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AmericanRedGuar
12 years ago
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Mass Effect 1 crashes-- Windows 64 bit

So I recently bought Mass Effect on Steam, and I've been having this problem that has been keeping me from playing that game for any period of time. After about 20 minutes or so, Mass Effect seizes u...
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    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    Darn.  Someone actually posts useful information, and it's a problem I haven't a clue about.  

    Perhaps disable antivirus during before starting the game?

    It sounds as though you're overheating (either your CPU or your GPU), or that you've got a problem with your RAM.  The latter can be tested by running memtest.  The former... maybe immediately after you have a problem, power off the machine, power it back on right away, go into the bios and see what your CPU temperature is at?  I believe there are also tools you can run concurrently that would give you real time temperature data.  I don't have any that I've had personal experience with, but this sounds decent:

    http://openhardwaremonitor.org/

    This thread has many suggestions:

    http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2561014

    Hope any of that is useful or coherent.

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AmericanRedGuar
12 years ago

The Graphics Card is integrated with my AMD A10 5800k processor.

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ThandalNLyman
12 years ago

I see...  No idea then.  A quick look around found a couple of reviews saying that chip is "adequate" for older games, (at low graphics settings) if only just.

Have you tried disabling "Sync with cloud"?

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