Split-second freezes during dialogue cutscenes

[PCGirl]

Heyas Bal-

well, at least your's is handling it relatively well. Mine sometimes completely locks up during cutscenes.

Most likely, it's a memory issue. When you're playing, go into the program manager and kill any processes that you know you don't need running at the time.

See if that helps out any.

You can also do a clean up on your system; along with a defrag of your hard drive(s), if you havent lately, and that will take up a lil bit less resources that windows itself would be using. I prefer to use a combo of WinOptimizer and Ccleaner for this task, but Ccleaner being the freebie, works to satisfaction by itself.

 

EDIT- You can also shut down the game, wait a min or two for it to release ram, then try starting it up again. That might help. Or rebooting never hurts either.

 

I'd recommend backing up a copy of your savegames. That never hurts, regardless of what is going on. I also back up my screenshots folder, if you're the type that takes screenshots.

Myself, I always just make a backup copy of the entire documents/bioware/dragon age folder. But that's just me, cuz blank DVD's are relatively cheap :D

But yes, you can restore your saved games from a backup copy, if need be ;)

 

Good luck with the stuttering. Thats gotta be annoying! :(

[PCGirl]

It is indeed a mod problem. I stripped my copy of DA right down to original installation and started all over. Everything was running fine until I loaded a mod that I had downloaded previously and saved on a disc. My screen started freezing right away., As near as I can figure the only way you can use the mods are when they are a direct download. You can not save them in other location other than were you originally downloaded them or you will have problems. I am still not sure if it is specific to certain mods or not, but I downloaded a few again and installed them and all was fine.