Community Admin@JerichoGirlThank you for the very detailed post.
One thing that might help is to fully shut down the console for about 10 seconds, then check again once it restarts.
Hi, thanks for responding so soon!
Unfortunately, I don't have time to test right now, but I'll shut down my PS4 (I assume leaving it plugged in is alright, so long as I choose shutdown instead of standby; please correct me if I'm wrong) before heading out. That way, it'll get a few hours instead of just a few seconds of downtime.
As soon as I get a chance to try it out afterward, I'll update with whether I've noticed any difference.
Just as an aside, though, the PS4 has actually been shut down and restarted before between the issues I noticed, though not with any particular regard for how long. The restart was actually on account of my system randomly losing network connection and refusing to reconnect to bioware servers after the connection returned; not sure if that's relevant, since it came after these issues began and the restart fixed connectivity to bioware servers.
So, I had a huge and detailed account of all that I tested written up, but somehow I got logged out (possibly because I wrote it over the course of a few hours) and the site ate my post when I went to submit. I apologize for not going as into detail this time, but as you can imagine I no longer have the minute details memorized. The most important stuff is still fresh on my mind, though, and honestly what it mostly amounted to is I got four characters to roughly the same exact spot in the game, synced them all with the Golden Nug and acquired the stable at Haven, then tested them.
The PS4 was off from around 11am until 4:20pm. When I started it back up, I tested various saves including a male human mage, a male human dagger-rogue, and two female elven archers. Only one of these exhibited the sttuter/freeze while running around Haven, and it was my original female elven archer. I actually created a new one and played through until they were both at the same stage of the game (hence this took so long), and the new one is fine. Meanwhile, the one which seems bugged wasn't until post-patch (I'd have noticed something as jarring as stopping for a second mid-run constantly). Obviously, since she's fairly early on in the game, I can always screenshot my sliders in the Black Emporium and just recreate her if it proves to be a big problem. But it does still feel like something that should be mentioned since it's a new glitch to me. (According to one of my friends who also plays Inquisiton on PS4, however, she's had this issue on occasion pre-patch and it would only ever effect random characters, not all of them. So it may just be an unfortunate case of a new save on an old character becoming affected.)
That said, all four of these characters are showing the issues with sound and animation sync during battle, though since they're low-level characters without very flashy powers it's not a constant or annoying/hindering problem yet like it was for my endgame mage. Again, I'd never really experienced issues like this aside from once in a very rare while (if I'd been playing for several hours in a very graphics-intense area, for example) until post-patch, when they hit my mage playthrough.
Also worth note is that I'm noticing a ton of late pop-in graphics now which I used to not experience. Everything from NPCs to the dirt texture on the ground in Haven is showing this issue. Obviously, it used to occur in the more graphics-intense areas, but I don't remember it ever happening in Haven or out in the open in the Hinterlands and now it's fairly constant.
I have the game of Xbox one and just encountered this bug in game. I performed a shut down of the game gave it 10sec then restarted it and my saved game started working properly again.
I don't think a full console restart would be necessary if the above doesn't work, but go ahead and try it.
It’s been 5 years since the original post and two years since the last update in between that time no one has done anything and it’s still happening “please for the love of the maker someone fix this”
I never was able to fix this problem. It got so annoying that I quit playing the game entirely until I decided to pick up a copy on Xbox One a couple years later. I just gave it a try on my PS4 out of curiosity, and the problem still occurs in the main game but isn't happening in the DLC.
