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[Hounds101]

Hi,

I bought Mass Effect a couple of days ago and I love it.  However, it crashes about once every hour.  I restart my computer and then it runs fine for another hour when I again have to restart my computer.

I have downloaded all new drivers and even tried a bunch of old ones too for both audio and video.  The only difference is that with a new video driver, I get the BSOD, but with the old drivers, it just locks up.

After considerable research, I want to try and adjust my cachesizemegs.  Apparently, I have to locate an .ini file?  I've messed around with a bunch of the Mass Effect system files without actually editing any of them. I can't locate this .ini file.  I just open different ones and do a search for "cachesizemegs."  Can someome give me explicit instructions how to edit the .ini file?

System Specs:
Intel® Core™ i5 CPU         750  @ 2.67GHz
ATI Radeon HD 4300/4500 Series
Physical Memory:  2.99bg
VRAM:  1gb
Video Driver:  CATALYST 11.3
Audio:  RealTek (I set it to hardware to avoid driver problems)
Microsoft Windows XP Professional

I've tinkered with this game for hours and hours trying to stabilize it.  I can finish it just by restarting every hour, but what a friggin' pain, eh?  Any help would be much appreciated!

[Hounds101]

well, i just finished the game. it was shorter than i expected. i also found a place to change the cache size. it was in the bioengine.ini. i changed the field labelled "maxoverallcachesize" from 30 to 150. i still had some problems after an hour, so i changed it to 60. i'm not sure if it helps or not actually, but it certainly didn't hurt anything.

oh, and i just bought mass effect 2 also. my ati radeon 4350 is apparently below system specs. i knew i should've fixed this computer up to play games, but i thought i was only going to be doing work stuff on it. ah well.... maybe it will still be playable.

[Moondoggie]

I'll be very suprised if you get ME2 running on that. There are tons of cheap way better Radeons out there for you to buy for gaming. A Tiny investment can get you a lot with Radeon cards.