Mass Effect PC Patch 1.02 Released

The good news: Your saved game will be used for MassEffect2

The bad news: Now that the gfx power of my PC > consoles I will want to play MassEffect2 on my PC. (I switch over from one to the other as my primary platform ~every 5 years)

The even worse news: I played and replayed the fuck out of MassEffect on Xbox360 and the idea of doing it all over again on PC just to prepare for MassEffect2 is not a fun one.

"* -The issue where PCs with NVIDIA GeForce 8xxx and above video cards were experiencing random General Protection Fault crashes appears to have been fixed with the GeForce 182.06+ drivers. Please ensure when playing Mass Effect that all PC drivers are up to date. "

8xxx GeForce, only the most popular line of cards at the time of the game's release.

Hope that whoever argued that the game was fine feels like an idiot now.

Also hope BioWare burns to the ground for releasing a patch almost a year later to a substantially broken game.

Before I waste my download limit, can anyone who hasn't had the game working before confirm that it's fixed now?

i hope they fix the 360s file system where i can actually delete game saves. i have so many and i've brought it up more than once and no response. i dont know which character i want to play with anymore.

Shack says that the patch is "..fully compatible with the Steam version.." and Bioware says that it is not. I hope folks catch the mistake before borking their install.

http://meforums.bioware.com/viewtopic.html?topic=691254&forum=127&sp=0

"Low LOD on Garrus' face has been addressed " YAY

Garrus texture only partially fixed. Looks better on the model, but still not fixed in cutscenes and squad menus.

Shadows look to have been improved, but nothing too dramatic.

Good to know. I loved it, but I had to stop playing this game because of the constant crashes it'd have on my otherwise flawless system. Time to reinstall, I guess.

I've played this through 3 times and it has never crashed. Watch now that I'm downloading this update, that it causes issues after I install it. :S

I didn't have any problems with GRID until after an update, then it would give me an error on exit --not a big deal I guess.

Ok, my cd-key does not work after the patch O_o [got the original]

Did they ever remove the DRM from this game? Ive been wanting to try it but can't bring myself to buy it.

The only issue I had was the stuck overheat bug. It was annoying, but I just compensated by being more careful to not overheat my weapons.

* The pixilated bloom and DoF on Radeon x1650 and x1950 cards has been addressed

what about x1800xt !!! :( going to reinstall the game and check it out

Heh, this just made my morning. I bought Mass Effect for the PC the moment it got our, played it for one full evening and got stuck on some stupid bug on some planet and ragequit.

Well, I dug up the game just 2 days back and while I've enjoyed it, many of the bugs listed in the fixes there have bothered me. Also got stuck a second time, this time around luckily had a relatively fresh backup save.

So... better late than never I guess.

I wonder if they ever fixed the weapon staying overheated bug.

I assume since this is so late it probably gets released now in preperation for the DLC that info has been leaking about on the Xbox side.

Oh yes! I really hope this fixes my FPS stuttering I get. Please, I really enjoy this game but it's unplayable for me. Going to install this tonight.

Stealth patch release!!! Only roughly seven months late but I'll take it.