Mass Effect 1 Crashing after 10 mins

@ZethRyder Well, it's not a common bug, and the way you describes it, it sounds more of a technical issue at your machine than a bug in the game. 

If you have "Origin in Game" enabled, disable it > test

If that not works or if you already disabled "Origin in Game", please create and post a DXdiag Report. 

Also download GPU-z install it > go to the sensor tab > Log to file > name the file and save > Play the game until it crashes > stop login > load up the log file. 

A few other questions.

- do you run any mods for the game?

- did you edited game files of ME1?

- do you play other games without this error?

- what kind of PSU do you use. (brand and model)

- is Windows and all your drivers up to date?

- If you have "Origin in Game" enabled, disable it > test
I have disabled Origin in game, both the application settings in Origin itself as well as the game properties for Mass Effect 1.

- do you run any mods for the game?
No I do not. I run it vanilla.

- did you edited game files of ME1?
I have not touched or editted any of the ME1 files. I've even done a clean installation to be sure of it and still the error persists.

- do you play other games without this error?
yes, all of my other origin games run fine actually, along with my steam games. 

- what kind of PSU do you use. (brand and model)
CORSAIR Gaming Series GS700 700W ATX12V v2.3 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC High Performance Power Supply

- is Windows and all your drivers up to date?
Yes, before this bug started to happen I actually had just recently installed Windows 10 upon my system since I bought all brand new computer parts to upgrade from my old system. So all the Hardware is new and I made sure all my drivers for win 10 was up to date, along with my GPU drivers which I installed directly from AMD's website. So everything is installed to the latest version.

Attached is the Dxdiag and GPU-z sensor logs you requested.

Hi @ZethRyder

You said that the game crashes after 10 minutes, but the GPU-z logfile is only 30 seconds long. Did something special happen or is that the way the Game behaves the entire time? 

Your GPU did not go over 560Mhz core clock and that was only a spike.

I'm checking your DxDiag, and will update you later.

In regards to the blackpixel bug, that's a Bug inside the AMD FX CPU's so there is simply nothing Bioware can do about this short of recoding parts of the game, and that's are not going to happen, not for a 9 years old Game and also not because such action could lead to other even more serious problems elsewhere.

There are two workarounds:

The simple one is changing Amour as soon you're inside Peak 15 and then immediately change it back. (that however don't work for all people.)

The more complicated is to edit your "BIOInput.ini".

- Go to your "\Dokumente\BioWare\Mass Effect\Config" folder and open the the "BIOInput.ini" in a text editor.

- search for [Engine.Console].

- set the cursor right behind [Engine.Console], press ENTER and put "ConsoleKey=Tilde" (without the quotes) inside the line you just created.

- save the "BIOInput.ini". (If you use a non English keyboard, use another key like  "ConsoleKey=NUMPAD9" > the number 9 on your Number Pad .)

Now, as soon as you come into the part where the error occurs, press the key you chose above. That opens the in game console. Then type "viewmode unlit" (without the quotes) in and press ENTER. (You can not run the game permanently under that mode because the lightning would look wired.)

As soon as you leave the area press the key again and type in "viewmode lit" and press ENTER again. 

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@holger1405 wrote:

Ok, @ZethRyder the DxDiag shows that Mass Effect exe is crashing.

First, go to your "<drive>:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Mass Effect\DirectX" folder and run the "dxsetup.exe" > restart and test.

If that not helps, download the patch 1.02 from here and install it > restart and test.

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I did both of those and that seems to have fixed it! The stuttering is gone along with the crashing and the game is playable again! Thank you for your help! 

You're welcome, and thanks for the XP.