The Very Best ME:A Screenshot Thread (with tips)

Yes, I would very much like to know...just hopefully it's not beyond my scope of knowledge. 

OMG!!
Does this mean I can finally update my game to 1.05 so I can hear party banter again?! 

*jumps on the Nomad bandwagon*

Looks like the Cinematic Tools are working beautifully!!!   Hurray!





Next stop.... tackling Reshade.

CT working perfectly in 1.05, yay!
Still can use it on the Tempst though but that's okay. 

Finally got around to do Peebee's loyalty mission. Here's some screen archery. 





Bonus picture

I'll test the updated tools tonight! Also, I tried using Reshade the other day with 1.05 and it worked but it made my game so slow. I didn't have any problems with the frames, it just took more than 5 minutes to load the game when I opened it and same thing when I went to load a save. I don't know if it's because it was the first time using Reshade in that game but... damn. That's so slow.

Let me start by saying I have no experience with reshade or any of the other tools you guys are using...

But the load issue maybe a bug. Ever since the last update from time to time when I launch a the game it takes forever to load. And if I let it go it will load slow on every transition from then out and any load games from then out. I have started opening task manager and closing the game when it starts slow, and restarting. And the game works fine. Doesn't seem to happen real often. But enough that I looked for a way around it. Like you the game worked fine, just any load would take a couple minutes.

Anyway as I said I don't use any of the programs mentioned so the person maybe right and it is just a reshade problem. Just thought I would throw this out there since it sounded similar to my problem but I don't use any of that stuff.

Proof:





The CinTools dof only works outside the window. I can't get ReShade's dof to work on the Tempest (2.0.3). The CinTools vignette controls seem to do nothing, that I can see anyway. Everything else seems to work fine. I think the reset button just throws you back out into deep space where the camera sits when you are pulled out in the system map, but dark, which is why it seems like it doesn't work. It doesn't recognise you, the player character, as the zero point for the camera, but rather your point of view when looking at the map, regardless of whether you're using the map or not. At least I *think* that's what's going on.

Yeah, I don't know why it's not working. I updated to the latest version, but no dice. No matter, MSI Afterburner seems to be working just fine, with no lag in taking the shot like I had with fraps. I like that Bandicam is so small and light, but Afterburner doesn't seem to be causing any problems so fingers crossed.

The Tempest seems to be giving me more frame rate drops post-patch. Annoying, but not a huge problem.

The Cinematic Tools work as above on all other parts of the Tempest. You're inside the sun, like on the bridge, but you can't see it when you activate it. Keep the hud turned on, face an interactable E button, pause the game, enable freecam, and navigate towards the E and you'll eventually pop up in the ship. Not all areas load at the same time. The hanger, drive core room, main corridor, vid com meeting room, and r&d/strike team room all load together, as do any squad mate rooms off those as long as the doors are open. If you try to go into the pathfinder quarters though, for example, it's just a black space.

I use Afterburner for my overclocking and fan profiles but I didn't particularly care for it for screenshots. I've tried it with other games and found that it wasn't always reliable. In addition, I don't like that you have to install the extra RivaTuner Statistics server in order to use those functions. If you don't care about screen capture or an on-screen display, you can install just the base AfterBurner, which is nice. 

Yay. Cinematic tools works again.
I have to enable it sometimes before it will let me start the game. I still get the yellow text saying I am using direct x12. But if I toggle enable the game starts right up.