Combat lag

[Vaz2008]

I've used mods in Oblivion, Fallout 3, and other games, so I'm not entirely clueless. Halfway clueless, yes, as I don't delve deeply into the guts of the matter.

 

Anyway, I installed DA:O mods for the first time yesterday. Maybe the day before. Either way, I didn't actually play the game again until today.

 

- Expanded Shapeshifting - Learned Forms Full Form Abilities v1.46

 

- Arcane Warrior Casting Fix v1.02

 

- Dragon Age Mutator 013

--- R0: Rare random travel encounters are more likely to happen

 

So now I have combat lag. The well-known kind, where attacks don't have any actual effect on the target until a few seconds later. I did not have this before, not to a noticeable degree at least.

 

Removed the Arcane Warrior Casting Fix *.gda from the override folder I put it in, but that didn't solve the problem.

 

Ran the Mutator again to undo its change(s). Still experienced the lag.

 

I hate the prospect of uninstalling Expanded Shapeshifting; it's such a lovely mod. Maybe it's incompatible with patch 1.01a?

[balthazar9086]

I'm experiencing the same lag as you, except probably worse. I have nearly 40 mods installed right now, but when I uninstalled Expanded Shapeshifting (after reading your thread), the lag got better! Not significantly so, but definitely by quite a bit. There's still a 1 or 2 second lag before my spells take effect though.

 

All this leads me to suspect a scripting problem within the game that causes the lags, rather than having obsolete hardware. The game runs smoothly at my current settings, and the only problem is the combat/spell lag.

[TGBlank]

As far as i can understand, too many floaties (that is, text floating showing damage numbers) cause combat lag, i think turning it off on the options removes such lag. There's a few other things that could feasibly cause lag tho.

[KainPrimus]

It's reported to be part of well-known memory leak, the same that causes ridiculous load times overtime. Nothing we can do about it until actual patch from Bioware.