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[FinnOuter]

Hey, so I recently bought Mass Effect off Steam, but annoyingly, the fps gets really choppy just randomly. Even the cutscenes have it. I have well over the recomended specs for the game, and have done everything, from editing the BioEngine documents inside the games folder, to just setting it on low graphics, but it's still really bad. It doesn't become unplayable, but missions like Ilos, where you have to drive through the relay in 40secs are impossible. Any fixes or patches to help me? Oh yeah and I have Mass Effect 2, and that runs perfectly.

Specs:
Compaq Presario CQ60 Notebook
AMD Turion Dual-Core RM70, 2000Mhz
Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit
3.00gb RAM (2.75 usable)
135gb HD
Nvidia GeForce 8200M G

[Gorath Alpha]

FinnOuter wrote...

 I have well over the recomended specs for the game

Nvidia GeForce 8200M G

WRONG.-- sorry, just way off base there.   

"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. "

That silly little buiried onboard chip is way below the requirements.  You are lucky if you can do ANYTHING at all in the game with such an ineffectual device as that one, that's the truth. 

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 26 mars 2010 - 01:08 .

[Gorath Alpha]

And to top off the complaint that the game itself had done anything to cause a problem in this case, I see that because the ill-chosen hardware is in a  mere mobile PC, it simply cannot be upgraded to a better video solution.You bought a dead end PC. 

Modifié par Gorath Alpha, 26 mars 2010 - 01:12 .

[jonnyblueballs]

Well, perhaps this thread doesn't have to go to waste as i have a similar problem, but my system *should* be adequate.





AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual core processor 5600+

According to System Requirements Lab: "2.81 GHz Performance Rated at: 5.62 GHz"



2 GB RAM



GeForce 8600 GT with 512 MB

Driver version: 6.14.0011.9621



11.9 GB free hard drive (the problem was already there when i had 12.5 GB)



Windows XP service pack 3



Direct X 9.0c



SoundMAX Integrated Digital HD Audio







It plays normally then the video randomly goes choppy, sometimes even freezes for several seconds, then plays like nothing ever happened, then again starts stuttering... It's playable (and so far has had NO CRASHES AT ALL 8=O ) but i don't think it's acceptable for a game this old. My PC wasn't obsolete when this game came out. Bioshock runs fine, just fine.



Sometimes there is missing audio from the dialogue and sometimes one line seems to play softer then the next one louder... that in itself is not much of a problem, just mentioned in case it could be relevant to the real problem somehow. Oh yeah, and i do have the 1.02 patch.

[jonnyblueballs]

Huh. I closed a few processes and the game ran well tonight. I guess a few dozen megabytes of RAM really makes a huge difference.

[Gorath Alpha]

It really depends more on what the processes involved are doing. Some AV and IM software (Xfire is one) can be extremely problematic.