I know my enjoyment of the game went through the roof after doing this fix. Congratulations, you just cut your load times to nothing! Sadly you will need to do this every time you start the game.Patch 1.01 Patch Posted about 12 years ago 23 downloads The 1.01 patch for Mass Effect 2. Re-open it again and set it back to two. Mass Effect 2 Latest Downloads Patch 1.02 Patch Posted over 11 years ago 37 downloads Roll out file details for the list of changes.To reach the ME2 Launcher with the Steam version installed, find the location on your hard-drive where Steam is installed, then Steamapps->Common->Mass Effect 2->Binaries.This is the same location you will need to go to in order to import your save from ME1. Find 'masseffect2.exe' in the processes list, then right click it and go to 'Set Affinity.'. To find your version number, you will need to run the ME2 Launcher.Go to your task manager ( ctrl +alt+ delete).Once you start the game alt tab back to the desktop.The bug essentially multiples the load times by upwards of 10 times what it's supposed to be. The problem is with a bug in the unreal engine for those of you using dual core processors. I wish I knew about this before I spent about 30 hours putting up with these nightmarishly long load times.Īnyway, the reason you're here. Now I thought this was just how the game worked, but after searching around I found this fix, and my loads went form taking two minutes to less then 3 seconds. On the PC version of Mass Effect 2 I was having problems with it taking anywhere from 60-120 seconds to load whenever I would transfer from deck to deck of the Normandy. I just though I would share this with the community for those of you that are in the same boat I was in.

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