Dialogue "Freezing" in Dragon Age: Inquisition

I can confirm: A simple workaround is to just be patient when this happens. Just wait. It takes one or two minutes to go on but then you dont miss any dialogue!

Been running into this on xbox one.  It was really bad on the here lies the abyss quest, id swear I missed half the dialogue.

Hello everyone I am on the PS4. I only encountered this problem on the "Into the Abyss" quest so far and I let it sit and waited and the dialogue eventually continued as it should. I agree that the bug causing it should be fixed but just wait it out when it freezes.

Same for me as well. I have been having the issue on the 360. It has also hindered my progress into the main story of the game.

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@TyranicFish wrote:

First off, I'm on Xbox One.

When in a dialogue sequence it sometimes just stops after someone says something, the game is still running, things are still being animated, but it won't do anything. The characters simply halt the dialogue, no dialogue wheel shows up and often times I'm forced to skip the next piece of dialogue. More recently I couldn't even do that, I was just stuck at staring one character's face perpetually until I rebooted the game to see if that would help. It did not, this is a consistant and most definitely not random glitch.

Although chances are slim, is there a way I can fix this on my end? Or am I just going to have to wait for a patch before I can continue the story?

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I'm having the same problems on my PS4, but it won't let me skip the dialogue for Stroud during Grey Warden quest. It happened during Conversations with Dorian as well and other characters.

Wonderful Game. triple A title, long awaited, and packed full of bugs. I have dialogue freezing, scrambled dialogue with party members at the keep. NPCs flickering about in dialogue cut scenes like ghosts. Oh and characters that just wont talk to me at all (such as the Iron Bull). Just wonderful Thank you for shipping the game like this EA. No really they aren't bugs, they're just features of the awesome EA quality we come to expect.

It's not like one of the draws of an RPG is interacting with the characters or anything

Oh boy.  I reached out to EA/BioWare support, and they said they are working with nVidia and ATI as "a bulk of the issues will be fixed by driver updates", and then reached out to nVidia as that's the card I have, and they said "a bulk of the issues have to be fixed by BioWare".  Looks like their playing the blame game instead of just fixing the damn thing.

For what it's worth I fixed my dialogue freeze issue on PC by forcing 60 FPS at all times.  It seems Frostbite 3's force to 30 on dialogues, and cinematic scenes, is causing the freeze.  Not sure if that's the engine dumping on the GPU drivers, or what.  I can't help those of you on console experiencing this issue, but for those of you on PC just force 60 FPS.

--Create a shortcut on your desktop for DragonAgeIquisition.exe
--Right-click and go to Properties
--In the "Target:" field put the following switches after the last quotation mark; -GameTime.MaxSimFps 60 -GameTime.ForceSimRate 60+