Re: Mass Effect 2 Coalesced.ini. Fun Fact: Setting 'bInfiniteAmmo' to 'TRUE' allows thermal clips to 'cool' when you're not firing. Essentially it makes a hybrid system of ME1's cooldown and ME2's clip system. The bad side of it is you would need to rebalance all the weapons to make the hybrid system work well. Fixed Coalesced (Nvidia and AMD) by changing LODBias from -1 to 0 for 'bioengine.inisystemsettingstexturegroupenvironment512'. Thanks EldradNerevar for the fix. Vanilla'd EngConsole02Diff (hash 0x5D2725D5), as the texture simply looks out of place. Placed NOR10CONTROLPANNEL01DIFF (hash 0x8BF84879) in the.

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Mass Effect Enhancement Guide A guide created and maintained. Help support STEP! ALL donations are applied to operating expenses. Notice: Only original disk or Origin installations are supported for this guide!

Steam Version has patch 1.0.1 not 1.02. Steam isn't perfect. They don't always keep their games updated. Just most of the time.

Users playing the game through Steam will not be able to use the overhaul mod from this guide due to changes required to the.EXE file. Steam protects these files from tampering and will not launch the game if they are altered. However, Steam users can register their game through Origin in order to complete the entire guide.

Users who are using a downloaded version of the game should only be altering files in an Origin installation! Also note that the downloaded Origin version of the game automatically includes the two DLCs for free, whereas finding and getting the DLCs to run on Steam is a major pain. Users with the original disks can use this guide without issue. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Mission Briefing Welcome!

Mass Effect has been out for many years now. Anyone that has played these games can attest to their greatest in both storyline and gameplay. Although an older game, Mass Effect is still visually appealing on modern systems, however, there is always some room for improvement! This guide aims to: • Setup Mass Effect on modern systems • Improve the visual appearance of the game • Improve the stability of the game • Improve the Dynamic Shadows used This guide will not: • (Completely) Fix the Dynamic Shadows • Use tweaks which provide no measurable benefit • Be a complete game overhaul such as S.T.E.P. Mass Effect was built upon Unreal Engine 3, which provides users some customization; however, certain things can not be easily fixed. One of these are the Dynamic Shadows.

BioWare's implementation of dynamic shadows in Mass Effect is horrible. Yes, they may have looked okay on consoles; however, when the game was ported over to the PC, like many titles before it, Mass Effect had no real upgrades done specifically for PC users.

Dynamic Shadows are addressed in the INI Tweaks section of this guide, but do not expect gold. Unfortunately, dynamic shadows are simply going to remain comparably bad when put up against more modern games; even with the tweaks included. Since Mass Effect was built upon Unreal Engine 3, there is a lot of customization which can be done via INI files; however, Mass Effect does not use a good majority of the parameters available in the Unreal Engine. When the game was ported to the PC by Demiurge Studios, there were a few changes made to the game to make it easier for keyboard and mouse users but very little of the work was actual optimization for the PC.

As such, much of the Unreal Engine was left unused. Many ' old school' gamers that have tweaked the Unreal Engine to its limits will be left disappointed. This guide will only cover the tweaks which have an actual effect in the game and will not cover any tweaks that would allow cheating or easier gameplay.

Users wanting those types of tweaks can implement them, if they wish but they will not be included here. Finally, Mass Effect was not built to be an easily modded game such as The Elder Scrolls or Fallout games; however, with the right tools anyone can mod games built on the Unreal Engine. There are many texture replacement mods for Mass Effect, but most require the use of a utility called TexMod. This tool is infamous for making the game unstable; therefore, there will not be any mods included in this guide which would require the use of this tool. Software Installation & Initialization Install the game as you normally would with either the CD-ROMs or Origin.

I personally recommend installing most games to a different drive/partition than the OS is installed on. If using a CD-ROM version, download and install the from BioWare. The Origin version of the game should already be patched to v1.02. Notice: Make sure in your Origin settings you have 'Automatic game updates' and 'Automatically update Origin' turned OFF! It has been reported that if Origin is set up for 'automatic game updates', the changes made in this guide can be reversed when starting the game.

This is due to the fact that Origin validates the game cache when checking for updates. The Mass Effect Config Users should now run the configurator. Navigate to where the game's installation folder is located (. Mass Effect Binaries ) and launch the MassEffectConfig.exe application. Click on [Video] in the left pane and choose the settings best for your system. Unfortunately, these settings will vary from system to system so there is no right or wrong choices here. I do recommend choosing the maximum settings available.

It should be noted, most modern systems will be able to run Mass Effect at 1920x1080 resolution with maxed out settings without any performance issues whatsoever. Keep this in mind and use the recommended settings during the initial setup. Lower them later if the game is running at too low a frame rate, or if the system isn't even breaking a sweat, adjust them higher. Video Settings Resolution This is the resolution Mass Effect will run. It is recommended to choose the native resolution of the monitor in use. Aspect Ratio This is the orientation of the monitor in use.

The choices are [4:3], [16:9] and [16:10]. This setting defaults to 4:3 on most systems; therefore, adjusting it may be required before changing the Resolution above, if the monitor being used is a widescreen monitor. Particle Effects Think of this as an early version of PhysxX on the NVIDIA graphics cards. The higher the setting the more particles will be rendered during explosions and other effects. The recommended value for this setting is [High]. Texture Detail This determines the detail at which textures are rendered. The recommended value for this setting is [Very High].

Filtering Mode The determines how the textures are rendered. The recommended value is [Anisotropic]. Dynamic Shadows Dynamic shadows are shadows rendered on moving objects in the game, such as the characters. These shadows are determined from light sources and in Mass Effect are rendered by the CPU.

The recommended value is Enabled (checked); however, Mass Effect's implementation of dynamic shadows isn't very good. They are often blocky and feathery. If this is an annoyance, simply disable them because there is no fix for this. In the INI section below they will be improved, but only slightly.

Ambient Occlusion can be forced in Mass Effect which will also improve the dynamic shadows a bit more. Vsync Vertical Sync (vsync) will sync the game's FPS with the monitor's refresh rate, which is most commonly 60Hz. This means the FPS will be capped at around 60FPS.

This can be changed in the INIs. The recommended option is enabling this (checked). Windowed If checked, this will run Mass Effect in a window instead of full screen. This is not recommended so leave it unchecked.

Here is a screenshot of my settings. Audio Settings There is only one setting here with two options to choose from; [Hardware] or [Software]. This will determine how the audio is handled and could be different for different systems.

The recommended option is [Hardware], which will use the on-board or expansion slot audio hardware for all sound rendering. Users who have anything above a 2.0 channel speaker setup, will have to use the Hardware option to take advantage of these setups. Save Settings Once the proper settings above have been chosen. Save the settings: • Click on [Mass Effect] in the top menu bar. • Click [Save Settings] • Close the Configuration Utility Video Card Configuration I currently only have a Nvidia card to reference for this section so AMD users will have to figure out their corresponding settings on their own.

For this section Nvidia Inspector will be used to force a few graphical settings to be used in the game. These

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