What settings there are, and really there are only three that affect framerates, are so subtle that your best bet is probably to drop the resolution your playing at first and foremost. When I say 'everything' it's worth pointing out that there aren't too many options to play with here-more settings to tweak in the in-game menus would have been nice, although it runs well enough, and looks good enough that you can focus more on the game.
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The fact that even the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Ti is capable of playing at 4K at 55fps with everything turned up to full is probably all you need to know. It isn't a fast-paced shooter, so you're not aiming for the triple-figure framerates, although depending on your hardware, you might get them anyway. The big takeaway from all of this is that Mass Effect Legendary Edition runs fine on whatever modern hardware you have to hand. Here we'll look at what settings have the biggest impact on performance, and what turning them off does to the visual fidelity of the game. The one factor here is resolution though, so if you want to run at 4K, then you may have to tweak a couple of settings. And you shouldn't have too much issue running it at high framerates on older components either. For this reason my benchmark run avoids cutscenes so you're just getting pure in-engine game performance.īack to the point at hand though, Mass Effect Legendary Edition performs great on modern hardware.
Again, there doesn't seem to be much you can do about this, and unlike in the original game where setting the bSmoothFrameRate entry to FALSE in the BIOEngine.cfg file would unlock framerates, here it doesn't seem to have any effect. So it doesn't matter if you're hitting 240fps elsewhere, the moment you start a cutscene (of which there are many), you're performance will drop. It's worth noting that the cutscenes in Mass Effect are locked at 60fps. All you do is go to the configuration tool, click the save games category, click the 'Copy Mass Effect 1 saves', go to the Mass Effect save directory( C:UsersACCOUNT NAMElDocumentsBioWareMass Effect), and click on the save folder.
Not that it matters too much, as this isn't a competitive FPS that really benefits from such high framerates anyway. You have to load the Mass Effect 1 saves to Mass Effect 2 by using the Configuration Tool. We bumped up against this cap on the mid-range and high-end builds all too easily, and despite rummaging around the config files, couldn't seem to push this harder. The new interface offers a handful of effect toggles alongside a Framerate Cap, which maxes out 240fps.