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[Skyhawk_X]

 I recently bought a copy of Mass Effect 1 off of Steam, after getting a new laptop for my birthday that could run it. Despite possessing an Intel graphics card of some sort, I managed to get the game to run very well. Unfortunately, there's one problem... Every time I hit escape to pause the game, it freezes in an odd way. My mouse becomes visible, the music can still be heard, but I can't move, and I can't alt+tab out of the game. I have to bring up Control Panel and end the game manually. However, when it does, I get something about an exception error. I would copy paste this error, but I can't because the game won't allow me to even click the "Cancel" button on the bottom of the error. I'll get a screen shot of it put up tomorrow, I'm going to sleep soon.

Anyone have any idea what might be causing this?

[Gorath Alpha]

ME-1 cannot run correctly on any Intel trash. It is not supposed to do so; you can read the game's readme now, but you already could have referred to the warning label:

Minimum System Requirements for Mass Effect on the PC
(Corrected from dumb, Pie in the Sky lies to the real thing)

Operating System:
Windows XP or Vista

Processor:
2.4+GHZ Intel or 2.0+GHZ AMD

Memory:
1 Gigabyte Ram (XP)
2 Gigabyte Ram (Vista)

Video Card:
NVIDIA GeForce 6 series (6800GT or better: 210, 310, 520, 7100, 7200, 7300, 7400, 7500, 7600 GS, 8200, 8300, 8400 GS, 8500, 9100, 9200, & 9300 are below minimum system requirements)
ATI Radeon X1650 XT or better (X1050, X1300, X1300 Pro, *X1550*, HD 2400, HD 3100, HD 3200, HD 3450, HD 3470, HD 4200, HD 4250, HD 4270, HD 4350, HD 4550, and (probably) HD 5450 are below minimum system requirements) no video device with Intel's name on it is supported in any way, shape, or form.

Hard Drive Space:
12 Gigabytes

Sound Card:
DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card and drivers
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[SojournerN7]

Have you installed the 1.01a and 1.02 patches?

[Skyhawk_X]

I did download the patch. I guess it's just the Intel card. Oh, well. I got it to at least run. I just experienced the random error. I thought that because I had gotten it to run, unlike many others, I'd be able to actually play the game.

[SojournerN7]

The other problem with ME1 was that it's a really bad port to the PC, and was really buggy especially with random general protection fault and CTD errors. Any way you can play your way through without bringing up the menu?

Just because something is unsupported doesn't mean it's unplayable. I've managed to get around a few hurdles for the Mass Effect Games on my old PC.

[Skyhawk_X]

I can play the game just fine without pausing. I can access every menu, just not the general pause menu. Although, now that I've gotten to the Citadel Embassies (in the very beginning) I'm suffering through random general protection fault errors.

[-Sidone-]

Its ridiculous to say intel chips are the problem, the game is 4 years old and system specs aren't a big deal anymore.... I still get that crash. Bad PC ports are sadly getting more and more common now that gamming systems are so ubiquitous.

[Just-Me]

Intel doesn't follow the same standard that AMD and nVIDIA adhere to, and that game publishers follow. They use cheap shortcuts that I refer to as "Smoke and Mirrors" to convince many games that an actual video card is in use. ME-1 is too old for it to work with the UT3 engine version used. ME-2 uses the same engine, and actually has a higher video requirement, but with some workarounds available on various sites, ME-2 will try to run with various of Intel's tinker toy video devices.

It won't run correctly, and can be expected to have assorted problems, but the worst thing of all is that most Intel chips are in notebooks and laptops with very poor cooling, and thus, frequently do overheat when being forced to operate beyond their designed range. If they don't shut themselves down quickly enough, or reduce the system's clock speed to reduce the overall thermal signature, damage will be incurred, and over time, the system will fail far sooner than if used as designed.

In many cases, this shortened lifespan can be very short, indeed. However, there are some Intel chips in other PCs that never do show evidence of having been damaged.  (Edit here:  I suppose that last needs some clarification.  The cheapest PCs of every kind, will usually have the cheapest video.  Only AMD offers good video at the low end.  Many "All in One" PCs have the same problems that Laptops and Notebooks have, when it comes to cheap video and terrible cooling solutions.   Those will also be damaged by the overheat from game playing.  The cheapest desktops, using Intel video, may survive when a Notebook equipped with the same Intel video fails early in its life.) 

Modifié par Just-Me, 03 octobre 2012 - 01:29 .