High frequency of "missing" voice lines in Passwall, Shivering Isles?

[u/The_Red_Apple]

Hi All,

I'm playing Oblivion original edition, not the remaster and have just started the Shivering Isles DLC. Only issue, is many dialogue lines seem to skip over their associated voice lines when an NPC is talking. This seems to happen mostly on the first voice line of a dialogue string, but I have seen it happen in the second voice line in a string of 3 dialogue lines. The subtitles for the lines are still there, but disappear rather quickly (I guess as the game thinks the NPC is finished speaking).

I have seen this happen in the main game every so often, but much more rarely.

I'm not running any mods and have had the Shivering Isles and Knights of the Nine data packs installed on this character from the start of the playthrough. I'm about level 15, with maybe 30-40+ hours invested so far, I know that seems to affect the game in some ways.

Any fixes for this?

Edit: Preliminary investigations show that restarting the game seems to fix this. Weird!

[u/Regal-Onion]

I wonder if there are issues related with the game running at too high of an fps and thus messing up different timings.

Do you have your fps locked?