Crashing when I press ESC?
Steam is losing my respect. I would really just like to know if there is a way to download Mass Effect 2 (I've already bought it through Steam) to my computer without having the Steam client. My b...
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I am having the same problem. Running a Toshiba P740 Satellite laptop with:
NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M
4.0GB RAM
All drivers up to date
Intel Core i5 2.5
64-bit Win7
DirectX9c
Windows .NET framework up to date
ME3 works fine, but ME2 crashes every time I open the game menu or whenever it feels like it. Sometimes I get the black screen, but most times I get a faded, frozen screen and I have to actually reboot my machine to get it to go away (cannot end process through system monitor).
Any ideas?
Your video card is somewhat below the minimum, although it should at least try to work, if a little more slowly and perhaps less attractively than the designers intended.
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/video_lookup.php?gpu=GeForce+GT+525M
The chances are very good that there is a problem between the firmware Toshiba wrote for the video device, and the drivers. That is the most frequent reason for what is most likely happening. The 525M only has half of the normal contents of a desktop graphics card, since the Intel video chip runs all the time, and is supposed to perform the front end procedures in cooperation with the graphics card. What ends up happening all too often is that the graphics card itself remains asleep, and never does anything in some games.
You can check whether the game and the PC are on different screen shape settings, which causes similar problems, and you can try an assortment of Geforce drivers, in case there is one or another that works better, but in no case will you get a fully satisfying game as long as you try using business grade hardware instead of gaming class parts.
I haven't read it in depth, but any idea why ME3 runs well (high resolution, no issues yet), but ME2 is goofy? Are the ME2 components that much more needy?
@adirollblack wrote:I haven't read it in depth, but any idea why ME3 runs well (high resolution, no issues yet), but ME2 is goofy? Are the ME2 components that much more needy?
When console hardware stagnated for so long, it caused not only stagnation in PC games' graphical progress, but eventually a "dumbing down" of sequels because the console versions outsell the PC versions, and the PC becomes the tail of the dog being wagged, not vice versa. Yes, from a purely graphical point of view, a low end product of the type that you have, is now CLOSER to the minimum of ME-3 than it is to the minimum that works properly in ME-1 / ME-2.
But that explanation doesn't make sense. I ran ME1 with all the graphics on and turned up, with nary a blip. Even load screens flashed by without much hesitation. I have the same experience with ME3. But ME2, which appears to have lower requirements than ME3, does not run. Barely makes it out of the box. I don't think your general disdain for my hardware is a proper explanation. My "low-end" system is well above the minimum requirements for ME2, and only just shy of the optimal for the game. If you don't know why something isn't working, don't bother. Thanks for the limited knowledge you've shared, otherwise, keep it to yourself.
I should also mention that I've been through all of those potential fixes, and nothing worked. I still get the problem whenever the game does something *extra.* Opening the game menu, checking for downloadable content, anything not on the base level of operations. When I start up from that initial save, wherein you go and talk to the Illusive man the first time, I get good textures and sound is quality. I run down the ramp, the cut scene runs fine, and then, when I level up... bam. Frozen.
I'll doink around with it some more and see what's going on with the graphics switching. Maybe disable the onboard temporarily and see what happens.
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