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[TheGreatCasa]

Heres my problem, I recently bought the Neverwinter Nights Complete sicne I lost my old copies.  I install the first neverwinter nights and everything is fine until I encounter problems playing movies.  I fixed that by playing in windowed mode.  However, my next problem is that everytime I try to loot something or enter a new area it freezes for about 10-20 seconds.  This has become a big frustration.  The video card I am using is an ATI Radeon HD 6770. 
My current driver is 11.12.  Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

[HipMaestro]

Have your read... this yet?

[TheGreatCasa]

Hmmm, nothing seems to have changed. Although the the article was correct in my version being out of date but even doing a rebuild did nothing. I still have 20 second loads. I also now freeze up when I talk to merchants and when I enter buildings etc. Could this be a driver issue?

[Lightfoot8]

How full is your disk drive. also see if defraging the drive helps.

[TheGreatCasa]

I've got 500 GB's of free space left. I'll try a defrag to see if that changes anything.

[wyldhunt1]

Also, make sure that you set your ini files to use a single core... I forget the line at the moment and I'm at work so I can't search for it. It should be around here somewhere though.
A lot of people were having similar issues when they ran NWN, so they added the option to choose a core (Or open it to all cores) via a line in your ini.
If you set it to -1, it'll use the engine default. 0 will use your first core, 1 will use the second core, etc.
Try a couple different numbers on that ini line and see if it helps.

[wyldhunt1]

Aha... -2 sets it to default. Oops.
Anyway, here's a link to explain all the ini options. You may also want to try adjusting some of the other stuff like max memory and such.
The line I mentioned is:
Client CPU Affinity=0

http://nwn.wikia.com...i/Nwnplayer.ini

Modifié par wyldhunt1, 29 mars 2012 - 09:33 .

[TheGreatCasa]

No luck, however I did find out one thing. This doesn't happen during the prelude. Everything runs perfectly with no lag at all or freezing up. It only starts to happen right when I enter chapter 1.

[Lightfoot8]

It also would not hurt to upgrade your video driver. By the number given it looks old. But with out the rest of your system spec's it is hard to tell.

[TheGreatCasa]

These are my specs:

Windows 7 64-Bit

Intel® Core™ i5 CPU 650 @ 3.20GHz 3.20 GHz

6.00 GB of RAM

Video Card: AMD Radeon HD 6700 Series (6770 Specifically)
My video card driver: AMD Catalyst 11.12

[TheGreatCasa]

I thought if I wanted to start playing a Legacy game I should be downgrading, not upgrading? Elaborate if you will

[wyldhunt1]

There have been a lot of bug reports concerning the Catalyst drivers over the years. A lot of the driver versions don't work, or make the game act in unusual ways. A lot of people have had luck by installing different (Newer or older) Catalyst drivers in an attempt to find a version that makes the game run properly.
I've no idea which versions work best for most people. I use nVidia.
Maybe a AMD person will see this and let you know what driver version they're using...

[wyldhunt1]

I did a quick search and found this thread where they were complaining that Catalyst 11.10 broke NWN. They may have never fixed whatever was broken.
Maybe try an older driver?
http://www.rage3d.co...readid=33982436

Modifié par wyldhunt1, 29 mars 2012 - 11:40 .

[HipMaestro]

TheGreatCasa wrote...
My video card driver: AMD Catalyst 11.12

My own ATI is so old and dusty it never used Catalyst but, IIRC from equally-old posts, try a few versions above and below the 11.12.  There was a full discussion of this on the legacy boards right around the time Win7 was introduced. Supposedly ATI/AMD addressed the OpenGL conflicts at some point but I cannot recall which version this was.  11.12 is definitely not the latest Catalyst version, though.  I expect you will need to juggle drivers, set core number correctly (for your own config, that is) and maybe even try changing the refresh rate of the monitor.  Hopefully, once you do get NWN working, the other games will still play fine. TBH, there are some really old games i would love to play on my rig, even older than NWN, but they crash each time I experiment trying another setting, so can easily sympathize with your dilemma.

Persist.  The game is worth the adventure into techland.

BTW... how does the toolset work?  Do modules open properly?

edit:  Hmmm... I'm wondering if perhaps when installing the new card/drivers, the DirectX version may have gotten overwritten by one that doesn't work with well with NWN.  What version(s) of DirectX are currently installed on this machine?

Modifié par HipMaestro, 30 mars 2012 - 12:01 .

[raven1074]

feeling nostalgic i installed NWN 1 and it says i have a compatibilty issue so i cant play even after i tried the compatibilty thing on the icon is there a patch or something i can download to play it?

[HipMaestro]

raven1074 wrote...

feeling nostalgic i installed NWN 1 and it says i have a compatibilty issue so i cant play even after i tried the compatibilty thing on the icon is there a patch or something i can download to play it?

Have you installed according to Shia's recommenations in the Win7 Installation sticky?

An excerpt:

If you wish to install from the disk(s) or from GOG or from Impulse

1. Install game using a custom install. When you are given the path to the install folder, change the path using the browse folder button so that it is NOT installed in 'programs (x86)', but directly on C drive. Do not make any shortcuts during the install process.
2. (Diamond edition disc only) Run the patch on the disk.
3. (Disk install only) Go to the patch page (link currently not working. See updates below for patch links) and download the correct 1.69 critical rebuild and install it. (Both GOG and Impulse versions are correctly patched).
4. Open NWN folder and find nwnmain.exe and nwn.exe.
5. Right click on these and select properties. Set them to run with full permissions, as administrator and under compatibility mode windows XP service pack 2 or 3.
6. (If you want a desktop shortcut)  Right click on nwnmain.exe and create a shortcut. Drag and drop this to your desktop.
7. Update your drivers for video and sound. (go to the manufacturers of your cards' support pages. Laptop support pages can be very behind the times)

Pay close attention to steps 4 & 5.  The Critical Rebuild for your version is hyperlinked in that same thread, if you haven't applied it yet, that is.

[mysticalkas]

I could use some assistance,
Running Windows 7 Home Premium SP 1/ 64 bit ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series / an AMD Phenom ™ II X2 555 Processor (listed twice whatever that means). I can't get the game to play online though I can play offline. I have installed and re-installed the game about 15 times, tried to follow all the advice listed in the forums, different ones no doubt, tried doing the crit patch and so forth. well im at a loss, by all accounts i should be able to play unless my guess is wrong on the specs. i have a whole other hard drive that has nothing on it, so i tried to put it on there, no luck, so put it back on C drive and started from scratch again, deleted it a buch of times and put it all back from scratch. im not really following a lot of the terms and way of doing things, I probably cant even fegure out how to unzip the file correctly. tried with no luck so i know im doing something wrong. there is nothing of importance on my computer so if anyone would like to remote in and get this game running i would be ever so thankful................Druids Rule!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wyldhunt1]

If the game works correctly in SP, then your instalation is probably fine.
Multiplayer requires specific ports to be open so that you can communicate with the game server.
Your firewall can block these ports and prevent the game from working online.
If you use a router, you may also need to set up port forwarding on those ports.

[mysticalkas]

Alright, thanks. could you explain how i would know the difference and was wondering if there was a youtube video out about how to download the crit rebuilds and so forth. oh the game plays but its very stop and go, and jumpy. i tried to update the graphics card at the site, not sure if i did it correctly but im trying.