Application Details:
| Version: | Steam |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | http://masseffect.bioware.com/ |
| Votes: | 5 |
| Latest Rating: | Silver |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 3.10 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Playing the game. Only tested ~3 hours into the game.
What does not
After changing my resolution from the default 1024x768, the game would not load until I restarted Steam. I googled the error message and it seems like this may be the application's fault, and it disappeared after restart.
Workarounds
What was not tested
The majority of the game.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Steam installed using PlayOnLinux. In the first time the game started, it loaded in full screen 1024x768 which kind of screwed up Ubuntu's desktop environment. Could easily change the resolution back using Ubuntu's menu, set the resolution in-game, and then the game wouldn't load until I restarted as well. Somewhat strange. Played for 3 hours on max graphics settings, very stable. nvidia graphics card, proprietary driver.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu) | Jun 14 2018 | 3.10 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Carlos Rodriguez | |
| Show | Manjaro Linux | Jan 14 2018 | 3.0-rc5 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Odisej | |
| Show | Arch Linux | Jun 14 2017 | 2.10 | Yes | Yes | No | Gold | Liam | |
| Show | Gentoo Linux | Aug 27 2016 | 1.9.17 | N/A | Yes | No | Gold | aililoh | |
| Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Jun 24 2016 | 1.9.12 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | vorpalblade |
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 sairuk on Thursday September 1st 2016, 6:49
Add the following lines to the section labelled [ISACTAudio.ISACTAudioDevice]
DeviceName=Generic Software
UseEffectsProcessing=False
Disabling hardware audio