Patch Notes and PC System Specs

Sorry for the delay I am in Australia.

Just MEA

So i finally started playing the game again. Haven't beaten it since it first came out, and back then my performance was fine. 45 - 60 fps constantly with most settings on ultra, some small things like shadows dropped to medium.Well now my performance is terrible, or atleast on EoS. I am down around 25 fps at the worst, and yeah its unplayable. My system is by no means a god send, but its better than this. There has to an issue somewhere. So some guidance/help would be nice. Or maybe someone is experiencing the same thing?

My specs

Windows 10
AMD 8350 FX
GTX 970 4GB
16 DDR3 Ram

Game is installed on a normal HDD and not an SSD. Loading times are fairly quick, and this shouldn't have anything to say on performance.

1.07 is a "hotfix." In the day, this meant to me that you download a file, execute it, and it replaced snippets of relevant code in a matter of seconds. Not sure what happened with 1.07. It seemed to download the entire game, inspected, then installed. This took a while, maybe about 10-15 minutes. The big difference between the two is that old style involved user choice. But like the 1.07 fix, it automatically updated from 1.06. I can't remember, but I think 1.05 and 1.06 I had a choice whether to update or not. Losing the "choice" bothers me a little, but it's a growing trend, writ large in Windows 10 and devolving to storefronts like Origin and Steam, and browsers. Of course, most still allow you to decide whether you want auto-update or not.

I can't find anything specific about 1.07 other than it fixed the SOS mission and various unnamed bugs.  Also, they may have turned up the music or added some.  I'm hearing background music that I don't think I heard in the first playthrough.

So do we know when the game is expected to be patched with all those promised fixes yet? Kind of waiting on playing the game until then. Most likely will start a new game too.

OK so a new bug for me today. anyone else encounter when you start the game that the load screens look darker than usual and that when you go in game that the sun glare brightness thing is a permanent feature making the game unplayable?

I thought maybe it was because I was on Elaaden but travelled and on the ship the contrast is the opposite everything is really dark.

Seriously getting sick of these types of problems.

Running a repair as I type so will see if that fixes it.

OK, what is weird is that going back through my saves I noticed all the pictures next to the saves had a big white area like it was over exposed.

Anyway either some of my settings changed between when I shut down yesterday and started up again today (maybe the Origin Update?) but after doing an uninstall and reinstall the issue still existed.

In settings I told the game to reset to default and OMG was that horrible to view. So when I went back through all the graphics and video output settings it appears that the main one affecting it was that the game had changed to windowed borderless instead of full screen and that the screen calibration had changed significantly. When I set the game to auto detect it also changed the screen resolution to the proper setting which when I was going through it manually didn't seem to come up as an option but I may have just missed it.

I have no idea why the settings would change via an Origin update but that appears to be the only thing that could have done it.


Anyway I am playing again - yay.

I use a GTX 770 OC 2GB and have never had this error.

Sorry I am not cluey enough to help but I hope someone can help you out soon, as I have been feeling the same pain of late with regards to tech issues in MEA.

This issue with drivers I have had previously. I use GeForce Experience to do my driver updates.

All settings maxed @ 1080p, ME:A never dips below 80fps, averages around ~120 fps, and maxes out around ~200 fps. The game is graphically stunning tbh.
The vast delta between min & max framerate is most likely caused by how wildly varying different parts are in the game, either due to pure graphic intensity or poor optimization in certain areas.

These results are with the rig in my sig. Full specs can be found in me bio.

Conclusion: the game is either very graphically intensive or poorly optimized in some areas but plays well on top-of-the-line systems.

Yay for bi Jaal.