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Legacy_Pstemarie

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« on: December 29, 2012, 05:52:56 pm »


               Upgrading to Windows 8 was probably the best thing I've done for my NWN installation. The game is running quite nicely and I don't need to use any of those silly compatibility modes like I did with Vista and Win 7.

My system specs are nothing special - maybe that's the key to success (at least in my case)...

Win 8 Pro 64-bit
Intel Core i3 550 CPU @ 3.20 GHz
6.00 GB RAM
nVidia GeForce GT-240 (w/ 1.00 GB VRAM)

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« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2012, 06:18:14 pm »


               Yours is the first positive comment on it that I've run across.
               
               

               
            

Legacy_Rolo Kipp

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« Reply #2 on: December 29, 2012, 06:27:52 pm »


               <tip-toeing in...>

Things generally work better (though I miss my GForce 305M and the fingerprint log on).
I *did* just now discover that my beloved Speccy crashes under 8 else my response would have been about 10 minutes earlier :-/

Win 8 Pro 64
Intel Core i3 U330@1.2
8GB RAM
Intel HD Graphics (integrated) Lost the use of the NVidea chip when I upgraded. It conflicts with Displaylink and I'd rather have two monitors than faster graphics :-P

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Legacy_Urk

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« Reply #3 on: December 29, 2012, 07:44:35 pm »


               Yeah... I'll third that. I had all kinds of problems running the toolset in Vista, but everything runs pretty much flawlessly in Win 8.
               
               

               
            

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« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2013, 07:46:59 pm »


               I've actually reverted back to Win 7 but NOT because of issues with NWN. My issues centered around a lot of the third party tools I use to make CC. Once I started reinstalling them in Win 8 I ran into all sorts of fiddly issues ranging from import/export to rendering issues.