Forum:Jerky Camera and Character Movement

I am coming here for help for this problem as I am at my wit's end; after almost two years and a new computer, this issue still exists, and is driving me absolutely mad. Anyway, the issue in question is that the game has become choppy (hiccuping) and prone to jerky movements, primarily during dialogue and when running. When this issue first emerged on my old computer, it was already quite disconcerting, given ME 2 had run perfectly smooth up until that point. Indeed, no matter how much I changed the settings or reinstalled the game did any change occur. Already, this brought back dark memories of an ME 1 bug in which the characters heads would jerk around during dialogue (despite changing computers and whatnot), something that has remained to this very day. After trying updating driver software, defragging, running malware checks, modifying the various files, and ensuring there were no hardware issues, I simply gave up due to a lack of results in regards to the issue; this was made all the more frustrating by the complete lack of helpful technical support from Bioware or the Social Network forums (the post uses my old system specs).

Now, after having gotten a new computer a couple of months back which greatly exceeds my old system's capabilities (which was already a damn good system), I thought I would try to boot up Mass Effect 2 again and try it out... Only to be greeted by the exact same goddamn issue. I have gone through the whole gamut of technical checks and have once again found there is no bloody apparent reason for this to be happening; I have ensured all drivers are up to date, the game is fully patched, no programs are interfering in the background, all temperatures are well below the threshold of even the slightest concern, and have tried disabling the various cores, all to no avail. Indeed, the only lead I have to go on at this point is that this whole mess began after installing the Kasumi DLC and downloading the 1.02 patch. Now, I have indeed found mention of others who say dialogue and certain animations became buggy/choppy/jerky after downloading various DLCs, yet very few of said people have apparently managed to resolve said issues, and those that have did so using solutions which are ineffective or inapplicable for my current situation. Once again, this reminded me of Mass Effect, which began to have the jerky-dialogue-head-movement issue after installing Bring Down the Sky.

System Specs

OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Processor: AMD Athlon II X4 640, ~3.0GHz

Memory: 8192MB RAM

DX Version: 11

GPU: NVidia GeForce GTX 460

Mass Effect 2 EXE is 1.02, launcher is 1.01, and config is 1.03; the game is the Steam digital download version, and I have all DLC for said game. No 3rd-party applications or tweaks are being used at this time.

If anyone could assist me in this matter I would be most grateful, as I am becoming quite frustrated by this issue. -- Haegemonia ( talk ) 01:03, July 27, 2011 (UTC)