Can't get NWN to play well on Win 8

[Paha]

And your cdkey or cdkeys are fitting for Diamond GOG, all to all?

Add portraits folder to your nwn directory, change override and overrid-bak and what ever files to be lowercases, no upper cases.

Download the haks, they are only thing you require because you've enabled haks in game. Put them in hak folder in nwn. You will need all those 7-8 that are in our hak directory.

Replace dialog.tlk with the one you download.

Take nwn shortcut or what ever and run it as administrator in windows xp compability mode.

What drivers did you download and install for your 6700?

If it doesn't work, log out and go to single player, check your sound settings or others and disable shining water / lava or what ever effects and put sound mode to something very basic.

[SN]

I assumed my old CD Keys should work with the same game?

Done the rest- still crashing upon EFU connection.

Meanwhile, I got the launcher NOT to scream about codi_creat_efu.hak, just the biggest ud file left.

[Paha]

If you got several cdkeys and not one especially meant for diamond, i got no idea. I've always played with good old nwn and two expansions, and I've never had any problems with this stuff.

[SN]

We might have the culprit then.
Out of time officially though, will pick this up in the evening.

Thanks for you help Paha :  )

[SN]

I'll send the blokes at GoG an email, but Mortui just confirmed that the file formatting of nwncdkey.ini on the diamond edition is exactly the same as the 'ole' NWN one.

And then, it would have not gotten me to the character selection screen if it rejected my CDKEY.... or would it?

[Paha]

Not about rejecting, I am more about whether it would have mechanical issues. I simply remember that I personally could not get nwn to work properly when I got files from the web, and eventually I had to go back to my original nwn files to have it work properly.

One way or another there is something going on in your end if for one launcher cannot proper do it's job, as only thing it does is kind of mirror the files and install them to your appropriate directories, if you lack them. It also should not be stopping in middle or constantly redownload your files.

If you got the current launcher we use, and you've followed the steps mentioned in launcher topic - then I am not sure what it is about. Some settings or something you are lacking is conflicting with something else.
 
Also, what drivers did you install for your graphic card? Did you change the sound options and settings in nwn, they are a known source for crashing for some.

[SN]

SOLVED!

Apparently, downloading EFU Hak files manually dind't work, running EFULauncher in admin didn't work.. So what worked?


Running Command prompt in admin mode and running EFULauncher from there.... managed to download all the files properly.... and working.

See ya on the flipside.

Nothing is logical about windows.

[Paha]

Where is your nwn installed into? If it's in windows folders themselves, I will slap you, because that is what I meant with override protection and what not. They are protected folders that won't let you make proper changes inside them and it can block such thing as launcher.

It is why everything need to be ran as administrator to try and circle around any possible blocks that require admin access.

[SN]

Dude, i never install anything on C: in case I need to format.
C is win/application only partition.
Always.


NWN is on F:\NWN :)

[SN]

I'm still curious as to why manually downloaded HAK files were not recognized by the launcher as up-to-date though.

I'm not using any download managers anything, just Chrome Browser straight from the "box".

[Paha]

You got antivirus, firewall or something?

[SN]

Avast, Ad-Aware, eTrust EZ FW.

[siriusdogstar]

Update: Bought a new card: Geforce GT 610, deleted realtek drivers, downgraded to to June 2010 DX9 and everything is flying!


See you in game!

[MexicanGunslinger]

omg i read this from the first post... it was like this amazing story man i need to sleep... anyway, so i am reading oh poor sirius and thinking this poor person cannot play beloved efu and he keeps trying and trying and trying paha helping all the ways others at start and im like wow third page in still no luck and then WHAM you have it fixed and played, i wonder are you actually still around playing sirius do you still exist, what a happy story xo :)

[siriusdogstar]

I assure you I exist!