Mass Effect 1 worth playing? (Technical issues) [GA]

If you're having issues just go to 2, 1 isn't that great. I mean yes for story it's advised but you could watch a catch up and start on 2.

I've played it on the 360 back then and I liked it very much, so I can't help you with the technical aspect of the game. But I would say its pretty much worth playing.

While ME 2 is best, 1 is certainly worth playing, also its kewl to play the same Sheppard from 1 al the way through 3

The only problem I had playing one was textures were randomly low. I managed to fix it for everything but Garrus. He just remained low texture.

On the off chance you haven't looked at pcgamingwiki here's a link for it. http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Mass_Effect
Maybe something hidden in there that can work miracles. :s

it's the best of the series storywise, imo.
the writers that came after me1 just ignored most of the plot and made stuff up, it makes no sense if you start to analyze it. (too many spoilers to talk about it here, but let's just say there's a time issue with interstellar travels mentioned in me1 that's completely ignored in m3).

if you can play it properly, do it. i have no idea why it runs so bad on your system.

I think it has the best story out of the 3 of them, and it builds up the world really well. You could, like, just read a summary of it or something I guess but I really don't recommend it. And there's the choice thing mentioned already. I wouldn't skip it if I were you.
Do you have any older pc (friends, relatives?) that you can borrow or something to play it on?

The 1st is very important since introduce you to the plot of the trilogy (like how Sheppard is accept in the SPECTERS), even when have some part that many players may found not so fun like explore all the planets.
Also introduce you many of the companions (and his personal motivations) that you also found in the 2nd and in the last one.

You might want to try some of these tricks http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/PC_Tweaks, some of them are supposed to increase performance. Oh, and playing this before the rest of the series is mandatory

I've started it recently, I had no problem playing it even if it runs not great, but my PC is bad so...no big deal. I really want to see how the story progresses and I have no intention to skip a game in a series most of the times, in cases like this it's out of the question.

Despite the technical problems you should still play it. The story is worth it. But you will hate the elevators at citadel for sure haha :)

This game is killing me.

Now I've spent an hour trying to set up my controller, just to realize that it won't work like I want.

Now that I decided to play it with keyboard & mouse, I can't get past the "Press Start to continue" screen at the beginning anymore.
I just can't help it...

It's the best game in the series and also in my top 5 RPG's of all time list.
Play it with a mouse and keyboard like a true master race user.
Are you %100 sure it's a specific game problem ? Do you ever get random FPS drops in other games ? It looks lie a CPU issue to me.

Install CPU-Z and check core speed constantly, if it drops way too much it's a CPU issue.

Sad to hear you're having performance issues, have you tried simply reverifying the game cache? Did the redistributable files install on first load up? Tried using a different GPU driver? Tried installing on a harddrive instead? Have you tried posting any of this in the steam hub for the game? Perhaps it just doesn't run well on a laptop.

Mass Effect 1 is quite a game & I've been replaying lately too. Not having any performance issues & I've modded my game a bit: Added 8GB of HD retextures(most are 4k res), tweaked the lighting higher, sweetfx for shaders & made the exe large address aware.

I think a lot of people forget or don't know this, but ME1 is UE3 game. Have at it!

ME1 > pokemon gotta-catch-them-all > ME2 > gay porn > shit > piss > ME3

In my humble opinion, it's still by far the best in the franchise, despite some jankiness in the gameplay here and there.

Odd that you've having such issues...I've recently updated my old install from an entirely different machine and 2 OSes ago and once updated to current, runs perfectly.

Very worth it, tho.

I know this won't help you, but my computer also completely outstripped the ME1 requirements but I had no issues. I wonder what is specifically causing you the problems.

I voted that you should find a way to play it, because while it really does lack what made the later games so awesome, it also sets a lot of tone and introduces some of the characters that return in other titles (and deepens certain emotional impacts). Play it, but resist the urge to pursue 'completionist' activities like scouring every planet for hidden drops. If you stick to the main story and deviate only for actual sidequests rather than to try get everything, it shouldn't be too bad at all.

I played Mass Effect 1 with high graphics on a Dual Core, 9500 GT and 4GB RAM with 40-50 fps. It is very rare that your PC with such as specifications work so badly.

damn it I miss commander keen
also not lvl 3 so meh

Can't help you with the issues as I haven't played the PC version yet but don't skip it, thee choices carry over into the next games. And female Shepard has a much better voice actor who gives way more emotion to the dialogue.

If you are going to skip ME1, at least watch a gameplay on youtube so you don't miss the start of the story. But I hope you solve your problems (and then came back and tell us how you managed to solve it)

Awesome game, better than the two sequels put together. I say you should give it a chance.

I'd say play it. The first was great. ME 2, however, sucked balls. Never played the third but from the demo I tried, stay away from 3.