Mass Effect 2 not working

mattjd · 9 Jan 2012 at 17:21

I purchased Mass Effect 2 in October on Steam because I really enjoyed the first one. However I am having a massive issue with it.

The intro videos play fine then when I reach the main menu it runs at literally 1fps and I can not even navigate to start a new game :confused:

The sound plays fine and the mouse cursor moves like normal.

I run an i7 920 and a GTX480 running the 290.53 drivers on Win 7 64 bit. 1920x1080 and everything on except motion blur in the configurator.

I have had this issue since October and the driver updates have done nothing, I've also tried using older drivers but no luck :/ I've tried verifying the game with steam and also downloading it again but nothing as well.

Anyone know what I could try or do to fix this?

Amraam · 9 Jan 2012 at 17:35

I had this too, but it was ages ago and I can't remember exactly what it was. I think FSAA may have been to blame?

Check you haven't got it forced via the GPU software.

Pighardia · 9 Jan 2012 at 17:48

Sorry, I can't help you with the problem, but it might be worth trying the coalesced.ini tweaker, which is a program which modifies you .ini to improve performance etc. I don't have a link, but you could search for ME2 mods or something

mattjd · 9 Jan 2012 at 18:03

Amraam said:
I had this too, but it was ages ago and I can't remember exactly what it was. I think FSAA may have been to blame?

Check you haven't got it forced via the GPU software.

If you could remember that would be great

Tried googling the issue but only 1 thread appeared and no one answered it properly so I am kind of stuck.

I see no options for FSAA in Nvidia control panel or Nvidia Inspector so I don't think that could be the issue.

RedStarRiot · 9 Jan 2012 at 18:07

Do you have Realtek hd audio? I had massive frame rate issues, had tried everything and then updated my integrated sound card drivers and fixed the issue. Quite odd

mattjd · 9 Jan 2012 at 18:11

RedStarRiot said:
Do you have Realtek hd audio? I had massive frame rate issues, had tried everything and then updated my integrated sound card drivers and fixed the issue. Quite odd

I do however it is disabled in my bios because I have a Creative Soundblaster X-fi Titanium. I use PAX custom drivers that might be the issue? I'll see if there is a update for them.