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.
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. ☹️
