Any way to streamline NWN?

[Portal Rat]

Okay, I refuse to accept that technological limitations are going to keep me from playing during the early days of Chapter 3.

Here's the situation: I'm playing on one of these. It's a "gaming netbook," whatever that means. It can handle older games like the Tomb Raider series and GTAIII: San Andreas, but it barfs whenever I enter Mistlocke unless I have the camera zoomed all the way in and pointed directly at the ground. Animations like fire and mist cause the left side of the CPU casing to get really, really hot. I don't seem to have much trouble in the woods, but certain quests like Orcs are just more than this little machine can handle.

I've got most of the graphics settings turned all the way down, but I am running at max resolution. That's obviously the first thing I should try to change, but while I'm fooling around with this, I was wondering if some of you who are more familiar with the game engine might have some other, deeper tweaks I could make that would improve things. Isn't there some way to make NWN use a different CPU than the OS on a dual core CPU?

Looking at the specs, it doesn't seem like I should be having problems. I've played NWN on worse machines without this much trouble. In the back of my mind, I keep thinking there is some change I made on my older machine that would fix all of this. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[Caster13]

NWN doesn't support multicore CPUs; did you set up NWN to run on only one core?

If not, open up the nwnplayer.ini file (same directory as the game), go to the section labeled Game Options] and add "Client CPU Affinity=1".

[Wrexsoul]

NWN doesn't support multicore CPUs; did you set up NWN to run on only one core?

If not, open up the nwnplayer.ini file (same directory as the game), go to the section labeled Game Options] and add "Client CPU Affinity=1".

Is this something that's recommended to do on all multi-core computers?

[Caster13]

I believe so, yes.

When I first got my fancy rig with an i5-660, NWN ran at a crawling pace. It wasn't until I modified the *.ini file did it it run properly.

If you make the change but it makes NWN run worse, you could always just delete the entry from the *.ini file.

[Wrexsoul]

Seems that only applies to the windows version, and I'm on a mac. Anyone got knowledge about similar multi-core stuff on those?

[Portal Rat]

"Client CPU Affinity=1".

This made a huge difference. Thanks.