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 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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