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Windows 8 & Cut Scenes

Aggelakis

By Aggelakis,
Posted on: 2012-06-10 04:10 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

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Not terribly important for now seeing as Windows 8 isn't out yet; but I tried the SSA2.1 out today on my Windows 8 install, and the cut scenes are missing all speech bubbles. This kinda makes it hard to follow the story!

Speech bubbles work fine in the rest of the game, and the rest of the game seems just fine in Win8 as well, it just seems to affect cut scenes.

I'm running an ATI HD5770 video card, using the Win8 preview drivers from ATI.

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Nope. Nothing in the chat windows either.

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It's a chat channel option. Put it in one of your chat windows and you'll see cutscene text.

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Originally Posted by Aggelakis View Post
It's a chat channel option. Put it in one of your chat windows and you'll see cutscene text.
And which option would that be? I checked by selecting to edit a chat tab and saw no option at all for cutscene dialogue. If you are referring to NPC dialogue, that doesn't work. I have a chat tab solely for NPC dialogue and when I go through a cutscene in Praetoria, or other parts of the game, the dialogue does not appear in the tab.

I think I saw a comment or two not too long ago on the forums that mentioned the fact that the chat bubbles in cutscenes were too fast and at least one comment asked to have the dialogue added to the window and someone asked to have the dialogue slowed down so people could read it. So I'm assuming there is no way to add it, unless you can be more specific and tell us WHICH option it is to add to a chat tab. I would like to know myself. Thank you for your time.

 

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When you edit any tab, you can see on the left or right side, depending, a 'Cutscene Caption' selection along with all the others. If this is NOT in ANY of your tabs whatsoever, you will simply not see the captions.

Further... it may be that if it's not in Global or Chat, and you don't have the tab that DOES have it specifically selected before the cutscene happens... you won't see the captions either.

I've been having problems on my Vista machine with this very thing, and I've chased it down to these two scenarios: Have the CC in the Global or Chat tabs, or have the particular tab up... otherwise, I don't see them. And I have it set up in another tab.

Moar testing is indicated. Seems to be pretty particular in whether it'll show or not. I'd suggest putting it in 'Global' and selecting that tab before running the mission.

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There used to be a problem where the text for "Cutscene Captions' in the channel list was not visible but I believe that was fixed a while ago.

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And which option would that be? I checked by selecting to edit a chat tab and saw no option at all for cutscene dialogue. If you are referring to NPC dialogue, that doesn't work. I have a chat tab solely for NPC dialogue and when I go through a cutscene in Praetoria, or other parts of the game, the dialogue does not appear in the tab.

I think I saw a comment or two not too long ago on the forums that mentioned the fact that the chat bubbles in cutscenes were too fast and at least one comment asked to have the dialogue added to the window and someone asked to have the dialogue slowed down so people could read it. So I'm assuming there is no way to add it, unless you can be more specific and tell us WHICH option it is to add to a chat tab. I would like to know myself. Thank you for your time.
... it ... er ... cut scene captions is a chat channel option ... you put the cut scene captions chat channel in your chat window to both view cut scene chat bubbles during cut scenes and to review cut scene dialogue afterward. I have no idea how else to put it.

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And which option would that be? I checked by selecting to edit a chat tab and saw no option at all for cutscene dialogue. If you are referring to NPC dialogue, that doesn't work. I have a chat tab solely for NPC dialogue and when I go through a cutscene in Praetoria, or other parts of the game, the dialogue does not appear in the tab.
Add "Cutscene Captions" to that tab.

As for the OP - I'm on the Win8 release preview (still hate it,) same video card, same drivers. I saw the captions both in terms of the "popup boxes" as Mot taunts you in DA, and in the cutscenes in the new Yin TF.

Edit: Checking to see if it's something in that story arc - nope, cutscene works fine. Unfortunately, cutscene also has someone with a talking crotch, thanks to badly placed speech bubbles... but I can see them.

 

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For those unable to find it, when you Edit Tab look in the list on the right.

Cutscene Captions is between Broadcast and Combat Warnings, as shown in the picture below.

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Originally Posted by Aggelakis View Post
It's a chat channel option. Put it in one of your chat windows and you'll see cutscene text.
I know how to turn it on, and it IS on, which is why I'm reporting this as a bug. No cutscene dialog is appearing at ALL under Windows 8 x64.

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Add "Cutscene Captions" to that tab.

As for the OP - I'm on the Win8 release preview (still hate it,) same video card, same drivers. I saw the captions both in terms of the "popup boxes" as Mot taunts you in DA, and in the cutscenes in the new Yin TF.

Edit: Checking to see if it's something in that story arc - nope, cutscene works fine. Unfortunately, cutscene also has someone with a talking crotch, thanks to badly placed speech bubbles... but I can see them.
So you're seeing the cutscene dialog in the new SSA 2.1? Curious... I wonder what's causing that...

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So you're seeing the cutscene dialog in the new SSA 2.1? Curious... I wonder what's causing that...
Run a repair on the install and either rerun the arc or do a Yin (also new, also with cutscene) and see how it goes? *shrug* Iunno.

Can't be driver differences, as AMD only has one Win8 Preview driver out. Also doing x64 on the Win8 install (as I *like* having all my RAM available, thankyouverymuch! )

Are you set to dual boot? If so, can you see if it currently works on your previous Windows version? (Which may be another install all together, which would kind of not help if it's an install issue...)

And the whole cutscene caption channel thing is really a sidetrack. >.>

 

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And the whole cutscene caption channel thing is really a sidetrack. >.>
It's not. In one post, he says he's not seeing the cut scene dialogue, in the cut scenes or in his chat windows. In another post, he says they're on.

Well, if they were on, he would see them in both of those places.

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I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.

 

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Originally Posted by Aggelakis View Post
It's not. In one post, he says he's not seeing the cut scene dialogue, in the cut scenes or in his chat windows. In another post, he says they're on.

Well, if they were on, he would see them in both of those places.
Point.

 

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Originally Posted by Aggelakis View Post
It's not. In one post, he says he's not seeing the cut scene dialogue, in the cut scenes or in his chat windows. In another post, he says they're on.

Well, if they were on, he would see them in both of those places.
Unless, of course, there's some kind of bug at work, which would be what I'm reporting... In the bug report part of the forum... Which is for, you know, reporting bugs...

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