Post by mycroft on May 14, 2017 0:57:05 GMT
Hey All.
New to the Forums here. Glad to see people didn't want to let the 16 years of the BSN forums just disappear completely. Where there's a will, there's a way, right?
In any event, I didn't see this already posted, so hopefully it will be useful to many of you. Back when the PC version of Mass Effect was released, the adapting company (Demiurge) did a decent job, but for PC's with AMD CPU's, they programmed a certain call to it (to the 3DNow! function I believe.) which worked fine until AMD dumped that function with their newer processors.
This resulted in many users experiencing huge black 'blobs' for many characters & items. This happened both in Noveria & Ilos. The graphics bug was so bad it rendered combat nearly unplayable. Eventually someone came up with an .ini workaround, turning off some effects to at least make the black blobs the exact shape of characters & items. Much better, but still annoying. Especially because if you wanted to enjoy those additional graphics for the rest of the game, you had to shut the game down, edit the .ini file, then start it up again. Later when the bug stopped, you had to repeat the process. It was better than no workaround, but still far less than desirable.
However, I recently stumbled across an FPS Counter program that also adds a number of graphical tweaks, including seamlessly eliminating the Black Blob problem. For your enjoyment, I present-
www.nexusmods.com/masseffect/mods/71/?tab=2&navtag=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nexusmods.com%2Fmasseffect%2Fajax%2Fmodfiles%2F%3Fid%3D71&pUp=1
(FPS Counter and Post Processing Effects)
Enjoy!
New to the Forums here. Glad to see people didn't want to let the 16 years of the BSN forums just disappear completely. Where there's a will, there's a way, right?
In any event, I didn't see this already posted, so hopefully it will be useful to many of you. Back when the PC version of Mass Effect was released, the adapting company (Demiurge) did a decent job, but for PC's with AMD CPU's, they programmed a certain call to it (to the 3DNow! function I believe.) which worked fine until AMD dumped that function with their newer processors.
This resulted in many users experiencing huge black 'blobs' for many characters & items. This happened both in Noveria & Ilos. The graphics bug was so bad it rendered combat nearly unplayable. Eventually someone came up with an .ini workaround, turning off some effects to at least make the black blobs the exact shape of characters & items. Much better, but still annoying. Especially because if you wanted to enjoy those additional graphics for the rest of the game, you had to shut the game down, edit the .ini file, then start it up again. Later when the bug stopped, you had to repeat the process. It was better than no workaround, but still far less than desirable.
However, I recently stumbled across an FPS Counter program that also adds a number of graphical tweaks, including seamlessly eliminating the Black Blob problem. For your enjoyment, I present-
www.nexusmods.com/masseffect/mods/71/?tab=2&navtag=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nexusmods.com%2Fmasseffect%2Fajax%2Fmodfiles%2F%3Fid%3D71&pUp=1
(FPS Counter and Post Processing Effects)
Enjoy!
