Camera stuttering issue

[StMichael]

I just reinstalled the game, but I've run into a problem I can't seem to find a solution to. While I'm standing still, the game looks fine. When I try moving my character, the camera freaks out and stutters rapidly instead of fluidly following my character. I've tried the single core affinity trick, I've tried the console extender or whatever it's called, I've switched around all sorts of graphics options, and nothing works.

I've got an i5 2.2 GHz, 8 gigs of ram, a Radeon 7950... What's going on? The game is unplayable with this bug.

[StMichael]

Disregard, the command extender just required a system restart to work.

[harting222]

pleas explane are you saying pc restart ? i am having the same problem
thank you

[Insanity Claus]

There is a known issue with the game where NWN2 will start stuttering if your PC has been left on too long. The Client Extension will help prevent this in PCs that have this problem. I used to have it when I ran Windows 7, but I don't have the problem any more with Windows 10. (same hardware)

The specific issue is that Windows keeps a log of how long you have been logged into your PC. The game uses that data for part of its animation timing system. For some users, this perameter can get out-of-whack severely and measure into very high digits, and this causes a lot of computation. The net-result is stuttering while the game tries to do these increasingly complex computations per every frame draw.

By retsart, I would assume they mean a reboot. You can turn your PC off an back on, or you can simply do the Restart feature in Windows. (a lot of PC cases can also trigger a restart by taping the power button; holding down the power button will often trigger a shutdown; these are referred to as "hard" solutions; hard shutdown, hard reset)

If you have this issue, a fresh boot into Windows should fix it. However, it wil come back again if the CPU timing is your problem. You can either run the game using the NWN2 Client Extension or reboot to remedy the issue.