Patch Notes and PC System Specs

I keep getting the odd CTD in multiplayer only, such a pain in the butt when it happens on the final wave and you end up with nothing

Every few minutes the game stutters, or the frame will feeeze for a second before continuing. This results in very choppy cutscenes where i end up missing whats going on (like Peebee tackling Ryder) and also affects combat and general exploring.


Same thing that can be seen in this video:


Stuttering occurs mostly during cutscenes and ALOT on the tempest, like without fail will stutter several times whilst im there.

Also occurs very occasionally during combat, but cutscenes and tempest are the biggest problems.

I play with most settings on medium except textures and meshes on high.
I know my rig can handle it because my FPS is usually 45-53 without any dips when the stutters occur.

Intel Core i7-4710MQ 4-Core 2.5GHz

Nvidia GeForce GTX 980M 8GB

8GB DDR3

1TB HDD

Any other PC players experiencing a mouse cursor glitch?

My cursor continuously remains on screen after dialogue options or appears in the middle of the screen during standard cutscenes (like the Tempest flying to the Nexus). The only way to get rid of it is by opening the pause menu and moving the mouse to the side of the screen, but even then, that can sometimes take a couple tries to get it to disappear.

Haha - the door thing is funny/irritating.

The mouse glitch is certainly a trivial issue but it does ruin the immersion for me when (like you noted) you might be watching a serious scene and an arrow is trying to pick someone's nose.

Open up the console (should be the tilde key, or \ on some EU keyboards) and type in each of these commands pressing return on each one.


PerfOverlay.DrawFps True
PerfOverlay.Enable True
PerfOverlay.DrawCpuGraph True
PerfOverlay.DrawGpu True

It will show a lot of performance info. Close the console pressing the same key, then walk around in the Tempest or start a few conversations/cutscenes and watch the graphs and numbers. Things should be steady, but if you see sudden stutters because frame times skyrocket and GPU/CPU load go down, it means your hardware is throttling either for hitting a power or thermal limit. You are playing on a laptop and I can guarantee that this game pushes your hardware more than any other game I know of, so you will need some seriously good cooling to keep things under control (which is not what laptops are known for).

Either dial down the settings or get a better system, there isn't much around it. The game is very taxing because of how it is made, no patch will ever bring this down. At best you can hope for some drivers optimizations in a few months or so, but this won't make your laptop run any better when under full load.

Sadly I can't help, but I'd like to add I have a similar problem to the second with Truth and Trespasses. I ran away from the Scavenger spawn point at Elaadan because I was getting taken apart by them and was looking for a better position. They even followed me, but it still seems to have confused the game that I moved too far away. Interestingly enough, I was able to continue the quest after killing the Scavengers and speaking with the plot-important NPC, "Defeat the Scavengers" is just still stuck in my journal as open even though the subsequent mission points are checked. So far, I can only recommend never leaving a mission "area" once it's triggered, it seems to totally throw the game off and the journal doesn't always correspond with what the game is actually doing. Very frustrating, that.

Are you on a 1070? Playing in 2160p is hell currently. I thought Witcher 3 would be demanding, I get 45 - 60 FPS with good high settings there, but MEA doesn't even run on lowest details. A 1070 can't even handle 1440p with everything maxed. And it can't even compete Witcher 3 faces and overall graphics. It looks nice, but not so nice that this performance would be justificable.

And just to add to that it now appears the journal doesn't think I have outposts on Eos or Veold, even when I'm standing in them.

I got ME:A a couple of days ago but each time I tried to launch it I got a crash related to MSVCR120.dll.

Someone at EA's Answers HQ had the same problem and fixed it by updating their GPU drivers and installing Windows' SP1.

Reinstalling SP1 also seems to have worked for another user that responded, but another tried reinstalling ME:A entirely, verifying it, and even reinstalling Win7, and still couldn't fix this particular crash at launch.

Considering my drivers are all updated and I have Win7 Ultimate x64, I tried reinstalling Vcredist, reinstalling Origin, and repairing ME:A. Nothing worked and I had to ask for a refund, which is a shame because some of ME:A's SP gameplay mechanics seem really appealing to me (farming, crafting, unlocking areas, open worlds, etc).

Did anyone else have this issue? How did you manage to solve it?


(Thanks in advance)

@repiloidgod Running a 980ti. Ran 1440p perfectly fine with all at ultra minus post processing on low cause I can't stand blur and dof. So wanted to test out it's limits.Had to toss a few more things down to high but did fine anywhere except the tempest. The parts of the ships with Windows just kills it.

I've got 249 hours of smooth gameplay with my 1070 at 1440p - everything maxed.

16 gigs ddr3 1600
i7 4770k @ 3.5Ghz