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[p3p31c]

i have a problem with the games textures,i was playing since 70 hours and then i reinstalled the game because the dlc doesn´t worked,finally a could play dlc but the game textures became low.
i try uninstalling and installing the game and installing patchs,the problem continue,
the game was installed in vista 32 bits,then i installed windows 7 64 bits(the instalation was there because i did'nt format the hd) and it worked very nice but when i reinstalled the game,the textures becames bad.
one example:when you look your party,shepards and garrus faces are few realistic.
sorry if my explanation was bad but my english sucks.

[SpockLives]

When you reinstalled, did you check to see if the graphics settings had reverted to medium or low? Either way, try manually setting them to the lowest setting. Then change the settings back to high or very high.

[p3p31c]

yes,i forgot mention it,i did this and the problem continue

[p3p31c]

i wanted to say "i was playing until 70 hours",but i wrote "i was playing since 70 hours,i'm from spain sorry.

pd:you can´t edit the messages?

[OutOfStep]

Going to bump this rather than add my own new thread, but I recently downloaded ME from D2D and noticed this problem. It's pretty terrible, and no matter what I do to the settings the textures just look terrible. Any ideas, anyone?

[Thyre]

Hi,



Same story. The game was nice and one day, it was stuck in low texture. I tryed to change to low, middle, high, very high maybe 45 times and nothing happens, the game just ignore this option and the grahpism is the same whatever i select (and i restart the game each time).

I reinstalled it, nothing changed. I tryed to change manually some options like the famous MaxAnisotropy and nothing changed again. I patched the game to 1.02, no changes.

Help?

[radwaste]

yap same problem here. my textures suck too AND i get periodically some strange black screens.. i dont get it, ME2 works like a charm...

[eshrafel]

Have you tried deleting the configuration files in Documents\\BioWare\\MassEffect\\Config ? I am unusre if this is deleted when you uninstall because your saves are in a similar directory. I shall post mine if you are not having any luck.

[Chesta12345]

Bump. I'm having terrible textures too and don't know why.

[Gorath Alpha]

Three softwares are communicating with each other to display objects, backgrounds, textures, etc.  They are your video card's drivers, your copy of Dx9 (and no, the game doesn't care if Dx10 is native to Vista, or Dx11 to Win7, it has to have Dx9), and the game itself.  If the physical hardware is undamaged, and actually is adequately powerful, anomalies such as descibed are loss of communication amoung those software elements (and for nVIDIA owners, there are potential problems of conflicts with various audio hardware, and trying to use the wrong versions of PhyX). 

I don't think that I saw anyone in this thread mention their hardware, either a Radeon, or a Geforce plus sound hardware.  I have no idea at this point that the hardware actually has any relation to your symptoms, but on the other hand, that cannot be eliminated at this point, either. 

For one of you, the mention of ME-2 is a chimera, actually.  ME-2 will run on a less powerful system than ME-1 is able to run on. 

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 13 juin 2010 - 11:58 .

[Gorath Alpha]

My initial reply presupposes that anyone complaining about image quality has reverified that the graphics system, inside of his / her machine meets the minimum requirements, and that you are setting your game settings to suit the capabilities of that hardware. 

As already noted, ME-2 is more lenient about hardware, but it also has a far better described set of system requirements compared to the absolute foolishness that EA published for ME-1, so that's what is next:

MINIMUM Graphics
Video Card = 256 MB (with Pixel Shader 3.0 support). Supported GPU Chips: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 or greater; ATI Radeon X1600 Pro or greater. Please note that NVIDIA GeForce 6200, 7100, 7200, 7300, 7400, 7500, 8100, 8200, 8300, 8400, 9200, and 9300; ATI Radeon X1300, HD 2400, 3100, 3200, HD 3450, HD 3470, HD 4200, and HD 4350 are below minimum system requirements. Updates to your video and sound card drivers may be required. Intel  and S3 video devices are not officially supported in Mass Effect 2.

RECOMMENDED
ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT, or better, recommended
NOTES: For the best results, make sure you have the latest drivers for your video and audio cards. Laptop or mobile versions of the above supported video cards have not had extensive testing and may have driver or other performance issues. As such, they are not officially supported in Mass Effect 2.  Intel  and S3 video devices are not officially supported in Mass Effect 2.

[Chesta12345]

I found a fix for me. All of my textures were appearing low no matter what settings (I should be able to rock it on ultra high, which I am now) I set them at.



On the Mass Effect launcher, go to 'configure.' The configure tool will pop up. Click on the 'repair' tab to the side and click "delete local shader cache files."



That fixed it for me.

[Gorath Alpha]

Chesta12345 wrote...

I found a fix for me. All of my textures were appearing low no matter what settings (I should be able to rock it on ultra high, which I am now) I set them at.

On the Mass Effect launcher, go to 'configure.' The configure tool will pop up. Click on the 'repair' tab to the side and click "delete local shader cache files."

That fixed it for me.

Thank you, but that still leaves a question about how those cache files became unusable, whether it will happen again soon, and whether bad, damaged, old, or weak hardware contributed to the symptoms or not. 

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 16 juin 2010 - 03:37 .

[Decho the Dolphin]

OK, I'm getting this too, on the Steam version. I am running Windows 7 and my PC specs are an i7920, 9GBDDR3 RAM and an HD 5870. The low-res textures have been in evidence since install, and I can't seem to do anything about it.

OK, I fixed it by manually deleting the shader cache at Documents/Bioware/Mass Effect/Published/Cooked PC. (Has to be done this way with Steam version as there is no separate launcher. 

Modifié par Decho the Dolphin, 20 juin 2010 - 08:46 .

[Kloreep]

BTW, the Steam version does have the config utility in its install directory (\\Steam\\Steamapps\\common\\Mass Effect\\Binaries) - it just doesn't create a shortcut. You can run it from the directory or create your own shortcut.

[Decho the Dolphin]

Didn't know that. Should have thought to check really. Ah well, manual deletion works just as well.