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#MASS EFFECT 2 CONFIG PC#

The rest of my test PC is pretty up to date, admittedly. When I threw my oldest graphics cards at Mass Effect Legendary Edition - my 2GB AMD Radeon R9 270, which is technically below the minimum GPU specification - I was pleasantly surprised by the results. Jibes aside, Bioware really aren't kidding about the 'no calibration' thing. GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 / AMD Radeon Vega 56 Mass Effect Legendary Edition recommended PC requirements: CPU: Intel Core i7-7700 / AMD Ryzxen 7 3700X GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 / AMD Radeon 7970 or R9 280X Mass Effect Legendary Edition minimum PC requirements: CPU: Intel Core i5 3570 / AMD FX-8350 Bioware don't state what kind of performance you can expect to see from either of these specifications, but they do say that you'll be able to launch it with 'no calibrations necessary' - which is technically true, given that there isn't actually anything to calibrate in the PC settings menu. The game's recommended requirements should also be pretty feasible for PCs built within the last five years, too. As you can see below, the minimum requirements list graphics cards that stretch all the way back to the heady days of 2013, so if you built your PC within the last decade or so, you should still be able to run it. Take a look at the game's PC requirements, for example, and you'll immediately see that they're pretty tame.

In Mass Effect Legendary Edition's defence, it does actually run supremely well even on ancient hardware, so perhaps Bioware simply didn't feel the need to go all-out on extraneous PC settings. Ambient Occlusion can often help to make scenes look more realistic, but when I switched it on and off in-game, I struggled to see much of an improvement. The former adds in effects like giving your party accurate shadow silhouettes on the ground when you're moving around, while the latter is all to do with soft lighting. As such, I'd definitely keep AA turned on.ДЄpart from these basics, though, the only vaguely fancy things you get to control are the Dynamic Shadows and Ambient Occlusion.

#MASS EFFECT 2 CONFIG 1080P#

When I turned it off to see what the difference was, there were jaggies aplenty at 1080p and 1440p, and even playing the game at 4K had its fair share of them, too. Anti-aliasing is another important one for helping to smooth out any jagged edges, too, which can be surprisingly prevalent in older games due to their less detailed character models - and Mass Effect's Legendary Edition is no exception. The Motion Blur toggle will be good news for those who suffer from motion sickness when they're moving the camera quickly, and the option to cap the frame rate at various intervals, including 30fps if your PC is struggling or a maximum of 240fps if you've got a high refresh rate monitor is also very welcome. There are, at least, some important basics here. Indeed, given how much work the developers have put into making everything 4K for the Legendary Edition release, even something like a simple resolution scaler would have been a welcome addition here, as this would allow those playing on 1080p, or even 1440p monitors to still get the benefit of those lovely, crisp new assets without having to hook up their PCs to a native 4K display. Heck, even console players get the option of 'Favour Quality' and 'Favour Frame Rate' in their settings menu, and it's a shame there isn't something similar for us for PC. It's disappointing, to say the least, and I was hoping the PC version would have something a little more comprehensive given how many effects Bioware have been talking up in the run-up to the game's release. As does Mass Effect 3 (ambient occlusion is also included, but for some reason they couldn't fit it all on one screen for the third game, which is baffling considering how few options there are in the first place). Mass Effect 2 has the same set of PC settings as Mass Effect 1. It's the same for Mass Effect 2 and 3 as well, as you can see below. Just six On / Off settings (one of which is your standard V-Sync toggle), and some basic resolution options. No quality sliders, no graphics presets, no resolution scalers. Open up the Graphics menu in the Settings tab and this is all you get for Mass Effect 1: well, what's the equivalent of an intergalactic tumbleweed? The difference is plain to see in screenshots and their before and after comparison video, but in terms of being able to fiddle around with those settings yourself in the game's PC settings menu. Bioware have taken great pains to show off all the swanky new visual enhancements coming to their remastered Mass Effect Legendary Edition tomorrow, including support for 4K resolutions, ultrawide monitors, revamped lighting, sharper textures and loads more.

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