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Heartborne
09-30-2008, 08:22 PM
Hello everyone!

I was playing Mass Effect tonight for only the second time. I played last night as well with no issues whatsoever. Tonight, however, I received an error message while waiting for the next area to load and an error message came up with "rendering thread exception" and bunch of jibber-jabber followed by "file not found."

I updated my video drivers as a first step and ran the game again. This time, however, I noticed several instances of unexpected stutters where the game simply stopped for a few moments for no apparent reason, then there was some horrible screen tearing and finally the screen went black just as I was about to exit. I had to do a manual restart of my computer in order to close the program.


What can I do?
WSS
09-30-2008, 11:31 PM
You didn't by chance recently download new video drivers and install them on top of the old video driver (without uninstalling the older video driver), did you?
Heartborne
10-01-2008, 01:08 AM
actually, I did install the new drivers on top of the old ones after the issue first occurred... I forgot all about it! I have uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers, so here's hoping it works. I will try and let you know what happens.
Heartborne
10-01-2008, 01:15 AM
All right, I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the video drivers, but no luck. The game still crashes in the exact same way. I even installed the 1.01a patch for Mass Effect, still no good.

I did some research and it seems like this is just a random problem that Mass Effect has, some users are affected by it and others are not. It doesn't really make a lot of sense, but it's pretty obvious that EA and Bioware are both aware of the issue and nobody has been able to solve it yet.
WSS
10-01-2008, 01:35 AM
Sorry, wasn't aware of Mass Effect and its issues. I don't have that game.

I play mainly Titan Quest Gold edition, UT3, UT 2004, Fable, LOTR:BFME2, Oblivion and its expansion pack Shivering Islands.
Heartborne
10-01-2008, 10:21 AM
No worries, I was hoping someone else around here had an idea of what the cause is and maybe a workaround. I did find a "dirty fix" on the pirate bay, it apparently does something like disable the memory addresses that the game is trying to write to and that somehow stops it from crashing. I don't 100% understand it, but apparently the crashing is caused by some kind of memory leak or something. Basically bad coding on the PC port.