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Does not seem to work for me
Running Steam version of Mass Effect on FX-4170. Installed your dll and it seems to be loaded according to Process Explorer, but black blob glitch still occurs. Setting DisableD3DXPSGP or DisablePSGP in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Direct3D\ also didn't help. Any thoughts?
Where did you place the DLL? Make sure it's in the Binaries folder with MassEffect.exe and not where the launcher is.
That is so strange. Can you send me your binaries folder so I can test it? I have ME1 installed, I can do it right away. Send it to [email protected] if you don't want to post it publicly.
What happens if you rename MassEffect.exe to ut3.exe? Some games won't load certain DLLs when they're run as administrator.
Hi @vlad54rus, it may seem redundant but we have to verify a few things before we can move forward.
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Can you provide a screenshot of your registry values in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Direct3D? -
Can you provide a screenshot of Process Explorer showing Mass Effect loading
d3dx9_31.dllfrom the application folder?
Thanks!
That's very concerning, because everything looks valid.
To clarify - when you tested DisableD3DXPSGP, did you test this with or without the fixed DLL installed? It should be tested without one.
Also, you seem to be using a BINK hook - can you list all the other mods you have?
I tested both - same results. Other installed mods are ME1:Recalibrated and Russian Translation.
Just my 2 cents: can you try this on a clean install on ME1? ME1 recalibrated has caused several glitches for me even on intel. Not this one though
If you have 64-bit windows.. What is trying to load 1252 National Language Support from system32?
Also, when ordering by name modded d3dx9_31.dll is above the system one, at least on my W7. ..Can you, I dunno, try this fix?
C_1252.NLS? Many apps load it. I already have this fix installed because elevation pop-up annoys me. Although it doesn't matter if i run game as admin or not.
I see. I cannot think to anything less stupid, so.. Could you try the game in a VM (with english windows because whatever)?
@vlad54rus can you try this DLL? d3dx9_31.zip
It's the original d3dx9_31.dll, except I modified a jump so that it will always think that DisableD3DXPSGP is set regardless of what's in the registry.
@adolfintel Sadly, this also didn't work. I made sure it is loaded instead of system one, but glitch still occurs.
Why shouldn't it run in a VM? Everybody and their cousin can accelerate dx9 and anyway AMD supports IOMMU virtualization since ages.
Why shouldn't it run in a VM? Everybody and their cousin can accelerate dx9 and anyway AMD supports IOMMU virtualization since ages.
Because unless he's doing a proper GPU passthrough, the 3D acceleration inside virtualbox and vmware is pretty shitty and makes most modern-ish games crash.
Thankfully ME isn't a modern game. In fact, I seem to remember it was working for me inside workstation (for as much even more painfully slow than usual on my laptop).
If everyone could reach out to their AMD FX-series friends and see if they can reproduce the issue, that would be greatly appreciated. That'll drive whether or not I purchase some hardware to assist with debugging efforts.
I only have a ryzen and an i7 unfortunately, no old bulldozers :( You should update that driver though.
Bobcat is even older and works just fine with the fix (though that has probably way different potato registers). Try a clean VM anyway please.. I scavenged the net but it was already hard enough to find two people with ryzen commenting their experience.
p.s. people criticized the fix here
@vlad54rus I'm going to buy some parts to test this. Can you provide a CPUZ screenshot/dump of your processor so I can be extra sure I'm getting the right parts? Thanks!