Does the version of the game on GOG perform any better than the original?

I recall it being very shoddily coded and that no matter what computer I played it on I could never get remotely close to a constant 60 frames per second. Is that still the case? If this version gets a more fluid framerate I'd be willing to purchase a third copy of the game (I already bought it on disc when it was new, and then purchased it again from Atari when my discs got misplaced years later).

The official patches did improve the game's performance a lot, but chances are you already had those.

I personally never had the serious performance issues with NWN2 once it got its first few patches. Sure, it was a bit of a hog, but I could run it on contemporary machines of the day and get it to run well. Other people have trouble to this day. It's a bit of a crap shoot as to how well your machine handles it.

I bought the game 10 days ago or so, and quite frankly, it performs very well on my computer but I have a powerful gaming computer so I should not have issues.

There has no been no performance issues solely caused by the game though, so it is running really smooth for me once I crushed a devastating bug. :p

What does "performs very well" mean?

60+ FPS, or just perfectly playable?

My previous laptop played it around 40 fps if I recall correctly - about the same framerate said laptop got on Skyrim on high settings.

My current laptop "should" easily get ~100 fps on NWN2, but I am not sure that is likely to actually be the case based on my previous experience with the game.

The GOG version will get exactly the same performance as an updated disk version.

I just loaded a few saves and checked the actual FPS. Running the highest settings on a 3-year-old desktop.

In the best areas I was getting well over 100 FPS. In most it fluctuated between 50-80. The only location that caused FPS to drop below 40 was Samargol (those infamous water effects), and even then it only dropped momentarily before pulling back up. This wasn't a stress test; maybe later I'll finally get around to another MotB run and see what happens to the FPS when my epic level Sorcerer, an epic level Red Wizard, an epic level Cleric, and an epic level Spirit Shaman all decide to fling out 9th level spells as fast as they are able.

As olnorton says, the GOG version should be exactly the same as the fully-patched version from the disk.

Hmm, my old laptop (3 years old) was usually around the 40 fps mark if I am remembering correctly. Had assumed it was just the engine making it run poorly, and that it likely did for everyone.

Specs of it were:

i7-720QM
12 GB DDR @ 1333 mhz
AMD Radeon HD 5870M


In 2010, that was THE absolute best mobile video card in existence, so despite being a laptop, it was meant for gaming.

Just remember that your 60Hz monitor is only capable of actually displaying 60 FPS. The software can render, and monitoring utilities will report, more than 60, and the animation can 'feel' smoother at higher 'reported' rates, but you are actually only seeing maximum 60 FPS, unless your monitor is higher than 60Hz.