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I'm ~20 hours in. Just got this for the first time today.
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This one brought to my attention by dpp on the Idle Forums ( http://www.idlethumbs.net/forums/showpost.php?p=131191&postcount=107 )
Apparently when you are loading a save, the game will continue to play the bink video until it has finished playing unlike the Normandy elevator videos and a few others that get skipped as soon as the game is done loading.
This may not bother most of you, but if you plan on playing Insanity or are currently playing Insanity, you might be sitting through this unskippable video constantly when loading your last save.
- The main load video is in the game's /Movies folder, labeled load_f01.bik. You can't just rename the extension or delete it straight up like you can with the pre-game splash screen vids, the game will crash if you do when loading a save.
- So what you want to do is make your own bink video using the "Rad Video Tools" - you can make one out of anything, even a static blank picture file for a 1 frame video that gets looped until the game is loaded a couple seconds later rather than a dozen+ I personally changed mine to a screenshot of Shepard I took from the beginning of the game and it's ridiculous how much faster the loads are. If you'd rather not make your own video, you can copy & rename the load_f99.bik to loadf01.bik, it's in the same folder and it's the Mass Effect title screen, only a few seconds long.
I haven't noticed yet, but there might be some other unskippable load screens that do nothing but increase the load times you experience, you can obviously do the same with those if you want to.
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