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n7legiion
6 years ago
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Game runs poorly on Steam

As the title already suggests, the game runs poorly on Steam. Once I launched it and got into multiplayer in-game, there were simply too much stutters and lags that makes the game not enjoyable. I have tried out few things that I could: Turn off Origin Overlay, Steam Overlay, switch between Fullscreen/Borderless Window, turn off Vsync and Antialiasing, but overall I still got the same result. Looking for ways to fix this issue.

  • EA_Kent's avatar
    EA_Kent
    5 years ago

    Hi everyone, 

    As was mentioned above, it looks like this issue was related to the Origin In-Game Overlay. Disabling the overlay should help with the performance issues. 

    Thanks everyone for bearing with us on this. 

    /Kent

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  • Xarovin's avatar
    Xarovin
    6 years ago
    @Fayaine wrote:
    @HunterKillerGaelJust installing Reshade does literally nothing lol it just adds another injector on top of the Origin Overlay and Steam overlay making things worse. No idea why people recommend that it makes literally no sense to be honest.

    We know its an injector, but did you actually test it? I can't as I've refunded, but I'd be interested to know if it works.

  • HunterKillerGae's avatar
    HunterKillerGae
    6 years ago
    @Xarovin I did. Literally 30 minutes ago. Both before and after especially at the areas where there were guaranteed FPS drops. Applying just the Reshade on the game does the trick. I even tried the game with FPS unlock tweak and I literally got around 200 FPS where I used to get around 40 because of that Origin overlay issue.
  • HunterKillerGae's avatar
    HunterKillerGae
    6 years ago
    @-Scr34m1k- Follow that guide properly. Install the latest version of Reshade from the official website. Download, install and check all the boxes, download all the Reshade related files. it worked perfectly fine for me. I'll probably post a video of this here in a bit to actually show you guys that.

    My rig is an I7 4790K, GTX 1070, 16GB ram, running on Windows 10 version 1909 update. Mass Effect 3 is on Steam (Obviously). Also, I disabled Origin Overlay from Origin both from Application Settings and right clicking on Mass Effect 3 on Origin (Steam version) and disabling it that way. Also closed Origin full before starting Mass Effect 3 so that the game launches Origin thin version. Donno if that's gonna help or not but yea.

    Here's the link to the guide
    https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2138783032
    Reshade page
    https://reshade.me/
  • -Scr34m1k-'s avatar
    -Scr34m1k-
    6 years ago
    @HunterKillerGael Ive followed tutorial, dont worry, i can read..
    The game just doesn't start when reshade itself is present. Even with the "basic"/"no effects" installation.

    Besides, i have a very fair question.. Why am i suppose to resort to "hacks" to make something broken (which i paid money for) to get "unbroke" ?
  • HunterKillerGae's avatar
    HunterKillerGae
    6 years ago
    @-Scr34m1k- Damn. That sucks. Probably your have some different configuration that's not going well with Reshade. Either way, starting the game with Reshade fixes the FPS issue.

    But you're right about the second part. We shouldn't have to use this third party method to fix the game's issue as we paid money for this. But until EA themselves fixes this issue, this is the UNOFFICIAL fix for now
  • Mgamerz's avatar
    Mgamerz
    6 years ago

    Reshade has been known to not work on some systems.

  • Rickdaily12's avatar
    Rickdaily12
    6 years ago

    Wanted to post an update. I decided to refund my Steam copy of Mass Effect 3, because I didn't want to deal with two overlapping clients causing absolute hell on the game. Today, I purchased the Origin Copy, since players have said it's easier to manage the client by going through Origin.

    I just finished downloading the game, so I start the process of opening it- and wouldn't you know it, the game now refuses to separate itself from Steam. I signed out of Steam and turned everything off- nope. My Origin Game library shows my new copy of Mass Effect 3 strictly fuses itself with Steam and will not launch without it.

    So even by refunding my copy on Steam, and buying the game on Origin, trying to bypass this hassle entirely, I've been thrown full speed back into this even by trying to remove Steam from this equation. My Origin Copy will involve Steam whether I want it to or not.

    Do the players or EA have a fix for this?

  • Izver007's avatar
    Izver007
    6 years ago
    @Rickdaily12 You should have wait or if you really wanna play you can go to support and ask about ur problem...

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