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[Vaego]

I'm playing the steam verison of Mass Effect and it worked wonderfully for the first few days, long enough for me to complete it once, and get hooked. Now, it takes upwards of five minutes to start up, and is very choppy and unplayable. All my other games run fine, steam and non-steam games.
I've tried running it through the masseffect.exe in the /mass effect/binaries folder but that didnt help. I re-installed, and verified the integrity of the game cache. I made sure nothing irregular was running in the background. I completely shut down my anti-virus program. I dont know what else to try

My system specs:
Windows 7 Home Premiun 64-bit
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T9600
2x GeForce GTX 260M with SLI setup

Any ideas?

Modifié par Vaego, 03 août 2010 - 05:21 .

[Recnamoken]

Try playing it with disabled Steam Overlay.

[Vaego]

Tried that, no luck. =/ Thanks though.



Also tried updating my video cards drivers and tried running in windowed mode, neither of which did anything noticeable. If it makes a difference I suppose I should point out that when the game was working I had the graphics settings turned up all the way, without affecting the performance.

[Vaego]

Just fixed my problem, at least for now. I patched the game up to 1.02, and the problem seems to have gone away, I would have thought steam carried the latest patched version, but I guess not. The main menu still seems to catch fairly often, and I think I'm getting a slightly lower FPS, but I'm not going to complain too much so long as I get to play.

[Vaego]

I hate to do this, but my problem came back this morning. It played fine for about an hour last night, but then when I started it up this morning it went straight back to being choppy. I know it doesn't have anything to do with temperature because I tried mass effect right after my laptop finished starting up, after it had all night to cool off.

Can anyone else think of something I should try?

[Gorath Alpha]

I cannot offer any suggestion to improve load times; laptops just have way too many compromises all around to be good at game playing.  However, as has been so common for the past three years, the most recent drivers may be fine for whatever is newest (fermi cards now), but equally as likely have brought new problems to the older generation cards, such as yours is now. 

Start rolling backward on drivers to find an older one that still works the way it is supposed to work. 

[Vaego]

I've tried 4 other drivers now, the one I was using before I updated it, the one it came with, a few in the middle, and none of them have made any improvement, one of them was actually worse.

I didn't really have my hopes up though, because it worked fine and then stopped working all on the same driver, and then after I updated to the most recent one trying to fix it on my own, didn't work at first, then it worked for about an hour after I patched the game, then it stopped working again.

So I didn't think it was a driver issue. But I don't really know what I'm talking about so if there is some reason that the drivers could cause issues like that and I should keep trying even more drivers, I will.

Also, I'm getting my drivers off of nvidia's archived drivers section. Is that where I should be getting them? Should I use the beta release ones or just the WHQL Certified ones? And what happens when I find a driver that works, but then I buy a new game that only runs with features from the more recent drivers?

Also, any other ideas what might be causing my problems?

Thanks

Modifié par Vaego, 03 août 2010 - 05:05 .

[Raith_Karris]

That's odd. Sounds like it could be a memory leak, but if that were the case, other people most likely would be affected by the same issue.



Have you tried the 165 driver release (or nearest available)? That version should work. Another thing you could try, is disabling SLI. I've never had any SLI problems with Mass Effect, but I heard some people had issues. I don't know exactly how it behaves with more recent SLI setups, I'm running on a dated one (laptop SLI, too).



Since I don't know the exact cause of the problem, I'd try to shoot it with anything and everything available. Since you already verified the integrity of the game files, try deleting the texture cache. Also, make sure the ME executable has appropriate administrator privileges. Might be worth a shot to run it in WinXP compatibility mode.



If it does turn out to be a memory issue (unlikely), increase the size of the page file, set the minimum size to 3 GB.



I also heard some of the more recent graphics cards sometimes try to force certain AA settings into games that don't support them (or something like that), causing problems. Try messing with the Anti-aliasing settings within the NVidia Control Panel (you may have to force the settings by disabling "application-controlled").



Try all those, see if that works and let us know.

[Vaego]

I was pretty hopeful about this, but no such luck.



I couldn't find the 165 driver, on nvidia's site or elsewhere, the earliest driver i could find for the GTX 260m is 185, so i grabbed that one, the earliest beta and the WHQL certified one right after that, and they both just said they couldn't find any hardware to go with the driver.



In the "Set SLI and PhysX configuration" tab of the nvidia control panel it won't let me disable SLI, but in the "Manage 3D settings" tab I changed the "SLI rendering mode" for Mass Effect to Single GPU, and that didn't help any. In that same place all the anti-aliasing settings are either set to off or application controlled already, so no problems there.



I suppose I should point out that it doesn't recognize Mass Effect as being installed. I had to deselect the "Show only programs found on this computer" option. But it only recognized a few of my games, Mass Effect wasn't the only one left off the list.



I deleted the texture cache through the masseffectconfig.exe, didn't help

I ran the game with administrator privileges and in XP sp2 compatibility mode, neither of which helped any.

My page file minimum size was already set to 3838MB, so I upped it to 6000 to see what would happen, and it didn't help.



So it seems like the driver still seems to be the mostly likely problem. If anyone could point me toward where I could get this 165 driver that would be great. I'm already really thankful for all the help you guys =)

[Vaego]

Still looking for help.

Thanks.

[thedoctor48]

I am running an sli with 2 geforce 560 ti's I can get the game to setup and just downloaded patch 1.02 anybody have anyideas why I can get the game to start?

thanks

[Gorath Alpha]

SLI was too new when UT3 (and ME-1) were being designed (converted from Xbox) to include that feature. This thread is too old to dig up and add comments to. Please consider six months as the OUTSIDE limit.

[thedoctor48]

the only other thing I can suggest and this is kind of up to you-download it directly from Orgins. If you still have your order number there is an off chance that Orgins maybe able to get you access with out paying for it again.