Can't get NWN to play well on Win 8

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Going further - the EFU Launcher gets stuck at 99.95% at a random file, and even if I download them manually from here:

http://nwn.efupw.com/rootdir/patch/

..it claims they are outdated so it re-starts the whole download only to get stuck again.

Also, is the dialog.tlk file in this link above an up-to-date file? It causes something obscure to happen to the game, see screenshot:



..as if the tables were corrupted / misaligned..

This is on a clean GoG Diamond NWN installation from this morning after it was ran down by the 169 critical rebuild.

And .. since I CAN start a single player game with another dialog.tlk I have laying around somewhere, and it crashes only when connecting to EFU... then it must be something with the EFU files, right?

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I'm telling, it's something in your system. It can be anything from sound, graphic, chipset, driver to all combined and not working together when playing nwn and with something that is currently in. One way or another, it's not something widespread and I can't really help if you got anything clear to pinpoint it.

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dialog.tlk goes to nwn directory, not to hak or override or anything, if you happen to do it, so just get it manually if something else is issue. Also make sure you run the launcher as admin, as well, to allow it to actually override/replace files so it can download them properly.

It should be up to date, atleast I've never had any issues, and I haven't heard anyone else give me reports.

Second confirmation - are you running the current downloader, not the old one?

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Yeah, that's where dialog.tlk should go and that's where it goes :)

Ran launcher as an admin. Both in XP compatible mode and without.
It gets 'stuck' randomly at 99% completion of a random file on the list of the files to update..

And yes. Using v 1.2.0 from here - https://github.com/commonquail/efulauncher/releases

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Sounds to me you are missing something in general, don't know what.

Does diamond install actually miss a folder or something else that should exist?

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And it gets stuck like this. After it gets 'stuck' at 99% for a while, launcher closers, that file remains empty (zero bytes) and it starts NWN, which obviously claims upon connecting with EFU that this hak file is missing.

Single player starts just fine.

What is peculiar is that it managed to download dialog.tlk succesfully (i downloaded it manually 5 mins ago) and override the old file - and that misaligned table error disappeared.

Then ran the launcher again, this result, got stuck at the same file @ 99% (see some progress though as it only recognized 3 outdated files, unlike repetitively going through them all)..



3rd attempt of running the launcher yielded exactly the same result as the above, c_heads stuck at 99%..

4th attempt is the same, stuck at 99% at c_heads.

Let me reiterate here that prior to messing with the launcher now, I did download all the hak/override files freshly from the EFU depository..

Since attempt 5 & 6 get the launcher to get stuck at exactly the same thing I simply deleted the c_heads hak file with 0 sizing and.. Woah it managed to complete the download...

I swear that when this happened yesterday and I deleted 0 files it just redid the whole thing and got stuck again.

Stay tuned..

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Following the 'it can't override so let it download the whole file fresh' path doesn't seem to work, it got stuck:



I see potential in determination of repetitive running the launcher till it finally gets what it needs and works...

Blargh.

Also, here's the Diamond Install folder listing:

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Just get them manually if it's an issue.

Haks into hak folder and so on.

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Next attempt was foiled by my cat, which decided to lay on her back on my keyboard and closed the window...

When I get them manually, the Launcher claims they are outdated.. ?

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I can't say much about that because it doesn't for me. Something is totally f'ed up in your end, and I got no idea what it is.

Launcher checks the up to date status from that directory, so... Logically it's impossibility for it to think they are outdated?

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I hear you!

This rig deserves a proper C Format, but I can't get around to do it.. Might soon.

I'll keep my further attempts posted, maybe it will serve as a warning to others who at some point decide to reinstall their NWN.

If you got a clear working installation - keep it, copy paste it, cherish it.

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Nothing about this is logical!

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So you reinstalled nwn?

Where did you get the files and what was your previous installation from?

If you run launcher, check for it to run as Admin, as I still didn't get answer if you did. Manually, just download haks and put them to hak, dialog.tlk to nwn/ directory and override current dialog.tlk

There shouldn't be anything that stops you after that. You just run normal nwn shortcut as admin and in windows xp sp3 or what ever format and go.

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You're also missing some files, and your override filenames have upper case letters and what not. I don't know if they can have a meaning to it.

You lack portrait folder as well.

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Seven? Eight? years ago I had NWN CD's and I installed it .. updated it.. nourished it and it worked.

At some point last year I decided I want a fresh install as this one's clunky, my override folder has like 500000000 files..

Took me a while, but I managed to reinstall it just fine with a GOG Diamond version, it worked on EFU just fine, I played on it for a while.

Then I didn't play, saw that there's a Myconid hak available, so downloaded it, worked just fine, I didn't play since then.

That was a few months ago. I felt an urge to play yesterday so I tried, it couldn't connect to EFU due to HAKs, launcher was messing up.

I started fidgeting... Got to the point where I decided it must be VFX drivers.. So I updated to the most current version (AMD) which resulted in NWN NOT starting at all.

More research led me here-

http://nwn.wikia.com/wiki/Catalyst_video_driver

As that was the error that keeped popping up. Neither of the paths they suggested worked for me... So I said fuck it, Im going to bed its 3 am.

This morning I decided to start fresh. Uninstalled everything AMD related and slapped most recent drivers onto my rig again, uninstalled NWN, then installed it anew from the Diamond GOG installation files.

Slapped HoTU169 fix atop of it, single player works like a charm.

Then I started experimenting with manual downloading of the EFU files again - the game worked fine on single campaigns, but every time I tried to connect to EFU, game was crashing (before the loading screen even) with the same error as listed on the nwn.wikia.com link

Then I got to the point of experimenting with the launcher again.. and here we are!