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Master_Yukki's avatar
2 years ago

Mass effect breaks monitor : no signal

Hello

So, I've bought Mass effect Legendary edition off of Steam and, when I tried to select Mass effect 1 my monitor shows no signal. I had to turn my pc off. Now my screen has bad colors and I can't even launch Stardew Valley without my monitor blacking and showing no signal. 

I want to break my head open

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  • @Master_Yukki 

    This sounds more like a hardware problem than a game problem.

    Can you provide a screenshot of the problem?

    Did you checked your monitor cable? (Correctly plugged in, condition.)

    Please create a DxDiag in text file format and post it with your next reply. You can do that with the "Choose file" button at the bottom right corner of the reply window. 

  • I have to agree with @holger1405 on this being a hardware issue and not something done by ME.  The fact that it is now happening with Stardew Valley means it is something other than the running game, as more than one game is having issues.

    My personal experience with this kind of thing was a HDMI cable being 60-80% plugged in, ie it was just barely not all the way in and when I plugged it back all the way, issue fixed.  I have zero clue how it got unplugged on the back of my computer, as the computer just sits there unmoving, but it had.  I could also see a port issue on your graphics card being an issue, but there is almost zero chance that Mass Effect did anything to cause this.  At most a game usually shows up a fault in the hardware and not causes said fault....I have heard of some saying a new game killed their machines and maybe on one it has happened but definitely not a game like MELE, that has been out awhile and most times even those games just stressed a component that wasn't in good health to start with.

  • For now I've just uninstalled Mass effect and turned off HDR for the weird screen and it works again.

    I'll search the origin of the problem later but thank you very much for answering 🙏🙏

  • holger1405's avatar
    holger1405
    Hero+
    2 years ago

    @Master_Yukki 

    Do you have a HDR capable monitor?

    Mass Effect is not the culprit of this problem, that much is clear.

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