Retail version
Application Details:
| Version: | 1.0x |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | http://masseffect.bioware.com/ |
| Votes: | 25 |
| Latest Rating: | Gold |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 5.0-rc4 |
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What works
Nothing.
What does not
Game does not launch.
Workarounds
What was not tested
N/A.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
This entire test is about Intel onboard cards that are more than capable of running this game on Windows on capped settings.
I used 32-bit wine. With default Windows 7 mode, the error I get is not informative enough but when I switch to Windows XP, I get the full error. I immediately see that game was not able to find various dlls which vcrun2005 provides. After its installation, I still was stuck a generic "failed to compile global shader" error which I tried to fix by installing DirectX 9, however it's not good.
This game, as of today, is not playable if you use your onboard Intel graphics on Linux with Wine. You have to play it on Windows.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Debian GNU/Linux 11.x "Bullseye" x86_64 | Jan 10 2020 | 5.0-rc4 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | bestie | |
| Show | Debian GNU/Linux 10.x "Buster" x86_64 | Nov 24 2019 | 4.20-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Prajwal Gaonkar | |
| Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Apr 14 2019 | 4.1-staging | N/A | Yes | Yes | Silver | HugoPoi | |
| Current | Arch Linux x86_64 | Jun 19 2018 | 3.10 | No | Not installable | No | Garbage | Sinan Ozan | |
| Show | Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jan 04 2016 | 1.9.0 | Yes | Yes | No | Gold | Jaka Kranjc |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 7991 | Test Drive: Unlimited messed up graphics | REOPENED | View | |
| 24392 | Unreal Engine 3: Motion Blur Effect Makes Games Unplayable | RESOLVED | NOTOURBUG | View |
| 24417 | America's Army 3 and other games fail: d3dcompiler needs a working HLSL compiler (vs_3_0) | NEW | View |
Be aware, that aforementioned stand-alone config utility in version 1.0 (unpatched) of Mass Effect has many issues under Windows as well, ofted resulting in its hang.
This problem occurs mainly (but not exclusively) on quad-processor machines.
Patched version should have this problems fixed (supposedly).
Get audio to work
Edit "Documents/BioWare/Mass Effect/Config/BIOEngine.ini"
Add the following under the "[ISACTAudio.ISACTAudioDevice]" section:
DeviceName=Generic Software
UseEffectsProcessing=False
Ensure "Hardware Audio" is turned off in Sound settings in game
To get the MEUITM installer to work
A custom MassEffectModder.exe must be suppliedThis is seemingly due to it using functions not fully implemented in wine/mono
A hacky, usable version can be found here: https://github.com/DougTy/Mass...
Occasional "rendering exception" error while playing MEIUTM requires your game's binary be large address aware.
MassEffect.exe can be patched using this tool: https://www.techpowerup.com/fo...
Make a backup before patching!
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by Ilya Trukhanov on Sunday October 27th 2019, 16:15
Also, if you're looking to run the ALOT Installer, you need `winetricks dotnet472 d3dcompiler_47` and Wine 4.18+ for it to work. Although there are sometimes graphical glitches (solvable through minimizing and opening the window again), the application itself more or less works. It sometimes hangs after clicking the download links, couldn't do anything about it, but you should be able to download all the mods to a directory in a few restarts, and then install them without issue.