Weird Graphical Issues/Unplayable. Help?

[Bravado]

Huge Mass Effect fan and saw it was on sale for dirt cheap so I figured I'd check out the series again (ignoring Andromeda's sad existence). The game launches and looks fine but when I click on any of the games, it will launch but with a horribly distorted graphical glitch that makes it so you can barely make out what is even on screen. It's like a filter of distorted, bright colors everywhere and renders the game unplayable. Does anyone know how to fix this? I've already verified file integrity.

[Bravado]

Weird...I tried to screen shot the issue to show but the screen shot of the title screen looks perfect fine, meaning I believe the issue is actually with my TV automatically changing to a different display setting, and I don't see a way to change it manually... What are the chances anyone else has had this issue and found a fix?

[AxelEnd]

check if HDR is enabled. You can find it in options -> calibration.

[Bravado]

Originally posted by AxelEnd:

check if HDR is enabled. You can find it in options -> calibration.

Tried all HDR settings, didn't help :/. If I minimize game my desktop appears distorted and barely discernible. I notice my TV auto changes it's display settings when I launch any of the ME games so I'm assuming that's the issue but...I don't see a way to change those settings. No other game has ever done this.

[AxelEnd]

strange, sound like HDR is enabled. it should be turned off. i had the same problem at one point. The games colors were all wrong and overly bright, TV was also distorted even with the game minimized. only fix was disabling HDR and restarting the game. do you have a multi monitor setup?

[Bravado]

Firstly I want to thank you for taking the time to help me try and figure this out. After waiting for this behemoth of a download I'm eager to play again ha ha. So my setup is a tower HDMIed into a soundbar which is plugged into a Sony TV. I don't know what about this game is causing my TV to try and take on different display settings, and why it doesn't do so at the opening of the game. It's only when I click to start one of the 3 games that it does the display shift and causes the problems.

[AxelEnd]

if you have a monitor can hook it up to your laptop or pc and try that? the reason i am asking is because if have a multi monitor setup. An actual PC monitor as primary and a TV as secondary. The game starts fine on the monitor with hdr on auto but when i select my TV the colors get all kinds of strange and my tv tries to start into an hdr mode which it does not have. When the game is displaying over my tv i have to turn hdr ingame to off for it to display correctly. the problem arises when you start the game because thats when the actual directx runtime is started. the launcher itself is nothing more then a fancy UI that lets you select which game to start. You can start each game from is own .exe and dont need to go. through the launcher.

[AxelEnd]

can you tell me your pc specs, and which resolution your tv supports and what resolution you try to run the game on?

[Bravado]

Hmm I'll go grab an extra monitor and see what I can do. Worst case scenario is I take the HD this is DLed on and can play it off my laptop...I just wanted to use the big fancy TV lol. To be continued...

[AxelEnd]

alright, ill check back periodically.

[Bravado]

I appreciate all your help my dude. Ultimately, I wanted to rip my hair out trying to figure out why this game specifically doesn't like my TV so I gave up and I'm playing it fine on my laptop and second monitor lol. I'm not tech savvy enough to figure this shiz out ha ha.

[AxelEnd]

glad its now working at least and you can play without eyesore graphics. The game displaying fine on your laptop and second monitor makes me certain its either the HDR setting ingame thats causing problems or you are trying to run the game on an resolution and/or framerate your TV cant handle well, both might cause coloring issues depending on how your TV handles incompatible signals.

[Zsrai]

Originally posted by saintmac87:

I appreciate all your help my dude. Ultimately, I wanted to rip my hair out trying to figure out why this game specifically doesn't like my TV so I gave up and I'm playing it fine on my laptop and second monitor lol. I'm not tech savvy enough to figure this shiz out ha ha.

It's probably a resolution issue. How new (or old) is your TV? What's your laptop's GPU? If there is a big difference between the native resolution of the laptop and the TV it could be causing issues like what you've been experiencing.

I'd honestly just stick to the monitor, unless your TV is fairly small.

[asterothe]

I see flickering in left side of screen in widescreen playing ME1. Lowering resolution helped but lost wide screen.

[OneNineDeepSilence]

It's the same on my PC, when first starting each ME (since they store their config separately), the game just enables HDR, though I have HDR disabled in both Windows and Nvidia.
To fix it go into options, then "calibration", and set "Enable HDR" to OFF. Then apply (I don't remember if there's apply button or such), but if you go back to main screen, where you start a new game, then settings are saved by then. Exit the game and launcher and everything. Will still take about 5 seconds or so until Windows recovers. If doesn't, you may need to restart windows too.
Should be fine after this, set the other settings too, but this will happen again with each Mass Effect game.

P.S. just changing the option alone won't fix the corruption suddenly, have to exit the game completely to fix it

[LoDxwn]

Yo I’m having somewhat of same issue right now. After I play the game for a session it like messes with my monitor resolution or something and i then can’t adjust anything on my monitor settings to see if that will fix it, like the display for the settings isn’t even showing. I’ve had to unplug it and plug it back in, to get it to display normally again. I’m not sure what kind of weird bug this is or weird overlay it’s doing when you boot up into the initial menu. I tried playing some Witcher 3 after and it was horribly distorted like your saying. Like I was in 720p or something lol. Super weird, would doing what you suggest help for what I’m explaining or is the same thing?