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Anonymous
12 years ago

Sound lag in dialogue

Hi, I've got a strange but annoying sound problem in DA2: It only occurs in dialogue, and only when the hero (Hawke) says something. The sound of his line starts to play, then there's a lag during which his face animation continues mute, and after a lag of about 2 seconds the rest of his line is being played.

I tried both the "Force Stereo" option and updating my sound drivers, but that didn't help.

Version is physical disc, Patch 1.4, high-res textures and black emporium are installed.

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    actually the sound lags occur with all characters, not just hawke, sorry. Sound lag also occurs in combat, when characters are saying something.

    Apparently some of the sound files are not being loaded up front, so the game has to access the harddrive, which causes the lag.