Okay, this is a bit i will send in to the support but decided it could be of use to post as well. This is by no means a try to bash the DirectSong Idea, in fact i like it. However, and this is where my complaints are directed, there seems to be some kind of implementation problem with it.
So we got that nice "little" game update and all is fine until i reached the new areas where the new (nice) soundtrack started playing. First i thought it would be sudden problems with my pc as the game kept on doing a full break every 2-3 minutes for about 20-30 seconds and area loading times where prolonged by that 20-30 seconds as well.
I did some observations of course and tried out several things none of which did work. I was getting a bit disappointed for i never had those huge performance issues before. Sure my pc is not the fastest and below minimum requirements but the game was allways doing fine until the addition of that update.
It was then, that after a few minutes i noticed a pattern in those breaks and i also noticed that during those breaks no music was playing. I stood still for a while and listened to the music, just to wait for the moment the tracks would switch... and that is when i noticed that everytime DirectSong switched one of the ambient tracks my game would freeze for 20-30 seconds. Heavy fighting or not, standing still or running around. Each change of track brought me those breaks.
Finally... to make sure i left the new areas and headed to the "old" ones where no DirectSong Implementation was active. And it is as i expected, no strange pauses there. Everything was running as smooth as it allways did.
I asked a few friends and publically in districts and it seemed that one out of 10 had problems with strange performance issues. I asked my friends to have a look as to when those things would occur and all of them answered me (without me saying my suspicions aforehead) that it seems to be something with the music.
However, this is where i'm standing now. Deactivating the music (by lowering the volume to zero) did not do a thing to lower those performance issues. I've yet got to try uninstalling the Minisound Update you could download as a seperate - maybe that is what is causing the problems. But overall, i've got no clue as to what might be a solution or if a solution is even possible for us.
Anyone else experiencing these problems or is it just a very limited problem with me, a few friends and a few folks from the districts?
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