Re: Mass Effect 2-PC Keeps Crashing on Illium
On the Steam platform I had to disable dynamic shadows and light shadows and I also had to play in window mode just to be able to do the quests on Illium.
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For me disabling dynamic shadows during the overworld on the planet (the main city outside of missions) worked. I could turn them back on during the missions, but I had to turn them off outside until I got off Illium. It's the corridor near the markets that causes the crash for me, between the doors. The corridor you use to get to the area where the Asari leaves you a message of thanks to the Assassin. So long as dynamic shadows were off before I got to that corridor, it didn't crash.
Can confirm that disabling dynamic shadows does the trick. Honestly appalled that something like this has never been fixed - and here, 8 years on, we can only assume that it never will be. One of the best RPG's ever made, marred by what can only be described as laziness on the part of the developers. These games are all about immersion - and there is nothing as immersion-breaking as having to reboot your computer and google a workaround for a problem the developers just couldn't be bothered to fix, either before or after release. Really wish Bioware would place their games in more competent hands than those of EA...
It wasn't "laziness". It was a non-issue. This only occurs with recent hardware and DX versions. If it had been present at release, it would have been addressed.
You can't blame developers for things that go wrong because you're playing the game in an environment that didn't even exist when they made it.
[EDIT: Oh, and why in the world would you be bringing-up "EA" in this context?!? a) The publisher/distributor has exactly zero to do with the technical aspects of the game, and b) EA owns BioWare. They bought it before the release of Mass Effect 1. It's not like BioWare can "place their games" anywhere else.)
Yep my me2 trilogy disc came with a read error, my DLCs getting crashes because of a missing loading file, do not tell me that because i had the money to spare for a decent pc it crashes on illium, do not DARE.
@TotalSaneCatLady; We'll "dare" to tell you the truth as we know it, whatever it may be.
That said, have you tried doing a complete un-install then re-install from Origin?
If there's a "read error" using your ME2 disc, the digital download avoids the problem completely.
miertponten schrieb:
Yep my me2 trilogy disc came with a read error, my DLCs getting crashes because of a missing loading file, do not tell me that because i had the money to spare for a decent pc it crashes on illium, do not DARE.
Sorry, have to
Playing older games on newer hardware and operating systems will cause problems that were not present or not as serious as they were for release.
That is in the nature of things, try to play a game written for Windows 98 on your machine today.
The recommanded system requirements on the Origin page are there for a reason:
That are the systems ME2 was written for, (And the only systems on which ME2 is guaranteed to work on) it is actually pretty amazing that it still runs with only minor problems today.
Furthermore, I played ME2 on 4 different OS and on 3 different machines, (plus several hardware updates to this machines) and I never had to use the -nomoviestartup workaround nor do I have constant crashes on illium.
That on the other hand shows that some problems are caused by specific hard and software configurations, and not by the game itself.I have to agree with @holger1405 in that I have played ME2 since release, and since I build my own PCs they aren't clean upgrades...by that I mean, I will upgrade a vid say this year and next year or two years later do the Mobo and CPU, later I will add or change a Hard Drive and so on. So in the time I have had ME2, I have gone through 3 CPUs, 3 Vid cards( I think, may just be two, but I think I upgraded right after getting ME2), and mulitple HDs and RAM configurations, as well as 3 different OP systems. I haven't ever had abnormal crashes on any planet, other than at end of Shadow Broker going back to Normandy, rest have been random and Illium isn't any worse than any other planet or location. So through about about 8-12 different computer configuration ME2 has been fairly stable, and very surprising that it still runs and looks as good as it does. Honestly, I have had many games that simply can't run anymore without some mod, hack or in some cases just will not run....so I would suggest following @ThandalNLyman suggestion and trying Origin digital download, as it will remove a great many issues with Win10 and optical/dvd/cd drives....I really think Microsoft is causing so many issues with optical drives in the effort to make them obsolete and forcing everything to go digital download....
Ok, this "dare" thing was a bit harsh and i am sorry. I was pissed because of the kasumi dlc loading file missing and casusing a crash, and of course i've reinstallied it from origin severel times. I was only pissed because of the dlc crash cause of missing files .
my pc being 'too good' for me2" was just icing on the cake.
For me too, never had any problems with my old computer and Windows 7. And now, with my new computer and Windows 10, i had already 2 crashes ( At the end of the Kasumi's DLC and at Illium under the office of Liara ). It is very annoying...
But thanks to you guys, i found the solution to the two problems.
For Illium: i put the game in Windows mode without the borders.
For Kasumi, you can find the solution on this web site.
So changing the sound settings does jack-*-*. Now I'll try everything else.
That did it. I only have to worry on Illium, right? Everywhere else is fine?
