VERY LOW FPS MASS EFFECT 1
So, I bought the ME trilogy a few days ago, and am a couple hours in when I notice horrible framerate in most areas of the ME1 game outside of cinematics and dialogue, this confuses me because I have...
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Could you be more specific about your Nvidia card? A model number would be useful. http://www.wikihow.com/Find-Out-What-Graphics-Card-You-Have
Are you playing the game through a digital download client, like Origin or Steam?
My graphics card is a nvidia geforce 840m, I am playing through origin. I can run Ghost recon phantoms on gigh at nearly 50 FPS bu this game can barely hit 30. I just don't get it...
I tried using gamebooster on/off, didn't change anything. I used ccleaner, but that didn't help. I reinstalled and updated all drivers, I get 60 on borderlands maxed out 40-50 on GRP high, 60+ on CS GO maxed out, 120+ FPS on TF2 max, on skyrim I get around 30-40 maxed in its vanilla state. I can even run Hawken on high while getting a good 30-40 FPS. Mass effect is weird though, even on low, I get $#!TTY FPS on high the FPS stays the same but the textures look really terrible/pixelated for some reason. I just don't get why I can't run a game from 2007, but I can go crazy with my graphics settings on most modern titles. Not sure if any of this info helps...
The other titles you mentioned (Skyrim, Borderlands, TF2, CS:GO) are not at all demanding titles. I can imagine that your GPU can handle those games fairly well.
I find it hard to place that GPU on the scale of minimum to recommended specs. It has a much faster clock than the Geforce 6800 GT (the minimum card), but lower memory bandwidth. I'm not sure what the game performances should be like, but I think it should run it better than the minimum GPU. I've played the game on worse.
If you haven't already, turn off the Origin in-game overlay. It's in the Origin preferences. The overlay can serevery reduce performance, si always have it disabled in any game I play.I tried this, and my FPS is still crazy. I get anywhere from 6 to 35, but 22 on average. Anything else I could try?
*EDIT
I put all settings on low, and even dropped my res from 1920x1080 to 1680x1050, and FPS was still terrible. I don't have anything running in the background, and I haven't had any trouble playing other games today, (GRP and Space Engineers) I know most of these games are low demanding, but shouldnt ME1 be the same way??? I mean it was released in 2007, and like I said, most games don't give me trouble on max settings.
