D&D Neverwinter Nights The Complete Collection

[Legacy_ColinWilson1980]

               I'm curious, has NWN1 and the classic anthology been re-coded (if that's necessary, or possible) to work with larger resolution, widescreen monitors?
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_MrZork]

               NWN already works fine on WUXGA monitors at full resolution (1920x1200). I haven't seen it on a higher resolution system, but I would think it scales. I don't know of any actual commercial project to re-release the game with higher poly count meshes, higher resolution textures, etc. but I believe there are several community projects that have already done much of that work (NWN CQ, etc.).
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_ColinWilson1980]

               That's good to hear, I couldn't remember if it didn't.  What about the classic anthology?  I have BG2,  IWD and IWD2 in boxes somewhere, but would probably buy them again if they will work with widescreen monitors.  I believe they needed to have a hack applied.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_brikyle1208]

               I had the the original NWN plus SOU and HOtu and NWN 2 and MOTB and SOZ, I have windows 7 so the original loaded very slowly but then I saw NWN complete I decided to but it, remove the old and replace with complete, loading is not the problem, after 10 to 15 minutes of playing the computer shuts down, I tried playing another game Torchlight same thing happens , but if I play zuma ot zuma's revenge I have no issues any advice would be appreciated thanks brian

dell xps 420, radeon 2400 pro hd dell motherboard 4gb ram
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_HipMaestro]

               

brikyle1208 wrote...

I had the the original NWN plus SOU and HOtu and NWN 2 and MOTB and SOZ, I have windows 7 so the original loaded very slowly but then I saw NWN complete I decided to but it, remove the old and replace with complete, loading is not the problem, after 10 to 15 minutes of playing the computer shuts down, I tried playing another game Torchlight same thing happens , but if I play zuma ot zuma's revenge I have no issues any advice would be appreciated thanks brian

dell xps 420, radeon 2400 pro hd dell motherboard 4gb ram

I recommend you move this to the Tech forum and furnish full specs including driver version, sound card, etc.  If you are using Catalyst you may need to rollback or diddle with driver swapping of older versions that support OpenGL better.  But like I intimated... the General forum is not the designated place to discuss technical issues like this and you may find suitable solutions within those Tech topics anyway.  The game version has nothing to do with observed performance as long as you are sure you have located and installed the correct Critical Rebuild patch to bring your game up to v1.69.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_slab1028]

               I bought the game in the store and sure wished I hadn't. It was a bugger to install. Kept having net 2.0 issues and when I finally did install it on my XP partition it only runs in 680 by 480 resolution. On my win7 partition in works at 16:9 but its buggy. I have the original NWN and they work perfectly on my XP. I thought I was getting a bargain by having them combined but it turned out to be pure loss. A very bad investment...
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_nubbers666]

               

slab1028 wrote...

I bought the game in the store and sure wished I hadn't. It was a bugger to install. Kept having net 2.0 issues and when I finally did install it on my XP partition it only runs in 680 by 480 resolution. On my win7 partition in works at 16:9 but its buggy. I have the original NWN and they work perfectly on my XP. I thought I was getting a bargain by having them combined but it turned out to be pure loss. A very bad investment...

thank god for google 
was about to purchase the game myself till i read this  
thanx
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Rolo Kipp]

               <waving his hands...>

Wait! Don't leave us yet! @_@

The GOG version had some quirks, granted (I'm pretty sure they're all fixed now), but other versions work fine.

I can personally recommend the D&D Complete version as installing and running well under Win 7.
Stick around a couple days and get some more feedback before you give up on one of the friendliest old game communities around :-) (please ignore the (one or two) little brush fires going on at the moment. They are not representative ;-)

<...in panic>
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_henesua]

               The problem with Google is that without the right questions it coughs up gibberish. Before you make your decision it would help to ask a few questions around here.

From what I can see: A good portion of the windows users are using more recent windows distros than XP and enjoying themselves.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_HipMaestro]

               

henesua wrote...
The problem with Google is that without the right questions it coughs up gibberish. Before you make your decision it would help to ask a few questions around here.

From what I can see: A good portion of the windows users are using more recent windows distros than XP and enjoying themselves.

Absolutely!

After reading literally hundreds of gamer issues throughout the years, both here on on the legacy boards, regarding the installation and performance of NWN 1, I would guess that about 1 out of about 20 or so posters using diverse OS and hardware configs have been stymied attempting to resolve their technical issues, with that proportion mainly in the last year or so.  Just a guess on my part.

The cited opinion above (per slab1028 from 8 months ago), a random rant rather than a consensus fact, is by an owner who has never posted hardware & system specs in the Self-help Technical Support forum so that a suitable resolution could be diagnosed, suggested and resolved by the community. Typically, most of these performance issues with the newer OS & hardware can be resolved by adjusting or juggling drivers or other simple tweaks.  Multiple OS boot partitions can be a challenge to control in and of themselves.

The fact is:  Hardware and OS manufacturers are not making any investments into maintaining support for integrating legacy games like NWN1 or NWN2 even though those games are still being made available to prospective gamers, so the community that runs them today must find a way to circumvent the hurdles.  Right here at BSN  (and at GoG.com to a certain extent) are the members who can help a new game owner enjoy all that NWN has to offer by revealing those remedies.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Pearls]

               i run the original version in the huge box on windows 7 and ubuntu w/ no issues, were there any actual compatibility changes made with each release iteration, it doesnt seem like it
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Pearls, 17 février 2013 - 06:04 .