PS3 - Dragon´s Dogma - Massive Slowdowns

[Deeceem]

Hi there,

i have a big issue with Dragon´s Dogma regarding slowdowns while playing the game.

If there are many effects on the screen the game starts to slowdown. In some cases it´s aceptable - not good, but aceptable - but in the Ur Dragon fight for instance it becomes sometimes a slowdown to 10% of the usual speed the game has.
I noticed also that it isn´t that bad if i play a non-magical class like the assasin. If i play a mystic knight for instance it become like mentioned above.

Again this doesn´t happen in the Ur Dragon fight only - it´s just where it really becomes very very bad and completly unplayable/unenjoyable.

As the title says i´m playing the PS3 version. It´s the german version and i´m located in germany as well. I tried to turn off the upscaling option in the PS3 menu, but it didn´t seem to have any noticable effect on this issue. Also switched my TV to the preset gaming settings and it also didn´t help.

Thanks in regards for anything helpful what might come.

[Deeceem]

Okay after trying to contact the phone support two days in a row IN the openening schedule and the nice computer voice telling me i´d call outside of the openening times, i finally managed to get someone there on the phone.

In the end they weren´t able to help me and suggested to try it another PS3 to help to locate the problem.
Okay, so it took a while but i managed to copy my savefiles and get a friend who owns a PS3 as well.
I copied my savegame to be able to have access to the areas and spells i needed to use, because i wasn´t up to play 15 hours or something of gameplay to reach that point i would have a compareable set of skills to test it out.

However, same problems on my friends console - so i will try to call the support once again and see what they say.

I thought i´d just update the status for anyone who may stumble upon this problem as well and since there seems noone official able to help at the moment i hope i figure out the problem and hopefully fix it and post it here then.
Otherwise i think i will try to contact Amazon and see what they say about a refund.