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[Soilborn88]

I just got back into Mass Effect 2 and bought all the DLC, I figured I'd clear out 2 games on Insanity since I haven't yet gearing up for Mass Effect 3 but I've got a few problems.

First thing I'd like to say is that I never experienced problems with Mass Effect 2 since I've had it, and the last time Iplayed the game was around April-May of last year and didn't experience any sort of crasing.

Basically my problem is that the game crashes to a black screen during gameplay and I have to manually shut my computer down because it's completely unresponsive. It usually happens during cinematic scenes though - but now I'm experiencing it more and more during actual gameplay.

I've scanned my computer for viruses and adware and my computer turned up clean. I'm not having any abnormal problems with my PC out side of Mass Effect. My hardware hasn't changed since last time I played it, and yes I've got all the latest patches for the game.

I thought it may have been my computer overheating, but that wasn't the case. I just cleaned out my computer it did have a little dust built up in it, mostly around my water cooling radiator and on my video cards but now they are clean.


Anyway here are my system specs with the latest updates. My Mass Effect 2 version is the Digital Deluxe version from D2D.

Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate
AMD Phenom 930 X4 2.8ghz
4GB DDR3 RAM
Dual ATI Radeon HD 5770 - Crossfire
Asus Xonar D1 Soundcard
DX11 Latest version

Any help and advice would be much appreciated.

[Bogsnot1]

Install DirectX9.0c from MS website.

Roll your video drivers back a revision or two. "Latest" drivers, whatever version you are running, tend to screw things up more than fix.

[Soilborn88]

Bogsnot1 wrote...

Install DirectX9.0c from MS website.
Roll your video drivers back a revision or two. "Latest" drivers, whatever version you are running, tend to screw things up more than fix.

Not sure how much I would need to go back seeing that I just updated a 3 month old driver to the most recent.

[Bogsnot1]

Golden rule of video drivers. If it works, dont update.

[Soilborn88]

Bogsnot1 wrote...

Golden rule of video drivers. If it works, dont update.

Yes, but the new updates provide performance increases for many of the newer games. I'll try it though and see what happens with the 10.5 driver which was out around May.

If my problem still continues I will try disabling Crossfire, will actually try that before I downgrade just to see if it will make a difference but I doubt it would.

[Soilborn88]

Alright well I downgraded my driver to the 10.5 driver which was released around May of last year - it's working fine now.



But I am starting to regret going with ATI I figured by now they would have most of their issues resolved with the Catalyst driver, but apparently they don't. But I'd hate to spend more money for Nvidia cards that perform less or perform the same as the cheaper ATI cards...

[Gorath Alpha]

Over the last 3-4 years, graphics architectures have grown increasingly complex, which makes things very tough for the software engineers tasked with matching up new drivers to the new features, and nVIDIA is the one that is choosing the MOST complicated and complex designs, which are half again bigger, sucking twice as much current, generating a great deal more heat, and making a lot more noise. 

If anything, their drivers are causing more problems for Geforce users than AMD's drivers are causing among Radeon users.  nVIDIA has been looking down a tunnel into the future that had seemed to be getting narrower for them as time passed, while Intel and AMD have begun to move graphics functions into the central processor design, when nVIDIA had nothing in the way of an X86 processor they could merge their graphics with.  They now have begun working with an ARM processor design of their own (under license), and Microsoft is promising to support ARM as well as Intel with Windows software. 

It's my opinion that nVIDIA hasn't had its full interest focussed on their consumer graphics products for at least two years now (due to the potential competition at the "APU" level, where APU means integrated CPU + GPU). 

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 17 janvier 2011 - 01:33 .

[DDarkJared]

That could be my reason for my Mass Effect game not working and just andomly crashing , but mostly at the same spot.

[Moondoggie]

DDarkJared wrote...

That could be my reason for my Mass Effect game not working and just andomly crashing , but mostly at the same spot.

Just a note that crashes in the same spot usually mean a missing or corrupt file. It's either the save file or the games files. Try going back to an earlier save and seeing if the crash still happens in the same spot and if it does uninstall and reinstall the game it should fix it if it's a game file issue.

[DDarkJared]

ok thankyou but im also gonna try the downgrade first if Bogs thinks its needed for my version of driver if you wanna see if you can help me then heres the link to that forum piece
http://social.biowar...90513/1#7705613