how do you put neverwinter into winodowed mode?

[downsystem]

I dont know how to put never wintere into windowed mode but i would appreciate someone showing how to do it cause it sucks having to go back and forth the normal way.

[Czarcasm]

In your main folder, open nwn.ini look for the following:

[Display Options]
FullScreen=0
AllowWindowedMode=1

If you are missing either of these, just add them in or change as appropriate. If you still have problems after this, you can try pressing Alt+Enter. Sometimes I have to change my resolution, exit, then run NWN again for it to be in windowed mode.

[Tristan_Durst]

Also, the resolution for NWN must be lower than the Resolution for your Monitor. Example: NWN 800x600 while Monitor is 1024x768.

-Tristan

[Espy]

Is that strictly lower, or lower than or equal to?

SP

[RazorJTR]

and you can swap between windowed and full screen with ALT + ENTER

[Significant Owl]

Is that strictly lower, or lower than or equal to?

SP

Strictly lower, otherwise, it takes up your entire screen, and would thus be: Fullscreen.

[Espy]

But I'm thinking, that would be a windowed full screen, so you could, like, drag it around. It would be neat to have the taskbar visible, but have full-screen NWN on a virtual desktop.

SP

[Vichan Lyonsen]

But I'm thinking, that would be a windowed full screen, so you could, like, drag it around. It would be neat to have the taskbar visible, but have full-screen NWN on a virtual desktop.

SP

true enough but I find it better to have the window just slightly lower.. this way I can cut n paste text from text files if needed (very useful in guilds that have long ceremonies to avoid typing)

[downsystem]

I did a search of all my folders on every partition i got and didnt find it. Would having nvn's platinum dvd edition have anything to do with not having that folder? Ok since i dont have it where can i find it, any of you got any ideas.

[Vergilius]

I did a search of all my folders on every partition i got and didnt find it. Would having nvn's platinum dvd edition have anything to do with not having that folder? Ok since i dont have it where can i find it, any of you got any ideas.

You enter your NWN folder, you find the nwn.ini file.

[downsystem]

and i also did a windows file search with the windows search engine and found no file by that exact name. Like i said does nvn platinum edition not have the file or something, or is it named something else.

[GG26]

i'm in linux so i cant test this, but heres a suggestion.

go to tools: folder options: view, and select show all files including hidden files.

[downsystem]

and i thought of it already to no avail.

[downsystem]

found a file called the ini.bif
it was in the folder called (data) I dont know if that has anything to do with it or not.

[Espy]

Try creating nwn.ini and just adding those two lines.

SP

[Espy]

Try creating nwn.ini and just adding those two lines.

edit: but only do it once.

SP

[downsystem]

im not a scripter or anything like that do i need a special program to make a nvn.ini file.

[Espy]

Just a text editor, like Notepad. Watch out though, it might save it as nwn.ini.txt instead of just nwn.ini. You might have to change the filename (in WinXP, the .ini icon is a piece of paper with 3 dots and lines, and a pencil).

I don't see how NWN could run without the file though. It's what holds all the game options, like resolution, directory location, etc. I have one--I'm using NWN Platinum (CD edition)--If you'd like, I can send you mine (it's just over 1 KB in size), but you'll probably have to re-do options.

edit: actually, that might not be the right icon in default WinXP. I forgot I have different icons.

edit II: here's what part of my NWN directory looks like:


SP

[downsystem]

[Just a text editor, like Notepad. Watch out though, it might save it as nwn.ini.txt instead of just nwn.ini. You might have to change the filename (in WinXP, the .ini icon is a piece of paper with 3 dots and lines, and a pencil).

I don't see how NWN could run without the file though. It's what holds all the game options, like resolution, directory location, etc. I have one--I'm using NWN Platinum (CD edition)--If you'd like, I can send you mine (it's just over 1 KB in size), but you'll probably have to re-do options.

edit: actually, that might not be the right icon in default WinXP. I forgot I have different icons.]

Well all i know is its not there under the name nvn.ini.
I was looking through my folders for areas that had game settings. I found a folder called nvnplayer. it has all the settings in it from what i can see. This is what i see in it. There is more to this then what i shown. Anyways i dont see Enable windowed mode.What do you think should i add it to this folder?

[Game Options]
Memory Level=1
Memory Access=2
TooltipDelay uSec=100000
Enable FloatyTextFeedback=1
Hide SecondStoryTiles=0
Single Player ItemLevelRestrictions=0
Single Player Enforce Legal Characters=0
ClientEntireChatWindowLogging=0
LogMyEmoteUsage=0
Difficulty Level=1
MouseoverFeedback=1
TextBubbleMode=2
TargetingFeedbackMode=2

[Control Options]
Zoom Speed=3.000000
CameraTurnSpeed=2.000000
Enable ScreenEdgeCameraTurn=1
CameraMode=1
EnableDialogZoom=1

[Profile]
ShowMessageOfTheDay=0
Client Port=5120
JournalPage=2
Player Name=************
Password=*******
Remember Password=1
ServerList Show All Versions=0
Current Page=3
ServerList Hide Passworded=0
ServerList Hide Local Vault=1
ServerList Hide Server Vault=0

[longbow]

its called nwn.ini not nvn.ini but i trust that was a type.

in the nwn.ini you will have a header that says

[Display Options]

if the AllowWindowedMode=1 line is not there just add it in below the last line of the [display options] section. to clarify the line should be -

AllowWindowedMode=1

hope this helps.

[TripleAught]

I just changed this on my system and it totally rocks. I love being able to now quickly and easily browse the forums for those times that I need to check something while IG.

[Red]

its called nwn.ini not nvn.ini but i trust that was a type.

Heh, ironic that you typoed "typo."

But to your point, the mistake was repeated, so I am not so sure it was indeed a typo.

downsystem-
You will have a file called nwn.ini in there. If you are having trouble browsing to it, do a search of the drive that has the program installed on it (most likely C: - make sure you're not just searching your Start Menu) and search for "*.ini" (without the quotes). You'll get a bunch of hits, but scroll through them and you will find nwn.ini. If you insert those lines of code into another .ini file, it will not work.

Good luck.

[longbow]

doh!

[g1asgow]

Thanks, I was looking for this as well...just have to use the cursor keys to rotate the view.

[downsystem]

well thanks for all your help, it turns out my version of the nvn.ini file was only called (nvn) and i got it all fixed up in windowed mode and i must say its ten thousand times better then that switching back and forth crud i was doing before. I couldnt multi task with my computer while playing like i wanted to and now i can. Why the heck do they leave them options out of the game .