unstable game '' Mass Effect ''

Hello every one I have long browsed this awesome website; surely it's a haven for gamers of all ages.

I have recently bought the action / RPG game ''Mass Effect'' for PCs yet I am having many difficulties with it. The game is highly unstable on my machine. Every 5 minutes it crashes or before long cut sense.

Does any one have any advice? I don't think it's my computer it surpasses the system requirements for that particular game.

Is there a program or an update I need to download / install to stabilize the game?

Note: I didn't update the game or download any patches, since its not a MMO I don't think I need to.

Thanks in advance for your feed back.

mass effect does tend to have a few issues, especially with Nvidia cards, i experienced similar problems with crashing,

i found few posts on several forums saying that rolling back the graphics driver to july 2007 release it works. I did so and it did help

so maybe just give that a try

I reinstalled the game, applied the patch and decreased my video settings. But still the bug crashes the game on me :cry:.

And I can't run the game again until I restart my machine!

It says some thing like this; Generation protection fault (file not found)

Please if any one has any insight on this matter, help me out I really want to enjoy this game. Thank you very much for your support.

The game constantly crashes on me, any advice people? Please.scerab

Well I have downloaded the one patch an another 300 MB which is supposed to be for extra content. I decreased my video settings, I hope I see some results it's been a while since I enjoyed an RPG with a good game play and a decent story line. Ah man I give any thing to go back to the good old days the days of Boulder's gate 2! Thank you very much for your support guys I will keep you updated! Let's hope the game works Note; my video card might be bit old it's a 9600 G-force 1024 MB, do I need to upgrade it for this game? scerab

Actually, a lot of people on the Mass Effect boards have complained about problems appearing after patching the game and adding the bonus content. It seems that either the patch or the DLC introduces some problems, especially with Nvidia cards. One solution that has worked for some people is to roll back your video drivers to release 169.24, that's been reported to work in some cases. Apparently, there is some kind of conflict with the newer Nvidia drivers, Bioware may have goofed. Another solution is to uninstall the game, then reinstall it, but don't patch it or add the DLC. It's seems kind of counter intuitive to not patch the game, but in this case the patch caused more problems than it solved. I, for one, never saw a single problem until I patched the game. After applying the patch, it crashed within 15 minutes every time.

The good news is that supposedly BioEA is making a new patch that should be released "soon" for all versions of the game. There are no details on the patch yet, but rumor has it that the patch will include an activation revoke tool (not enough to fix the criminal DRM, but maybe a start) and will hopefull correct the most major crash bugs. It's been a long time coming, and there's no excuse for that, but hopefully it'll correct the problems. I'm not holding my breath, though.

Yeah I had this "general protection error" that caused the game to crash every now and then, a lot of people on the official boards seemed to have it too. Patching helped a bit, but it never fully went away...

Great game btw!