorath Alpha]

That sounds like some timed background process looping at far too high of a repeat rate to me. To test for it, shut down everything but the most necessary (especially shut off the Internet, IMs, AVs, etc).

[Shaitan11]

I looked through my settings and I haven't changed them from the default, most of those options you mentioned were appliance controlled. I also tried closing all my background processes, I still had more then 55 running. I've updated my drivers as well, nothing has helped. I had my first hard crash too, tried to play and was in dialog when everything froze and character just repeated himself.

[BJagHalo]

Shaitan11 wrote...
I have a new computer, quad core, windows vista, 4 gigs ram, Nvidia GeForce 9600m GT.

There's your problem.

[eshrafel]

Most systems with Vista run the game just fine. I also run with ~60 background processes so this is not unusual.



Try starting Task Manager then in the Performance tab, open the Resource Monitor with the button at the bottom. Go to the CPU tab and then click the Average CPU column to order by this value. With the game in the background is there any notable spikes or use by other applications? It may not be a CPU issue, in which case it is likely a driver/hardware conflict issue causing this.



If you *do* lower resolution/quality do the lag spikes improve at all?

[Shaitan11]

After numerous back and forth's with support they have recommended that I re-install the game so I can't test anything now. One possibility is that my video card isn't good enough. It's better then minimum but worse then recommended. I have lowered all the settings to the lowest except resolution and there was no change.

[ekwhite]

Running ME2 on a Core 2 Duo with a Radeon 4870 card and Windows XP, I found I was getting random lagging and freezing. I traced the problem to the Windows Search service. Every time it would start indexing, the game would freeze for 30 seconds to one minute. Once I turned off the service, all was well. ITunes also seems to perform background activities that give the game fits. You might want to check that also.

[eshrafel]

You should be able to scratch 30fps in ME1 with a 9600.



Also, good thinking: Windows search and similar things are a terrible idea.

[Shaitan11]

I re-installed as asked and it will no longer load, I get this at the initial screen:



"Failed to compile global shader FDistortionApplyScreenVertexShader"

[Gorath Alpha]

Somewhere along the way, you have broken the communication links that are required in between your video drivers, the Dx9 APIs (yes, Dx9, not Dx10 or 11), and the game.

[joey_mork84]

BJagHalo wrote...

Shaitan11 wrote...
I have a new computer, quad core, windows vista, 4 gigs ram, Nvidia GeForce 9600m GT.

There's your problem.

Wrong.

[Shaitan11]

Whoa 2 quick responses. It turns out that some files got corrupted in the download with stream, I have replaced the damaged files and it runs, however in with the same graphical errors as before.