Application Details:
| Version: | Diamond Edition (GoG) |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | http://nwn.bioware.com/ |
| Votes: | 1 |
| Latest Rating: | Platinum |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 5.0-rc2 |
Maintainers: About Maintainership
What works
Everything but you have to do this:
It is just a guide for everbody who have the same problem as I
have. I have installed the game via playonlinux and wine 1.9.23.
My setting:
OS: Debian Jessie
Kernel: Backportskernel 4.7.0-0.bpo.1-amd64
Graphik: Backportsfglrx 1:15.12-2~bpo8+3
CPU: i5-6600k
RAM: 16GB
My problem:
If I start the game the game crash at the beginning. I see the nwn-logo
and then I have to switch to tty1 to "kill -9" the game. I have tested
many libs and settings. With the free radeon driver the game works
perfect, but not with the fglrx from the backports. I do not know why.
Solution:
Start playonlinux, select the game and click on "configuration" in the
top of playonlinux. Then take the tab "Wine" and click on "wine
configuration".
Sorry I have the german language and do not know how it name in english exactly.
If you are in the configuration choose the graphib tab and active the
virtual desktop option and write you default desktop solution on it.
Then click on "apply".
Now you open the nwn.ini in the gamedirectory and change there the solution also.
If you want to play now you have to go to the wine configuration again
and you have to move the configuration window to the right. Behind the
window is the shortcut for the game and you make a double click to start
the game. Now it works!!!
Now, there is perhaps another
problem for you. All creatures ingame a invisible, so you go to the
graphic setting ingame and uncheck the option "enable environment
shadows on characters". If you unbox it you can see all creatures.
I also had the problem that I can not activate the box of "reflect water". You can activate this in the nwn.ini too.
Hope I could help anybody ;)
What does not
Without the guide the game crash after start and only see the nwn-logo.
Then you have to kill it via tty1
Workarounds
What was not tested
Multiplayer
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Do not know which rating I should give the game. Gold? Silver? Bronze? It is very tricky to start the game....
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Debian GNU/Linux Testing "bullseye" | Feb 04 2020 | 5.0-rc2 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Sigfrodi | |
| Show | Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Oct 16 2018 | 3.18 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | adrian | |
| Show | Solus | Jun 26 2018 | 3.10 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Karol | |
| Show | Solus | Feb 17 2018 | 3.1 | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | Karol | |
| Show | Mac OS X 10.11 "El Capitan" | Nov 15 2017 | 2.20-staging | Yes | Yes | No | Silver | samuel Hungerbuehler |
IGN doesn't host the patches anymore either They can now be found here: http://neverwintervault.org/patches(thanks to Chris!)
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by jack bean on Friday September 22nd 2017, 18:14
1) try this: download and install the full dx 9c runtime from microsoft to gain the missing dlls discovered by using the dxdaig tool. this may solve the issue for some people.
2) also: for some reason it seems that several of the mods released by mod authors may or may not have bad file names, whether it is due to the name and/or the suffix being capitalized or mixed case, or the file suffix is the wrong one (example a tga is actually named *.mdl) or the file is corrupt such as a dds or tga that will not have a thumbnail or cannot be opened to view. just delete those bas image files and rename the tga so it is no longer an mdl and the game should return to normal. sure you miuss out on some texture and model upgrades, but the game wont crash. names in upper or mixed case can be renamed to all lower and that can help. NeverWintervault now has full linux version support for most of its community patches and some mods, so those should have a linux ready equivalent that wont or should not have issues with file names. i am assuming similar problems exist in the mac version of wine install for NWN.
last but not least it may or may not help to change the wine version to 2.13 or 2.13-staging and try that since it is the last known platinum test result.
by Anton on Thursday June 16th 2016, 7:49
by Andreas on Friday June 30th 2017, 7:45