Mass Effect on PC

[dwolfwood]

So I have a 7600gs video card and I'm aware that EA claimed it's not up to minimum specs but I seem to be able to run the game fine... except the framerate.

I've tried lowering the resolution/textures to a minimum, but it doesn't seem to change the framerate at all compared to max res/textures.

I'm thinking more RAM would help since I'm only sitting at 2GB and could get up to 8.

Also, when I installed Windows, I did it on a backup HDD(10gb) so I'd have my main HDD(500gb) free, but it seems so much stuff wants to install on my System HDD, which is causing numerous problems. It's currently got around 300mb that I constantly have to free up. That might be affecting it?

My question is: Does it seem like I need to get a new video card or should I go with RAM?

[JesterHead]

I'm not an expert on such matters, but I'd think that the video cards the way to go.

[Intruder]

You could use both, I'd probably go video card first though.

[Generic Purple Turtle]

So I have a 7600gs video card and I'm aware that EA claimed it's not up to minimum specs but I seem to be able to run the game fine... except the framerate.

I've tried lowering the resolution/textures to a minimum, but it doesn't seem to change the framerate at all compared to max res/textures.

I'm thinking more RAM would help since I'm only sitting at 2GB and could get up to 8.

Also, when I installed Windows, I did it on a backup HDD(10gb) so I'd have my main HDD(500gb) free, but it seems so much stuff wants to install on my System HDD, which is causing numerous problems. It's currently got around 300mb that I constantly have to free up. That might be affecting it?

My question is: Does it seem like I need to get a new video card or should I go with RAM?

What jester said...