Why are the Cinematics and Cutscene extremely lagged?

[𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐤]

The game runs on ''playable'' fps rate, but all the cutscenes are extremely lagged and with a terrible sound delay. Can you launch a patch for this devs?

[Kaijin]

I have the same problem with the cutscenes, game performance is as good as my system can...
AMD Athlon 64 x2 4800+ @ 2.75Ghz
ATI Radeon HD 5770 512Mb
4Gb RAM
win7 x64

I play with resolution 1920x1080, anisotropic x16, textures very high and I get an average of 30-40fps with no stuttery during gameplay.
As soon as a cutscene starts, the fps drop to 10-15, after 4-5 seconds it goes to ~20fps and stays at 20fps until the audio is over (usually several seconds before the video finishes). When the audio is over, the fps goes to ~60fps and the video seems to play fine from that point on till the end.
I played the .wmv files in my media player (MPC-BE x64) and all files play perfectly, extremely smooth but the audio from the dialogue is missing, so I'm assuming it has something to do with the audio+video, since the videos ingame start playing fine when the audio from the dialogue(s) finishes.

Initially I also had the problem with no cutscenes being played, but that was easily fixed by unchecking the "Disable Media Foundation" option from the codecs I use (Shark007 ADVANCED Codecs).

[Lone Wolfe (Hoover1979)]

引用自 no man's friend：

引用自 Lone Wolfe (Hoover1979)：

EDIT: I played some of the .WMV cotscenes with media player classic - home cinema in diagnostic mode and frames drop like crazy playing them. I can watch blu-rays without 1 frame being dropped, so maybe the cutscenes were poorly encoded

Devs are already on it!

when they fix it it will be a 10.7 Gb udpate.

[Lone Wolfe (Hoover1979)]

引用自 JoeShmo：

There's an incorrect use of terminology here.

The cutscenes are not "lagging" ..they're not properly using sound channels. There's a big difference in meaning. The point to get across though is that the graphical part of cutscens run perfeclty fine, but the audio levels and delivery is not working right, so that you get perfectly fine voice overs, but you can't hear the sound effects or anbient effects properly at all.

Like if you tried to listen to a 8.1 dolby digital blue ray with only 2 stereo speakers plugged in.

for me there is lag as well as sound issues on the cutscenes, they are very juddery and drop fames like crazy, as well as the sound getting more and more out of sync.

[[CK]WalkinTalkinStephenHawking]

Get 4-11 fps on cutscenes, yet 80 fps in game, wtf

[steveballmer]

15 FPS in wmv ingame cutscenes, audio desync and 100% CPU load. AFAIR same issue was in another KAIKO PC port - Legend of Kay Anniversary, don't know fixed or still not. Don't know how enjoy this remaster with this annoying thing.

[King Bradley]

引用自 steveballmer：

15 FPS in wmv ingame cutscenes, audio desync and 100% CPU load. AFAIR same issue was in another KAIKO PC port - Legend of Kay Anniversary, don't know fixed or still not. Don't know how enjoy this remaster with this annoying thing.

Wait for patch like me.

[𒉭Kωnαn𒉭]

引用自 King Bradley：

引用自 steveballmer：

15 FPS in wmv ingame cutscenes, audio desync and 100% CPU load. AFAIR same issue was in another KAIKO PC port - Legend of Kay Anniversary, don't know fixed or still not. Don't know how enjoy this remaster with this annoying thing.

Wait for patch like me.

PFF it's almost 2019 and i have the very same problem

[King Bradley]

引用自 ☣AkaiOni☣：

引用自 King Bradley：

Wait for patch like me.

PFF it's almost 2019 and i have the very same problem

Got fixed for me after patch. :/

[aquinohot]

1178/5000
MY SOULTION!
Hello, I also noticed the same problem, the background audio in the cinematics was lost and the video started to go very slow. Really unbearable.
Search many solutions (change codecs, uninstall codecs, fidget with records, change audio format, pray to Rosa de Guadalupe, etc ...)
Finally I came up with a solution, I realized that the resolution of all the videos was 1920x812, so I decided to lower the resolution of the video to 1280x720 and it worked, the video of the cinematics is no longer delayed and the audio is heard in perfect synchronization with the voices.
Of course, there is no substitute for the original videos with the converted videos.

I know there are many programs that offer to change the resolution of the videos, but most leave a watermark until you buy the full version.
You can use the video converter that you like, but the one I use does not leave any watermark and does it very well. You can locate it with your search engine with the name:
Any video converter (AVC).

It's free, and as I said, it does not leave watermarks in the video conversion.
I hope it serves, any questions you may ask. Greetings from Peru.

[𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐤]

引用自 aquinohot：

1178/5000
MY SOULTION!
Hello, I also noticed the same problem, the background audio in the cinematics was lost and the video started to go very slow. Really unbearable.
Search many solutions (change codecs, uninstall codecs, fidget with records, change audio format, pray to Rosa de Guadalupe, etc ...)
Finally I came up with a solution, I realized that the resolution of all the videos was 1920x812, so I decided to lower the resolution of the video to 1280x720 and it worked, the video of the cinematics is no longer delayed and the audio is heard in perfect synchronization with the voices.
Of course, there is no substitute for the original videos with the converted videos.

I know there are many programs that offer to change the resolution of the videos, but most leave a watermark until you buy the full version.
You can use the video converter that you like, but the one I use does not leave any watermark and does it very well. You can locate it with your search engine with the name:
Any video converter (AVC).

It's free, and as I said, it does not leave watermarks in the video conversion.
I hope it serves, any questions you may ask. Greetings from Peru.

That's a good solution I think, sadly I've already made 100% on this game almost 2 years ago, and since that I don't play it anymore. But I'll fix your answer on the top to see if other people with this trouble can fix it with your solution.

[lune]

引用自 aquinohot：

1178/5000
MY SOULTION!
Hello, I also noticed the same problem, the background audio in the cinematics was lost and the video started to go very slow. Really unbearable.
Search many solutions (change codecs, uninstall codecs, fidget with records, change audio format, pray to Rosa de Guadalupe, etc ...)
Finally I came up with a solution, I realized that the resolution of all the videos was 1920x812, so I decided to lower the resolution of the video to 1280x720 and it worked, the video of the cinematics is no longer delayed and the audio is heard in perfect synchronization with the voices.
Of course, there is no substitute for the original videos with the converted videos.

I know there are many programs that offer to change the resolution of the videos, but most leave a watermark until you buy the full version.
You can use the video converter that you like, but the one I use does not leave any watermark and does it very well. You can locate it with your search engine with the name:
Any video converter (AVC).

It's free, and as I said, it does not leave watermarks in the video conversion.
I hope it serves, any questions you may ask. Greetings from Peru.

Hey from 2023 :D I'm currently playing through the Darksiders series and I've also run into a problem with the cutscenes: the game itself runs smoothly, but the cutscenes are unwatchable. I tried changing the settings, but that didn't help.

Then I saw your comment about converting the videos to 1280x720. I did that, and it worked! So thanks a lot for your comment and solution! It was a lifesaver!

[Manny Morales]

I managed to resolve this issue on my rig, edited the "renderer_settings.xml" file on the settings folder of the game, on the steam folder, changed window mode to "true" and set the resolution to 2560x1440, by doing that I no longer have V-Sync issues, the cutscenes and audio work smooth and the game runs perfectly.

Running on:
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
Windows 10
RAM 64 GB