Cat fight won't start in Mephesto's lab

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Cats are stuck, no way to progress. I've restarted, reinstalled, gone back several checkpoints,; same issue each time. Does anyone have a fix?

[Roshambo]

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South Park was made by Ubisuck and as such there are some game breaking performance issues that remain in place forever as they move on to the next money making scheme although you should be able to find some sort of workaround.

Try walking to Canada and you may find your GPU heat spike as the camera pans out with all settings on high for reference.

I played through the game last week and had many fights that seemed to freeze around the mid-point of the game onwards including the ass-cats in the lab and the end of the police station boss. Sometimes Alt+Tab was enough to get the next turn to initiate playing in borderless windowed mode. Sometimes I found turning the graphics settings way down solved the problem at least long enough for me to clear the game on Mastermind.

My setup is well above the recommended settings for what that is worth. I doubt updating your drivers will clear things up now or as time goes on but there is that potential solution as well. I only ever noticed freezing and sounds bugging out during combat. The overworld seemed more stable in my experience. I was using an AMD card and it is possible there is better optimization for Nvidia cards but I would not recommend spending more money in the hopes of running this game smoother. If you wanted to go that route I would suggest trying the game on console as my run on Xbox seemed to be smoother by comparison and it may be a shoddy PC port issue as is so common among the AAA community.

In short, I would recommend:

1. Set all or most graphics settings to low (you probably won't notice much of a difference visually in game and it should improve performance)

2. Play in borderless windowed mode and use Alt+Tab whenever the game seems to freeze up to see if that gets it working again.

3. Once the game starts to freeze like that (assuming you can get it to advance with Alt+Tab, etc), make a save and close the game. The longer it remains running the more likely those issues are to present themselves in my experience. I often played in 30-45 minute chunks before saving, closing and reopening the game or waiting a day to play some more.

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Hey,

I'm sorry to hear this isn't working correctly for you. The suggestions above are good things to try. I've seen some issues resolved previously by changing party members so maybe this can help resolve this too?

- Ubisoft Support

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tabbing in and out each turn worked for me

[Axell Wolf]

Thanks, bro. The Alt+Tab trick worked.

[Unbroken]

Thanks for ideas. Alt + tab worked.