The ME Bug List thread

Good to see you have your bonus powers back, hopefully to stay with your new Shepard.

Hopefully the same thing will happen as well with your Unwavering Achievement.

Here's a new one for me: I can't land on Feros. Yes, I'm already a Spectre. I went there and the option to land was absent.

I haven't checked and I went to Therum instead.  I'll go back but I've been immersed in my 10 hours trial of MEA.  

EDIT: Went back and the "Land" option was available.

Not sure if this is a bug or not, but I am curious none the less. The past two days I hat moments where enemies who where on a elevated attack position and where hit but not dead would stay in cover? No matter how long I waited they would simply not pop up again? Even if I kept Shepard and the squad members in a open place they would do nothing. I tried using Pull / Slam and the M-77 Missile launcher, but I or my squad members could not kill them either? ( Despite the fact that those enemies hat half or less then that in health left?

fessels: I don't recall encountering that bug. BTW, a lot of people are probably playing MEA right now and not noticing this thread.

Mass Effect 3, Xbox One (backwards compatibility), Original disks, insanity difficulty

This is the first time I've ever encounter this bug in more than 30 playthroughs. When trying to complete the Citadel: Chemical Treatment side quest, Dr. Silon is responding as though I have already given him the treatment (which I did collect on Cyone). That is, he is thanking Shepard. However, the task is not showing as complete in the journal. After several tries, I even went back to an earlier save and redid the Cyone mission without any luck. The task simply will not log as complete even though the doc is behaving like I have completed it.

I'd try the repair option on Origin.  See if that fixes anything that might have gone wrong.  Will probably remove any mods you have but at least the game should play.

SOLVED: It was... wait for it...

Damn AVG lol. Disabled that and it started up just fine. Damn wild goose chase and that's what it turned out to be. smh. lol

Soo, those have been a pain for me sometimes and I found a fix for every single one of them. They're all for PC.

ME1:

To fix missing lava textures on Therum (Taken from a post that I saved. Credit goes to whoever found this out!)
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It appears this this is now fixed for fresh downloads of the game. It looks like they may removed the cached shader files mentioned below from the master download list.

However, it's possible the problem may still be encountered after installing the Bring Down the Sky DLC. Same solution applies.
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This affects everyone with the Steam version of the game, so if a mod could sticky this so we stop getting posts about it I'd be thankful.

If, when you land on the planet Therum, you're seeing a bunch of black spaces, there is any easy task you can do to fix this.

Cause of Problem:
Mass Effect compiles and caches shaders into special files as needed while the game is running. The first patch for the game included some shader changes that necessitated the shaders being recompiled for the Therum textures to show up correctly. To recompile the shaders, you simply delete the cache files. For whatever reason (probably just a simple accident) when you download the Steam version of the game it already includes cached shader files built on the pre-patch version of the game (it shouldn't include them at all).


To Fix:
There's an automatic and manual way to correct the problem, they both ultimately have the same result of deleting the cached shader files.

To Automatically Delete the Files
On Windows XP: Assuming you have Steam installed to the default directory, navigate to folder: C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\mass effect\Binaries\ and run MassEffectConfig.exe. On the left hand sidebar, select the Repair option. Click the Delete Local Shader Cache Files button. That's it, you can close the config program and start the game normally.

On Windows Vista: For some reason the Repair option is not available by default in Vista. Navigate to the same folder listed above, and right click on MassEffectConfig.exe and select properties. Go the Compatbility tab activate the checkbox to run in compatiblity mode for Windows XP. Select OK and double-click the EXE as normal. Select Repair and Delete Local Shader Cache Files as above.


To Manually Delete the Files
The file you need to delete is in two different locations.
Delete the file named LocalShaderCache-PC-D3D-SM3.upk in the following directories:

<your user directory>\My Documents\BioWare\Mass Effect\Published\CookedPC\

C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\mass effect\BioGame\CookedPC\

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ME2:

If Jarrahe Station quest keep crashing for you, be sure to have updated your game to the latest version

After playing the Arrival DLC, the Mass Relays cutscenes are muted. Just reload the game to fix it.


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ME3: There is a ladder on the Leviathan DLC that Shepard can't climb down. Putting the game on a 800x600 resolution fixes that.