Mass Effect - v1.02 (Intel-Wineskin)

The galaxy is trapped in an endless cycle of extinction. Every 50,000 years, an ancient machine race invades the galaxy. With ruthless efficiency, the machines wipe out all advanced organic civilization. They leave behind only the scattered ruins of technology, destroying all evidence of their own existence.

Few believe this ancient legend. You, however, know it to be true. The fight to stop this extinction event has become the most important mission in the galaxy.

"You must act without remorse, without hesitation, and outside the limits of the law."

It is your mission. As Commander Shepard of the SS Normandy, you will take your elite recon squad across a galaxy in turmoil, in a desperate race to stop the return of an enemy without mercy. To stop this enemy, you must act without remorse, without hesitation, and outside the limits of the law. Your only imperative is to preserve the safety of civilized life in the galaxy - at any cost. You must become the tip of the spear of humanity, for you alone know the full extent of what is at stake if you should fail.

Status:
- ATI : GREEN
- NVIDIA : GREEN
- GMA : GRAY

Personal Notes
Earlier ports of this game have been littered with bugs due to the inability to patch the code from source. Now with doh123's Wineskin Winery application that can be done quite easily and packaged in a manner that it can be shared.

Previous issues in this game included:
-The mouse pointer being invisible in menus due to the Mouse Warp override that was required to obtain a full 360 degree rotation in game.
-The graphics glitches and corruption which would tend to affect the characters scalp and show a bright blue patch of unrendered hair.

Both of these major issues have been resolved in this build and now it's available for everyone here!

Enjoy!

Port Info
Wineskin 2.0
WS5 Beta6
w/ xRandR support

Minimum System Requirements:
- OS: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard highly recommended)
- CPU: Intel Core Duo
- RAM: 1 GB (Tested with 2 GB)
- Video: nVidia 8XXX / ATI 1XXX - 128 MB vRAM, (256 MB vRAM Highly Recommended)
- about 11.5 GB Hard Drive Space required

Known Issues:
From time to time when there is a lot of action going on the frames tend to freeze and then release. The issue does not affect gameplay that greatly. From time to time the game will crash to desktop but I assume this is due to my low amount of video RAM. This is issue has yet to occur while testing this on a system with 256 MB vRAM

Installation Instructions:
Mount the .dmg
Drag and drop the Mass Effect.app to your preferred gaming folder
Double click Mass Effect.app to start

If you are having issues starting the app follow these instructions:
Click Alt and double click the Mass Effect.app to access the Wineskin Control Panel
Click Advanced > Test Run (debug mode) to launch the app with an option to view the logs when Wine shuts down]
By following these instructions you can obtain vital information as to why the application will not launch correctly
80% of the time the errors are due to resolution issues so be sure to set it according to your personal settings.


Link for more information: http://masseffect.bioware.com/me1/