I just tried the so-called movie and single core fix in an attempt to bypass the loading screen issue. It essentially means replacing a number of .bik movie files in your movies folder. Now the load screen is replaced by a green screen, but I do get the following intro movie (which is better than getting stuck at the load screen!) Sadly though, the intro movie plays, but with incredible stutter (only video, sound plays fine). I'm now typing as this movie plays slowwwwwly. Waiting to get to the gameplay to see how that goes......Intro movie when Normandy flies by (which is in-game) is now smooth, but no voices from the characters, just music and sfx. And now back to stutter. And back again to smooth playback, then stutter. Finally got to the gameplay. Stuttering badly again. Went to the options menu and it it is stuttering too. By stutter I mean that for two seconds everything is silky smooth, then the next two are a complete freeze. Repeat ad inifinitum.
This is a serious issue that makes the game unplayable. I have a 360 and went through ME1 on that platform. I was looking forward to playing on the PC and getting better graphics and better controls (I prefer keyboard and mouse to gamepads). Sadly, it looks like my decision will mean no ME2 until a real fix is out.
I hope the devs can get this fixed sooner rather than later.
Edit: I posted my specs earlier, but here they are again:
WinXP
Athlon 3700+
2gb ram
Radeon 3850 with 512mb
Modifié par requinmalin, 27 janvier 2010 - 03:47 .