So...has anyone tried running this game on Win10?

[Legacy_brgjoe]

               

Just curious if anyone has upgraded to Windows 10 and has tried running Neverwinter Nights yet.

 

I still have Windows 7 and will most likely keep it that way, since my laptop is older.  And it also runs NWN without any issues.  So will most likely not upgrade to Windows 10 myself. 

 

Just wondering if anyone else has though. 

 

 

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Pstemarie]

               

For me it works the same as in Win 8.1.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_MrZork]

               That's good to hear, Pstemarie. I am waiting for more reviews before upgrading. The fact that W10 (like W8) doesn't include Windows Media Center is already keeping it off at least one PC in this house. We'll see if issues with older games keep it off of 2 others.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Primo]

               

Yes, it works fines, both NWN1 and NWN2.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Pstemarie]

               

Glad to hear NWN2 works fine too - I haven't reloaded that game yet.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_brgjoe]

               

Great to hear that it seems to work fine with both NWN and NWN2. Though the latter I haven't played in a LONG while...

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_The Mad Poet]

               

Recently I went ahead and tried an upgrade to Windows 10 on one of my PC's. Not my main one. I don't trust new software on release day. Always something wrong. After installing I noticed only a few issues that I'll share.

 

1. Any video player I had on that system failed miserably to run any format of video. I generally use VLC, but tried Windows Media Player, and a couple other free to try just to see if it was just those particular ones... nope. Every format of video was choppy and laggy. Even the intro movies in NWN were the same way. My guess is video drivers weren't doing well with Windows 10. Almost convinced because occasionally it would just black screen while playing the sound. Strangely Youtube seemed to run fine. @_@

 

2. NWN on the other hand actually worked better in Windows 10 than it did in Windows 8.1. On rare occassions in W8.1 I crash to desktop when starting NWN. It's rare, and reinstalling hasn't fixed it, so I haven't considered it so much an issue that I ranted trying to find a solution. However I didn't experience it once in Windows 10, aside from that video lag it was golden.

 

3. The NWN Toolset on the other hand wasn't doing so well. I don't know what difference it has compared to NWN that W10 hated so much but loading modules slowed near to a halt. Areas took at least triple the time to load in W10 compared to W8.1. Even compiling scripts seemed to take twice as long.

 

Every computer is different so I can't say for certain others will have these issues. I've heard W10 has had issues with Nvidia cards, which is what I exclusively use, so maybe that was the major problem. Dunno.

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Pstemarie]

               

Every computer is different so I can't say for certain others will have these issues. I've heard W10 has had issues with Nvidia cards, which is what I exclusively use, so maybe that was the major problem. Dunno.

 

 

If you are connected to your monitor through DVI or SVGA cable, I would recommend rolling back to the last driver released before Win10 came out - I think its the 3.53 driver. I upgraded to an HDMI cable so I haven't had to rollback, but if you check the nVidia forums (or other sites), you'll see that lots of people have rolled back until nVidia releases an update.

 

Microsoft packaged Win10 with a beta nVidia driver package. You'll recognize this if your GeForce Experience list the driver name as "GeForce Windows 10 Driver."

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_DarthMuffin]

               

I just installed the GOG version on my new laptop with Windows 10 and it seems to be working without any tweaking. I entirely skipped Windows 8 and stuck with 7 on my desktop and main gaming machine but kept on playing NWN on my ancient laptop running XP. I wasn't really aware that the game had issues on 7 and 8 so I just popped the GOG installer without thinking. I haven't tried mods or the toolset but so far the only issue I've seen is that the menu when you hit escape from the game is transparent (I only get the white text over the game screen).

               
               

               
            

[Legacy_The Mad Poet]

               

If you are connected to your monitor through DVI or SVGA cable, I would recommend rolling back to the last driver released before Win10 came out - I think its the 3.53 driver. I upgraded to an HDMI cable so I haven't had to rollback, but if you check the nVidia forums (or other sites), you'll see that lots of people have rolled back until nVidia releases an update.

 

Microsoft packaged Win10 with a beta nVidia driver package. You'll recognize this if your GeForce Experience list the driver name as "GeForce Windows 10 Driver."

 

In fact I use HDMI as well. Though I will give rolling back a try and seeing if it makes any difference. 

 

And yes, it apparently is the Beta Driver.