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Legacy_Cyyn

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Help Concerning the Textures for HotU
« on: July 19, 2011, 03:20:03 am »


               In a fit of nostalgia, I recently installed my copy of NWN: Diamond Edition back onto my PC.  I ran teh updates and everything, but when I tried to play HotU, I noticed a lot of texture files were missing.  Things like portraits, skin/armor wraps, min maps, etc.  There were completely white or completely silver. 

I have a feeling that my disc is damaged, and that perhaps the textures did not copy correctly during install.  I tries reinstalling several times, but to no avail.  Could anybody point me in the direction of the texture pacls for HotU, patch 1.69?  It woudl be greatly appreciated.  I've looked around, but couldn't find anything.
               
               

               
            

Legacy_MrZork

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Help Concerning the Textures for HotU
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2011, 07:10:21 am »


               Maybe just running the patch will overwrite the corrupted files. Check the NWNWiki entry about the patch for download links.
               
               

               
            

Legacy_HipMaestro

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Help Concerning the Textures for HotU
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2011, 07:39:33 am »


               First, did you try to play the game with just the v1.66 version that comes with the Diamond version without patching to v1.69?

If it runs fine out-of-the-box, then use the critical update that MrZork suggested.

If the textures et al. are displayed badly with just v1.66 installed, can you read the disc okay?

If so, you can copy the files directly from the compressed files on the disc into the appropriate folders.  Some are bifs that should be placed into the data folder and some, like the texturepacks, are erfs to be placed into the texturepacks folder.  There are separate zip files for SoU (XP1) and HotU (XP2) on the disc so check all of them.

If nothing else, by comparing the filenames on the disc vs. those in the folders on your harddrive, you can at least determine if the files ever installed at all.  Also, check the filesize of each.  It is highly unlikely that if the sizes match exactly that they are corrupt, though I suppose it may be possible.  It only takes one byte out of place to corrupt things.

If you can't read the disc (i.e. explore it), then either the disc or your disc drive read head is faulty.  Some of the texture packs are huge (like over 200Mb) or they could be emailed.
               
               

               
            

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Help Concerning the Textures for HotU
« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2011, 08:05:21 pm »


               I had it updated to v1.69, in the hope that it would help, but the files are still missing.  I'm going to try the critical rebuild, and then I'll try exploring the disc itself.