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UncleBonez187
5 years ago

Mass Effect 1 (Legendary Edition) lagging after 1 hour of Playtime

Hey,

so my PC should be more than capable of running Mass Effect 1.. and its working perfectly fine, for about 1 hour. Then, EVERYTIME, it slowly starts reducing FPS + Sound Glitches and dropouts. 

It gets more and more and more, until the game gets unplayable, sound is a mess and FPS are maybe 10-15. 

CPU and GPU are about 30% usuage when this happens, and temperatures are all okay.. I already checked that. 

System: 

I7 7700k

RTX 2070 Super 

16GB RAM 

Win 10 

Samsung SSD 

Any ideas? Please help, I wanna play the game for 16 hours straight, without restarting every hour D: 

Thanks! <3 

16 Replies

  • UncleBonez187's avatar
    UncleBonez187
    5 years ago
    @UncleBonez187 PS: Games like Read Dead Redemption 2 or other new games that force everything out of my computer work perfectly fine on almost Ultra Settings. It's only Mass Effect 1, and I had the same playing Tomb Raider half a year ago.. maybe this helps..
  • XearInsight's avatar
    XearInsight
    5 years ago

    Got the same issue... had tryed much but it will not run with more than 16fps

  • UncleBonez187's avatar
    UncleBonez187
    5 years ago

    No, I get 190FPS BUT only for an hour, or one and a half.. then I have to restart the game because the FPS start dropping.. the game is running fine first hour after I start it then it starts to go down

  • holger1405's avatar
    holger1405
    Hero+
    5 years ago

    @UncleBonez187 

    UncleBonez187  schrieb:

    Yes, 44% when the lagging starts.. so I guess thats not the problem. 

    Probably not, VRam is also good?  Any background programs or services acting out?

  • UncleBonez187's avatar
    UncleBonez187
    5 years ago
    @holger1405 Yes, I tracked everything with HW Monitor.. maximum RAM and VRam Usage was like 40%.. processor and graphic card usage 40% maximum as well.. like you would expect from a good computer to handle an "old" game.. but still I got those lags starting every time after exactly 1 hour
  • UncleBonez187's avatar
    UncleBonez187
    5 years ago
    @holger1405 Maybe its the SSD, I will try to reinstall on HDD over night and see if it gets better.. maybe game is to old for SSD technic^^
  • holger1405's avatar
    holger1405
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    5 years ago

    @UncleBonez187 

    I even have the old games on an M.2 SSD, and they work flawless.

    Do you mind sharing an DxDiag ? You upload the DxDiag with the "Choose file" button at the bottom right corner of the reply window. 

     

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