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[Kira3]

Hello Everyone, I own Mass Effect 1 PC budget range edition (one without securom) on a disk and am having a few issues.  First I will tell you my system specifications.

Processor: Pentium 4 single core 3GHZ with 2GB RAM
display adapter: Nvidia Geforce 6600 with 256MB VRAM and 285.58 is the driver version.
sound card: Realtek AC97, driver version is 5.1
operating system: Windows XP Service Pack 3
directx 9.0c

here is the problem, I am forced to use the ENBseries fix to bypass an annoying freezing glitch in the game however now the sound stutters so much it is hard to understand what is being said.  Originally, I would have an issue where at random times the game would freeze for a while and then resume but the dialogue (if playing) would cut off.  It always starts when going through the relay at the start (when they are travelling to eden) and the ENB fix is the only one I know of.  If anyone knows how to fix the sound stuttering or fix my other issue without ENB (I think that is what is causing the isue) then I would greatly appreciate it.  thank you in advance.

EDIT: for proof that such a version does exist go to http://en.wikipedia....ROM#Mass_Effect and read the section on mass effect.  thought I would share to prevent suspiscion of piracy.

Modifié par Kira3, 09 décembre 2011 - 01:47 .

[Bogsnot1]

http://social.biowar...1/index/7389137

[Kira3]

Bogsnot1 wrote...

http://social.biowar...1/index/7389137

Unfortunately, the fix suggested for sound issues in that thread does not help me with the problem.  I appreciate the suggestion, if you have any other ideas please let me know.

[Moondoggie]

You may want to try using much older drivers for your card. Many of the old Nvidia cards have been crippled with the latest drivers. You might be able to get the game to play properly if you remove those drivers and install some from a long while back.

I also believe your GPU is below the system requirements for the game so even with what i suggest the game may not even function correctly at all.

Modifié par Moondoggie, 09 décembre 2011 - 02:09 .

[Kira3]

Are you sure? both ME2 and several newer games work fine for me including Skyrim believe it or ont. Anyway, I do not believe that the drivers are the issue as the only problem they cause is a strange pattern on human characters. Here is a list of problems before and after applying the ENB patch. Perhaps this will help.

before patch
1. human faces etc glitchy, attributed to drivers
2. during cutscenes involving mass relays, the game shows the first frame and the rest is a background underlay shown behind the first picture
3. every so often the game pauses for several seconds and any dialogue in progress will cut out when the game resumes

after patch
1. same as above
2. same as above
3. the problem has changed from freesing to mild stuttering, primarily during cutscenes or when the main character speaks although it does occur ALL THE TIME during combat.

Perhapse this will help work out a solution

[Gorath Alpha]

Best I can add is that an upgrade is way, WAY overdue. The P4 Pentium and Vanilla 6600 werts pretty bad when brand new seven years ago, neither has gotten a bit better, the card needs the 197.xx drivers or older, it's so old. You just cannot expect to keep on using a $55 graphics card eternally. You got your moneys worth after the first two years, and it was already time to move on then.  The CPU was already two years beyond obsolete seven years ago, and it trash now, sorry, but that's the best description of the thing.

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 09 décembre 2011 - 11:36 .

[Kira3]

thank you for your advice, I will try and convince my grandfather to let me get an upgrade for my computer. What do you recommend? I would prefer A CPU and graphics card that work with XP so I do not need to upgrade my OS, oh well at least ME2 works fine.

[mcsupersport]

You really need to upgrade both, and most of the newer hardware is all set to use Win7, so your two options are to pour a bunch of money into your current box and reinstall XP and hope it installs or upgrade all the way and get Win7 as well.

I had the original WinXP program without the updates and when I tried using it on my new hardware it would lock up and crash rather than installing. I ended up having to upgrade my OP system as well as the hardware. I still like somethings better on XP but Win7 is pretty good, if a bit of a memory hog. If you are planning on gaming much then get a good system to be set for a time rather than trying to piece together yours. By that I mean do the full upgrade, Mainboard, powersupply, memory, CPU and graphics card.

[Gorath Alpha]

The only real problem with WinXP is graphics drivers, and when Microsoft tells everyone that they are dropping support, then companies such as AMD and nVIDIA stop including the OS in their own support. 

But a guy running on donations and site advertising only is covering that situation with professional quality modified drivers.  I use his drivers for Windows2000 all of the time.  I'll have to refresh my memory, though (paused here). 

Omega Drivers is his web site's name, perhaps all run together as Omegadrivers.  

Yup:   www.omegadrivers.net

P. S. I run ad-blocking against flash ads, and his site now counters my personal protection with a splash page that complains about it. 

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 10 décembre 2011 - 05:29 .

[Kira3]

@gorath alpha thank you for the link. Will look for drivers for my graphics card and see if it helps. It is odd that it is a graphics issue because it is the audio that malfunctions. Will report back with results

[Gorath Alpha]

What you've got is a PC with one broken leg (the Intel Pentium P4), and one sprained ankle (the Geforce 6600), so it limps badly. There are other things wrong, but you are just noticing the sound aspects the most. If it was possible to use the very same motherboard for both a newer processor, and / or a new graphics card, and could directly compare changing each one (and the cost of doing so was similar), you would get the most improvement from a CPU upgrade compared to changing the graphics card. 

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 10 décembre 2011 - 11:18 .

[Kira3]

@gorath alpha I understand that you think the problem is my graphics card and CPU however I personally believe it is a sound card issue, if you read my first post I mention that I have a realtek card and that can cause problems as shown by several posts in the forum including fountaincap's post, the only thing we have in common is that we both have REALTEK onboard audio, even though his problem is different to mine it does share a slight similarity in that dialogue cuts out after a pause except that his pauses only last half a second but mine last longer, these pauses are fixed by disabling audio all together but I do not want to resort to that

[Gorath Alpha]

Realtek's small chip really doesn't do very much. It has no onboard decoding processor, and it is the slow CPU being unable to decode fast enough that causes the your audio problems, almost certainly. A discrete audio adapter with onboard decoding is in the $100 to $120 range, and that is about all th eold PC itself might be worth (you can buy far better desktop PCs for $150, complete, at thrift shops in most stateside Metropolitan areas, still usable, only 2-3 years old, but very "low status" compared to the latest "in-thing" Tablets and Laptops, which are comparatively less powerful, but far more "chic".

[Kira3]

I should be upgrading in the next few days. How well do you think an intel core I72600 (3.4GHZ) processor, an nvidia geforce GT545 3GB graphics card and 16GB DDR3 memory combined with windows 7 could handle this game? also the sound card is an IDT 92HD89E (hope it causes no problems).