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[Sargassss]

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Modifié par Sargassss, 10 février 2010 - 07:28 .

[grassware]

Thanx for that fix, maan...

[AgentPiltdown]

Many thanks for this fix Sargassss, though I think it introduces another quirk. I get alot of what sounds like static and clicking/popping when certain sounds are loading in game, mostly after cutscenes. I already tried setting hardware acceleration for sound down a little, and all my drivers are up to date.

Does anyone know of a way to get rid of these? There were similar problems in ME1 I wasn't able to solve.

Modifié par AgentPiltdown, 10 février 2010 - 09:44 .

[BladeRyo]

JanKowalczyk wrote...
In the readme for the fix it says, that if you are having sound problems you can try adjusting DelayTime in enbseries.ini . Did you try this ? I understand u tried adjusting sound acceleration in dxdiag.exe.

Yes i tried the dxdiag sound acc settings, no help. And about DelayTime, its currently 0, i have no idea what seting to try and how much. My readme.txt says nothing about it

[Qwinn1234]

Ya know, if investigation of this results in finally fixing the occasional stuttering/freezing of certain sounds in ME1, it'll all be worth it in my book. Just played through ME1 again to get a save with the choices I want, and man it is annoying. Other people do get that, right? In certain dialogues, game freezes just as someone's about to deliver their line for like 4 seconds, then you hear only the first second or two of the sound, while the speaking character just stands there for the remainder of the length of time that the full sound *would* have taken if it were working properly. It's completely consistent in the same dialogue choices. Or was that just me?

I know this is sorta O/T, sorry, but just curious about it.

I haven't tried Sargass's fix yet, but if it causes that problem in ME2, I'll just wait for the patch.  Never had any sound problems at all in my first ME2 playthrough, and it was annoying enough in ME1 that I'd rather do -nomoviestartup then deal with it again.

Qwinn

Modifié par Qwinn1234, 10 février 2010 - 10:05 .

[BladeRyo]

@Qwinn1234



I finished the game 3 times so far on a single core, so you can imagine the troubles i got

First pass, with stuttering after movies, and trial and error what loading screens to replace with dummy ones since some missions like IFF and O4R just show black screen and its pretty much exit and reload. No crashes or sound problems anyway.



Pass 2 & 3, with -nostartupmovies flag, goes like a dream, but noticed an stupid issue, after a mission or any trip outside the ship, if i use elevator to go to any ship floor, my game crashes, but only if i visit the Citadel. In pass 2 i racked my brain with it, on pass 3 i visited the citadel last, and i had absolutely no crashes using ship`s elevator before citadel, and after 1 trip to citadel, i have the elevator crash till end of the game, so its always quick save and let it crash.



Pass 4, the Sargass's fix, aside the sound issues, everything works great. But i still didnt visit the Citadel, kinda leaving that for last

In 4 passes, i only had 1 issue of my char getting stuck in the air, tried to take cover on a wall and got stuck about 3 character hights above, since it was on HardCore it took them 0.3 sec to correct that issue



Overall, knowing how games are in these days, its a surprising low amount of bugs. My friend on a E5200 and Ati 2900pro, gets miraculously stuck/floating/whatever at least 1 time per area, amazing

[JanKowalczyk]

BladeRyo wrote...

JanKowalczyk wrote...
In the readme for the fix it says, that if you are having sound problems you can try adjusting DelayTime in enbseries.ini . Did you try this ? I understand u tried adjusting sound acceleration in dxdiag.exe.

Yes i tried the dxdiag sound acc settings, no help. And about DelayTime, its currently 0, i have no idea what seting to try and how much. My readme.txt says nothing about it

I was talking about the readme for the Sargassss fix, it says you should try values between 0 and 100 for DelayTime.

[AgentPiltdown]

Qwinn1234 wrote...

Ya know, if investigation of this results in finally fixing the occasional stuttering/freezing of certain sounds in ME1, it'll all be worth it in my book. Just played through ME1 again to get a save with the choices I want, and man it is annoying. Other people do get that, right? In certain dialogues, game freezes just as someone's about to deliver their line for like 4 seconds, then you hear only the first second or two of the sound, while the speaking character just stands there for the remainder of the length of time that the full sound *would* have taken if it were working properly. It's completely consistent in the same dialogue choices. Or was that just me?

I know this is sorta O/T, sorry, but just curious about it.

I haven't tried Sargass's fix yet, but if it causes that problem in ME2, I'll just wait for the patch.  Never had any sound problems at all in my first ME2 playthrough, and it was annoying enough in ME1 that I'd rather do -nomoviestartup then deal with it again.

Qwinn

Yes I had the exact same problem. It'd be great if that could be fixed. I learnt to live with it throughout my playthough (along with that annoying popping sound) but it did ruin some parts of the game. Thankfully it doesn't seemed to have carried over into ME2, with or without the fix.

Modifié par AgentPiltdown, 10 février 2010 - 10:46 .

[JanKowalczyk]

Qwinn1234 wrote...

Ya know, if investigation of this results in finally fixing the occasional stuttering/freezing of certain sounds in ME1, it'll all be worth it in my book. Just played through ME1 again to get a save with the choices I want, and man it is annoying. Other people do get that, right? In certain dialogues, game freezes just as someone's about to deliver their line for like 4 seconds, then you hear only the first second or two of the sound, while the speaking character just stands there for the remainder of the length of time that the full sound *would* have taken if it were working properly. It's completely consistent in the same dialogue choices. Or was that just me?

I know this is sorta O/T, sorry, but just curious about it.

I haven't tried Sargass's fix yet, but if it causes that problem in ME2, I'll just wait for the patch.  Never had any sound problems at all in my first ME2 playthrough, and it was annoying enough in ME1 that I'd rather do -nomoviestartup then deal with it again.

Qwinn

I know what you are talking about, I had the same problems in ME1, mostly during dialogues. I think the sound issues Sargassss fix introduces for some people are different, much less annoying. You should definately try the Sargassss fix, maybe you won't have any issues, because I know I don't have any.

[Qwinn1234]

Eh, I'm just waiting on patch ETA before diving in again. I've finished my new playthrough of ME1 except for Besieged Base and the endgame... I think the Besieged Base quest is bugged and the fact that you saved them isn't stored properly either for ME1 or ME2. Actually, since the Citadel news about it is bugged even in ME1, I should probably just go ahead, since I'm thinking that's going to require an ME1 patch, and somehow, I don't think that's going to happen.



Qwinn

[Felcorious]

Sargassss



you are cool man or lady! the game works like silk and the stuttering is now gone and there is even dialog in the movie clips i didn't even know about, saving and loading works to. the dialogue in the first normandy blowing up is now working, I had to use subtitles to know what was going on but not anymore i still use the simple loading screens and I now just click on the "press any key" without waiting for the intro. just started a new game and going to see how far that fix goes.

[apanayi]

Hi all, I have been reading this thread with some interest and wanted to chime in with my own experience with Mass Effect 2. First, my system specs are as follows: Pentium 4 3.6 GHz, 2 GB RAM, EVGA GeForce GTS 250 1 GB, Realtek High Definition Audio, Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit with Geforce 196.21, Realtek 2.41 and PhysX 9.09.1112 driver revisions installed.



As you can see from above I am running this game on a single core CPU and have to report that I successfully completed the game last night. Additionally, contrary to all the issues currently described in this and similar threads I have NOT experienced any major issues with the game whatsoever (except for the CTD issues reported on Jarrahe Station and in the Reaper IFF core which are fully reproducable and are attributable to certain graphical effects in use at the time of the crash)



To summarise, I have never had any issues with any ingame cutscenes or experienced any slowdown whatsoever and have never had to use any of the recommended fixes such as replacement of the bik movies or using the -nomoviestartup switch.



Make of it what you will, but I have also never had any issues with Mass Effect 1. I thought it was about time that someone reported that this game DOES work perfectly with a single core CPU as I am getting quite frustrated with developers insisting that their games REQUIRE a multicore CPU to run correctly when it is clearly not what I have experienced and proves to be the complete opposite of such statements.

[Homer82]

AMD 64 3200+, GF 8600GTS, 3GB RAM
Each problems mentioned in this topic I had.

Thanks for Sargasss I've just finished game second time without choosing between no-movie / stucking gameplayes after movie. Only problem which The Fix didn't solve was stucking before IFF. But I let the intro be played once before I pushed a key and I didn't have a problem with any of loadings (I don't have to use 'greenbox' anymore). Citadel works too.

So: Sargass + Intro = OK!

... but not perfect. With this fix I noticed FPS during a long play can be lower and game is less 'smooth' compare to before (especially in the suicidal mission). Strange, but ALT+TAB and return to game could 2/3 times solve this problem. Game crashed two or three times, but I don't have any idea why (without The Fix was crashing too).

Modifié par Homer82, 11 février 2010 - 12:01 .

[JanKowalczyk]

@ apanayi

I think that the single core issues don't apply to fast Pentium 4 CPUs, like you have.

Modifié par JanKowalczyk, 11 février 2010 - 12:04 .

[Pikie 1 dog]

All right guys, i know i haven't posted here in about a week, but i felt like i should post one last post to tell you guys about the nomovie fix. OK, so I just beat the game a few minutes ago and one thing i noticed is that some people are saying the no movie fix doesn't work. What I'm guessing a lot of people are doing is just putting nomovies at the end of the target line, you have to include Binaries in the target line,because I did that and it worked like a charm. BTW I forgot who posted it, but on the sixth page of this forum someone put down how you supposed to put binaries in the target line. Mass Effect 2 is freakin amaaaaaaazing I loved it!!! (I'm about to play through it again in the renegade story line)

[Recnamoken]

Try it with movies, with the help of the Sargass fix. Only a few loading screens still have to be fixed.



I'm on my second playthrough with my Engineer. Game works like a charm now.

[Venjanz]

The game works for me on a single core using the work-arounds, except for two things: Garrus and Thane's loyalty missions on the Citadel. No matter what I try, the game still freezes if I attempt to transit to to the previously locked areas to complete the missions. Has anybody else been able to complete these missions using the work-arounds?

[Recnamoken]

I had no problems using the green loading screen fix. I only encountered problems with the IFF mission on the Normandy. But these should be fixed now with the Sargass fix. May help you with your problem too.

[Felcorious]

I have a question about the iff mission problem. well the prob I have is when sheperd says "I'll meet you on the shuttle". My screen goes black and there is the space craft sound playing, but nothing happens after that so I had to close it. thats the problem everyone is having right? Is there a fix for that? I have the simple load screen and the Sargass fix. everything was goin good up to that point.

forgot to say

I did wait for the intro movie and that didn't work either for the IFF mission.

Modifié par Felcorious, 11 février 2010 - 04:55 .

[T1l]

apanayi wrote...

Hi all, I have been reading this thread with some interest and wanted to chime in with my own experience with Mass Effect 2. First, my system specs are as follows: Pentium 4 3.6 GHz, 2 GB RAM, EVGA GeForce GTS 250 1 GB, Realtek High Definition Audio, Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit with Geforce 196.21, Realtek 2.41 and PhysX 9.09.1112 driver revisions installed.

As you can see from above I am running this game on a single core CPU and have to report that I successfully completed the game last night. Additionally, contrary to all the issues currently described in this and similar threads I have NOT experienced any major issues with the game whatsoever (except for the CTD issues reported on Jarrahe Station and in the Reaper IFF core which are fully reproducable and are attributable to certain graphical effects in use at the time of the crash)

To summarise, I have never had any issues with any ingame cutscenes or experienced any slowdown whatsoever and have never had to use any of the recommended fixes such as replacement of the bik movies or using the -nomoviestartup switch.

Make of it what you will, but I have also never had any issues with Mass Effect 1. I thought it was about time that someone reported that this game DOES work perfectly with a single core CPU as I am getting quite frustrated with developers insisting that their games REQUIRE a multicore CPU to run correctly when it is clearly not what I have experienced and proves to be the complete opposite of such statements.

This blew my mind. I also haven't had any problems running the actual game, it's just the .bik files that seem to cause ME2 to lock up for me. Using the -nomovies fix seems to work for me, but it's interesting that you don't have to do that. So, it appears that the .bik problem isn't a single core issue in itself, but it only effects single core users...

I hope Bioware can get this sorted. I'd love to play the game in all its glory.

[Onedeadlyhit]

I Myself am pretty sick of going through forums and finally sargerass comes to the rescue with a patch which everyone seems to be able to use, so i go and use the patch but steams updating my game and all i see is update starting... that could be due to me accidently unpacking the patch thing wrong but now i have to redownload which last time took me 1 day to download but ty sargerass for the patch now i might be able to play tommorow and a message for bioware to me it seems like you've tested a medicine on a human rather than testing it on a wide variety of animals ect making it usless...

[Gebut]

P4 with Hyper-threading enabled works with the game I think.

[kri3g]

Felcorious wrote...

I have a question about the iff mission problem. well the prob I have is when sheperd says "I'll meet you on the shuttle". My screen goes black and there is the space craft sound playing, but nothing happens after that so I had to close it. thats the problem everyone is having right? Is there a fix for that? I have the simple load screen and the Sargass fix. everything was goin good up to that point.

forgot to say

I did wait for the intro movie and that didn't work either for the IFF mission.

I have similar problem in IFF mission. I tried "nomoviestartup", sargass fix, green loading screens and few combinations of these and it didn't work. I even tried without any modifications but it freeze at loading screen (just like when I start new game without fixes). Any help? I am so close to the end and I stuck...

[Rockman900]

I just finished the game last night. With a nice full ending with movies and all the glory that belongs there. I really want to thank Sargass (sp?) for giving a link to that patch. I played most of the game without it (the -nomovies thingy) but now I can see everything! Ofcourse Im still using green loading screens but hey, thats fine by me for now.



All I want now is a official patch that will solve this so when ME2 drops in price, those buyers dont have to search the entire internet for a fix.

[Onedeadlyhit]

Im on 12% downloading off steam.. So i've been reading through the comments and god bioware did not really think this through, Im new to PC Gaming i played the first mass effect on xbox but you thought bioware would actually not attempt to load the cinematics during loading objects, that'd mean more longer loading periods but still least i can play a descent smooth running game and also can someone tell me where and what files need to be placed into my mass effect 2 folders for the sargerass patch