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[qwerty115]

Does anyone know how I can retrieve my cd keys. I cannot find my manuals but I have my original box set cds. My original bioware account where I registered and stored the keys apparently no onger exists.  I have the emails etc from bioware that show I set it up yrs ago, I just can't log in to them. Acct no longer exists.

thanks.

[kamal_]

http://social.biowar...8/index/8260752

or

http://social.biowar...8/index/8558025

or any of the many other threads on this same issue with CD key in the title.... <_<

[foil-]

qwerty115 wrote...

Does anyone know how I can retrieve my cd keys. I cannot find my manuals but I have my original box set cds. My original bioware account where I registered and stored the keys apparently no onger exists.  I have the emails etc from bioware that show I set it up yrs ago, I just can't log in to them. Acct no longer exists.

thanks.

If you can afford it dump those old box sets into your nostalgia drawer and spring for a steam copy of the game with all the expansions included...including Storm of Zehir.  It's fully patched and a dream to set up compared to the original.  It will pay for itself in the time you spend trying to recover your old cd keys and reinstall from disk.

Modifié par foil-, 31 octobre 2011 - 12:30 .

[dunniteowl]

I guess I shouldn't be amazed anymore. Perhaps I am actually the odd man out. I have all my original materials for almost every single video game I ever bought, since 1977 (other than a lot of my old Atari 2600 stuff that "disappeared" in a move many many moons ago...)

IN this day and age, physical media still can't be beat, IMO. That said, one has to develop an appreciation for the value and time invested in their purchase and use -- and store them accordingly. I am still hoping the old bioware.com legacy forums will open in some fashion, thought my hope wanes as each week passes.

That said, every now and then, I still find myself in an aggravatingly long search for that *one* driver disk, or my older OS Disks (these are the *OLD* ones I'm talking about, like Win95, or DOS 6.22 on 3.5") and at other times, my latest video card drivers disc for my desktop.

You should be able to find them in a cdkey.ini, I believe, looking through the base files in your primary folder for the game (this would be the NWN2 folder under Programs/Atari/Never Winter Nights 2, IIRC. If you registered your CD Keys by inserting them into your installation, they should be in there. Of course, I am suspecting that in this particular case, the game was at one time uninstalled, and now you want to play again, right? Not sure what you can do other than follow foil-'s great advice (I even did it and I don't really favor digital download distribution) because you can never have too many copies of NWN2 and it's expansions IMNSHO.

Meanwhile, I'll tap a few more PMs out to some of the Bioware folks and see what I can dig up about the old legacy forums and registry site.
dno

[painofdungeoneternal]

it would have been in the file nwncdkey.ini i think. ( at least that is what mine is called in the "c:\\programfiles\\atari\\neverwinter nights 2\\" folder )

[Kaldor Silverwand]

dunniteowl wrote...

I guess I shouldn't be amazed anymore. Perhaps I am actually the odd man out. I have all my original materials for almost every single video game I ever bought, since 1977 (other than a lot of my old Atari 2600 stuff that "disappeared" in a move many many moons ago...)

Same here. I keep everything. If I was tempted for some reason to discard the manuals I would tear out the page with the keys and put it with the CDs. We see so many of these "I have the CD but don't have the manuals" posts that I have a hard time believing that so many people lose their manuals.  I have yet to see a single post where someone says "I have my manuals and the box but I lost my CDs" but that seems far more likely to me since the boxes are in a closet and the CDs are handled all the time.

Not accusing the OP of anything duplicit, but I just have to wonder if the frequency has more to do with disk duplication and piracy than people being careless with manuals.

[Rex Radar]

Hey I uhh "lost" my 1st expansion disk "Underntide" for NWN 1. It was ran over by a office chair. But I still have the manuals and the CD keys.

But this i'm sure leaves me only able to take foils advice if I have a NWN craving and needing SD, BG, HA, Ass, or AA.

[foil-]

I've gotta agree on the keeping the old materials point by dno. I regrettably gave up all my gold box sets. The manuals in those boxes were well worth their weight in gold. The monster sections were excellent. But these days the game manuals are becoming so non-existent that I've finally, just this last year, started to get comfortable with Digital Download. If a D&D game comes out I will definitely go for the box set, but most of the other games on the market I have no need for nostalgia and am starting to like the clutterless purchases. Especially when the box doesn't come with anything more than a disk and some advertising. I just purchased the box set of Battlefield 3 out of habit and thought afterwords that I should have gone the digital download route instead. The last very cool box purchase I made was World in Conflict since the box was very stylized and it actually came with a piece of concrete from the Berlin wall with the graffiti paint and all.  And too a lesser extent my Fallout bobblehead from the collectors edition. Other than those two, it's been a long time since I've thought a box purchase was worth the contents.

Modifié par foil-, 01 novembre 2011 - 02:29 .

[Kaldor Silverwand]

I don't know what I would do if I didn't have the silver chaotic evil ring and Sword Coast map hanky from my NWN2 box set.