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9 years ago
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Mass Effect 2- Using ALOT OF Textures Mod From Nexus Site

Modding Mass Effect 2 like I did Mass Effect 1 and was looking through a step-by-step video in youtube and they mentioned something about a coalesced.ini file in the ALOT For ME2 Folder but there is ...
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    holger1405
    9 years ago

    @seancass35

    @DLC

    You need the "binkw32.DLL" and "binkw23.DLL"

    Put them in the "Binaries" folder inside the "Mass Effect 2" folder.

    @ReShade

    You need to remove the files manually from your Mass Effect 2 folder

    SweetFX (folder)
    EULA.txt
    README.txt
    ReShade Setup.exe
    ReShade.fx
    ReShade32.dll
    ReShade64.dll
    Sweet.fx

    Most important:
    The Reshade DLL injektor is named either "d3d9.dll", "dxgi.dll" or "d3d11.dll" you need to remove that one too.

    And you should read the guide for the mode at Nexus. 

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holger1405
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9 years ago

@seancass35

The "Coalesced.ini" is in the "<drive>:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Mass Effect 2\BioGame\Config\PC\Cooked" respectively in the  "<drive>:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Mass Effect 3\BIOGame\Config\PC\Cooked" folder.

If you follow the ALOT instructions by the letter the Game wont be in the "Program Files (x86)" folder, so you have to adjust accordingly.

But if ALOT is installed correctly and don't causes any problems, you don't have to worry about the "Coalesced.ini".

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Game won't be in Program Files (x86)? Then where would it be? I thought it would still be in the default folder that Origin installs its games into

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      holger1405
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      9 years ago

      @seancass35

      In the ALOT instruction is stated the the Game itself should be installed outside of the Program Files (x86) folder because of the rights management of Windows regarding this folder.

      I have ME2 and ALOT for ME2 installed inside the Program Files (x86) folder, you can do that too, just make sure that ME3 Explorer runs with Admin rights and that you have the necessary  permissions for the "Program Files (x86)" folder (as example that your main account is an admin account.) 

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        Anonymous
        9 years ago

        Installed everything and ran the game and now I am getting a message saying compiling effect failed with Reshade with SweetFX mod giving me the path of the game and border.h (42,56), error: X3004. undeclared indentifier 'border_ratio'

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