Mass Effect General Protection Fault.

[ShotgunSmoke]

I made a topic like this a week ago, but it didn't get any replies, so here we go again. Is there a solution for the General Protection Fault error, which jumps up every time I start the game? Bioware said that they will make a patch for this, but there has been months and still no patch.

 

[Agayek]

Dial down the fail?

In all seriousness though, I haven't seen anything about this error, so I doubt it. Maybe if you sacrificed 20 virgins to the Gaming Gods on the Porcelain Altar it'll work.

 

[LostNightRecon]

haha wtf? which bug is that? there are only like 300,000,000,000,000,000 bugs in mass effect lol. I love the one if i'm on Faroes and i get out of the Mako on the skybridge i die.

 

[cuddly_tomato]

I made a topic like this a week ago, but it didn't get any replies, so here we go again. Is there a solution for the General Protection Fault error, which jumps up every time I start the game? Bioware said that they will make a patch for this, but there has been months and still no patch.

Go back to BioWare, link this thread, and inform them it is making bad publicity for them.

I certainly won't buy a PC BioWare game because of this kind of crap.

 

[ManiacRaccoon]

Go back to BioWare, link this thread, and inform them it is making bad publicity for them.

I certainly won't buy a PC BioWare game because of this kind of crap.

PC Version right? Yeah I stopped playing it and got it on the 360. Damn PC version kept freezing on me near the end of the game and locking my whole pc up. I have a good system too. 360 in high def on a big ole tv is where that game belongs anyhow. It's only 20 bucks too.

You might buy it for xbox though. It is pretty good on there, I haven't seen the PC version or any of these alleged bugs, and the xbox version has some bugs of it's own, but still functions pretty well. It has a lot of trouble rendering cutscenes though, usually I'll get several seconds where everyone has blurry faces or no details, it sounds minor but it sort of breaks the suspension of disbelief or whatever it's called for video games, mostly because I'm laughing at everyone talking in blur.

 

[cuddly_tomato]

Go back to BioWare, link this thread, and inform them it is making bad publicity for them.

I certainly won't buy a PC BioWare game because of this kind of crap.

PC Version right? Yeah I stopped playing it and got it on the 360. Damn PC version kept freezing on me near the end of the game and locking my whole pc up. I have a good system too. 360 in high def on a big ole tv is where that game belongs anyhow. It's only 20 bucks too.

You might buy it for xbox though. It is pretty good on there, I haven't seen the PC version or any of these alleged bugs, and the xbox version has some bugs of it's own, but still functions pretty well. It has a lot of trouble rendering cutscenes though, usually I'll get several seconds where everyone has blurry faces or no details, it sounds minor but it sort of breaks the suspension of disbelief or whatever it's called for video games, mostly because I'm laughing at everyone talking in blur.

A lot of that is down to them using the Unreal Engine 3, and then refusing to use the hard drive as a cache to deal with this. In either case, until we actually stop rewarding software companies making third rate, buggy, and slightly broken products by buying those products we will continue getting games half-made or bugged with promises to fix it later.

 

[ManiacRaccoon]

A lot of that is down to them using the Unreal Engine 3, and then refusing to use the hard drive as a cache to deal with this. In either case, until we actually stop rewarding software companies making third rate, buggy, and slightly broken products by buying those products we will continue getting games half-made or bugged with promises to fix it later.

Yes, but if we don't buy some games, the companies will go broke and we'll get even worse stuff from people who had to start fresh and couldn't learn from their previous mistakes.

Of course, this if coming from someone who bought "Monster Madness" for the 360 as soon as it came out, and they only fixed some of the bugs, and we never got online co-op, which is about the only way I was going to beat it on hard mode, bugs and all. Most I can hope for is a sequel now, since they decided to give the PS3 version online co-op and ignore the rest of us.

Then again, I can't take back the fact that I bought it, and selling it is pretty much pointless, since it sells for about $10 used now so it can't be worth much.