Video Card = 256 MB (with Pixel Shader 3.0 support). Supported GPU Chips: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 or greater; ATI Radeon X1600 Pro or greater. Please note that NVIDIA GeForce G.210, 310, 7100, 7200, 7300, 7400, 7500, 8100, 8200, 8300, 8400, 9100, 9200, and 9300; ATI Radeon X1300, X1550, HD 2400, 3100, 3200, HD 3450, HD 3470, HD 4200, HD 4250, HD 4350, and (probably) HD 5450 are below minimum system requirements. Updates to your video and sound card drivers may be required.
Intel and S3 video devices are not officially supported in Mass Effect 2.
I feel somewhat doubtful that the author has the "problem" complained about in his OP here. my suspicion is, it's much more likely to be related to trying to ignore the minimum video CARD requirement. Intel tried just once to sell a real graphics card and failed, miserably. All they make now are variations on a Chipset video chip. The i3 / i5 / i7 Core multi-core CPUs had a piggy-backed chip, the same one usually included in an Intel Chipset, inside the package with the processor cores.
When they get their problems with SATA defects corrected in the new chipset for Sandy Bridge, it is still the same basic level of business graphics, not Mainline Gaming quality at all, that is now supposed to be a fully integrated into the design. However, all that means is that after trailing behind the IGPs from AMD for 3-5 years, Intel finally caught up with Radeon 4200 / 4250 onboard Chipset video chips (the nVIDIA IGPs having been slower, the current piggybacked chip had already caught up to those).
P. S. I did not intend to leave the impression that either AMD or nVIDIA are at all likely to stand still long enough for Intel's Sandy Bridge video to have anything meaningful to do. The newest Radeon advance is an APU, combined from the 5n00 generation Mobile card designs and the latest CPU designs, integrated together. It is named Fusion, like the Ford automobile model, and is late getting to market because the two chip fabricators AMD contracts with are both delayed getting new fabs on line for new dies thinner than 40 nm thick, and the Radeon 6n00 generation was designed with 32 nm as its target, as were the Fusion APUs.
Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 17 février 2011 - 05:04 .