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Rappeldrache
9 years ago

Re: (Still) Rendering thread exception problem - does this help?

It could be ... that I have a solution .... I played today about 4 hours on the citadel without an crash .... I have installed everything new, but I thing the solution was this here. I quote:

"Additional graphical improvements can be had with the following Bioengine.ini tweaks (these are not required to run the mod and these tweaks will work with vanilla Mass Effect)
Important: bioengine.ini tweak to fix many normal maps in the game without requiring TexMod. This file is located: x:\\Users\\xxx\\Documents\\BioWare\\Mass Effect\\Config

**Note any typos will break the game and cause crashes so be careful here** All mistakes can be fixed but if you avoid typos it will save a headache in the long run.
Typos here will typically display an error message along the lines of "attempting to load unused mip #0 for texture2D" at crash. If you see that check for typos there is no other cause.

Find the following 3 entries:
TEXTUREGROUP_Character_Diff=(MinLODSize=32,MaxLODSize=512,LODBias=0)
TEXTUREGROUP_Character_Norm=(MinLODSize=32,MaxLODSize=512,LODBias=0)
TEXTUREGROUP_Character_Spec=(MinLODSize=32,MaxLODSize=256,LODBias=0)

And change them to:
TEXTUREGROUP_Character_Diff=(MinLODSize=512,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0)
TEXTUREGROUP_Character_Norm=(MinLODSize=512,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0)
TEXTUREGROUP_Character_Spec=(MinLODSize=256,MaxLODSize=4096,LODBias=0)

This will allow you the highest detailed normal maps the game can render without needing TexMod which allows me not to have to modify many many normal maps.

Dynamic Shadow Fix
Use the following Bioengine.ini tweaks:

Find the following entries:
DepthBias=0.030000 or(0.012 if you restored to pre-official 1.2 patch values)
MinShadowResolution=32
MaxShadowResolution=512
ShadowFilterQualityBias=0

And change them to:
DepthBias=0.006000
MinShadowResolution=32
MaxShadowResolution=4096
ShadowFilterQualityBias=4

(this is NOT from me, it's from here: http://www.nexusmods.com/masseffect/mods/1/?tab=1&navtag=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nexusmods.com%2Fmasseffect%2Fajax%2Fmoddescription%2F%3Fid%3D1%26preview%3D&pUp=1 )

The error I made - Attention please:

The 4 lines to chance at the "Dynamic Shadow Fix" are NOT togehter. The last line stands alone (search a little bit). And all 4 lines have to be chanced TWICE!! Two times.

Thanks for your attention - if it don't work, I'll will be back .... 😇

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  • holger1405's avatar
    holger1405
    Hero+
    9 years ago

    @Rappeldrach

     

    @Rappeldrache wrote:

    The error I made - Attention please:

    The 4 lines to chance at the "Dynamic Shadow Fix" are NOT togehter. The last line stands alone (search a little bit). And all 4 lines have to be chanced TWICE!! Two times.

     That is indeed a common mistake when it comes to changes in the "BIOEngine.ini" for MEUITM. But then the game should have run with a vanilla "BIOEngine.ini" without problems.

  • Rappeldrache's avatar
    Rappeldrache
    9 years ago

    @holger1405

    I had thre same error with a vanilla game. Fresh installation, NO mods. ☹️

    UPDATE:

    I still have the error, BUT not sooo often as before. And I found a little trick witch helps me to play a "80% normal game" . When I talk to somebody and you can ask this NPC about more topics (left side of the dialouge wheel): There are a few keyswords you can talk about. I NEVER ask for more than two! Than I quit the talk, quicksave, start the talk again, two keywords, leave talk and so on ... Sometimes it happen that I crash also in a normal talk, but this happen not really often. I'm really happy that I have the option to quicksave.

    A friend of mine try to find out where this problem come from ... if we (he) could solve it ..... I will wirte here if he found a solution or a further information.

  • holger1405's avatar
    holger1405
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    9 years ago

    @Rappeldrache

    Please go to your Reliability monitor (Press the windows key and "R" at the same time and copy or type "perfmon /rel" (without the quotes) in > ENTER and look if it has ME entries.

     If yes double click at the last one, copy it to the clipboard, (Bottom left corner) save it to a text file and load it up together with the DxDiag. You can do that with the "choose file" button at the bottom right corner of the reply window.

  • Rappeldrache's avatar
    Rappeldrache
    9 years ago

    I just finished Mass Effect 1 .... and I could play ... a bit, with me: "Don't ask to mutch-trick". It was not easy and I got a few crashes, but I finally got it ....

    So I will move on to Mass Effect 2 now .... sorry. ☹️

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    I've been having the same issue as the guy above. I tried his solution in the end but it didn't do anything. I don't really know what to do. I attached a pic with the exact problem that displays. 

    Thread exception

    unused mip #0 for Texture 2D

    and so on. 

    The pic has the actual lines but yeah. I'm lost.

    May I also add that I'm using MEIUTM and ALOT texture mods. I really don't feel like reinstalling but if I have to then maybe.

  • holger1405's avatar
    holger1405
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    8 years ago

    @Oilujreyes

    This is with high probability a mod problem.

    Did you edited the ME1 INI files?

    Do you have a backup of your vanilla game files?

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