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Nwn problem

Post by Lady_Ashling » Sun May 24, 2009 4:59 pm

Ive recently upgraded my PC and my nwn has stopped working,It goes as far as the main menu but then the screen dies but the game keeps running,.
Ive upgraded to a quadcore processor and a gigabyte ga-73pvm-sh2 board with 2GB of ram anyone got any ideas on whats up?
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Re: Nwn problem

Post by Darkfire » Sun May 24, 2009 5:36 pm

My guesses:


1.) Maybe your settings in your nwnconfig.ini settings are still pointing to your old specs? Check it out (If default C:\NeverwinterNights\NWN\nwnconfig.ini ) There is also the nwnconfig.exe utility. You may want to try it and select "change" when it opens up and go through that prompt.

2.) Do a critical rebuild. Click to download
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Re: Nwn problem

Post by Brayon » Sun May 24, 2009 5:42 pm

Would this happen to be on a Vista platform? If so, Vista and my duel-core processor made me create quick launches to the Player and DM clients, and to the toolset.

For the DM Client

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C:\NeverwinterNights\NWN\nwmain.exe -dmc
For the Player Client

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C:\NeverwinterNights\NWN\nwmain.exe
For the Toolset

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C:\NeverwinterNights\NWN\RunNWNToolset.bat
But the toolset is a little more involved. You need to create a .bat file. Its easier than it sounds.
1. Open Notepad, or any basic text editor.
2. Type the following line of code:

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start /affinity 0x01 nwtoolset.exe
3. Save it with the name RunNWNToolset
4. Change the extension of the file to .bat


Hope that helps.

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Re: Nwn problem

Post by Brayon » Sun May 24, 2009 5:48 pm

Moved to NWN General Discussion as well. Suggestions from players are welcomed to help Lady_Ashling. :-)

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Re: Nwn problem

Post by spool32 » Sun May 24, 2009 6:03 pm

Did you upgrade from a single core processor?
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Re: Nwn problem

Post by Lady_Ashling » Sun May 24, 2009 7:10 pm

did the crit rebuild still nothing:(
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Re: Nwn problem

Post by Darkfire » Sun May 24, 2009 7:12 pm

Lady_Ashling wrote:did the crit rebuild still nothing:(

Did you try #1, or any body elses fixes?
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Re: Nwn problem

Post by PsiOmega » Sun May 24, 2009 7:14 pm

Sounds like the outdated Nvidia driver issues if the game appears to keep running with a black screen.
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Re: Nwn problem

Post by Talwin Hawkins » Sun May 24, 2009 7:21 pm

PsiOmega wrote:Sounds like the outdated Nvidia driver issues if the game appears to keep running with a black screen.
I agree.
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Re: Nwn problem

Post by Lady_Ashling » Sun May 24, 2009 8:20 pm

Fixed was the drivers thanks all:)
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Re: Nwn problem

Post by PlasmaJohn » Sun May 24, 2009 11:12 pm

Brayon wrote:But the toolset is a little more involved. You need to create a .bat file. Its easier than it sounds. ...
Actually, Bioware added an affinity flag in 1.68 or 1.69.

nwntoolset.ini -> [Start Up] -> CPU Affinity=0 [or the number of your desired CPU]
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