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13 years ago
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Black Box textures

Greetings, 

I have played Mass effect 1 before on my system, through steam, which had no issues whatsoever. Recently I bought the Trilogy so I could have the third installment of the game together with the DLC for Me 1 and 2. 

Whilst enjoying mass effect one I get to Noveria, so far everything is going fine. I am playing on ultra high resolution, shadows on etc. etc. Then I reached peak 15. All textures became Black Boxes, What the fudge?! 

To start: All my drivers are up to date, my pc meets the minimum requirements (8gb of ram, Geforce 560 GTX, Windows 7 64x bit and a AMD FX-6100 FX Hexacore). 

EDIT: I have also installed the files from DX 9 that can sometimes be missing with DX 10 / 11

Now I did some personal research. Turns out this is a issue many people have and that you have to remove certain shaders, either manually or through the mass effect configuration utility. This did not work. I tried lowering / changing different graphics settings, this also did not work. AFter a long search I found out that if you open the console panel (you have to add something to a config file for this) you can enter a command (viewmode unlit) and it should fix it. This solved the issue but made the game look like sh*t, and that is lightly speaking. 

My question is, is there any other fix or can I / we expect a fix for this? I heard rumours that this happens on Ilos as well and I would not like to play this game with the previous stated command because the game looks terrible that way. THe other rumour I heard is that it is because of my AMD processor, now I can understand that can be an issue but will it get fixed? 

Thanks in advance.

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