Installing NWN1 for Win7/vista including patch links for all OS.

[Legacy_Fester Pot]

               Do you have the Heroes Edition by chance, buggaluggs?

The paval related crash is due to missing files that were not put on the instalation CDs.

As such, since the old Bioware forum is gone, I'm unable to locate the download link for these missing files.

EDIT: Found it on the support site.

http://supportfiles....m/nwn/convo.zip

Uncompress the related files in convo.zip to your install \\data directory.

Example:

G:\\Games\\Neverwinter Nights\\Data

FP!
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Fester Pot, 01 novembre 2011 - 05:32 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_buggaluggs]

               ah cheers.. yes i do have the heroes edition...

pulled it out of storage to have some fun.

thanks again '>
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Mr. Ed for President]

               Hi Shia and all present,
I (as with all here) am experiencing a compatibility issue with my new Windows 7 machine and Diamond edition.  I went into properties of both NWN.exe and NWNmain.exe - XP SP2 - Administrator Full Permission.  And the game will not run.  Wondering if anyone can help me get up and running.  I'm a new player and with moderate Computer skills trying to improve my NWN skills so I can enjoy gaming with you all.  Thanks for your guidance, Mr. Ed =)
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_HipMaestro]

               

Mr. Ed for President wrote...
Hi Shia and all present,
I (as with all here) am experiencing a compatibility issue with my new Windows 7 machine and Diamond edition.  I went into properties of both NWN.exe and NWNmain.exe - XP SP2 - Administrator Full Permission.  And the game will not run.  Wondering if anyone can help me get up and running.  I'm a new player and with moderate Computer skills trying to improve my NWN skills so I can enjoy gaming with you all.  Thanks for your guidance, Mr. Ed =)

Let me make a suggestion... repost your problem as a separate topic with suitable title in this (the Tech Support) forum with your full system and installation specs (Check the "Start Here" sticky).   It will receive faster attention than one buried in a reference thread.

Shia's Win7/Vista thread was intended as a reference sticky rather than to address individual issues.  However, should you uncover a useful tip that has not been documented here, at that point repost the resolution here for others to use.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par HipMaestro, 18 novembre 2011 - 03:44 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_Pookieroo]

               Hi there, I also have the diamond edition and am replaying the game with my computer upgraded to Windows 7.  It would not run until I loaded the latest patch - even so I had trouble with my mouse being sluggish and unresponsive - configuring the game as XP compatible and playing as administrator has helped a lot though my wayward mouse still drives me crazy at times.  The annoying thing is that my computer is so much more powerful and my video card so much better than what I had when I first played the game.  I am not technically too skilled when it comes to computers but can follow simple instructions.  I do struggle with the American reducing everything to a series of letters though I have finally sussed out what OC means!
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_old sailor1]

               Well trying this as nothing else has worked .
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Hexedcoder]

               I have a few additions/suggestions to this post since I just got the Neverwinter Nights Complete version which has both NWN Diamond, and a NWN2 Compilations on it. link if curious: http://www.amazon.co...c/dp/B005JQ05RS

The NWN version included on the DVD has the same issues as the GoG version. You need to download and run the 1.69 patch from bioware for it otherwise you get the same texture problems.

Also, I don't know if its been mentioned yet, but to get the videos running on an ATI/Win 7/64 bit machine and reduce some compatability issues you have to:
1. Right click on nwnmain.exe in the folder and select properties. Then Disable visual themes and disable desktop composition under the compatablity tab.
2 (maybe). Select disable scaling on high dpi images and set the compatability mode for Windows XP SP2
3. Download a fixed blink32.dll from http://www.mediafire...binkw32_ati.zip
4. Back up the old blink32.dll in the Neverwinter Nights folder by renaming it, (The suggestion from ATI was blink32_ati.dll.
5. Extract this file to the main folder.
6. Open nwn.ini and go to display settings and change SafeMovies=0 to SafeMovies=1.
Notes: Since shiny water is unsupported by ati, you should probably disable it.

Of course I may have just dumped all this in the wrong topic, except for the first comment.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Hexedcoder, 04 janvier 2012 - 04:29 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_nightscrawl]

               I tried downloading the HotU patch from the links on this forum, and also from the NWN Community Site, unfortunately, they both link to the files.bioware.com versions and broke on the final corruption check.

However, I did manage to download and update successfully from NWvault. Enjoy.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Thibax]

               I can't play NWN in WinXP '>
Black screen, only sound and mouse cursor.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_HipMaestro]

               

Thibax wrote...
I can't play NWN in WinXP '>
Black screen, only sound and mouse cursor.

That's strange.  XP is usually fairly trouble-free and reliable needing few or no tweaks. 

This topic is not intended to solve general problems and is dedicated to Vista/Win7 idiosyncrasies only. I suggest you post your own problem topic and furnish your game version, system, hardware and driver specs as outlined in the "Start Here" sticky to give folks a fair chance to help you.  If it's integrated graphics and/or sound like on some notebooks/laptops make that clear as well.  Clearly define all you have tried so far to get the game to run.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Carpot Muncher]

               Just wanted to add my experience, hopefully can save someone else some headaches.

Early on in installation, you are asked whether or not you would like to install the texture packs, and there are check boxes for 16 meg, 32 meg, and 64 meg. Note that you don't have to check any of them. Not sure what in game difference that they would make, assume that you might get a more visually appealing experience if you can run the highest setting. So I opted to install all of them.

Each time I started the game, got through the gamespy server selection, could even log onto a server and select a character (as these were servers I have played on and have characters in the server vaults). Then, while loading the module, loaded to about 85% within a second but then just hung there. Loadscreen displayed, but the progress bar frozen at about 85%, just hanging.

I tried lots of things including most of the solutions suggested above, one at a time for the most part. What fixed it for me was one or two of the following (I did them both at the same time so not sure which did it for me):
1.) uninstalled McAfee virus software (it was bogging down my system anyway, I prefer Avast)
and
2.) I ran nwnconfig.exe.
Clicked on "change"
Then was able to select 16 meg texture pack (changed it from the 64 meg down to 16)

That did it for me.
Hope this helps someone.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_Sherinee]

               Just to give also my experience on this subject:

Configuration is AMD E350 (HD6310 integrated) + 3GB ram.
Windows 7 SP1 Ultimate 32 Bits
NwN + SoU + Hotu (Diamond), patched in 1.69

Unable to run nwn without checking "compatiblity mode XP-SP3 or SP2",

With latest AMD drivers catalyst 12.3: Lags in game even at very low settings, nearly unplayable,
With AMD drivers catalyst 11.4: The game just runs fine with good settings (1366x768, 64MB texture pack, shadows on...), no more lags.

Cheers,

Edit: Ah, and removed "shiny water" option of course.
               
               

               

                     Modifié par Sherinee, 07 avril 2012 - 11:16 .
                     
                  

            

[Legacy_mysticalkas]

               Could someone please assist with the issues i have been having. Been trying to follow all the instructions online about the install of NWN Complete / win 7 / Crt patch, and so forth. I played about 3 years ago, possibly more since im senile, regardless im trying to get back into NWN1, NWN2 is nice, but theres just something about 1 thats just makes it better for some reason. if anyone could assist i would appriciate it. Thanks so much.
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_HipMaestro]

               

mysticalkas wrote...
Could someone please assist with the issues i have been having. Been trying to follow all the instructions online about the install of NWN Complete / win 7 / Crt patch, and so forth. I played about 3 years ago, possibly more since im senile, regardless im trying to get back into NWN1, NWN2 is nice, but theres just something about 1 thats just makes it better for some reason. if anyone could assist i would appriciate it. Thanks so much.

This thread is more of a guide and links resource than an individual problem-solving one, so I recommend that you post your own topic describing your full specs as nicely listed in the tech "Start Here" and any accomdations you may have already tried (like disabling sound, shiny water, etc.).  Be as specific as possible so the community can grasp the clearest "picture" possible and then be patient.  The remaining members may be few in number but are probably the most dedicated folks around.  The NWN Complete edition seems to have presented a unique subset of issues so it may take a bit longer than normal to resolve your problems.  Hang in there!
               
               

               
            

[Legacy_SnypeepOrigin]

               It says when i try to install to the C:\\ drive, "Your path appears to be the root of a drive. Please enter a different path." '> Please help me. I really want to play this game again, and i don't want to resort to downgrading to Windows XP. D:>