Mass Effect 2 Crashes on startup

[marqcogan]

Here's what I have: iMac i7, VMWare 3.01 running Windows XP SP2, virtual machine configured to use two cores and 1.5GB RAM.

I installed Mass Effect 2 and it crashes immediately on launching the game, although the config utility does launch. One thing I noticed there is that the game sees the video adapter as "VMWare SVGA II", and not as the native ATI adapter in the mac.

So -- Is this expected behavior? If not, what can I tweak or adjust?

[K-MaC]

It is expected behavior. At this point in time Fusion only presents a virtual graphic adapter to the machine. Also Fusion only supports DirectX 9.0c Shader Model 3.

I would suggest playing the game in Bootcamp.

Cheers

Kevin