Okay, in the past I, and many, many other people have had problems with Mass Effect 1 running on the PC. This was of course back when the Black screen of death would surface, the game music could still be heard but the game itself would stop playing.
I would later learn this was a driver issue so I downgraded to 174.74 and then 175.19. After that, the game ran perfectly without any problems for many hours. And I no doubt, finished two play throughs and then I purchased Mass Effect 2 so I could import those saves.
ME 2 ran perfectly after I updated it with the Single Core patch, if not better then the first game. I've played through it numerous times already with very few problems.
Now... I've decided to go back to ME 1 to start a new Shepard, but since ME 2 required newer drivers I had to revert back to older drivers for ME 1 because the colors started to distort while in game with the more recent drivers. So I went back to 175.19, with newly installed patches, and the game itself runs perfectly. BUT... after just a few minutes of game play the screen goes to black and my ENTIRE system restarts.
Could it be because I've made other updates? (I did upgrade to XP service pack 3) I updated so I could meet the terms needed to run ME 2. Do I have to go back to the stone age just to run one little game without incident?
You'd think a bigger game like ME 2 wouldn't run as well in comparison to it's predecessor but apparently that's not the case in this instance.
Does anyone have any clues or ideas on this matter? Has anyone else suffered the same problems?
PC keeps resetting after few minutes of playtime.
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Mrwest16
, déc. 01 2010 12:23
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Posté 01 décembre 2010 - 01:00
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Posté 01 décembre 2010 - 01:07
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I have suffered such things when it overheats. Since mine is a laptop, a great chance the drivers could have "unlocked" "advanced modes" that require more heat to be generated.
Not enough detail of system specs to go at this point. Seriously, how the hell are people still not putting this first thing in the post.
Not enough detail of system specs to go at this point. Seriously, how the hell are people still not putting this first thing in the post.
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Posté 01 décembre 2010 - 01:29
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Maybe because it ran perfectly fine before? (Matter of fact, it still does just with the added bonus of resets.)
But any who, here are my specs:
Windows XP Pro. (Service Pack 3)
AMD Athlon™ 64 Processor
3800+
2.41 GHz, 1.00 GB of RAM
Physical Address Extension
DirectX version: 9.0c (Duh, everyone has this one.)
GEforce 8600 GT
Total available graphics memory: 256 MB
Dedicated video memory: 256 MB
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 0 MB
Video BIOS version: 60.84.6f.00.00
IRQ: 16
Bus: PCI Express x16
Single Core Processor As well
Currently, as mentioned above, on the 175.19 Nvidia Driver. (Since that's the one I used when I ran the game in the past.)
If I use a more recent driver the color starts to distort to the point you can't see a damn thing, so I went back to 175.19.
Also as mentioned above, it runs fine but the reset occurs out of nowhere after a few minutes of game play.
But any who, here are my specs:
Windows XP Pro. (Service Pack 3)
AMD Athlon™ 64 Processor
3800+
2.41 GHz, 1.00 GB of RAM
Physical Address Extension
DirectX version: 9.0c (Duh, everyone has this one.)
GEforce 8600 GT
Total available graphics memory: 256 MB
Dedicated video memory: 256 MB
System video memory: 0 MB
Shared system memory: 0 MB
Video BIOS version: 60.84.6f.00.00
IRQ: 16
Bus: PCI Express x16
Single Core Processor As well
Currently, as mentioned above, on the 175.19 Nvidia Driver. (Since that's the one I used when I ran the game in the past.)
If I use a more recent driver the color starts to distort to the point you can't see a damn thing, so I went back to 175.19.
Also as mentioned above, it runs fine but the reset occurs out of nowhere after a few minutes of game play.
Modifié par Mrwest16, 01 décembre 2010 - 01:52 .
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Posté 20 décembre 2010 - 12:58
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I am having this same problem with ME1. I recently got a new card when my second 8800 GTS (last of 2 I had installed for SLI) went bad on me.
My system only locks up and reboots while in the Equipment or Squad screens. No issue any other time.
680i motherboard
3.33ghz core2duo 1333fsb
8gb ram
Geforce GTX 460 768mb (my new card)
2 HDD (1 w/XP Home Ed 32-bit and 1 w/Vista Ultimate 64-bit)
Creative Xtreme Gamer X-Fi audio card
710-watt PSU
I'm playing Mass Effect 1 on the XP drive if it matters.
Using 260.99 for the new card and older drivers for that card do not seem to make a difference.
Not having an issue like this with any other game. Empire: Total War, Borderlands, and Sacred 2 have all been played recently without this problem. Infact, I played Sacred 2 several hours this morning without running into this.
My system only locks up and reboots while in the Equipment or Squad screens. No issue any other time.
680i motherboard
3.33ghz core2duo 1333fsb
8gb ram
Geforce GTX 460 768mb (my new card)
2 HDD (1 w/XP Home Ed 32-bit and 1 w/Vista Ultimate 64-bit)
Creative Xtreme Gamer X-Fi audio card
710-watt PSU
I'm playing Mass Effect 1 on the XP drive if it matters.
Using 260.99 for the new card and older drivers for that card do not seem to make a difference.
Not having an issue like this with any other game. Empire: Total War, Borderlands, and Sacred 2 have all been played recently without this problem. Infact, I played Sacred 2 several hours this morning without running into this.
Modifié par james1976, 20 décembre 2010 - 12:59 .
