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Anonymous
13 years ago
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Blue border for selecting/activating doors/objects is non-functional or intermittently flashing

Windows Vista 64-bit.  Dragon Age: Origins Ultimate Edition, Mass Effect, and Mass Effect 3 all work fine.  But with Mass Effect 2 the blue border on terminals, doors, mini-games... and the text prom...
  • Fred_vdp's avatar
    Fred_vdp
    13 years ago

    This problem has been linked to framerate. When you have a low number of frames per second, interaction with objects often doesn't work.

    Post the following hardware specifications:

    Processor

    Graphics card

    RAM

    You can find this info by opening a program called dxdiag in Windows. Press Windows logo + R on the keyboard, type dxdiag in the box and press enter. The basic info is on the first screen, while the graphics card is on the second tab ("display").

    You could also just monitor your framerate by running a program called Fraps while playing. If your framerate is ridiculously low, like below 20, then your low framerate is causing the problem and you may need better hardware.

    It's also possible that your problem is completely unrelated to what I just described, but since you've already tried everything, I thought I'd just throw this in there.

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dylanHT2
5 years ago

I did not have these problems in the earlier PC version with Windows 7.  ...  In the ME:LE version (with Widows 10) there were no problems with ME1.  ME2 started out fine but then began to have problems with irregular timing for door bypasses (sometimes short, sometimes extended), then the blue activation square blinking in and out and then disappearing completely, and now the fish dying because ME2 wouldn't let me feed them.  The final straw:  After Jack's rescue, the Illusive Man wants to videoconfer with Shepard but Shepard can't get into the room!

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holger1405
Hero+
5 years ago

@dylanHT2 

Did you tried to repair the game?


(Origin > Game Library > right click MELE > Repair)
(Steam > Game Library > right click at MELE > Properties > Local Files > Verify integrity of game files.)

If you have the game on Steam I would still suggest to try the Origin repair additionally.

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    dylanHT2
    5 years ago
    @holger1405 Thanks for the suggestion. I tried the Origin repair but it didn't fix anything. (I bought MELE through Origin, not Steam.) ... I guess I'll go back to the old Windows 7 version of ME I kept installed on a different computer. Thanks for your help.

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