Mass Effect

Latest version available through Origin. This does not change frequently but no real version number is supplied. Updates through Origin also don't always update the version number as found in the config utility.

Application Details:

Version:	Origin
License:	Retail
URL:	http://masseffect.bioware.com/
Votes:	0
Latest Rating:	Gold
Latest Wine Version Tested:	4.0-rc3-staging

Maintainers: About Maintainership

Bartosz Kosiorek

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

Single player gameplay (finished entire game)
All DLC

What does not

Sound (has workaround, see below)
Cloud-saves in Origin don't work on exiting the game as it seems that origin doesn't detect it has closed at all. Cloud saves work fine otherwise though.

Workarounds

What was not tested

64-bit wineprefix

Hardware tested

Graphics:

GPU:
Driver:

Additional Comments

Origin was installed with the workaround (see https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=26175) After that Mass Effect installs fine from Origin and starts without further hassle. However on my system sound was not functioning. To work around this, add a dll override for 'openal32' and set it to 'builtin'. After several hours of play sometimes the game will crash with a message that it has ran out of heap space, this has only happened on the Normandy for me. I do not know if this is Wine specific at all.

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Show	Arch Linux x86_64	Dec 28 2018	4.0-rc3-staging	Yes	Yes	Yes	Gold	Doug T
Show	Linux Mint 18.2 "Sonya" x86_64	Nov 05 2017	2.19-staging	Yes	Yes	No	Platinum	MiZoG
Current	Fedora 23 x86_64	Jan 04 2016	1.8	Yes	Yes	No	Gold	Hein-Pieter van Braam

Known Bugs

Bug #	Description	Status	Resolution	Other apps affected

Show all bugs

HowTo / Notes

HOWTO

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!

Comments

Back