mass effect graphics glitch

colvax · Post by **colvax** » Sun May 10, 2009 8:09 pm

Mass Effect used to look fine on my computer, but for some reason now it looks like this:

Anyone know what this is? I've adjusted all my graphics settings from low to high and nothing makes those black shadow-squares go away.

GawainBS · Post by **GawainBS** » Mon May 11, 2009 12:36 am

I think you have "Movie-grain" enabled. Just uncheck it in the graphic-options menu.

DesR85 · Post by **DesR85** » Mon May 11, 2009 3:41 am

I doubt movie-grain will cause something like that. Based on that screenshot, it does look a lot more serious than some in-game graphical option issue. Maybe try to update your graphic drivers but if this problem occur after a driver upgrade, then maybe reverting back to an older driver might help.

colvax · Post by **colvax** » Mon May 11, 2009 6:50 pm

Hm. For some reason, uninstalling and reinstalling minus my "Bring Down The Sky" DLC made the graphics go right. Now I'm worried to reintroduce the DLC to the game.

Mr Flibble · Post by **Mr Flibble** » Mon May 11, 2009 9:25 pm

There's a bug in the patch that comes with the DLC that messes up the shader cache. You can fix it by going to My Documents\BioWare\Mass Effect\Published\CookedPC and deleting the UPK file (LocalShaderCache-PC-D3D-SM3.upk).