Mass Effect Legendary Edition

Mass Effect Legendary Edition

Developers
	BioWare
Publishers
	Electronic Arts
Engines
	Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
	May 14, 2021
Reception
Metacritic	87
OpenCritic	87
IGDB	91
Taxonomy
Series	Mass Effect

macOS Compatibility

Compatibility layer	Rating	Notes
CrossOver	Perfect	Full resolution (nearly 4k) ~60 fps, after applying fixes as suggested for DXVK .
Wine	Perfect	Visual bug at the start menu where none of the game options are visible (but make an audible noise when you hover over it). However, it's easy to determine which version you're hovering over (left = Mass Effect 1, middle = Mass Effect 2, right = Mass Effect 3). Once you click on your preferred version, it's smooth sailing from there (and there are no other bugs, in my experience).
Virtualization
Parallels	Perfect	Mass Effect 1 and 2 have good framerates at 1280x720 with some stutter, Mass Effect 3 has lower framerates with more stutter but still playable.

Issues fixed

Won't launch in CrossOver

Use mod
Replace launcher with this mod.

Won't launch in CrossOver on Steam Client

QTWebEngineProcess.exe error / EA Play starting error

Start the game from Origin

Connect your Origin account to Steam via web (https://www.ea.com) Install Origin in the same bottle where you installed Steam. Update: probably outdated, Origin doesn't install with error 20:403, you need to install EA App for Steam instead, then it will prompt you to log in Open Origin App and Start Mass Effect from its page in your Origin library. Update: don't need to do that, you just run it normally via Steam, and now it opens correctly Those steps should bypass the faulty launch of EA Play and the game should start as expected in regular conditions.

Won't launch in Game Porting Toolkit on Steam Client

Error forcing you to download/use EA App

Continue Using Origin
Running the game using EA App after launching on Steam doesn't work, so use this script [1] to continue using Origin

No audio in Mass Effect 1

Delete OpenAL32.dll
Navigate to /Binaries/Win64/ Rename file OpenAL32.dll to OpenAL32.dll.bak, or alternatively delete it