Drive Paritions and NWN

stratdriverl · Post by **stratdriverl** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 4:08 pm

I work in a small office where the IS group is a little haphazard. I installed Neverwinter Nights on my work computer (for travelling purposes only, of course) onto the D partition of my hard drive. The IS group came through, moved everything from the D partition to the C partition and eliminated the patitioning entirely, i.e., my computer only claims to have a C drive. The only reason I noticed was that it messed up my shortcuts.

Okay, after that long discussion, here is my problem: Whenever I try to update, the Bioware executable goes looking for the Neverwinter Nights files on my d drive. Somewhere, hidden in some file somewhere, is a pointer that looks to where my NWN files used to be. I looked through all the .ini files in the NWN directory and could not find that pointer. Logically, they should be in some system file where the Bioware executable knows to go.

Anybody have any ideas where the bioware executable is looking for direction as to where the NWN files are? I looked on bioware's website, but my answer was either not there, or I was ignorant of the proper search terms so as to not be able to find it.

rshampshire · Post by **rshampshire** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 4:55 pm

do a search in regedit for d:\ and then alter any path for nwn in the registry to the new c:\ path

Gorgon · Post by **Gorgon** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 5:03 pm

Unless you know how, and have access at work to edit the registry, a reinstall of NWN would be your best bet. Doing a mass replacement of locations like that is bad news without a proper backup.

~IF~ you still want to try, the location should be HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BioWare\NWN\Neverwinter and the string is called Location, but you can really screw up your machine if you make a mistake. Make a backup of it first, and don't even try if you never have worked with the registry before.

stratdriverl · Post by **stratdriverl** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 5:19 pm

Thanks for the help. Reinstalling seems easiest. Explaining to my employer how I screwed up my machine trying to make my game run correctly seems like a high risk venture. Re-installing and then moving a few haks I can do--editing the machine's registry is something best left to others. Again, thanks.

Tony Wazz · Post by **Tony Wazz** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 1:51 pm

rshampshire wrote:do a search in regedit for d:\ and then alter any path for nwn in the registry to the new c:\ path

No guts no glory!!

Li'll Divvil · Post by **Li'll Divvil** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 2:30 pm

Tony Wazz wrote:
rshampshire wrote:do a search in regedit for d:\ and then alter any path for nwn in the registry to the new c:\ path

No guts no glory!!

Damn since when did you become so hardcore? and here I always thought Unen was a softie