My framerate is crap, but playable, but it is annoying, is there a patch for this?

It's called 'Getting a Computer Upgrade'

Brand new computer here

I hear there's an issue with the first release of DirectX 9.0c. Make sure you have the newest version (and yes, there are two 9.0c versions). Not sure if there's a newer patch already, but check it out.

Have you upgraded to latest NWN2 patch via auto-updater? It improves performance radically.

Biggest killers of performance are the shadows, texture detail and anti-aliasing. You might want to adjust those levels a bit. If this is not helping, it might help to know what sort of computer you are running and what operation system. Vista performance for instance isn't optimal yet, to my understanding.

You might not be alone on this one. To do engine development, I keep my PCs as up to date as possible save from going with a multicore (so far..) and somehow I'm still getting horrible responsiveness from the game.

I can run you through the steps to detect your bottleneck for a typical engine, but it isn't dependable without knowing the engine's architexture. For instance anti-aliasing filtering is applied on a per primitive/batch basis. Many engines "intelligently" apply it only where it's needed. So even though you have it on, when performance is suffering an engine might just scale down it's usage anyway so that disabling it would have minimal results. Your issue will also rarely involve both filtering and texture detail, except for in the cases of procedural textures such as shadows, enviroment maps (mirrors or reflective surfaces), some skies and some other rarer effects. As they involve seperate limitations of the pipeline. Filtering costs GPU time where texture detail eats memory and bandwidth between the CPU and GPU.

If you still need help with it send me a PM, and I'll work up a checklist for you.

I despise gamemakers that create games that -make people upgrade-. They should design for here and now, not for the computer owners of 12 months time. It would avoid giving people bad feelings about their products.

Just in case any of you lot become game makers.

The thing is, my cpu is up to date on everything, I guess I can make everything at its lowest setting, but I shouldn't need to. Whoever made this game must of been lazy.

Your computer specs?