Neverwinter Nights

What works

Everything on the single-player campaign in brief testing.

What does not

The toolset. Prerendered movies and the various corporate credit screens at the start either crash the game or only play audio, so better off disabled.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Multiplayer. The two main expansion packs and the other premium modules the Diamond version ships with (except Kingmaker, briefly tested), but I'd be surprised if they had any problems.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Purchased from Good Old Games. GOG.com modifies its games to improve compatibility with modern Windows systems, so that may affect results with Wine. Silver rating chosen because of the toolset and movie failures, but single player works flawlessly as far as I can tell with the following settings. I see 15-30 fps on a late 2008 MacBook Pro using either the integrated Nvidia 9400M and discrete 9600M GPUs. With Wineskin I suggest using Screen Options|Override, Rootless, Virtual Desktop at 800x600 (this only affects the initial launcher). Edit nwn.ini to say under [Display Options] FullScreen=0 AllowWindowedMode=1 SafeMovie=1 Disable Movies=1 This will disable the aforementioned non-working credits, movies, and the full screen mode; by turning full screen off, Command-Tab, Spaces, and Exposé still work. From the nwn.exe launcher, run Configure, and select a resolution; this controls window size for the game itself. Enjoy! PS - Although you should have no reason to ever do this, do not press Command-Alt-A to activate X11's built-in full screen mode; this badly confuses the game. Either push Command-Q to quit, or Command-Alt-Escape to force kill the app.)

Multiple users reported that Neverwinter Nights might present problems when running it on a machine with an ATI card.

In order to avoid that, rename the main program file nwmain.exe to something else, like nwmain2.exe. The driver seems to try some optimizations otherwise, which are actually backfiring and causing issues with the game.

IGN doesn't host the patches anymore either

They can now be found here: http://neverwintervault.org/patches
(thanks to Chris!)