[PC] DAO Unable to Fight During Combat
I am trying to play as a human noble in Dragon Age Origins but I cannot get past the fight in the larder with the giant rats. As soon as the combat started, the rats would move forward a bit but then stop completely, and then no one moved. My character can move around, but I cannot attack anything at all. The game isn't paused so it can't be that. I have no mods installed either. All my drivers are updated, and my windows is updated. Other topics have been raised about this, but no one has given solutions.
This is my 5th human noble playthrough on the PC version of the game and I've never had this issue before either. I did happen to see old forum posts (the ones I mentioned) even saying this happened in the Proving in their dwarf commoner origin and even once during the Archdemon fight, so I don't think it's origin specific. I just think it's most likely to happen with the human noble origin and early in the game.
The good news is that a second uninstall and reinstall seemed to work. I was able to load the save file and the error was resolved. The rats are attacking me just fine so far, though I plan on loading in a few more times. This made me realize that the error with the rats not attacking also didn't allow me to name Dog at the start of the fight. I hadn't realized it before at all, but maybe it's connected. Just to be safe, I did do a fresh install of my current mods as well (I don't have Qwinn's Ultimate Fixpack, but I'm going to look into it now).
Before doing this second uninstall and reinstall, I had exited the game, reloaded old saves, restarted the origin, etc. Nothing fixed it until this second time. The only difference is that I waited a few days between the uninstall and reinstall. I doubt that did anything, and I'm not sure why the second time worked, but I'm not going to question it if it means I get to keep playing one of my favorite games.
Thanks for the suggestions, guys! I hope your issue resolved as well, @Cyb3rNugg3t. A few days was no fun for me. I can't imagine a few weeks if the problem has persisted.