I'm playing Dragon Age: Origins Ultimate Edition for PS3 with the 1.01 patch installed.
Whenever I'm exploring and enter into combat, the game pauses/freezes/the framerate drops to near zero. After a second or two, it begins to refresh again, but the framerate continues to lag for several seconds after that. Eventually, after five seconds or so, framerate picks back up to interactive levels.
Is this a known issue? It makes playing the game a chore, especially when entering areas with lots of mobs.
Best Answer
If software is ruled out (by updates), the cause most-likely resides in the hardware.
While this doesn't necessarily help your problem, the cause is likely a combination of wear and tear on your PS3 (namely the video processing unit) in culmination with high demands from the game on a potentially older PS3 model.
Not much can be done if the developers ignored older model architecture restrictions besides waiting for a software update to address them.
Try to get your hands on some other games made by the same company and some released around the same time period to see if the problem comes up.