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| Author: | tsukasa1991 [ Tue, Jan 25 2011, 23:21 PM ] |
| Post subject: | windows 7 (the bane of life) |
can someone tell me if there is a way to make nwn work on windows 7 or am i sol on this computer i got right here? seriously w7 is the worst op ever... |
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| Author: | Nekhy [ Tue, Jan 25 2011, 23:23 PM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: windows 7 (the bane of life) |
It's the best Windows so far. Trust me on this. Are you getting some kind of an error message? |
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| Author: | tsukasa1991 [ Tue, Jan 25 2011, 23:29 PM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: windows 7 (the bane of life) |
i forget exactly what it said but a message pops up when i have installed and i try to run. it basically says windows 7 hates you, try again with older comp... ive heard similar things here but cant find them, hope there is a patch? |
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| Author: | Nekhy [ Tue, Jan 25 2011, 23:37 PM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: windows 7 (the bane of life) |
I run NWN on two computers with Win7 (Premium and Starter) and never had any problems... Did you try compatibility mode? |
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| Author: | tsukasa1991 [ Tue, Jan 25 2011, 23:39 PM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: windows 7 (the bane of life) |
ive only tried it through once, how does a dummy like me enable compatibility mode on this op? its good to know its possible tho |
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| Author: | Nekhy [ Tue, Jan 25 2011, 23:43 PM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: windows 7 (the bane of life) |
For example, nwnmain.exe Properties, Compatibility sheet. I'm not sure if you should edit the launcher or the exe proper, though. |
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| Author: | tsukasa1991 [ Tue, Jan 25 2011, 23:45 PM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: windows 7 (the bane of life) |
Ok im reinstalling and ill try |
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| Author: | Nekhy [ Tue, Jan 25 2011, 23:46 PM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: windows 7 (the bane of life) |
You can launch the game from nwmain.exe, too, so at least tweaking that one should work. It just skips the DM client / toolset selection thingy. |
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| Author: | tsukasa1991 [ Tue, Jan 25 2011, 23:48 PM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: windows 7 (the bane of life) |
sounds easy nuf edit: i have to do all this because my other computer simply refuses to stay connected whenever im online with it but this only happens when im playing nwn, not even other online games. so i dunno what thats about but this is a much faster comp anyway. any ideas as to what would cause my being disconnected from the gamespy thingy everytime? it happens about 10-20 into playing, every time i try and log on. |
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| Author: | tsukasa1991 [ Tue, Jan 25 2011, 23:56 PM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: windows 7 (the bane of life) |
ok so it says in one spot "run this in compatability mode for" and then there is a drop down with some different op systems but no windows 7... |
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| Author: | NinjaClarinet [ Tue, Jan 25 2011, 23:59 PM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: windows 7 (the bane of life) |
Not to be insulting, but did you apply the critical rebuild after you reinstalled? You'll get compatibility errors until you do. Once the rebuild is applied it works just like it should without having to mess with the compatibility settings. AzureLuna and I both run on Windows 7 machines. EDIT: You do have to right-click the shortcut and run as administrator, however. |
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| Author: | Nekhy [ Tue, Jan 25 2011, 23:59 PM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: windows 7 (the bane of life) |
No, you need to run it in XP compatibility mode. Try SP3 for starters. You can try them all and see if any works. Edit: And yeah, the critical rebuild should be done. I assumed you'd patched and everything. |
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| Author: | tsukasa1991 [ Wed, Jan 26 2011, 0:03 AM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: windows 7 (the bane of life) |
doing so... thanks for the help guys i rly appreciate it. i am only so good with computers =] |
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| Author: | AlphaWaves [ Wed, Jan 26 2011, 0:20 AM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: windows 7 (the bane of life) |
I have mine running how NinjaClarinet suggested. I don't have it in compatibility mode in windows 7. Just made it need to run as administrator. |
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| Author: | tsukasa1991 [ Wed, Jan 26 2011, 0:25 AM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: windows 7 (the bane of life) |
i got it to work! now to dl the haks and if thats all smooth im in business. ty all so much, my issue resolved when i did the crit rebuild and ran in comp mode for xp sp3. never knew this stuff existed lol ^^ ive also been playing nwn on a much older comp for many years now lol forgetful me. ty again! |
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| Author: | Brenin [ Wed, Jan 26 2011, 0:31 AM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: windows 7 (the bane of life) |
After you have everything installed and patched I have found the settings below to be the best under 7. Perhaps the run as administrator setting could be argued as a bad setting, but I feel it is important (especially if you ever play the OC or other local modules, and want your laptop to use all available graphics optimizations).  Hope it helps. PS edit: Linux is the best OS ever, any version 
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| Author: | Lord-Hadeis [ Wed, Jan 26 2011, 16:21 PM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: windows 7 (the bane of life) |
You know this would be a great adition to the side bar. A collection of all the bugs you can encounter with NWN on diferent systems and how to fix them. |
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| Author: | Dwagin [ Wed, Jan 26 2011, 19:11 PM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: windows 7 (the bane of life) |
Unix says, "Linus get off my lawn." |
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| Author: | Brenin [ Wed, Jan 26 2011, 22:46 PM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: windows 7 (the bane of life) |
Dwagin wrote: Unix says, "Linus get off my lawn." Linus says, "The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it." |
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| Author: | Kudark [ Wed, Jan 26 2011, 22:59 PM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: windows 7 (the bane of life) |
Dwagin wrote: Unix says, "Linus get off my lawn." Linus is busy playing the piano for Lucy |
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