I've tried several solutions that I've found for the known movement stutter issue, but none of them resolved it.

If I roll back to 1.1.8, the game refuses to launch. It loads for a moment, then nothing happens. I believe it mentioned it's looking for- and can't find 'sekhmet_x64.exe', which I noticed gets replaced with 'sshock.exe'. If I roll back to 1.2.15 the game launches, but then crashes when I start a new game.

The stutter is present regardless of rendering mode. Changing the graphical settings also had no effect.

I bought the GOG version (having owned it previously on Steam) hoping it wouldn't have this issue. At this point I don't know what to do other than wait for the patch that will be coming out.


Any suggestions? Or am I missing something obvious?


If it helps:
AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 3.89 GHz
32.0 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER
Windows 10 64-bit

You should only need to go back as far as 1.2.15. Just on a hunch but do you have the game installed in your Windows root folder on the C: Drive in the default programs folder? This often causes the game to crash. It has permissions problems when in that location. It is better to install it on another drive, partition, or if that is not possible install it in your documents folder. Anywhere but the programs folder on your C; drive. This should fix the crash problem.

As has been my experience. I hope that helps.

I switched to 1.2.15 and it's still stuttering like crazy on my 144Hz monitor. I especially bought GOG version now, because I thought it would fix the problem existent on Steam...

[Edit] I changed config file in the directory: C:\Users\*********\AppData\Roaming\Nightdive Studios\System Shock EE

kexengine.cfg

variables to:
seta cl_engineFPS "60"
seta v_refresh "60"
seta v_borderless "1"
seta v_vsync "1"

And it works acceptable... Shame that 144 or 120 fps causes a stutter and/or a frames overlapping each other...

Yeah..install somewhere deep in a c:\ folder is not the best way...allways create a X:\games folder on any partition and you will avoid alot of problems :)

Btw: How close is the demo to the final game ?
Thnx for your answer.