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    Mass Effect Tweak Guide

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Snowsurfer, Jun 12, 2008.

  1. Snowsurfer

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    Snowsurfer, Jun 12, 2008
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    Jlbrightbill Notebook Deity

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    Thanks for the link, but that's essentially a worthless guide. There's nothing in there that's actually useful for tweaking your game.
     
    Jlbrightbill, Jun 12, 2008
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    bunbuns Notebook Consultant

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    I find the first 2-3 pages of all the tweakguides have repeated and redundant information which could all be left out.

    However the rest is great. I found out from reading it that suspiciously, bioware disabled hardware audio support for Sound Blaster Audigy, Audigy 2. Users can do a simple edit of the bioengine.ini to fix it.

    Change

    NoHALSupport3=Sound Blaster Audigy
    NoHALSupport4=SB Audigy

    To:

    //NoHALSupport3=Sound Blaster Audigy
    //NoHALSupport4=SB Audigy

    There, now you have proper 5.1 surround sound.
     
    bunbuns, Jun 12, 2008
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  4. Snowsurfer

    Snowsurfer Rocky Mtn High

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    Yeah, I agree the first few pages are basic but the good stuff is in the last pages, this guide is made for everyone from new gamers to advanced and then my type "To lazy to research himself" but this guy puts out some great guides.
     
    Snowsurfer, Jun 12, 2008
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  5. WileyCoyote

    WileyCoyote Notebook Evangelist

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    Also, dont use the texture change to the bio engine ini file it causes crashes because some movies wont load.

    also increasing time to remove bodies is cool and all, but if you ever get a dead body in an elevator and its not removed in time, the game will crash because it'll try to animate the dead body.
     
    WileyCoyote, Jun 12, 2008
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    hydra Breaks Laptops

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    I hooked my old Sound Blaster USB External for grins during the end game. Works and sounds great till wife did NMI on me.
     
    hydra, Jun 12, 2008
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    WileyCoyote Notebook Evangelist

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    Anyone find any intersting tweaks in the game ini? For some reason setting allowphysicsondeadbody dont really do anything besides let you shoot at them. It would be cool to be able to target dead bodies with biotic attacks.

    Anyne find tweaks on that area?
     
    WileyCoyote, Jun 12, 2008
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    ArmageddonAsh Mangekyo Sharingan

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    do you still have to stay connected to the internet to play the game, from reading the case it seems that you have to stay connected to the interent in order to play the agme, is that right?
     
    ArmageddonAsh, Jun 13, 2008
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