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[Eurhetemec]

As I lost my ME1 saves in an HDD incident a year or so ago, I was intending to play though ME1 again. I've installed the game, patched it (to 1.02) and installed BDtS. I have the latest video card and chipset drivers.

For the first mission, everything ran perfectly.

However, as soon as I arrived at the Citadel, I've started experiencing extremely regular crashes, approximately every 3-10 minutes apart, and during any part of gameplay - dialogue, just walking around, doing decryption puzzles, etc. The crashes are minor, in that they simply shut down the game (speech which is playing continues playing). They're so regular, though, that's impossible to really get anything done.

What can I do about this? If Bioware would release the motion comic for PC, I'd skip playing ME1 entirely, frankly, but until then, I need to do it to get set up for playing ME2 & 3.

My machine's stats are:

Windows Vista 64-bit SP3
AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+ (2.8ghz)
4gb memory
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 w/1gb ram

I've tried running in windowed mode, which didn't help. I play a fair number of other games that push this PC fairly hard, like Metro 2033 and BF:BC2, and none of those have any crash issues whatsoever.

Can anyone help?

EDIT - Just to be clear, this is not the Steam version.

Modifié par Eurhetemec, 11 juin 2011 - 03:26 .

[Bogsnot1]

Could be a few things. First to try would be set your CPU affinity to single core and see how that affects the game play.
http://www.addictive...ion-in-windows/
It could also be your video card drivers, as the newer drivers often have tweaks designed to work on new games, but can leave old games like ME unstable and glitchy. Drivers release the middle of last year tend to be the most stable when it comes to ME1 and ME2.
http://www.nvidia.co...hql-driver.html
It could also be your sound card, as the game doesnt properly support Realtek HD audio, or a lot of other high channel audio devices. Try following the tweak guide thats stickied at the top of the forum for audio fixes.

[Eurhetemec]

Thanks. As the only crash which really had details mentioned D3D, I'll start with trying to downgrade the drivers, and see if that helps, after that I'll try the sound tweaks (I don't have a soundcard, just onboard audio, probably Realtek), then the CPU tweak, and will report back. The crashes are regular so it should be quickly obvious.

[Eurhetemec]

Posting to update in case it helps anyone in future.

The graphics drivers and sound tweaks had zero effect, still got crashes every few minutes. However, changing the processor affinity as suggested worked perfectly. It absolutely slaughtered the framerate (as ME1 was using 60-90% of both processors together most of the time, and this effectively capped it at a single processor, i.e. 50% utilization), and I had to drop from 1920x1080 to 1280x720 to compensate, BUT it works!

I mean, not 100%, I've had two crashes in the last two days, but that's in an awful lot of hours of playing. It's worth noting for others that you have to do the processor affinity thing every time you turn the game on, but hey, at least it works!

Thanks again, Bogsnot, I'm most of the way through the game now!