Mass Effect

[masonyes]

I was wondering what are the lowest system specs that any of you have played Mass Effect on?
My cpu and ram are fine, however my video-card is out-dated.

Here are my specs
Pentium 4 3 Gigahertz
1 gig of ram
radeon 9800xt 256 megabytes!!

[deathclaw]

what about trying this

http://www.google.com/search?client=ope ... 8&oe=utf-8

and then this

http://masseffect.bioware.com/forums/vi ... &forum=125

[Doc]

You could also try this:

http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest

[Pulsar_t]

http://masseffect.bioware.com/forums/vi ... &forum=125

You'll need a Pixel Shader 3 compliant GPU (Geforce 6+, Radeon X1000+) to run ME and most other games using the Unreal 3 Engine. I also found that you'll need DDR3 memory (Video RAM, that is) for UE3 games to load textures fast enough, otherwise you'll get a lot of pop-in texture artifacts like those witnessed in the 360 version.

[masonyes]

I read that article about pixel shader 3, what about 3d analyze. Isn't it possible to emulate 3.0.

I can borrow the game, so I my as well try it and I'll let you guys know lol.

[PharmaceuticalCowboy]

9800xt has pixel shader 3.0 support. I say get at least another gig of RAM and you'll be good to go. Also, DDR3 RAM is presently slower than DDR2.

[Pulsar_t]

PS 3.0 wasn't even around in 2003 when the 9800XT was released (it's not even 100% DirectX 9b compliant afaik).. unless ATI supports it through a trick in their drivers.

And care to explain how DDR3 is slower than DDR2?

[PharmaceuticalCowboy]

PS 3.0 wasn't even around in 2003 when the 9800XT was released (it's not even 100% DirectX 9b compliant afaik).. unless ATI supports it through a trick in their drivers.

And care to explain how DDR3 is slower than DDR2?

You're right on both accounts, for some reason I thought I only needed a step up from my 9600xt to get that, I almost got a hacked version of Bioshock to work, so that's what I'm thinking of. Also, when DDR3 came out it was slower, but had a wider bandwidth, I see now that it is about twice as fast as DDR2... wonder why most people are still using DDR2 for system RAM then?

[Niode]

Because it's cheaper. You can get more ddr2 for the same price as ddr3.