"When I start Neverwinternights, I can't see Amia on gamespy anymore. How am I supposed to find it to play in this wonderful world again?"

1: Start the game as usual.

2: Hit [Play] button

3: Hit [Multiplayer] button

4: Login with your usual login name and password

5: Choose [Join Internet game]

6: At the bottom of the screnn, you have a button labeled [Direct Connect]. Choose that one.

7: In the upper edit area on the new menu, fill in the IP and port number for Amia A or B
The gameservers IP and portnumbers are:



(just as you can see at the top left corner in the forum)

Don't write anything in the password area since Amias servers aren't password protected.

You can use ordinary CTRL+ V in Windows to paste in the information if you don't want to write it yourself.


With desktop shortcuts

Another way, in Windows, is to create a shortcut on the desktop like this:

For Amia B, make a new shortcut with the other port number:


Point the searchpath to the nwmain.exe to the place where your own nwmain.exe is, it might be different on your computer.



Change the hosts file for faster connect

Since the Bioware main server is down, you can change the hosts file as well. It's usually found in:

It lacks extension and is just named "hosts".

The directory is usually hidden, so you should open up the control panel and make hidden folders and files visible first, if you haven't done it already. I always do it to make sure viruses aren't hidden on the HD where I can't see them.

To change the file, you need to open it as an administrator in Notepad or any similar program.

Just add this row at the bottom:


My own hosts file looks like:


This will skip the search for the main server and let you in a bit faster.