Rendering fault message (using MEUITM graphics mod)

@seancass35

The mode will work, but the game will most probably look not as good as with the edited BioEngine.ini.

Did you installed the LAA patch?

Do the errors only occur in cut scene?

Also double check for typos in the BioEngine.ini.

Yes. The LAA patch was applied to mass effect.exe.
Yes. The crashes occur in the cutscenes
As far has bioengine.ini there was no typos as I only changed values that were shown on a video guide on YouTube and didn't add any new lines. If you would want to take a look I can send you my bioengine.ini file to have a look at

@seancass35

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@seancass35 wrote:

 If you would want to take a look I can send you my bioengine.ini file to have a look at

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Ok, copy the content of the "bioengine.ini" into a text file and load it up.

You can do that  with the "Choose File"  button at the bottom right corner of the reply window. 

In the mean time Move the "bioengine.ini" out of the folder and test if the crashes still occur.

here it is

Also I read somewhere I don't know if it was here or on another forum that using Afterburner MSI sometimes causes these crashes. but anyway take a look at the file and see if there is anything wrong

@seancass35

You should also change the entries for the Dynamic Shadow Fix:

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

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Apart from that, do you use a 64bit Windows?

Do you use SweetFX or a similar tool?

The only interaction between Afterburner and the game would be the overlay (FPS) from RivaTuner. You can test this easily by shutting down afterburner and test afterwards.  

Still, overclocking the GPU could cause such problems too, so if you overclock set the GPU back to the factory settings to make sure.

Did you tested the Game with a standard BioEngine.ini?

@seancass35

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@seancass35 wrote:
Using a un modded bioengine.ini still caused crashes. My os is windows 10 64 bit and I.am using reshade with sweetfx. I have the executable running as admin and comparability set to windows xp sp3

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Did the game not run without the comparability settings?

I also would suggest to move the corresponding .DLLs for reshade with sweetfx from the ME1 folder > test. 

Before I change those values there are two entries for DepthBias, MinShadowResolution, and MaxShadowResolution. it occurs in [Engine.Engine] which is where I changed the values and [Engine.GameEngine] which I left alone. and I regards to your SweetFX and Reshade the only files I see are SweetFX.fx. and Reshade.fx in the Mass Effect Binaries folder

Think I fixed it....I went and totally closed Afterburner MSI and RivaTuner and ran the game and got through all the conversations on the Normandy without crashes. Hopefully it will stay that way. Thanks again for your help

@seancass35

Good to here, you're welcome, and thanks for the XP.

@SweetFX and Reshade

There should be a "d3d9.dll" in the Binaries folder, that is the injector for Reshade. To make sure you can look st the file description, it should say "Crosire's ReShade post-processing injector".

@Afterburner

You could try to disable the Origin overly if you have it enabled and then test if afterburner still causes the crashes. Of course only if you want Afterburner to run with ME1.