Bug: glitchy head shaking and jumping NPC's

[An expanding Cameroon citystate]

all the NPC's constantly shake their heads and seem to jump up and down(no jumping animation FIY) for no reason. makes talking to NPC's really hard. here goes hoping that the devs will actually read this.

[Calton1]

I really wouldn't bank on it...

And the only time I encounter the problem you mention is when talking to other mercenaries in Mike's Bar, and it isn't a big deal if you give them time to 'settle down'.

Still, better FC2 than the sequels.

[DarkMoonShadow]

Try setting Far Cry 2 > Properties > Set Launch Options to -RenderProfile_MaxFps 60

[Tears For Fears]

Vsyic!

[gabrielaguirre06]

I can't laucher the game Far Cry 2 in multiplayer. How make this?

[Tears For Fears]

????

[Black_Scythe]

How do I access the fortunes DLC

[Tears For Fears]

Its downloaded with the game

[Tears For Fears]

Originally posted by The Prime:

Its downloaded with the game

Look at the Ammunation, in the middle must be 3 weapons

[Pangia]

For weird NPCs behavior the fix is to either enable VSync or change physics level to at least Medium.

[Taylor19]

im playing farcry 2 right now and i have the same problem

[LambRam]

I have the same problem, just attempt not to go into mikes bar because that's generally where npc's "freak out".

[Sкiткj3ll]

This bug is incredibly annoying. Lucky there's some fixes for it. Enabling vsync, as previously mentioned, is one way. Especially this is frustrating in the starting shed :P man! Sometimes the NPC you talk to jumps into the room where you are and block you against a corner or some ♥♥♥♥ xD

[Noxoreos]

Thank's a lot, I was looking for some time now to find a solution, because I could not finish a mission. The NPC always started talking, then "pushed me away" and then stopped talking, because I was too far away. This was really annoying.

Now I understand why this has been happening, since typical graphics cards didn't go that high in framerate when the game came out and therefore only a small amount of people could get this kind of error.
As far as I know the smaller the amount of data for the physics engine inbetween frames (less time in milliseconds to gather data), the more inacurate it gets - which explains what the framerate has to do with the movement glitches.
It's like pointing the direction with a stick - the shorter it is, the less you can tell the exact direction.

[Trondesson]

VSync alone didn't do it for me, I had to limit the framerate to 60 as well. If you have a newer NVidia graphic card and a higher framerate than 60 you need to go to the NVidia Control Panel > Manage 3D Settings > Program Settings, look for Far Cry 2 (farcry2.exe) and change the settings Preferred Refresh Rate to Application-controlled to be able to change it in-game. Otherwise it just reverted to 144, what I had before, as soon as I left the graphics options.

[Elbmek]

me too. The heads doing a rap at the airport whilst talking to Rueben. And the Lts jumping up and down at the relevant stations when game starts after truck ride. Also merc sitting on seats decide to levitate 50-60 feet into the air, stop, then fall to the ground.