Forum Discussion

Anonymous

11 years ago

Solved

CPU usage drop and framerate drop

Hey there, I installed Mass Effect 3 yesterday, after playing ME1 and ME2 without problems. However, I ran into a crippling problem: Every 5-20 seconds, the game hangs for about 2-4 seconds, having ...

Anonymous
11 years ago
I feel a little stupid now.... despite being one of the first things I tried, disabling the antivirus (Kaspersky) now did the trick. Turns out it doesn't always reliably shut down when you tell it to pause protection, and so it must have reactivated itself the first time I tested.
Btw, nice CPU/GPU, eh? 😛

Fred_vdp

Hero+

11 years ago

I have the same processor and GPU, but I haven't experienced the issues.

In the Origin preferences, have you disabled the Origin in-game overlay? It is known to cause performance issues in this game.

Anonymous

11 years ago

I feel a little stupid now.... despite being one of the first things I tried, disabling the antivirus (Kaspersky) now did the trick. Turns out it doesn't always reliably shut down when you tell it to pause protection, and so it must have reactivated itself the first time I tested.

Btw, nice CPU/GPU, eh? 😛