Patch Notes and PC System Specs

Pretty much anything you download has undergone some kind of file compression. Files are made smaller by getting rid of redundant/repeated information but including instructions on how to reconstruct them. (Disclaimer: My technical knowledge is lacking and this may not be the best explanation)  

hi am new to pc gaming. i have an msi GL62 6QF laptop Link- www.msi.com/Laptop/GL62-6Qf.html#hero-overview
it has
intel core i7
nvidia GTX960M
wondering if its better to play on this or ps4.

In total there are 16 options that affect image quality, most of which have several detail levels. Additionally, Mass Effect: Andromeda players with a HDR television, or a G-SYNC HDR monitor, can enable the best implementation of HDR seen to date on PC with one flick of a switch in the Video menu.


It's funny that we haven't heard anything about DX12, after the noise that DICE was making about wanting all Frostbite games to require it.

Good evening, Talon. Thanks for your reply. That's nice to know that HDR will be implemented into ME:A (though HDR PC monitors are few and far between, and what few are out there are quite expensive...As for DX 12- I think you're right. I was thinking that same thing not long ago....DICE made noise about it, and it is supposedly a staple in Windows 10 (like DX 11 was for Windows 7- built right into it), so why have we yet to find anything that actually uses DX 12? And Vulcan- both my 980s and now my new 1080FTW2 have Vulcan, so why can't I use it yet? What's the point of having all these fancy APIs and other tech if software developers never bother to take advantage of them? I mean, it could be years before Vulcan or DX 12 is in use, and by then something newer and better will have come along....And so the vicious cycle repeats itself.

10:35 pm...I just read a post about Nvidia's up-coming (TRUE 4K; not this UHD stuff that they market as 4K) 144hz + G-Sync+HDR-10 monitors that are due out in Q2 2017....But some have said that for the 27 to 32" panels you're gonna be looking at at least 2 or 3 thousand (and the only two companies slated to bring them out at the start are ASUS and ACER)....Personally I would take the ACER Predator line-up...But I don't have three thousand to blow on a monitor.

But one can dream...

See the link I posted a little further up the page.

www.pcgamer.com/mass-effect-andromedas-recommended-system-predicted-to-run-30-fps-at-1080p/

Per usual, console versions will be a mix of low-med-high depending on the individual settings. Shadows will be low, textures will probably be set to high for important things and medium for others; draw distance and anti-aliasing will take significant hits, etc.

Console games are never a "drop everything to a specific PC equivalent setting."

From what I saw of the settings, they're mostly identical.

A reviewer on reddit said they're getting 45-60fps at 1080p with all settings on Ultra with a gtx 980m. www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/5yxlmx/mass_effect_andromeda_has_been_shipped_out_to/deu7db3/

Good to hear, imo

These system requirements look crazy. If my RX480 with an i7 6700 won't be enough for more then 30fps on 1080p thats piss poor.

No DX12 because NVidia is not that strong in it (async compute), and with the Vega around the corner it would be problematic especially when they are working with NVidia this time
And this kinda suck, as DX12/Vulcan can use CPU multicores much better.
At least I hope they will not put too much of GameWorks ''features'' in Andromeda 

Eh, I wouldn't call them weasel words - and I was no fan of their market speak for ME3. Sounds more like an honest assessment... matches up with my experience with pc gaming.