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[fatman123]

How do I fix PhysX system failure on my pc as it kept telling me I have a newer version?

[MinorFreedom]

I had the same error as well. I believe the cause was the newer PhysX distribution included with Metro 2033, which I bought the other day. The installer bundled with Metro is apparently newer than the installer from Nvidia's site, and incompatible with Mass Effect 2.



I uninstalled Nvidia PhysX from the control panel, then downloaded and installed the version from their site, here:

http://www.nvidia.co..._9.09.1112.html



Both ME2 and Metro 2033 seem to be working fine now. Though I'm not sure if this would adversely affect people using hardware-accelerated PhysX in Metro 2033, as I have neither a PPU nor Nvidia GPU.



Hope this helps.

[fatman123]

thanks just check my control panel and the same version is loaded??

[MinorFreedom]

If you're still having trouble, I'd say it would be worth a try to just uninstall and reinstall the PhysX driver anyway, even if it is the same version. If it doesn't work with the newer PhysX installer from Nvidia's site, linked above, try uninstalling it once more and using the PhysX installer that came with Mass Effect 2. It should be on your DVD, or if you got it through Steam you can find it in "Steam\\steamapps\\common\\mass effect 2\\redist".

(Ignore multiple backslashes... the message board seems to enjoy randomly adding extra ones.)

Modifié par MinorFreedom, 17 mars 2010 - 07:51 .

[fatman123]

Thanks it worked!!!

[dirufan86]

it gave me the same error and i have ATI

[Gorath Alpha]

Read more. GPU brand is not significant.

[Shino tenshi]

I still am unable to start ME2..... HELP!

-Edit: And Dragon Age won't work either.

Modifié par Shino tenshi, 19 mars 2010 - 06:42 .

[Gorath Alpha]

In addition to a corrupted install of the PhysX CPU functions, I have seen a few incidences in which it makes no difference what the PhysX is all about, since the hardware isn't going to work at all, anyway. 

PC MINIMUM System Requirements
OS = Windows XP SP3 / Windows Vista SP1 / Windows 7
Processor = 1.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent AMD CPU
Memory = 1 GB RAM for Windows XP / 2 GB RAM for Windows Vista and Windows 7
Hard Drive = 15 GB
DVD ROM = 1x Speed
Sound Card = DirectX 9.0c compatible
Direct X = DirectX 9.0c August 2008 (included)
Input = Keyboard / Mouse
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 7200, 7300, 7400, 7500, 8100, 8200, 8300, 8400, 9200, and 9300; ATI Radeon 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.

Preliminary diagnostic information

PCs are not *anything* at all like game console systems.  There is almost nothing that is truly "standard" between various branded PCs, making the game developers' jobs very difficult, and requiring that warning labels be attached to game boxes for those games that have serious requirements. 

In case you have misunderstood how to evaluate your PC compared to that game box label, we have to start from here.  Please fill it all in (if you have a problem with that, and are in the DA: O Social Sites' forums, do a search for "Basics" without the quote marks).  

Basic Hardware Specification Chart (Empty so far)

Processor Manufacturer: AMD / Intel
Processor Name / Type: Athlon 64 / Pentium / C2D / dual core / quad, etc.
Processor Speed:  ?.? Ghz (or AMD Performance Number)
Operating System / Service Pack: WindowsXP with SP #?, Win7, Vista ? (Oh, no!)
System RAM: ? ? GBs (MBs, if less than 1024 ? )
Video (GPU) Manufacturer: ATI / Nvidia (only those two are supported, PERIOD, so answer which of them you have)
Video Card Model: (examples) Radeon HD 5670 / Geforce GT 240
Video Card Driver Version: Catalyst ?.? / Nforce ??.??
 . . (use the numbers, not the word "latest")
Video Card onboard RAM: ? ? ? MBs
Sound Card Manufacturer:
Sound Card Model:

(And this is only for the raw hardware variations.  Potential software conflicts are far more likely to be game play problems, and developers cannot test for all possible program loads.)

P. S.  Please use every day business style punctuation and spelling.  Solid blocks of unbroken text are ignored

[Shino tenshi]

Sorry, but what are you talking about? oO

I installed Metro 2033 and its new PhysX drivers. Now Mass Effect and Dragon Age won't start anymore. So I deinstalled the new drivers and installed the "old" ones again.
Not working.
I ran both games just fine until I installed Metro 2033.

System:
Intel Q9550 @ 2,83GHz
ATI 5850 1GB
4GB RAM

-Edit: Scratch that... It's working again. seems as if the linked driver just didn't install correctly. The ones off teh DVD are working, though. -.-

Modifié par Shino tenshi, 19 mars 2010 - 06:51 .

[Gorath Alpha]

Shino tenshi wrote...

Sorry, but what are you talking about? oO


-Edit: Scratch that... It's working again. seems as if the linked driver just didn't install correctly. The ones off teh DVD are working, though. -.-

Some elderly and / or very low quality video hardware slips past the various filters intendedt to eliminate such parts, and then fails in-game.  In the Dragon Age game, it is the Geforce "FX" generation of video cards that won't work, and yet the game installs itself and configures itself, anyway. 

In both games, there is an in-between version Intel IGP chip that isn't eliminated, and causes problems with trying to run the game, resulting a practically random assortment of error messages instead.  In Mass Effect 1, it was the high end Radeon Xn00 cards that passed the elementary Pixel Shader test filters, and then when you tried to play that game, failed to compile the full shader functions for SM3 (the X700, X800, and X850 had the first half part of SM3, not the full setup from Dx9.0"c"). 

P. S.  I was thinking about this while having a very late lunch here.  Our hardware and software has become so increasingly complex, that all sorts of odd things can happen.   Those high end Radeons referred to a half hour ago (above) can be used to some extent  in Dragon Age, but only with "small" textures, which doesn't include the full range of eye colors, everyting looking dark brown.  The blood spatter effect is also missing from the small set of textures. 

Unlike the missing eye colors, there is a problem that appears in Mass Effect 2 that results in a totally empty eye socket in a character's head, and is usually corrected by changing video drivers, but can sometimes require that Dx9 be installed (again).  That symptom is one I've not seen, but has showed up in at least one other, and possibly two other games.  I've never seen it, but supposedly, some (female) Commanders Shepard have no eyelid part in the eye.  That's a really odd one, there. 

Gorath
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Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 19 mars 2010 - 07:50 .

[fatman123]

I am having sound problems to hear the in story part(movie clips) not the one on one interaction please advise