General information
- Official game site
- Official forums
- Mass Effect Wiki
- Steam Community Discussions
- Steam Users' Forums for game series
Availability
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- Retail version product keys can be registered on Origin for easier downloading and patching.
DLC
All DLC is pre-packaged for free in the base install of Mass Effect on Origin. People with purchases before the implementation of DLC into the base game can update their game on Origin to receive the DLC.
Bring Down the Sky can also be downloaded separately from Bring Down the Sky DLC Redemption without using Origin.
Essential improvements
Patches
The latest patch is update 1.02 which fixes various issues. The Steam version is already patched.
Mods
User Catechrism has made a texture pack which improves the in-game graphics.
If you are just experiencing really low texture quality see low res textures fix and see if that helps as mod does effect game performance significally and has problems with under 4K monitors including "shimmering" effect.
Enable developer console
Game data
In-game general settings.
Configuration file(s) location
Save game data location
Video settings
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Input settings
In-game general control settings.
In-game key map settings.
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Audio settings
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No surround sound
Issues fixed
- TweakGuides has created a comprehensive guide for fixing issues in this game. It can be found here.
Game simply doesn't start
Launcher crashes (retail)
Therum missing textures
If this however wouldn't fix the problem. The issue is not to be found anywhere else than on Therum.
People and objects become black
Low res textures fix
IGameExplorer --> Verify Access. Unable to verify access to the game
No high resolution option
Issues unresolved
Playing in 4:3 resolutions like 1600x1200(useful for non-widescreen monitors and projectors) results in some menu screens displaying incorrectly: the left and right hand sides of the screen are clipped (as if "zoomed in" too far), so important information cannot be seen (like journal details and the map legend). Screens affected include: Map, Party Selection, Planet details, and Journal. Currently the only known fix is to use a 16:9 screen resolution when playing, like 1920x1080.
Black screen after loading a save
System requirements
| Windows |
|
Minimum |
Recommended |
| Operating system (OS) |
XP |
Vista |
| Processor (CPU) |
Intel Pentium IV 2.4 GHz or faster / AMD 2.0 GHz
| Intel 2.6+ GHz or AMD 2.4+ GHz |
| System memory (RAM) |
| |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) |
12 GB | |
| Video card (GPU) |
ATI X1300 XT
NVidia GeForce 6800
Shader model 3 support |
ATI X1800 XL series
NVidia GeForce 7900 GTX |
- AMD video cards below minimum system requirements: ATI X1300, X1300 Pro, X1600 Pro, Radeon 2600 HD, HD 2400
- NVidia video cards below minimum system requirements: GeForce 7300, 7600 GS, 8500
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/17460/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (17460) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
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