Hi,
I am trying to run ME2, steam version, on my iMAC under windows 7. The imac is usign a Radeon 6700M and when I try and launch ME2 it complains there is no physicX, which isnt an ATI thing so its not something I can just install.
When I try and run this:
steamapps\\common\\bioware\\mass effect 2\\redist folder\\physicX it starts then exits with error "Y: drive unavailable"
which is a share drive I have for downloads. Disconnecting the share still gives the error.
Anyway around this?
ME2 steam version and radeon (physx)
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solomani
, avril 29 2012 12:23
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Posté 30 avril 2012 - 05:50
PsiFive
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Damn, that's bad timing. You can install it, or something that installs a version of it for ATI cards (can't recall which) but I was just having a tidy up of my Windows drive yesterday and I deleted the installer and cleared a bunch of bookmarks including where I got it from. I'll look into it and see if I can't recover one or the other but rest assured that there is a solution for this, and if you start googling you may even find it yourself first.
Edited to add: just done a quick search myself and found this, which says it's just a matter of downloading and installing software from nvidia which will run PhysX on the CPU instead of the card (there's a link provided there, though there's a later version here). Funny, I seem to remember it being more involved than that when I did it but probably I'm just misremembering things. I can remember wishing I'd kept a PC for gaming when I switched to Macs all those years ago but I certainly had it all working soon enough. One thing though - you probably do this anyway but since PhysX is using the CPU I'd boot camp into Windows rather than use a VM like Parallels. I find the performance reduction using Parallels enough as it is, though that might be more because my Mac is getting a bit long in the tooth now.
Edited to add: just done a quick search myself and found this, which says it's just a matter of downloading and installing software from nvidia which will run PhysX on the CPU instead of the card (there's a link provided there, though there's a later version here). Funny, I seem to remember it being more involved than that when I did it but probably I'm just misremembering things. I can remember wishing I'd kept a PC for gaming when I switched to Macs all those years ago but I certainly had it all working soon enough. One thing though - you probably do this anyway but since PhysX is using the CPU I'd boot camp into Windows rather than use a VM like Parallels. I find the performance reduction using Parallels enough as it is, though that might be more because my Mac is getting a bit long in the tooth now.
Modifié par PsiFive, 30 avril 2012 - 06:19 .
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Posté 30 avril 2012 - 11:52
solomani
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Brillant! Problem solved. Thank you very much. +1 to PsiFive 
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Posté 30 avril 2012 - 12:06
PsiFive
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That's working then? Goodoh, glad to have helped.
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Posté 30 avril 2012 - 04:49
solomani
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Yep, all good for both me2 and 3 now. Thanks.
