Mass Effect 3

[Pezzle]

No stutter at all.  This game has not locked up or crashed once.  Rock solid, I give them that.

[Sjofn]

I didn't get any stuttering that I noticed, so alas, I cannot help you. I'm mostly just posting to show YES SOMEONE READ YOUR POST. Or something.

[Quinton]

Is anybody else getting horrific amounts of stuttering on the PC version? I turned off the fucking in-game Origin interface and that helped a bit but it's still really bad, especially during cut scenes. Is there anything else I can try to fix the problem?

I mostly see stutter on the transition cutscenes, which is jarring -- in theory they're playing that little movie to mask that the game's doing something but since it chokes it just draws more attention to the transitions. 

How do you disable the ingame Origin crap?   Is there some way to make the game not burn 10-20 seconds at launch chattering with the network *after* you already had to login to Origin to launch it?  Bleah.  Last thing I need is EA's crappy Steam clone.

[cironian]

How do you disable the ingame Origin crap?   Is there some way to make the game not burn 10-20 seconds at launch chattering with the network *after* you already had to login to Origin to launch it?  Bleah.  Last thing I need is EA's crappy Steam clone.

Don't you know anything? If they hadn't put in all those annoyances, then the game might have been cracked by now. Or something. [insert TPB link here]

Seriously, I've given up trying to follow the thoughts of DRM-addicted minds.

[UnSub]

How many cigarettes do you think I would have to smoke to sound like admiral Hackett?  It might be worth the cancer.

[Trippy]

How do you disable the ingame Origin crap?   Is there some way to make the game not burn 10-20 seconds at launch chattering with the network *after* you already had to login to Origin to launch it?  Bleah.  Last thing I need is EA's crappy Steam clone.

It's in the Origin app itself under the In Game tab in the Settings screen. That doesn't disable the ridiculous delay connecting to EA every time on the main menu screen, however.

[rk47]

Sir I have an origin ticket. Can i get on the mass effect 3 ride?

Sure step on in.

Sir, can u start the ride.

Wait a minute, let me make sure your ticket is legit.

But sir...

The ride will start when we're done checking the ticket. Sit tight, valued customers.

Grmblrblelblle.

[kildorn]

How do you disable the ingame Origin crap?   Is there some way to make the game not burn 10-20 seconds at launch chattering with the network *after* you already had to login to Origin to launch it?  Bleah.  Last thing I need is EA's crappy Steam clone.

It's in the Origin app itself under the In Game tab in the Settings screen. That doesn't disable the ridiculous delay connecting to EA every time on the main menu screen, however.

That idiotic delay is in ME2 as well, and fails about 80% of the time for me out of Steam. Could not contact EA servers! *hits enter to password screen* Oh, there they are!

The only logical explanation I have is that they're uploading my documents folder to EA central. Because anything else shouldn't take that freaking long.

[Engels]

Trippy, are you using dual monitors and an ATI card?

[Trippy]

Nope, single monitor running at 1080p with an NVIDIA GTX 560 Ti. Tried the latest NVIDIA drivers which supposedly has ME 3 optimizations (though mostly for SLI) and that didn't really help either.

[Simond]

Trippy, your computer is trying to do you a favour by making the game laggy and unplayable.
Listen to it.. 

[Bunk]

Wow, Simond, I'm starting to get this weird feeling that possibly you aren't a fan of the game. Would you like to post about it a few more times to tell us why?


*snark off*

Look, eveyone is more than welcome to express how they feel about games, positive or negative, it's what we do here. But just jumpining in with snarky troll-bait comments every page gets tired.

[Ingmar]

Especially when it seems fairly clear that you haven't played it.

[Bunk]

I've avoided reading most of this thread, due to lack of trust that you guys won't accidently spill some plot point that I really don't want to know, while complaining about how terribad the story is.

So here's my view of the game so far, about 20 hours of playtime in:

I know when I am done and look back on the whole experience, it's pretty likely that I am going to shit all over some of the major plot points as just being dumb. That being said, I'm enjoying the hell out the game. Yes, it feels more linear, but it feels "better crafted" as well. Cinematics blend in nicely with the game play, there seems to be far more scripted events in every mission, and as for the gameplay itself - they really have blended some of the best aspects of one and two together well here.

Playing on 360, one crash in 20 hours, no stuttering or anything weird. One minor bitch I'll make: 1 and 2 had simply amazing load screen graphics in compared to this one, which looks like they assigned an intern to mock some shit up in half an hour to plonk on screen while things load.

[Sky]

The loading screens are gone so fast I didn't even notice.

Trippy, everything is fine on my 460SLI, with the previous beta drivers and the current WHQL drivers.

3DVision no longer works, but that's a separate issue :( Really want to get that going because the game isn't even pushing the gpus at 1080p.

[Simond]

Wow, Simond, I'm starting to get this weird feeling that possibly you aren't a fan of the game. Would you like to post about it a few more times to tell us why?


*snark off*

Look, eveyone is more than welcome to express how they feel about games, positive or negative, it's what we do here. But just jumpining in with snarky troll-bait comments every page gets tired.

I've avoided reading most of this thread, due to lack of trust that you guys won't accidently spill some plot point that I really don't want to know, while complaining about how terribad the story is.

So here's my view of the game so far, about 20 hours of playtime in:

Ah, so you haven't reached the ending yet. That explains it. Okay, enjoy the rest of the game.

[Rasix]

Stop trolling.  /official_warning

[rk47]

End of Line.

[Trippy]

Trippy, your computer is trying to do you a favour by making the game laggy and unplayable.
Listen to it.. 

Yeah it's telling me I need a new computer just to play this game

[caladein]

Sir I have an origin ticket. Can i get on the mass effect 3 ride?

Sure step on in.

Sir, can u start the ride.

Wait a minute, let me make sure your ticket is legit.

But sir...

The ride will start when we're done checking the ticket. Sit tight, valued customers.

Grmblrblelblle.

Steam's pretty bad about this too if your Internet connection is crap.  And you can "Go Offline" in both cases.

[Ratman_tf]

Steam's pretty bad about this too if your Internet connection is crap.  And you can "Go Offline" in both cases.

Steam on my laptop gives me all kinds of grief if I don't remember to set it to offline mode before heading out of range of internet.

[TheWalrus]

Fuck Bioware for killing the boy. Fuck them.

[Kitsune]

http://crystalprisonzone.blogspot.com/2012/03/bioware-day-one-dlc-developed.html

TL;DR: All of the character content from the 'developed after the game was sent to the publisher' From Ashes DLC was found on the install disk.  The rest of the DLC content may also be there, but stuff's encrypted so nobody's been able to tell for sure.

[Margalis]

Shocking.

[Paelos]

http://crystalprisonzone.blogspot.com/2012/03/bioware-day-one-dlc-developed.html

TL;DR: All of the character content from the 'developed after the game was sent to the publisher' From Ashes DLC was found on the install disk.  The rest of the DLC content may also be there, but stuff's encrypted so nobody's been able to tell for sure.

I'm seriously amazed anybody would try and lie to nerds in this day and age.

[Miasma]

Couldn't find the key to holster my weapon so I finally broke down and googled it.  There isn't one...  People who I assume are crazy are claiming it's because of RAM limitations on consoles but that can't be right, they holster during speech scenes all the time.

[tmp]

People who I assume are crazy are claiming it's because of RAM limitations on consoles but that can't be right, they holster during speech scenes all the time.

The people who claimed that were BioWare developers

I imagine the game does something like dumping some of the combat animations for the cutscenes, to make room for cutscene-specific stuff. The dev who explained it went into a bit of detail and supposedly we're talking here about ~2mb worth of data. On PC that sounds hillarious, on consoles, well.

[Miasma]

I like the game but wow are they cramming every hackneyed cliche possible into this plot.  I'm going to have to go and buy some visine due to all the eye rolling I'm doing.

[eldaec]

I heard it's not balanced for holsters.

[K9]

Fanservice much?

[Kitsune]

That's... simply not appropriate.   

[tmp]

In all fairness, that isn't new. Normal-mapped camel toes date back at least to DA:Origins...

[Ginaz]

It keeps crashing right after the one of the cut scenes in the From Ashes DLC that gets you the Protean party member.

[Miasma]

It keeps crashing right after the one of the cut scenes in the From Ashes DLC that gets you the Protean party member.

Hit escape/spacbar quickly to exit the conversation after watching the clip before it finishes.

[Lantyssa]

Jack's hair makes her even hotter (and she did bald great).