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De'aarth
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 Posted: Mon, Aug 01 2011, 11:33 AM |
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Joined: 09 Apr 2005
Location: La villa Strangiato
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Can someone point out to me what is the problem i am having with my nwn.
I bought a new PC so now im trying to run the game with windows 7.
Ill try starting the game and it gives the nwn logo on the box and then nothing. well this part was old news, and in past it could be fixed by running the game as administrator. tried it, also tried various compatibility modes but nothing seems to work.
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My ingame account is Geldahir, and my characters are:
Ka'lith, Coran'zen , Sha'aveil, Rael, Sielen Lyoreth
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Amarice-Elaraliel
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Posted: Mon, Aug 01 2011, 11:38 AM |
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Joined: 20 Jan 2006
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What kind of graphic card does your new PC have? Nvidia Gforce?
I had two problems with the Windows 7 and Gforce problem.
First problem was to get the game running aswell. It worked under "XP mode" however (and that still happens) for some odd reasons Windows 7 couldn't determin what NWN version I was running (though it was the current updated version). So somwhere in the background, hidden there was a tiny window with "Sorry, we couldn't determin which NWN version you are running, you might want to update just in case" or something along those lines. NWN then only started once I pressed ok here. Took me a while to even find that message though as it was really nastily hidden in the background.
The second problem was the frames running too low and the game was quite unplayable. That however was a graphic driver issue which was solved with the new nvidia driver.
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Last edited by Amarice-Elaraliel on Mon, Aug 01 2011, 11:49 AM, edited 1 time in total.
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De'aarth
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Posted: Mon, Aug 01 2011, 11:46 AM |
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Joined: 09 Apr 2005
Location: La villa Strangiato
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Ati Radeon HD 5850
edit: atm downloading latest driver for the card
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My ingame account is Geldahir, and my characters are:
Ka'lith, Coran'zen , Sha'aveil, Rael, Sielen Lyoreth
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Amarice-Elaraliel
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Posted: Mon, Aug 01 2011, 11:50 AM |
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Joined: 20 Jan 2006
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Edited my first post. Check if you have an odd message somewhere in the background where it asks you something about the game version.
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De'aarth
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Posted: Mon, Aug 01 2011, 11:54 AM |
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Joined: 09 Apr 2005
Location: La villa Strangiato
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not getting anything. not even the nwn logo anymore.
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My ingame account is Geldahir, and my characters are:
Ka'lith, Coran'zen , Sha'aveil, Rael, Sielen Lyoreth
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jamnik_pucek
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Posted: Mon, Aug 01 2011, 11:55 AM |
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Joined: 19 Apr 2011
Location: EST Time zone (GMT -5)
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Just checking, but have you patched the game to 1.69?
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De'aarth
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Posted: Mon, Aug 01 2011, 11:56 AM |
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Joined: 09 Apr 2005
Location: La villa Strangiato
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ofcourse
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My ingame account is Geldahir, and my characters are:
Ka'lith, Coran'zen , Sha'aveil, Rael, Sielen Lyoreth
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jamnik_pucek
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Posted: Mon, Aug 01 2011, 11:58 AM |
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Joined: 19 Apr 2011
Location: EST Time zone (GMT -5)
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Okay, next step. Are you running nwnmain.exe directly (as administrator. Compatibility mode should not be required). Also, have you updated windows 7?
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Amarice-Elaraliel
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Posted: Mon, Aug 01 2011, 12:00 PM |
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Joined: 20 Jan 2006
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And you are running it under Windows XP compatibility mode yes?
Hrm... The default windows 7 security sometimes causes some issue, but it usually asks if you want to allow certain programs to run or not.
Did you install the game new or did you copy in your old game-folder?
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De'aarth
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Posted: Mon, Aug 01 2011, 12:08 PM |
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Joined: 09 Apr 2005
Location: La villa Strangiato
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installed it yup. and ran on xp, as administrator. but now the new ati drivers fecked me up royally and my pc no longer recognises the graph card which is very weird. anyhow, restored the system and lost nwn on process. so i guess ill try installing again later tonight or tomorrow. maybe i have better luck then. doubt it though.
i hate this.....
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My ingame account is Geldahir, and my characters are:
Ka'lith, Coran'zen , Sha'aveil, Rael, Sielen Lyoreth
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Gravemaskin
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Posted: Mon, Aug 01 2011, 12:11 PM |
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Joined: 29 Jul 2007
Location: Norway: Home of the Trolls
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ati drivers are fun that way..
Look for the beta drivers and try those, they fixed it for me when I used an ATI card.
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jamnik_pucek
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Posted: Mon, Aug 01 2011, 12:12 PM |
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Joined: 19 Apr 2011
Location: EST Time zone (GMT -5)
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Are you using a laptop or a "tower" PC? If using the former, you need to download drivers only form the manufacturer of the laptop. If the latter, make sure the drivers you get match your OS exactly, though most wont let you install them if they don't. Again, make sure you install all the updates for Win7 as well.
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jamnik_pucek
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Posted: Mon, Aug 01 2011, 12:13 PM |
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Joined: 19 Apr 2011
Location: EST Time zone (GMT -5)
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Gravemaskin wrote: ati drivers are fun that way..
Look for the beta drivers and try those, they fixed it for me when I used an ATI card. Since when? :F There are a few instances where ATI drivers did break NWN, yes, but if they make your card not be recognized, then something is very wrong.
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My Sovereign
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Posted: Mon, Aug 01 2011, 13:13 PM |
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Joined: 19 Sep 2010
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Oddly, I also just bought a new computer with windows 7, but my powerhouse is running a 1GB Radeon 6450 HD
Not a problem in the world, ive not even crashed nwn since I got it....ever, not once...
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jamnik_pucek
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Posted: Mon, Aug 01 2011, 13:29 PM |
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Joined: 19 Apr 2011
Location: EST Time zone (GMT -5)
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Yes, unlike some previous incarnations of the ATI drivers which would literally blow up my windows when I ran NWN, the current ones seem to be stable, to the point i haven't had any crashes when running NWNShader. Providing everything is isntalled fine and there arent any other underlying conflicts, you should not have any problems running NWN with ATI drivers. The latests beta Nvidia ones seem to produce similar effects on my wifes rig too, both requiring only running as admin (due to the way NWN handles file), no compatibility mode. ATI cards need the shiny water option switched off.
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Hello, hello? Is anybody home?
Hello, hello? Or did you sell your soul?
Hello, hello? I thought you wanted to be somebody... Then be somebody!
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De'aarth
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Posted: Tue, Aug 02 2011, 6:40 AM |
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Joined: 09 Apr 2005
Location: La villa Strangiato
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well reinstalling now. fingers crossed that this time the nwn will actually start. im gonna run the critical rebuild straight without trying to update via update option that comes with the game. propably makes no difference though.
this is BS since i bought the platinum edition of the game and it says windows 7 compatible. glad it cost only 3,99 euros
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My ingame account is Geldahir, and my characters are:
Ka'lith, Coran'zen , Sha'aveil, Rael, Sielen Lyoreth
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De'aarth
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Posted: Tue, Aug 02 2011, 8:55 AM |
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Joined: 09 Apr 2005
Location: La villa Strangiato
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Yup. like i figured no change. the game just doesnt start. no error messages no nothing.....
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My ingame account is Geldahir, and my characters are:
Ka'lith, Coran'zen , Sha'aveil, Rael, Sielen Lyoreth
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Feonir
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Posted: Tue, Aug 02 2011, 12:56 PM |
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Joined: 14 Dec 2004
Location: Lookin at folks like a son-of-a-bitch.
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The W's will help speed this along.
What kind of rig is it, detailed as possible. Hardware etc
Where in the world are you, could be a locational thing no matter how unlikely it is.
What kind of windows you running, Win 7 64 bit or 32 bit?
Ensure you check your NWN folder to see if there is an error text or ini file being created when you boot up NWN.
Also have you tried not just the desktop shortcut but trying to boot from the folder itself, and further more open the toolset I believe there is an option to start NWN from there as well.
Are you on the administratior account of your Windows? Do you have permission to install what virus scanning and whatnot are you using is your virus prot actively blocking NWN. No detail is to trivial or small, post it all. Screencaps or a video capture of it happening would go that extra step too.
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QPR
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Posted: Tue, Aug 02 2011, 13:40 PM |
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Joined: 21 Sep 2008
Location: Norway
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The only way I get my nwn to work on a windows 7 is to run "nwnmain" (not any of the others) directly from the folder. This skips the part that doesent work and lands you into the main menu.
I hope this works for you.
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Dwagin
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Posted: Tue, Aug 02 2011, 16:09 PM |
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Joined: 08 Aug 2006
Location: The Land of Nod
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You need to update to 1.69. Prior versions of nwn do not have the ability to run on windows vista/ windows 7. They do something which those Operating systems identify as bad behaviour and squash it.
If you are, then run windows update and make sure you have all the updates, one of them enabled NWN to run as well, past the security settings.
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-Extraordinarily ordinary in the mostest of ways.
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De'aarth
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Posted: Wed, Aug 03 2011, 8:42 AM |
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Joined: 09 Apr 2005
Location: La villa Strangiato
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trying to get the game running with
Acer Aspire Desktop M5910
Windows 7 Home Premium 64
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 650 3,20GHz
6GT DDR
Radeon HD 5850
I am trying to start the game from folder . tried all XP modes . Vista modes. ran as administrator.
switched of themes in case aero crashes it. updated the hotfix 1.69.
cant find the update dwagin mentioned there. in windows update. can anyone recall the name of the patch file. might manually search it somewhere.
oh, in my nwn ini
3Dprovider=
i have just blank in it. does yours say something?
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My ingame account is Geldahir, and my characters are:
Ka'lith, Coran'zen , Sha'aveil, Rael, Sielen Lyoreth
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Hrothmus
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Posted: Wed, Aug 03 2011, 9:39 AM |
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Joined: 08 Jan 2010
Location: Virginia
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Well I'm going to throw this out there but im not sure if it is a fix.
Ive had games before that I was just simply unable to run with my computer set up, so I installed virtual PC and installed Windows XP on it and used it to play those games. It might be a somewhat round about fix, or it might not be a fix at all. Just throwing it out there
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Fel'Brin - I am one with the shadows
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