Mass Effect Andromeda PC Performance Review

[WYP]

Let's have a look at Mass Effect Andromeda's PC performance. Is your PC ready to travel to a new galaxy?



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[Thelosouvlakia]

wow, when 4GB of vram isn't enough for 1080p anymore

 

[WYP]

wow, when 4GB of vram isn't enough for 1080p anymore

Not exactly, at 1080p there is a minimal VRAM overspend, which will likely not affect 4GB GPU users.

Remember that a game will always fill as much of the buffer as it can, which means that it often uses more than it needs on large GPUs. In this case 4GB is enough, but only barely.

 

[TheF34RChannel]

Thanks a million Mark! I've been waiting to read your results. I should, seemingly, be disappointed by the lacklustre story judging by the euro gamer review, and equally dull and repetitive gameplay. Which would be a shame! What's your and everyone's experience with the story?

 

[WYP]

Thanks a million Mark! I've been waiting to read your results. I should, seemingly, be disappointed by the lacklustre story judging by the euro gamer review, and equally dull and repetitive gameplay. Which would be a shame! What's your and everyone's experience with the story?

The problem is that it is a Mass Effect game without any of the nostalgia, which means that everything is new while feeling very similar at the same time.

To be honest, it isn't like Mass Effect 1, where I was amazed at the Citadel, but that is because I had already seen a lot of the same things in Mass Effect 1.

I am really enjoying the game, the changes to the movement system with the jump pack really improves combat and adds a lot of verticality to the levels.

A lot of people are complaining about the animations, though IMHO they are no worse that what I have seen in other RPGs. The rest of the game looks so good it just makes the animations more noticeable.

A lot of the complaints that I have seen could have been aimed at any Mass Effect game, like repetitive gameplay, bad animations and occasionally wooden dialogue. I have not played the whole game, so I cannot comment fully on the story.

 

[TheF34RChannel]

The problem is that it is a Mass Effect game without any of the nostalgia, which means that everything is new while feeling very similar at the same time.

To be honest, it isn't like Mass Effect 1, where I was amazed at the Citadel, but that is because I had already seen a lot of the same things in Mass Effect 1.

I am really enjoying the game, the changes to the movement system with the jump pack really improves combat and adds a lot of verticality to the levels.

A lot of people are complaining about the animations, though IMHO they are no worse that what I have seen in other RPGs. The rest of the game looks so good it just makes the animations more noticeable.

A lot of the complaints that I have seen could have been aimed at any Mass Effect game, like repetitive gameplay, bad animations and occasionally wooden dialogue. I have not played the whole game, so I cannot comment fully on the story.

Good post! I've decided to watch some gameplay videos, which I hadn't yet, and see for myself. I'm not disappointed at all so I'll give it a go in the future.

How would you rank the game so far as compared to 2 and 3?

 

[Warchild]

So are cut scenes locked to 30fps like Dragon Age inquisition? that was terribly stuttery and ruined the story for me.

 

[tolagarf]

So are cut scenes locked to 30fps like Dragon Age inquisition? that was terribly stuttery and ruined the story for me.

I haven't noticed anything like that.

 

[BigDaddyKong]

Any plans for a Ryzen rig test?

 

[warpuck]

ME:A works with this

Win 7, Nvidia 378.92, AMD FX-8350 @ 4.5Ghz, 16 Gb ram, GTX 690 and 1080i @60fps. (vizio 320 tv) However at times it seems it does take a few seconds for the GPUs to pick the same color palette when it 1st starts. (flickers ?) After that works fine. The GTX 690 is actually 2 680s with 2 separate 2Gb GDDR5. I believe each GPU does 1/2 of the interlace ?

 

[NeverBackDown]

Any plans for a Ryzen rig test?

I doubt it, since he has to buy the stuff himself, it's unlikely. Although if he is able to get a free cpu/board/ memory he could do it I am sure. I'd be interested in it

 

[prelepo]

For me it runs pretty smoothly, I'm using the GTX 90