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puzzlezaddict
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5 years ago

Re: Pre-rendered cutscenes play in slow motion (4-12 fps, PC)

@RPGaff  From their last post, it sounded like it was possible only the later cutscenes lagged, although maybe the issue is always present and simply a bit more subtle earlier in the game.  I'd still like to test though: it's worth knowing that this problem shows up on a Bootcamped Mac if and only if it's using an eGPU.  The graphics drivers for macOS are completely different than what everyone else has, so while the game might behave exactly the same way, I'm not going to assume.

Thanks for flagging the other thread though.  I haven't been able to keep up with this forum (really at all), so I'd only seen one other report and wasn't sure whether it was a coincidence.

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  • RogueFive1424's avatar
    RogueFive1424
    5 years ago
    @puzzlezaddict some non-Mac users with eGPU have piped up as well, plus most Mac users don't use the bootcamp drivers but vanilla (Radeon in my case).
    I managed to isolate the issue to Bink movies playback through bink2w54.dll, however there isn't an issue with the DLL nor with the movie files, since they play fine with RADGameTools on the same machine. It appears that the DLL gets called differently from the main exe since the May 17th update.
  • Habadera73's avatar
    Habadera73
    5 years ago

    @puzzlezaddict 

    I can confirm that this definitely isn't just a Mac/Bootcamp issue, but there does seem to be an eGPU common connection.  I'm running Windows 10 on a PC (Intel Tiger Lake i7/16 GB RAM) with external eGPU and a Vega 64 and I get exactly the same slow motion cutscenes/stuttering during pre-rendered scenes (and loading screens).

    What is more annoying is that not only does the cutscene run at a terrible framerate, but often there is an in-game engine scene which follows it (particularly common towards the end of ME1) which seems to start before the cutscene is finished, so you hear the overlapping audio of both scenes and miss the beginning of the in-engine scene.

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