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[TacticalPsyduck]

So I purchased ME1 during the steam sale and decided to play it today. After starting a new game and getting to the part where you actually start moving your character I noticed the game was running very choppy so I tried changing the graphics settings. I changed everything to low and hit apply but my computer immediately crashed to a BSOD.
I rebooted and tried again and the same thing happened. I updated my gfx driver, still crashed. I ran the configuration tool for ME1 and put everything back to default and it still crashes. Any ideas?

Specs:


Windows XP SP3

Intel® Celeron® D CPU 3.46GHz

2 Gigs Ram

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT 1 Gig

Managed to get a screenshot of the error during a crash:

[Gorath Alpha]

You could probably use that 9400 with ME-2, but it's below the ME-1 minimum Geforce:

www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php

As you can see in the side by side, Your card is only able to reach 40%, 75%, and 75% of the minimum card's performance measurements for speed. 

A 9400 is just a renamed 8500, a three year old borderline level card that was already down into the business level by the time it was renamed. 

I don't know what is causing your crashes, however.  It ought to "try" to run with that video card, and just do so quite badly. 

P. S.  For any automatic criticisms of all things named "Celeron", the word back when the Celeron "D" (for dual) was still being produced, was that it was a rather "un-Celeron-like" part, roughly equal to a 2.6 GHz P4D cpu.

Gorath
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[TacticalPsyduck]

Like I said it "tried" to run heh the first time, since then I only get BSOD. Guess I will just uninstall it until the day I get a new PC. Thanks for the help Gorath.

[Gorath Alpha]

It may be the drivers.  nVIDIA has been offering a great many that cause conflicts in both of the currently active Bioware games.  But your old PC is at least up to date enough that for $45 or so, you could add a Radeon HD 4650 to it that would play this game now, and could be moved to a replacement mainboard later on, to continue to be of use (I do not think that there is any Geforce in that price bracket that would offer any respectable level of performance a year from now, while that HD 4650 would be able to do so). 

www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx

Gorath
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[TacticalPsyduck]

I messed with a couple things and have stopped it from crashing on startup. In the configuration utility I set everything to default except filtering mode and changed it to point. I also set the launch options on steam to -refresh 100 -heapsize 1048576. Not sure if it did anything but I know it helped on a couple other steam games. The game seems playable from what little I played of it for now but I will definitely try to upgrade my rig when I can.

Modifié par TacticalPsyduck, 22 juin 2010 - 07:26 .

[Gorath Alpha]

Hey, good for you!  I hope you can play more of the game, in spite of the limitations that the graphics you have will be able to display for you.