Larian Studios Forums Divinity II The Dragon Knight Saga / Flames of Vengeance (English) Technical problems [FIXED] - Skills menu lag!

Hi, I'm wondering of anyone else experiences this...

On the Skills screen, whenever I click on a different skill to read the description, there is a lag of about 5 seconds before the skill info and video loads. I'm playing on a PC and I'm getting perfect framerate during play... It's really annoying to develop skills like this!

Anyone else experiencing this? Any fix?

Thanks!

Someone else did run into this problem, playing D2:ED (freezing momentarily when clicking on skills).

Are you shutting down all non-essential programs (especially anti-virus) before starting the game?

Try emailing support@larian.com, with a description of the problem and maybe a link to this post. See the appropriate support page for DKS or FoV.

It's WMV related.

The best way to work around it?

Remove the skill videos entirely.

Or re-encode them.

I never thought to try that, but you've a good point - I'm assuming anything WMP supports it'd play, right?

Yes, AFAIK it should. The game uses existing system codecs (WM9), at least for wmv videos and (in some videos) the AC3filter audio codec.

I get the pause when I click a skill and when it's loading cutscenes. I just figure that's the way it is - probably because that's just the way it is.

This worked perfectly.

The skill videos were nearly impossible to see on my 20 inch monitor anyway. God, it was ridiculous, waiting 15 seconds or so every time I wanted to look at a different skill.

Same here.

Deleting the movies (or well, renaming the folder, don't just wanna delete gamefiles :)) made skills so much less of a pain. I actually found new skills to use since I no longer dreaded clicking all of them .

Still the pause when ingame movies are supposed to run, but I can live with that...