Dragon Age Origins sword slash effect glitch

Whenever I, a party member, or an enemy use an melee ability in Dragon Age: Origins, the sword slash effects stays through the entire animation instead of fading with it. Any idea what's causing this?

Screenshot:

http://puu.sh/8X7DV.jpg

Specs:
GTX 780 ti

i7-4770k

16 gb of RAM

Windows 7 x64