November 2014
i'm running a very good machine. i5 3770 nvidia 670 and 16 gb of ram. I recently bought the mass effect triliogy to replay the greatness i loved on xbox 360. but when i try to play the first game the highest frames i have achieved is around 25. the constant is 15. and it doesn't matter wheter or not i'm on ultra high textures and particles or if i'm on ultra low. i even turned down my resolution to the lowest it would go to try that. still my fps stayed around 15. i tried repairing the game in origin. nothing. please help.
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November 2014
If you run the game in Origin, try disabling the Origin in-game overlay in the Origin settings.
What video driver version do you have?
November 2014
November 2014
@williamtbrown09 wrote:i'm running a very good machine. i5 3770 nvidia 670 and 16 gb of ram. I recently bought the mass effect triliogy to replay the greatness i loved on xbox 360. but when i try to play the first game the highest frames i have achieved is around 25. the constant is 15. and it doesn't matter wheter or not i'm on ultra high textures and particles or if i'm on ultra low. i even turned down my resolution to the lowest it would go to try that. still my fps stayed around 15. i tried repairing the game in origin. nothing. please help.
I've got the same issue. I'm going to try tricks with CPU affinity, because ME 1 was made for those next-gen Dual-Core CPUs. I will report here if any successful tries will make the game run smooth.
Also, my specs
FX8350,Radeon R290X, 8Gb RAM. Latest AMD GPU drivers.
November 2014
Solution is here. Thanks to SimCity community.
Put these arguments in shortcut "C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Mass Effect\Binaries\MassEffect.exe" -CPUCount:1 -CPUPriority:high or in Origin console.
July 2015
How do you opne the origin console?
July 2015
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March 2020 - last edited March 2020
i know this is six years after you posted, but thank you and also to reply for anyone who comes across this, fred_vdp's solution worked for me. games run perfectly now
specs:
i5-9400
gtx 1660 ti
16 gigs ram
windows 10
May 2020
January 2021
THIS IS THE FIX HERE!!!!!!
January 2021