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[darkreed]

I am a big fan of Bioware. Their products have been well throught out, and I have normally been very happy with their software. However, I think we need to make a current glitch list of current problems with the game, and try and get them all in one place. I am a IT person myself and have a good understanding of programming. For other people to add to the glitch list, please follow the layout that I outline in this inital post. a full list of glitches in one place, bioware will not have to browse though the forums looking at seperate threads.

The PS3 I am running is a release PAL PS3, running latest firmware (yep.. no Other OS anymore) running at 720p.

First of.. Glitches found in both Origans and Awakening.

1 - Longer the game runs, the more lag is experienced in lotting and quest updates.

This one is pritty much as it says on the tin. When I first load up a game, quest updates and looting is very fast. However, after about an hour of playing, there is a bit of lag once bodys of dead mob appear, and the ablitity to loot comes aviable. Over time, this lag increases. This problem has constantly caused quests to be bugged. For instance, the quest in Denerum, where you go to the pearl and your vacate the people from the pub. I did this via persuation, and they left the pub. On the way back to town, you then get an random encounter, and you then have to fight them. I did this, all the enemy was dead. I waited in the zone for 10 mins waiting for the quest update to appear at the bottom left corner. I got board of waiting, and assumed I had missed it. and left the zone.  The quest was now perminatly glitched because I didnt get the CS from the captine. even tho the quest log said it was done, and the captine would say go to the pearl. There are many times after a boss fight I would have to stand and wait for 5 min for the CS to start. The only way round this I have found is to exit the game every 2 hours and then reload. This glitch effects boss fights, quest updates from getting items and quest updates from killing specific mobs for quests.

2 - Loading an area causes a light blue zone to appear, or complete texture drop out in enviroment.

In a normal play through, then I start a game.. I will play through from the origan line thought to getting shale, as that is always the first thing I do one I have the map open. normally. once I get shale, I get him into party, and leave, just because I love that scene where he stands on the bird. Most times, there is a texture drop out, and there is no ground. Other times I play for a couple of hours, then the zone or area loads, for the first 5 seconds there are no Doors in the area or zone, and you can see the zone or area layout in a light blue texture. Another example of this problem can be given in the quest where you have to pick-pocket the guy near the chantry in denerum. Most times again, where the NPC`s appear (near the well where you drops the bodies off) there is no texture on the floor. just a black area.

3 - Mob and chest being empty upon opening.

This glitch was ment to be fixed in 1.02. However I am still experienceing this glitch. I do think that this might be tied in to glitch 1, as in a lag of some sort.

4 - Frame rate drop.

This again is tied into gltich 1. The longer the game is run in sucession. The more and more frame drop is experienced with in the game. Normally I exit the game completely and reload completely. There are times that the frame rate drops to about 4 or 5 fps. And the worrying it is, there isnt much happening in that game at the time.

5 - On loading game experience 4 to 5 min wait while save game data is checked.

If i play Dragon Age all the time, then this process only takes about 30 seconds. However, if I decide to play another game instead, it goes though this process of a 4 - 5 min check of my save game a data upon loading up Dragon Age. Also, if there is a crash (see awakening section soon) and the screen locked up, the only option of power off and then run back up.. it will do the 4 - 5 min check again.

Dragon Age Awakening

6 - Problem with Justice fight in the fade.

On my first play though of awakening. I got to the part where you meet Justice, and you break down the door to do a battle and then the woman sends you back to reality. I would get the CS of being sent back and then a loading screen. Then the loading screen would crash. I would be forced to force a power off where I have the problem of glitch 5. Then load up the same and try again. I tried speeding though dialog options and skipping CS`s to get the fight over and done with. But still the game would crash. I enountered this problem 5 times. In desperation, because I noticed a lot of frame rate loss at this point. I lowered the res from 720p to 576p. And the game ran thought perfectly. Now, every time I get to this point, I save, exit out, lower res to 576p, go back, and do fight, then re-raise the res after.

7 - Frame Rate

When experieneing problem 6, I noticed something interesting. And I would like anyone who reads this to try it. Make a save of your game at a point where you have to explore and kills things. Then exit the game, and reload on your current settings, play a bit, then exit out completly again, and replay the game in 576p. What you will find if the game runs at an almost perfect 60 fps no matter what. While playing at 720p, you will experience frame rate drops, and lag will start on drops and quest updates. This makes me feel that Bioware did not have to do much work porting the pc game to the 360, lets be honest, a 360 is more like pc hardware, but they have not done much of the optmisation for dragon age on the PS3. A lot of these problems I have mentioned so far come accross to me was a game that has not been opmised for the PS3.

8 - Sential Armor

Yep. I suffer from the problem that the Sential Armor is not displayed right on the PS3. I get the Warden Commanders Armor. I have only tried on Human so far. In regards to a prevous request from bioware to be more specific on the armor. I did not use any rune encharments at all.

This is every thing that I have experienced so far. If other people have experienced these glitchs then please post, and quote the type of PS3 you own, the ps3 firmware and dragon age patch version. Quote the glitch numbers you have experienced. And if you have experienced other ones, then please add to the list, and give a title, and a description of the problem/glitch with an example of when it happens

The reason I have done this thread it to mainly point out that I feel a lot of the problems we are experiencing if poor coding for the PS3. If the next patch could be catered to be more a game engine optmization, then we might find that a lot of these problems will simply disappear. But Bioware cant really do anything until they have a complete list in one place of just bugs and glitchs that we experience.

Thank you for your time

[ziggurcat]

concerning #4: i've noticed frame rate drop not only i the very opening cutscene, but in any of the origin stories and even within ostagar (not the DLC).



i don't think it's less to do with the length of time and more to do with terrible coding.

[The Danielnator]

I had a HUGE frame rate drop when the

Spoiler

battle at the Landsmeet broke out

! Aside from that everything's been smooth for me.

[The Danielnator]

Err spoiler tag doesnt work 0.0

Modifié par The Danielnator, 08 avril 2010 - 04:34 .

[darkreed]

Thanks for the post. But I am courious.



Which PS3 do you have? Like I said, I have an orginal Release 60GB PAL PS3. Running latest Firmware. I know that the version of the console shouldnt effect it. But it would be interesting to see tho. When people in other threads post their problems, they state everything that happened, except for the PS3 type they are using.



Thank you for the replys

[ziggurcat]

80GB NTSC non backwards compatible PS3 purchased february 2009, always updated to the latest FW revision (it would have been 3.15 when i purchased the game, it is now 3.21 since i don't care for linux). i have it connected via HDMI cable.

Modifié par ziggurcat, 08 avril 2010 - 11:09 .

[TimeLordCat]

120gb NTSC nbc purchased Oct 2008 running v3.21 @ 1080p max (auto detect). I have seen some slomo at unusual times. My Checking Save Data lasts for 15+ minutes, I believe it has to TIERing up weapons and armor. I have found that when I stash equipment at level 4 and come back to find it is now tier 7 (dragonbone) not everything does but nearly.

[darkreed]

Thank you TimeLordCat.

I dont think its tiering up weapons. That is a trick I do myself. Once I have Shale, the next port-of-call is to do wardens peak. I get Teir 3 Wardens Commander armor. Once STR is at 38 on the char that I can the teir7 of the wardens armor. I just goto solders peak. Unequip armor, sell to the armor npc there, then zone to party camp and then zone right back, and the armorer has teired the armor up. I buy it back.



So I dont see that it will be going though all your saves and teiring up the weapons. However you do have my simpathy, 15 mins for a save data check is a bit nuts, i find it frustrating mine being 4 - 5 mins. You must have the patents of a saint.



At the moment, it looks like everyone who has posted on his thread has the Fat Ps3*s. And are experienceing priy much all these problems. It would be interesting to hear from if he slims suffere from all these problems.

[Patch5129]

Only glitches I've really noticed.



Sentinel Armor become Warden Commander Armor because of the Warden's Keep DLC on the human characters. And honestly I am fine with that, I loved the WCA from Origins more then the black Sentinel look, just wished the helmet matched.



Vigilance looks like Starfang, again because of WK.

This one does bother me just a little, only because Vigilance looks so awesome.

[darkreed]

Patch5129, thank you for your imput.



I am assuming that you posted in response to my reqest of someone with a Slim PS3. Is his so?

If this is the case, then its very interesting thatyour Slim doesnt exibit a lot of the issues thats it looks like the Fats are. In all fareness, there shouldnt be a difference, but the hardware does change inside.

[TimeLordCat]

Silverite and Cold Iron runes "Masterpiece and Paragon" do not equip on weapons.

[Patch5129]

@darkreed actually I am on a fat, not a slim