Mass Effect PC v1.02 Patch Released

BioWare has finally released the promised v1.02 patch for the PC version of Mass Effect, which fixes nearly twenty pending issues with the sci-fi RPG.

‘¢ The player will no longer become stuck in the Feros elevator
‘¢ Quickslot abilities are now disabled in elevators
‘¢ The pixilated bloom and DoF on Radeon x1650 and x1950 cards has been addressed
‘¢ GPF crashes when playing Quasar have been addressed
‘¢ The player’s weapon will not auto fire if the fire button is released as an active loading screen appears
‘¢ Low LOD on Garrus’ face has been addressed
‘¢ Reconfiguring the PRIMARY INTERACT key (Default set to E) to any other key will no longer make the ENTER key interact TWICE when used.
‘¢ Player will not become stuck in his action station in elevators (primarily occurred in the Peak 15 elevators)
‘¢ Occasional crash when encountering Rachni on UNC_73 has been addressed
‘¢ Using the enter key to add and remove talent points will function properly
‘¢ GUI: Pressing U when first getting control of Shepard and then pressing ESC to close it will not cause the player to lose all input functionality
‘¢ Romance confrontation conversation will fire after 3rd planet complete
‘¢ The player will no longer become stuck when using the Enter key rather than the primary interact key to initiate conversation with certain followers on the Normandy
‘¢ Audio skipping during conversations has been addressed
‘¢ Addressed cases where Realtec HD audio users were experiencing issues with cut off / crackling audio after patching the game to version 1.01
‘¢ The issue regarding dynamic character shadows appearing grainy has been resolved.
‘¢ Nihilus and all Turians are no longer missing their face markings
‘¢ The issue of Garrus having no lighting on his face until a save is loaded has been addressed
‘¢ The game will now create save files when “My Documents” is set to the root of a drive
‘¢ The issue where PCs with NVIDIA GeForce 8xxx and above video cards were experiencing random General Protection Fault crashes appears to have been fixed with the GeForce 182.06+ drivers. Please ensure when playing Mass Effect that all PC drivers are up to date.

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