Mass Effect steam problems

Okay well I recently got Mass Effect of the steam Holiday sale and I know my laptop is capabile of playing it but it crashes when I attempt to play it.

Now the work around for this is that on Wndows 7 Pc's you run it as an Administratoron steam or something but I don't understande it's explination of how to do this I've attempted running the overall file as an administrator with no sucess. Is there any way to get it working or a patch on the internet I can't find?

Thanks for help in advance.

sounds like it isnt compatible with win 7 which sucks since i was planning on upgrading to win 7 with my new buildChris_53

What? I have played both ME 1 and ME 2 on my Win 7 PC :? Yes, the steam versions.

[QUOTE="Chris_53"]sounds like it isnt compatible with win 7 which sucks since i was planning on upgrading to win 7 with my new buildTezcatlipoca666

What? I have played both ME 1 and ME 2 on my Win 7 PC :? Yes, the steam versions.

I do know the Steam version of ME1 is extremely unstable. A friend of mine has it, and it constantly crashes while he plays for no reason. I'd actually recommend just getting the regular old boxed version. It has a few audio glitches, but nothing that can't be completely fixed by changing some values in an .ini file.

I had the exact problem for my own laptop (Win7/64bit), and I managed to get it working. However a friend of mine had the same problem, but I couldn't get it working for him. For me I think I had to change the UAC, but what I had to do is copy the directx .dlls from the game files into my system folder then it started because original installation screwed up.

I do know the Steam version of ME1 is extremely unstable. A friend of mine has it, and it constantly crashes while he plays for no reason. I'd actually recommend just getting the regular old boxed version. It has a few audio glitches, but nothing that can't be completely fixed by changing some values in an .ini file.

Fusionmix

You need to play with settings a little, otherwise you should play it just fine. Make sure you have adequate system requirements.

Okay well I recently got Mass Effect of the steam Holiday sale and I know my laptop is capabile of playing it but it crashes when I attempt to play it.

Now the work around for this is that on Wndows 7 Pc's you run it as an Administratoron steam or something but I don't understande it's explination of how to do this I've attempted running the overall file as an administrator with no sucess. Is there any way to get it working or a patch on the internet I can't find?

Thanks for help in advance.

I had the exact problem for my own laptop (Win7/64bit), and I managed to get it working. However a friend of mine had the same problem, but I couldn't get it working for him. For me I think I had to change the UAC, but what I had to do is copy the directx .dlls from the game files into my system folder then it started because original installation screwed up.

Sharpie125

Hmm system 32?