Mass Effect

What works

* All gameplay that I've gone through thusfar (about 1/4 to 1/3 of the game)

* Bring Down the Sky DLC

* Mouse, after applying this patch to wine: http://bugs2.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=32614

What does not

* Mouse, unless wine is patched with the above hack.

* Dynamic Shadows look wrong (inappropriate placement on character's faces/too dark)

* The default armors of Garrus, C-Sec Turians and Wrex look grayer than they should.

Workarounds

What was not tested

I have yet to play Feros, Virmire, Noveria, or anything after that (about 2/3 of the game)

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

To improve graphical performace, disable glsl in wine registry. Framerates improve dramatically once doing so. If you apply the mousehack listed above and set "MouseWarpOverride to 'force-box'", it fixes both bugs 16822 and 6971. The only remaining mouse problem is that the mouse is somewhat insensitive, even at max in-game sensitivity. This is not bad enough to detract from enjoyment of the game. The game is incredibly stable. I have experienced no crashes whatsoever. NO DLL OVERRIDES ARE REQUIRED TO RUN THE GAME! If you use the hack above for the mouse, be sure to use wine builtin dinput8, or else it will not work.

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!