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[Gorath Alpha]

As happens far too often, the official System Requirements were badly screwed up on this game. 

Minimum System Requirements for Mass Effect on the PC
(Corrected from dumb, Pie in the Sky lies to the real thing)

Operating System:
Windows XP or Vista

Processor:
2.4+GHZ Intel or 2.0+GHZ AMD

Memory:
1 Gigabyte Ram (XP)
2 Gigabyte Ram (Vista)

Video Card:
NVIDIA GeForce 6 series (6800GT or better: 210, 310, 520, 7100, 7200, 7300, 7400, 7500, 7600 GS, 8200, 8300, 8400 GS, 8500, 9100, 9200, & 9300 are below minimum system requirements)
ATI Radeon X1600 XT (X1300, X1300 Pro, X1550, HD 2400, HD 3200, HD 3450, HD 3470, HD 4200, HD 4250, HD 4350, HD 4550, and HD 5450 are below minimum system requirements)

Hard Drive Space:
12 Gigabytes

Sound Card:
DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card and drivers

It literally goes without saying among anyone actually aware of how things work, that nothing from Intel qualifies as sufficient for the graphics in the game. 

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 09 juillet 2011 - 02:46 .

[Gorath Alpha]

That last line seems appropriate right now.

[Gorath Alpha]

It seems that a fresh round of new buyers are appearing lately. Thus, this is worth looking at again.

[Bogsnot1]

Gorath, how about we take it in turns?

Next person who asks a question without using the search function, I'll hold 'em down while you beat them to death with a half-brick covered in Talimancer fan-art.

[Gorath Alpha]

It's going to get worse (again) before it gets better. If there was any forum for ME3, it'd be running over with traffic. Skyrim is eleven months from release, and the new forum for it is so busy that Bethsoft's entire forum site is taking a heavy hit. Blame Spike. I will. I tried watching that show, and could only stay for a few short viewing sessions, it was so juvenile and empty headed of a thing.

P. S. When I looked, even using Google, I couldn't find any announcement by myself, or anyone else within this particular forum, that using Search was so easy, and usually faster than writing a message is, then sitting back waiting for an answer, so I have copied, then edited, the announcement that I made in the ME-2 Tech Forum a long while back, and posted that here. 

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 13 décembre 2010 - 04:54 .

[Gorath Alpha]

Gorath Alpha wrote...

It seems that a fresh round of new buyers are appearing lately. Thus, this is worth looking at again. <br />

The minor surge here is probably in reaction to the free copies of ME-2 being offered to try to spur sales of DA2. 

[Fredvdp]

Do you know the ideal video drivers for older cards? I now have driver version 270.51 on a Geforce 9600 GT, which is way too recent for this old card but it did fix some issues in Dragon Age II. This driver doesn't have the same issues as other recent Nvidia drivers (blue textures) but there are more framedrops now. I have Windows 7 32-bit.

Edit: Updating a one year old post to mention this was not a video driver issue. At the time I was using a sound card with emulated EAX, which lowered my framerate significantly. Sounded good, though.

Modifié par Fredvdp, 27 juillet 2012 - 08:35 .

[Gorath Alpha]

Depending on your OS, for this game, I've read that nothing past 25x.xx will work for recent Geforces. Yours isn't so very recent, however. Sorry to be two months from answering, but ME1 traffic is slow and I tend to only visit this forum every ten days or so.

[Gorath Alpha]

Interestingly, what with summer being here, and all the other forums being so very dead, this forum is still plugging along at about the same relatively slow speed anyway.

[Gorath Alpha]

Once again, someone new has arrived complaining about another laptop that cannot run the game and fails to even complete the configuration step. That's why the game box had the official requirements on it, which excluded cheaply equipped PCs with only Intel graphics (additionally, there were general problems in the System Configuration Tool related to Windows Vista (and Win 7, when that came along), I believe, that had to be fixed with the very first patch).

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 08 janvier 2012 - 06:56 .

[Gorath Alpha]

The only reason I can think of that this forum won't "stay dead" is ME-3; new people are getting excited by its imminent release, and folks who played on Xbox, or skipped it entirely, are backtracking to try the original. The official game requirements for the PC port were never corrected, so the opening message is still pertinent.

[Gorath Alpha]

Gorath Alpha wrote...

The only reason I can think of that this forum won't "stay dead" is ME-3; new people are getting excited by its imminent release, and folks who played on Xbox, or skipped it entirely, are backtracking to try the original. The official game requirements for the PC port were never corrected, so the opening message is still pertinent.

If you do have an AMD or nVIDIA graphics card that was designed for game playing, but still have problems, please see the Sticky (pinned on top) message starting "How to Report" and follow along with it preparing your query.  Thank you.

[Gorath Alpha]

Gorath Alpha wrote...

I'm afraid this and most stickies are destined for after the fact confirmation. New arrivals all seem to insist on wearing blinders and stumbling around in here running into the walls and furniture, instead of taking advantage of the resources.

Another forum season is winding on down, as always occurs each May, although with the great age of the game, I have little expectation of a rejuvenation here in the fall of 2012. Meanwhile, in here, the resources are the forum's archives, accessible via a quality SEARCH tool.

The on-site Finder was created as a broken tool, and never improved, so use Bing, Google, or Yahoo, with a redirection added:

site:social.bioware.com

[Gorath Alpha]

Gorath Alpha wrote...

Another forum season is winding on down, as always occurs each May, although with the great age of the game, I have little expectation of a rejuvenation here in the fall of 2012. Meanwhile, in here, the resources are the forum's archives, accessible via a quality SEARCH tool.

The on-site Finder was created as a broken tool, and never improved, so use Bing, Google, or Yahoo, with a redirection added:

site:social.bioware.com

All it would have taken was to scroll down near the bottom of the index's first page.  There hasn't been much happening here the past week, but new arrivals continue to ignore the Archives and the reminders similar to this one, about using those archives instead of repeating the same old terribly boring questions.  (Including "why does the game run so awfully bad on my atrociously cheap, trashy video chip from Intel?")

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 20 mai 2012 - 02:37 .

[Gorath Alpha]

Gorath Alpha wrote...

Another forum season is winding on down, as always occurs each May, although with the great age of the game, I have little expectation of a rejuvenation here in the fall of 2012. Meanwhile, in here, the resources are the forum's archives, accessible via a quality SEARCH tool.

The on-site Finder was created as a broken tool, and never improved, so use Bing, Google, or Yahoo, with a redirection added:

site:social.bioware.com

If you do not have a proper games-capable AMD or nVIDA card, which excludes any onboard chips from anywhere, you are wasting your time complaining.  Intel chips, particularly, continue to rank as cheap junk.