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[Silberraben]

Hi all,

I have looked for a solution to this issue on this forum but have not been able to find anything. Possibly because it tis still quite young. My problem is as follows. On starting up Mass Effect I go through the usual Bioware logo stuff and come to a short movie of an Earth like planet. At this point everything slows to a crawl. The menu once it comes up is glacial in loading and almost unresponsive.

The problem is that I have previously played through Mass Effect on this exact PC with this exact setup.
The only thing that has changed since i played is that I have update drivers and only have 30GB free on my install drive. Otherwise everything is the same.

I updated my drivers just in case but this did not help.
Other games like Fallout 3 and Dragon Age Origins work find.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Cheers,
S. 

[PSUHammer]

download a free utility called "ccleaner" and run the disk cleanup and registry cleaner. Then defrag your hard drive.

[Silberraben]

Thanks for the tip. Am going to try that.

Also found a log file and this is what it said.



[0.057] Log: Log file open, 01/23/10 20:38:17

[0.057] Init: BioWare Final Build Version: 1.2.20608.0

[0.057] Init: Command line:

[0.057] Init: Base directory: D:\\Program Files\\Mass Effect\\Binaries\\

[0.433] Init: CPU Page size=4096, Processors=2

[0.433] Init: High frequency timer resolution =3.579545 MHz

[0.434] Init: Memory total: Phys=2097151K Pagef=4194303K Virt=2097024K

[32.776] Log: Shader compiling for material Nodebuddy_GOOD took 22.95s

[42.675] Log: Failed to load 'Material None.': Failed to find object 'Material None.'

[42.676] Log: Failed to load 'Material None.': Failed to find object 'Material None.'

[42.676] Log: Failed to load 'Material None.': Failed to find object 'Material None.'

[42.676] Log: Failed to load 'Material None.': Failed to find object 'Material None.'

[42.676] Log: Failed to load 'Material None.': Failed to find object 'Material None.'

[42.715] Log: Failed to load 'Material None.': Failed to find object 'Material None.'

[92.678] Log: Unsupported Audio Device: Realtek AC97 Audio

[92.678] Init: Audio Driver: Realtek AC97 Audio (ALCXWDM.SYS)

[92.757] Init: Audio Device: Generic Software

[93.081] Init: 64 Free Sources, 2 Reserved

[101.528] Log: >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Initial startup: 101.53s <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

[102.928] Log: Bio2DA.cpp::CheckedGetIntEntry(): Failed to read row(1902, isNum=0), column(4) in Bio2DA(Talent_TalentEffectLevels)

[102.928] Log: Bio2DA.cpp::CheckedGetFloatEntry(): Failed to read row(1918, isNum=0), column(4) in Bio2DA(Talent_TalentEffectLevels)

[337.666] Log: Failed to load 'BIOG_2DA_Vegas_Music_X': Can't find file 'BIOG_2DA_Vegas_Music_X'

[PSUHammer]

Sounds like a driver issue with your sound chip...you may want to check and see what sound processor you are running with (looks like "Realtek AC97 Audio") and get the latest driver for it...

[Silberraben]

Have tried cleaning out the registry and updating my sound drivers but that didn't seem to work either. I ran a benchmark type thing which said my CPU was too slow. Why I could play it before and not now doesn't make much sense but I will try a slight overclock to see if that makes any difference.



Thanks for all the help. Unfortunately it didn't solve the current problem

[Silberraben]

Just in case anyone else has the same problem as me I have found a solution. Disabling all background processes to do with media players. Once these were shutdown ME started working as intended.



Cheers

S.