Mass Effect 3

Retail release. Both directly from Origin or off a DVD. Includes several versions of release;

Retail
Collectors Edition
N7 Edition

Difference is the included DLC's, optional weapons and physical items.

Application Details:

Version:	1.0
License:	Retail
URL:	http://www.masseffect.com
Votes:	0
Latest Rating:	Gold
Latest Wine Version Tested:	2.8-staging

Maintainers: About Maintainership

Maquis196

Link N7 Collector's Edition

Test Results

Old test results

The test results you have selected are very old and may not represent the current state of Wine.

Selected Test Results

What works

Collector's Edition bonus and DLC install; entire single player campaign; "From Ashes" DLC; multiplayer; bonus soundtrack

What does not

Install using Origin hangs at 99%; Installing both the (main game) day-1 patch and DLC patch does fail with "there was a problem while updating" error; autodetecting the optimal screen resolution during the first start fails with a "unsupported" message and reverts to 800x600

Workarounds

What was not tested

Pre-order bonus

Hardware tested

Graphics:

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Additional Comments

Install hanging is not Mass Effect 3 specific, solution is to manually kill EAProxyinstaller.exe; To update, first try do it from Origin (which will fail), then search for the errors "[11] CoreDownloadJob_DiPUpdate::Finalize() - File could not be renamed to final name!" in C:\users\Public\Application Data\Origin\Logs\Client_Log.html and delete those files manually (shell/sed knowledge will come handy), then update inside Origin again. Tested in 1920x1080 using Nvidia GTX 460, x86_64 proprietary driver 295.20.

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Show	Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Jun 07 2017	2.8-staging	Yes	Yes	No	Gold	Twaee
Show	Linux Mint 17.1 "Rebecca" x86-64	Dec 20 2014	1.7.32	Yes	Yes	No	Gold	Konstantin
Show	Gentoo Linux x86_64	Mar 13 2013	1.5.25	Yes	Yes	No	Gold	an anonymous user
Show	Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	Jun 02 2012	1.5.5	Yes	Yes	No	Platinum	an anonymous user
Show	Arch Linux x86_64	Apr 05 2012	1.5.1	Yes	Yes	No	Platinum	Hugo Osvaldo Barrera

Known Bugs

Bug #	Description	Status	Resolution	Other apps affected
24392	Unreal Engine 3: Motion Blur Effect Makes Games Unplayable	RESOLVED	NOTOURBUG	View

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HowTo / Notes

Origin Difficulties

Origin has its own entry in AppDB, located here: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=13176 Please note any difficulties that are specific to Origin there.

How to check the version number

Before filing test data, make sure that you know what version of the game you're running. This you can find out from running the Mass Effect 3 configuration utility. People who pre-ordered a digital edition of the game got version 1.01 on release, not version 1.0.

Increasing in-game performance

Increasing in-game performance

If you have experienced performance degradation please deactivate dynamic shadows and antialiasing from game graphic menu. Also set proprietary driver image settings to Maximum Performance. This helps for weak graphic cards like NVIDIA Geforce 120 GT.

Please note - If your mouse/keyboard isn't working then it's most likely a rawinput issue, please upgrade your wine to at least version 1.6 since wine has had rawinput built into it for about 12 minor releases now.

If you have mouse and in-game lags, set dinput to native in winecfg - Libraries tab
In some cases sound disappeared, it can be fixed by setting dsound to native as above.
If you have poor performance in multiplayer, set winhttp to native as above.

Fixing game crashes

Workaround for game crashes when it started from Origin

Do not start game directly from Origin Client! It crashed anytime if you do it.

1. Firstly run Origin, login into it

2. Then run Mass Effect 3 from shortcut on the desktop (or executable file)

3. Start Multiplayer and Enjoy!

Comments

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To disable PhysX support
by Ryan on Monday August 7th 2023, 0:02

I was having a torrid time trying to run Mass Effect 3 with open-source drivers, as every version of PhysX I would install would give me an error about incorrect PhysX. I tried reinstalling several times, but I finally managed to launch and play it successfully by disabling PhysX hardware support.

To disable hardware PhysX support, you still must either install a PhysX runtime that includes v2.8.3 (archive.org/download/PhysX9.13.1220SystemSoftware ), or you must copy the following files from an existing PhysX v2.8.3 installation to the [game installation]/Binaries/Win32 directory: PhysXCooking.dll, PhysXCore.dll, PhysXDevice.dll, PhysXLoader.dll, cudart32_41_4.dll

Then, with a tool that can edit Mass Effect 3's convoluted Coalesced.bin file, you must set the "bdisablephysxhardwaresupport" setting in the "engine.engine" section of the "..\..\biogame\config\bioengine.ini" file to "True". I wrote such a tool at: gitlab.com/game-toolkits/mass-effect.git . Or there is Gibbed's classic editor at: github.com/gibbed/Gibbed.MassEffect3 .