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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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.
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