Dragon Age Origins - Severe Conversation Lag
In certain conversations during the game I encounter severe lag. Usually it halts the game completely and I end up using the control panel to close it out of frustration. The audio plays just fine but the graphics stop altogether and occasionally stutter a bit to a new image. The choices for response come up very slowly and when I click on one it takes a while before the game seems to register it. Here are some of the conversations that I've noticed ALWAYS have this issue:
Talking to Mouse at the end of the Fade portion of the mage origin.
First conversation with Leliana after fighting Logain's Men in the lothering tavern
Conversation with Jowan when he's encountered in the redcliffe castle dungeon.
Conversation with Logain after defeating him in battle after landsmeet.
There are more but none that I can think of off the top of my head.
Here are my specs:
Dragon Age Ultimate edition via Origin (Which means I have all the DLC installed) Patched to 1.05 (Whatever the newest is)
Windows 7 64bit
Intel core2 quad CPU Q6600- 2.40 GHZ 2.40 GHz
4 GB ddr2 RAM
NVidia Geforce GTX550 ti - With the newest available drivers
DirectX 11 (It won't let me install 9 for some reason)
I do have some mods however I have had this issue since I was playing vanilla from a disc copy.
As stated I have before had a disc copy of the game that experienced the same issues but the computer I was playing on back then was not nearly as good as this one.
I have uninstalled and re-installed the game with no mods but the issue persisted.
I have disabled persistant gore (Which is a shame, I like the gore)
I have tried playing at lower graphics settings
I have tried to install DX9 but it always says "You have a newer version of DirectX installed, you dont' need this one" and quits on me.
I'd rather not uninstall DX11 since some other games I have (ME2/3) like it.
None of those solutions have worked so if anyone has a suggestion, please shoot it at me. At this point I'm willing to try anything short of buying another new PC.
OH and as for the mods I had installed they are the following:
Winter Forge
Skip the Fade
The rest were weapon, armour, and CC mods, no gameplay changes at all.
