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[spottyblanket]

I'd just like to know what system requirements you need for Mass Effect 1? My computer is barely equiped to play games, so I have no clue if I need video cards or anything like that? My knowledge of that sort of thing being exceedingly lacking.

[Recnamoken]

* Supported OS: Microsoft Windows® XP with SP2 or Windows Vista*

* Processor: Intel P4 2.4 Ghz or faster / AMD 2.0 Ghz

* Memory: 1.0 GB RAM or more (2.0 GB for Vista)

* Graphics: DirectX 9.0c compatible, ATI X1300 XT or greater (ATI X1300, X1300 Pro, X1600 Pro, Radeon 2600 HD, and HD 2400 are below minimum system requirements); NVidia GeForce 6800 or greater (7300, 7600 GS, 8500 are below minimum system requirements)

* Hard Drive: 12.0 GB or more free hard drive space

* Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible

* DirectX®: 9.0c





* WINDOWS VISTA OR WINDOWS 7 USERS: Launching “Mass Effect” from Steam requires the setting “Run as Administrator”. If the User Account Control feature of Windows Vista is enabled, launching “Mass Effect” from Steam will result in failure. For users with User Account Control enabled, launch Steam using the “Run as Administrator” option or launch from the windows shortcut.



Copied that from the Steam Store, the requirements are the same in the retail version. But beware that the performance of Mass Effect 1 won't be that great, as the game was ported from XBox to PC from a third party which didn't do such a good job. ME2 runs better on my PC than ME1.

[spottyblanket]

Maybe I should just buy a cheap XBOX *laughs* completly random question, is KOTOR 2 on xbox as well? (not 360)

[Recnamoken]

Yes, KotoR 1&2 are available on XBox as well.

[Gorath Alpha]

spottyblanket wrote...

I'd just like to know what system requirements you need for Mass Effect 1? My computer is barely equiped to play games, so I have no clue if I need video cards or anything like that? My knowledge of that sort of thing being exceedingly lacking.

EA and wehoever they used to make the port from XBox360 screwed the official requirements up royally as far as video cards, naming the same card as both minimum and unsupported (X1300 XT = new name for X1600 Pro), and the X1550 named for Vista is even worse than the X1300 XT. 

The ME2 requirements eliminated that foolishness, but the Geforce minimum is still a daydream Pie in the Sky that just hasn't got the power for the game!  An X1650 Pro is a far more sensible minimum Radeon, and the 6800 GS should be the minimum Geforce. 

Gorath
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[spottyblanket]

Thanks for all of the info guys. Most helpful. Of course if the mass effect games are rumored to coming onto PS3 it will make life simpler.

[Recnamoken]

@Gorath Alpha

I'm playing with a Geforce 6800GT 256MB AGP and the game runs pretty well. Ok, the details are pretty low. But it runs well. Especially when i have only a Athlon XP 3200+ (yes, a 32Bit CPU).

[Gorath Alpha]

Recnamoken wrote...

@Gorath Alpha
I'm playing with a Geforce 6800GT 256MB AGP and the game runs pretty well. Ok, the details are pretty low. But it runs well. Especially when i have only a Athlon XP 3200+ (yes, a 32Bit CPU).

There is an A64 3200 in a PC behind me in here, and an XP 3200 in another room.  The oldie has an X850 XTP for video, while the almost-as-old A64 has a 7800 GT KO from BFG in it.  I haven't tried anything particularly new on either of them since I started running AMD X2s about three years ago in two other PCs (4600 in one, and 5200 in another). 

AFAIK, all "GS" suffix'd Geforces are always the weaker card of the GS / GT pair.  Back when Oblivion was the first and only game with a lot of pixel shader codes, the 6600 GT didn't seem to handle it well, because it could only deal in small textures, which were ugly in that game as is usually true for most games. 

I had three Geforce FXes on the best three of the four PCs I had here that supposedly could all run Oblivion, but none could run that game outside of the tutorial prison/ caverns / sewers.  The 6600 GT didn't do well  (only 128 MBs), and the 6800 GT did very well, although less so than an X1600 Pro, if both were set on "best appearance". 

Pixel shaders were new stuff then, and Radeons had more shader units by a country mile than the Geforces did, so that game belonged to the Radeons at the time.  But an X1550 is really just an X1300 Pro with another name, and too slow.  The Unreal 3 engine doesn't overload old low-shader-unit Geforces the same way in ME1, to the benefit of the Radeons, I don't think. 

Gorath
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Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 26 février 2010 - 12:42 .

[Pappi]

I want to play this, bought it for three quid. But do you have to be online and therefore have an internet connection to the PC you are downloading it on?

[SSV Enterprise]

If you are downloading it from the internet, then well, yeah, obviously you would need an internet connection. If you are installing it from the disc, I think there is some activation software that requires an internet connection before you can play it.

[Fredvdp]

True. It's a one time online activation (which happens in the background) but you don't need an internet connection afterwards.

[Pappi]

But you do need it to install...damn. x.x Thats...annoying