Never WInter Nights the players thread / How many of you play NWN .

[Omnios]

Hi im wondering how many of you play Never Winter Knights both as single player and on line. Hopefully with a group of Ubuntu Linux NWN players may help others solve any problems butter better still get together and play on a server as a group.

Also feel free to post servers that you enjoyed and posibly a little description.

Currently I Play Champions of Vydor (http://www.princewally.com/index.php) online which a fun server. Its sort of close to pnp hack and slash with quests.

[ysse]

Used to play NWN single back in my Windows days. Had an almost working Linux install on my old laptop (800 MHz, ATI Rage 128). "Almost" because it actually ran, but was so slow and choppy it was unusable. I guess it was because the ATI driver only offered 24 bits color depth, and NWN needed 32. I had RtCW running perfectly, so the 3D accel itself wasn't at fault.

Now I have a 2 GHz Pentium M with an ATI 9700, and I'm actually able to hibernate and wake up WITH the ATI-driver installed, so I will give NWN a spin again.

[Fyrzen]

I used to, i backed up all my savegames and profiles, but it lost it's appeal to me. I completed the campaign like 3 times. I tryed several role-play servers, most of which had strict bogus rules and where you can actualy die permanently. A nice quick-combat server was NWKNIGHT, it's CTF and keep the throne and such. Two teams, gold and silver, each with respective armour. I kinda gave up on it as the people there were power junkies at creating the best possible characters, they all had SoU and HotU characters which i couldn't beat.

I tried lots of fan-created expansions from nwvault, some were realy great rpg's. I might play again some day.

[Omnios]

I used to, i backed up all my savegames and profiles, but it lost it's appeal to me. I completed the campaign like 3 times. I tryed several role-play servers, most of which had strict bogus rules and where you can actualy die permanently. A nice quick-combat server was NWKNIGHT, it's CTF and keep the throne and such. Two teams, gold and silver, each with respective armour. I kinda gave up on it as the people there were power junkies at creating the best possible characters, they all had SoU and HotU characters which i couldn't beat.

I tried lots of fan-created expansions from nwvault, some were realy great rpg's. I might play again some day.

You might want to try Champions of Vydor it does not have those strict rules and is about the only server I play

[rejser]

I play/played, on and off, more on than off though. Lost my best char in a hardware fire though

[dgbauer]

I actually owned the game for over a year before I installed it... And the only reason I installed it on what I have now is because I found out it was Linux Native Compatable...

Now I play it almost every day at work to pass the time! Haven't tried online yet though... Will have to give your server a try.

[Zodiac]

I was thinking about purchasing the "Diamond" edition... especially since WoW is becoming more and more repellant to me.

Dunno if it is worth it though since NWN 2 is coming out soon...

Thoughts??

[Artificial Intelligence]

Been awile I played NWN, though I have 3 version of them. The last one I bought specific from tuxgames.org to support.

[DarkW0lf]

I was considering getting the platinum editon. They named their editions after rare metals, there is nothing higher then platinum. And then I see diamond on the shelves now. Will probably get that instead.

NWN 2 is not being made by bioware and I know next to nothing about the publisher.

When it comes to games the one thing I always check is the hardware needs.
I still use the onboard video that came with my windows box, I haven't had a problem with it (starcraft, noone lives forever, hostile encounter) but I am not sure if it is enough for NWN. You guys still use onboard video hardware or have you all bought additional video cards ?

Intel 82845 Graphics Controller (There are like 5 versions I think mines GL)
Driver Version: 6.14.10.4020

The ubuntu system has a 3D Rage Pro so I ain't worried about it.

[Omnios]

First off last time I read NWN2 is due out this year though dont have a specific month and is based on the 3.5 rule set which is much better and will problwable result in better game play. NWN2 is also based on a rebuild game engine which will probably mean it will stand truer to D&D rules and game play.

I was considering getting the platinum editon. They named their editions after rare metals, there is nothing higher then platinum. And then I see diamond on the shelves now. Will probably get that instead.

I was thinking about purchasing the "Diamond" edition... especially since WoW is becoming more and more repellant to me.

Dunno if it is worth it though since NWN 2 is coming out soon...

NWN will be cheap compared to NWN2 when it is released and the nature of the free servers will be playable for a very long time.

When it comes to games the one thing I always check is the hardware needs.
I still use the onboard video that came with my windows box, I haven't had a problem with it (starcraft, noone lives forever, hostile encounter) but I am not sure if it is enough for NWN. You guys still use onboard video hardware or have you all bought additional video cards ?

A friend of mine played Never Nights in windows with a intel onboard card but not shure if will work in Linux without some tweeking (mouse problem but there is a fix)


NWN 2 is not being made by bioware and I know next to nothing about the publisher.

NWN2 is being made by Obsidian with close support from Bioware.

[Rumor]

I play NWN single-play only. I own both the SoU and HotU expansion packs. If you enjoy really good story-driven modules, I highly recommend the Tales of Arterra modules. Part one is here (http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=modules.Detail&id=4046) and part two is here (http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=modules.Detail&id=4047).

I think they are two of the best user made modules I've ever played.

[Zodiac]

I still think I am going to wait for 2 to come out... if is good I bet a lot of people will switch, if it stinks they won't. Either way I should wait...

[leech]

Some clarifications.

The Platinum edition of Neverwinter Nights has the Original, Shadows of Undertide and Hordes of the Underdark. Plus it comes with a rather thick manual, and you can find it in DVD or CD-ROM (it's 4 CDs).

The Diamond edition comes with the Original, Shadows of Undertide, Hordes of the Underdark and the Kingmaker module. It doesn't come with the thick manual (so it's $10 less than the Platinum edition was, at least when I bought it (40 for the platinum and 30 for the diamond). I'm not sure, but I think it also is available as DVD or CDroms.

I was wondering the same thing as the original poster, how many people play it here? I did have a small game set up on my server a while back playing the Pool of Radiance module with some friends, and it was a blast. I'd like to do something like that again, but all those friends have gone off to play WoW, which I think is lame.

Leech

[Omnios]

I was wondering the same thing as the original poster, how many people play it here? I did have a small game set up on my server a while back playing the Pool of Radiance module with some friends, and it was a blast. I'd like to do something like that again, but all those friends have gone off to play WoW, which I think is lame.

Check out the web site and there forum.
http://www.princewally.com/

They have 106 memebers and counting on the day they may have between 0 and over 20 players. There are also regulars that can realy help out and they have been there for as long as I have been playing that server. ALso you can do all the quests once a reboot wich is about twice a day so that realy helps.

Its not a huge world but a well done one a can be challenging. A lot of areas require groups so be warned as a newb you might die a lot at first.

[FizDev]

I have Neverwinter Nights Platinium though it is a DVD so it's much less trouble than 4 CDs. :p I've tried to make it work on Linux but couldn't so I play only on Windows... for the moment. :( Maybe when I'll be more experienced with Ubuntu I'll retry to install it.

[Omnios]

I have Neverwinter Nights Platinium though it is a DVD so it's much less trouble than 4 CDs. :p I've tried to make it work on Linux but couldn't so I play only on Windows... for the moment. :( Maybe when I'll be more experienced with Ubuntu I'll retry to install it.


Read the bioware forum Linux section they have all the info on how to intall it in Linux

[FizDev]

Read the bioware forum Linux section they have all the info on how to intall it in Linux
Thanks for the info, I'll go take a look and try. Maybe I'll be lucky this time ;)

[akurashy]

i play NWN too, its freaking great, i might buy it again with the expansion packs (since well i downloaded this because i didn't want to waste money then not get it working on linux)

to tell the truth it runs 100x fasters than in my windows (well old windows.. im full linux now :D)

[Omnios]

i play NWN too, its freaking great, i might buy it again with the expansion packs (since well i downloaded this because i didn't want to waste money then not get it working on linux)

to tell the truth it runs 100x fasters than in my windows (well old windows.. im full linux now :D)


I found the same thing it ran faster and smoother in Linux

[leech]

I have Neverwinter Nights Platinium though it is a DVD so it's much less trouble than 4 CDs. :p I've tried to make it work on Linux but couldn't so I play only on Windows... for the moment. :( Maybe when I'll be more experienced with Ubuntu I'll retry to install it.

I wrote a faq on here on how to install it. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=631819#post631819

That covers everything except the movies. If there are more requests, I'll add that in as well.

Leech

[skyhorse]

I play NWN.. it actually runs faster under my Linux than my Windows XP...

you do have to do some tricks, like install the cursor update so you have mouse hardware acceleration (otherwise it will be very laggy).

Best nwn server ever: The Three Towns.

Cheers,

sky

[leech]

I play NWN.. it actually runs faster under my Linux than my Windows XP...

you do have to do some tricks, like install the cursor update so you have mouse hardware acceleration (otherwise it will be very laggy).

Best nwn server ever: The Three Towns.

Cheers,

sky

I haven't ever had the laggy mouse issue, is that due to ATI drivers? Or maybe I just haven't noticed. I remember seeing the patch for it, but never tried it out, since I didn't have a problem.

Leech

[Omnios]

The laggy mouse is mainly for slow vidio cards say like a Gforce2 where I had to install the mouse fix. I did not have this issue when I upgraded to a geforce mx4000.

Basicly its an issue where the frame rates drop realy low lagging the cursor there fore causing over controll making the game unplayable.

[leech]

That explains why I've never had the issue. When I played it on my Parhelia it would be slow if I enabled the shadows to full detail, and of course I had it running across three monitors each at 1600x1200. On my 6800GT I have ever setting to maximum and it runs silky smooth at 1600x1200. I need to play that game some more.... damn real life...

Leech

[J-B]

I actually never made it through the original campaign. But one I got the platinum set for my birthday last year, I really fell in love with NWN. SOU and HOTU are so much better. Took me awhile but finally got in installed in Ubuntu, currently working my way through HOTU again with a paladin....oh yeah!

[Artificial Intelligence]

My best combo which fit my playstyle is Sorcerer/Dragon Disciple or Ranger/Arcane Archer :D

*gets a sudden urge for playing NWN now*

[Omnios]

Monk/Druid is pretty intersting but will be much better in NWN2 with 3.5 rules

[J-B]

I love the Ranger/Arcane Archer combo. That was what i used the first I went through the expansions. I think I ended being a level 22 with him, after taking him through SOU and HOTU, as well as several player created modules. That's the great thing about NWN. You get tired of the OC and expansions and there's literally thousands more modules out there to play, some of which are really fantastic.

edit: Have they actually set a release date for NWN 2? I saw some screenies on bioware. It looks pretty awe inspiring.

[leech]

I first tried the Druid, and played it so long ago it was before they really added the special classes. Now on the Original campaign I'm playing with a wizard. Damn is it hard. At the beginning it was literally a Kill one guy, save, kill another, save. Finally I got to the point where I can kick some ***. Though still sometimes if I get into a hand to hand fight, I can die pretty easily. But then that's what my Tenser's Transformation is for :D

The wizard has got to be the hardest to play in a single player campaign. I was going to play a Bard, but they changed the rules from 2nd edition to 3rd edition so much for the Bard that now they're just some annoying mage like thing, they used to have thief skills too.

I did start a Druid on the SoU module, and there are little things you can only find if you're a druid (like talking to the wolf in the town and finding out that there are other wolves trying to court her, and you can find a magical ring (if I recall). I want to get up to the point where I can be a shapshifter, those are fun :D

Leech

[J-B]

Wizards are always really really hard to play at first, but in the later levels tend to make everyone else look totally weak. I've never played a druid. Might have to try a new character out for that one...

[leech]

Thieves are interesting to play too. Since every other needed class was picked the last time I played with friends, I played the thief. Then everyone was whining 'cause I would open the chest and take all the good stuff *laughs* I kept having to tell them, "I'm a thief, that's what we do? would you rather just spring the traps and die?" :D

Leech

[J-B]

I always liked playing a thief. Since I was in high school when I first started playing D&D, and because I was really into computers, I always equated thieves with the hackers and phreakers of the the early days of computing. People like Kevin Mitnick and such. Guys that I really admired at the time. That sort of stealthy, get in and get out undetected sort of thing. Fighters and Barbarians and such I always associated with the big dumb jocks I went to school with so I invariably stayed away from those classes.

Lol, funny when you look back at things like that.

[kingsidy]

how do u install the regular game with the three cd's? any help would be appreciated

[leech]

Go to http://icculus.org/~ravage/ and download the installer.

Leech

[kingsidy]

thanks for the link leech, i ope that the intaller works without any problem. Never really played the games, but i have been seing these neverwinter night threads so i decided to give it a try. thanks though. is there anythink in particular i have to look out for during the install?

[kingsidy]

i am getting an error saying parachute deployed segmentation fault libsdl parachute deployed

[Omnios]

Try l aunching it with sudo other than that sounds like a vid config problem

[kingsidy]

i am using sudo it still happens

[J-B]

Check Bioware's forums. That's a common error. I don't remember the exact fix, but apparently it happens frequently. I ended up installing by manually unzipping the disks, but I have the platinum edition and I don't know that that would work for you. Good luck, and keep at it, you'll figure it out!

[leech]

http://nwn.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?topic=465007&forum=72&highlight=parachute That's the only thing listed on bioware's site right now, though I seem to recall that it's because you need some SDL libraries installed.

Try sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2debian libsdl1.2debian-alsa libsdl-gfx1.2-4 libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-mixer1.2 libsdl-net1.2 libsdl-ttf2.0-0

Those are the libsdl files I have installed. It's working fine here. Also it may be llooking for the libSDL library within the folder, and I don't know if the installer copies that over. it's in nwn/lib/.

The other question is... did you update it to the 1.66? An update could fix it as well.

Leech

[kingsidy]

i got it to work nevermind. thanks for the all the help you guys provided. i ended up installing by first running the linux installer. then installing in windows and copying the files as directed by the bioware website, and overwrinting the ones that were on the nwn directory already. then running ./fixinstall. ran it it asked me for the key. that was it. again thanks for the quick help everybody.

ps: by the way i updated it but to no avail, i was still getting the sdl error.

[Omnios]

Don't think you can do a regular update in Linux thought I think there is a trick that will. Basicly to update you have to download a 100meg patch file made specficly for Linux its on the Bioware page somewhere thinks its manual updates

[akurashy]

do anyone have a private server around? would be nice to play with you guys ;D

[Omnios]

Maybe we can play Champions of Vydor (www.princewally.com) as a group. I have known the guy running the server for a bit and the rules are reasonable. The fact that I happen to be a moderator on the web forum there has nothing to do with its its a great server lol. Or If someone can suggest another greate server maybe we can play there. That was one of my original reasons of making this post :)

[akurashy]

Maybe we can play Champions of Vydor (http://www.princewally.com) as a group. I have known the guy running the server for a bit and the rules are reasonable. The fact that I happen to be a moderator on the web forum there has nothing to do with its its a great server lol. Or If someone can suggest another greate server maybe we can play there. That was one of my original reasons of making this post :)

the site is slow loading :(

[viscount]

This kinda makes me want to break out my disks, I have both expansions
and I used to have NWN setup on my old Ath box, but just kinda got
tired of so much hack and slash.

Basically you can just follow a formula and create the most powerful characters
for any particular server depending on what gear that server drops.

So once you play long enough its almost pointless.
But still.. kinda makes me want to break out the disks :)

[kingsidy]

Don't think you can do a regular update in Linux thought I think there is a trick that will. Basicly to update you have to download a 100meg patch file made specficly for Linux its on the Bioware page somewhere thinks its manual updates i did download the patch, but i was still getting a hard timer getting it to work. i launched the linux installer and i think that it did not copy all the things it was supposed to. but it worked anyways. however you get it done as long as you get it done.

[Omnios]

the site is slow loading :(

The web site is not on the same server I have seen about 20 players with hardly any lag

[leech]

do anyone have a private server around? would be nice to play with you guys ;D

I had one going for a long time that a few of my friends would play on, but they all started playing WoW, lousy hosers. I of course refuse to pay for anything that Blizzard makes due to their attitude towards Open Source projects and Linux in general.

I was running a Pool of Radiance module that was just a blast. Amazing that my old dual 466mhz celeron would even run the server, but even more amazing that it ran it well :D At least well enough for up to 6 people, past that... it got a bit laggy.

Leech

[J-B]

I had one going for a long time that a few of my friends would play on, but they all started playing WoW, lousy hosers. I of course refuse to pay for anything that Blizzard makes due to their attitude towards Open Source projects and Linux in general.

I was running a Pool of Radiance module that was just a blast. Amazing that my old dual 466mhz celeron would even run the server, but even more amazing that it ran it well :D At least well enough for up to 6 people, past that... it got a bit laggy.

Leech


You should start up another game. I'd join in. It would be alot of fun.

[leech]

Yeah, it was a blast. I'll take hardware donations if more people would like to play... :D

Anyone have a preference for a module? The Pool of Radiance one I was playing worked quite well, some of the larger modules may have problems though. But then I had played the PoR one for quite some time and never actually beat it.

Leech

[akurashy]

my bad for the noobie question but how do i connect to your server? (or any others) ><

[leech]

My server isn't currently up, but generally you just load up the game, go to Multiplayer, then you'll probably have to create an account, then it will download all the public servers out there. If it's not a public server, then you can select Direct connect, then type in an IP address. Usually the game runs on port 5121, so it'd be something like 192.168.1.1:5121.

Leech

[J-B]

Yeah, it was a blast. I'll take hardware donations if more people would like to play... :D

Anyone have a preference for a module? The Pool of Radiance one I was playing worked quite well, some of the larger modules may have problems though. But then I had played the PoR one for quite some time and never actually beat it.

Leech


You know, if this conversation had happened a couple of weeks ago. I'd donate a whole PC, and set up the server myself. I just built a new one and gave the old one to my mother-in-law. Damn, that sucks.

[leech]

That does suck! I now have the server running, please give any input on if it's slow or not. I set the maxclients to 6, so only 6 can join at a time. It's the PoR module I was talking about. You should be able to connect to it with thefnords.org:5121 and use the password ubuntu.

Leech

[Artificial Intelligence]

It would be cool if we make a Ubuntu nwn server for forum members. I don't know how many members have nwn, but a poll could give the picture on how many there are, also who's interested in a server like that.

[leech]

I created one already :D Well, ok, so it currrently really only runs 6 players, I could probably up that, but I haven't tried anymore than that. Actually I should change the maxclients to 10 and see how it goes. This is just the testing phase of it right now, though characters should remain safe on there.

Go ahead and log into it and see how it runs.

Leech

[J-B]

Logged in and created a new character. An elven rogue, just for fun. The city seemed to run perfectly, but of course the test will come when there's more than one player and several monsters. Looks good, though, man.

[kingsidy]

i'll give it a shot this afternoon. But it is a good idea to create a server for ubuntu members. a lot of players would like to play games in linux so it would be fun

[Jaysyn]

Has anyone had any luck getting the Hardware mouse working? I've tried following the readme, but it's not very clear with my limited knowledge of Linux. I do have NWN Platnium working fine, the mouse is just a bit too slow for playing online ( I'd die a lot vs other players)

Jaysyn

[leech]

What part are you stumped on? I can try to clarify it as much as possible for ya.

Leech

[Jaysyn]

Well that's just it, I followed the directions, didn't get a error while installing NWNmouse, but when I added to the NWNs startup script & ran it, it failed to load. I'm at work at the moment so I can't post the exact error, I will when I get home.

[Jaysyn]

Error:

ERROR: ld.so: object './nwmouse.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.


NWN Startup Script:

#!/bin/sh

# This script runs Neverwinter Nights from the current directory

export SDL_MOUSE_RELATIVE=0
export SDL_VIDEO_X11_DGAMOUSE=0

# If you do not wish to use the SDL library included in the package, remove
# ./lib from LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./lib:./miles:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export XCURSOR_PATH=`pwd`
export XCURSOR_THEME=nwmouse
export LD_PRELOAD=./nwmouse.so

./nwmain $@

I'm pretty new @ Linux....

[Elvish Legion]

I'm just getting back into the swing of the game (coming once again from d2). Never much played online save for alittle dreu noctem.

[leech]

Error:

ERROR: ld.so: object './nwmouse.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.


NWN Startup Script:

#!/bin/sh

# This script runs Neverwinter Nights from the current directory

export SDL_MOUSE_RELATIVE=0
export SDL_VIDEO_X11_DGAMOUSE=0

# If you do not wish to use the SDL library included in the package, remove
# ./lib from LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./lib:./miles:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export XCURSOR_PATH=`pwd`
export XCURSOR_THEME=nwmouse
export LD_PRELOAD=./nwmouse.so

./nwmain $@

I'm pretty new @ Linux....

My first question would be how did the compile look? I did it on mine and it was missing quite a few header files.

sudo apt-get install libelfg0-dev libsdl1.2-dev then run the nwmouse_install.pl again. This worked for me.

Leech

P.S. I really need to add the nwmouse and nwmovies to the Howto. Unfortunately to really do that, I'd want a fresh install of Breezy to make sure I catch all the requirements....

[Jaysyn]

Thanks for the reply, I will try this tonight. The compile looked ok, I didn't notice any errors, but I'm not 100% on what I'm looking at either.

BTW, if any of ya'll remember/like the old Dark Sun setting & PvP, you should try out Athas Reborn, it's a PW based on said setting. I'm on the build team there & we are trying our best to get NWN as much as Dark Sun as possible. It's under "PW Story" on GameSpy I believe.

http://www.athasreborn/forum for more info

[drgreborn]

You guys can find me at the LOTN server if I can get my nwn to run that is haha. Just ask around for "The Bard".

By the way the problem is this.
drgreborn@alice:~$ cd nwn/
drgreborn@alice:~/nwn$ ./nwn
Failed to initialize graphics.
drgreborn@alice:~/nwn$

[mr_mop]

I play on here, its great fun. Theres usually a good crowd. Look out for Mr Mops Half Orc and Mr Mops Rogue :)
http://nordock.ntfm.org/
This is done by the same folks:
http://www.ferhan.org/ I'm afraid its not a very Firefox friendly site though :(

[drgreborn]

ok got it running haha. If you guys need someone to chronicle your adventures give a call yea?:mrgreen:

[carnaka04]

Anyone looking forward to playing Neverwinter 2 on Ubuntu? Right now I've got NWN 1 on my Windows machine, but I should be switching over to Ubuntu full time this summer (which means I'll be online with linux and NW2 when I get back to school in late August). Is it a bad thing to be planning my next character already?

(Paladin/ranger, heading towards Champion of Torm)
(or maybe Ranger/cleric...)

[Artificial Intelligence]

Last I've heard NWN2 doesn't come natively to linux. Or is that changed? http://mandrivausers.org/style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif

[Omnios]

Prc came out with a new version that has working psionics and many new classes and prestigue classes. Anyways right now I am copying NWN to a second NWN directory which I plan on installing the PRC rar. Not that ill find a server that has this but im planning on playing the nwn chapters as a Psionic.

[leech]

Last I've heard NWN2 doesn't come natively to linux. Or is that changed? http://mandrivausers.org/style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif

Not last I checked. Pretty much the word was that it'd be released as DirectX 9.0c only. But then on the Faq (that was made during the initial announcement of it) it said that they were only adding DirectX to the rendering engine, and that it should still have the OpenGL path as well. Though who knows if they updated the OpenGL or not. You'd think it'd make more sense that if they were jjust going to drop OpenGL competely, they'd dump the whole engine and start from scratch.

Leech

[Artificial Intelligence]

I really hope you're right. I would die for a NWN2 linux client :cool:

[leech]

Well, I don't know if I would die for one, since then I couldn't play it :D I would kill for one though.... please ask me to kill for you, Marge. Oh sorry, Simpsons flashback :D

Leech

[Artificial Intelligence]

Yeah, I'll rephrase then :mrgreen:

I'll kill for a NWN client for linux :cool:

Ever seen the Simpson episode where Bill Gates wants to buy out Homer Simpsons 'fake' internet-company :mrgreen:

[leech]

Yeah, that was great! "The internet king, eh? Perhaps he can provide me with faster nudity"

Leech

[twistedknight]

had in setup and running perfectly in an hour and most of that time was extracting
followed this howto:

http://nwn.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?topic=469853&forum=72

had to make one mod to the nwn startup script

after the line:
#!/bin/sh

insert:
SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa
this makes the audio work through kde mixer

[leech]

I didn't know about getting Alsa to work with Neverwinter Nights, though I never had much trouble with the sound. Maybe I'll add that to the HowTo to see if it helps anyone.

Leech

[jefrey]

I am just about to re-install NWN on my machines. I don't think my laptop will handle it, but my old case downstairs will. I used to run Libranet, and had NWN running clean on it, so now I need to figure out if I should install NWN a new way on my Dapper machines. I just started looking around the forums and wiki pages to see if any NWN install guides were floating around. Any suggestions?

When I do get it up and running I will see if I can get back on the Avlis (http://avlis.org/) server for online play. I loved that place. It was full of fantastic gamers and DMs. I may also do some single player adventures. We'll see!

[leech]

Look no further than the link in my Signature!

Or if you have signatures turned off. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=631819#post631819

They really do need to make this a sticky somewhere, or add it to the Games wiki.

Leech

[Christopher]

Last I've heard NWN2 doesn't come natively to linux. Or is that changed? http://mandrivausers.org/style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif


According to this post it isnt. http://nwn2forums.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?topic=446677&forum=95

Heres the link to the post in Atari's Forums, lets give this post some help. http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=444382

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[sidefx]

According to this post it isnt. http://nwn2forums.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?topic=446677&forum=95

Heres the link to the post in Atari's Forums, lets give this post some help. http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=444382

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Yup, sadly it looks fairly unlikely that there'll be a linux client at this point, what with Atari's financial woes and all. Very sad, but lets add as much as possible to that thread on their forums - You never know, something may be done. Perhaps Atari will go under and a publisher with a bit more sympathy to gamers on systems other than windows might pick it up. ;)

At the very least, I'll be extremely reluctant to buy NWN2 if there's no linux server provided. And if there's no linux client... well, it'll then have to be one bloody awesome game for me to get it. :-/

[B0rsuk]

For what it's worth, I planned to buy NWN2 to play it on linux.

Then I heard they 'upgraded' the engine from OpenGL to DirectX, to make it possible to run NWN2 on xbox.
Then I heard their xbox funding has been cut.

We have been cheated.

[Omnios]

Hi Apperently there is new content now at Chapions of Vydor
One of the more relaxed servers.
http://www.princewally.com (http://www.princewally.com/)

[mlind]

It would be cool if we make a Ubuntu nwn server for forum members. I don't know how many members have nwn, but a poll could give the picture on how many there are, also who's interested in a server like that.

This sounds great. If it server had capacity for like > 10 people, it would be great.

[Stabicron]

I have owned this game for a good long time, always been a fav, currently don't play online much but wouldn't mind doing so if and when I get spare time.

[Enigmus]

I own a copy of Neverwinter Nights Platinum and absolutely love it! It's one of my favorite games of all time

[hobieone]

i have the platinuin and primarily play offline due the way most roleplay servers are setup. and prefer play a chaotic nuetral ranger:mrgreen:

[Don_DiZzLe]

*removed*

Piracy and the alike is not allowed on the forums - Artificial Intelligence

[toasterofirony]

I was mad for NWN and SoU/ HotU when I was a windows user and I keep meaning to install it onto my Ubuntu install, but for the joy of having another game running natively.

If I did re-install it, I'd definitely want to play online in a perm. world.

Now, wheres that manual gone?

[Ludwig7666]

When I seen this thread I knew I would of had to post something about it.

Ok first off I started to play NWN back in January 2003. I first played it offline but didn't get far. Didn't care for it much at first. Then after about a month of not playing it I gave it another try, but online. I then fell in love with the game and played it hardcore every day for a year. I even joined a clan called KTR = Knights of Templar. It was a popular server of 200ish or more solid players, so the server always had from 20ish slow time to 30 to 40 on high times. It's still up and running as we type. It did die down lots. had some server problems and many more problems at once so it died kinda fast. but still roughly 15ish or so players still hang out on there sometimes. At the time I was in KTR there was about 60ish people or more. It was spread out on D2 also. well from that game after a few months I ended up on Wow for another year. But Wow I quit that cause of the ******** in the game. I can see that game dieing fast. For something that big they can't keep up with the servers or live support. Plus all the glitches it always have, specially in every new patch. NWN I can see playing again and don't mind hopeing on, but in Wow I just won't touch that game again. When NWN2 comes out I will for sure buy it. Plus loads of friends over on Wow, D2 and NWN will get it also.

Ohh I forgot to say, I use to host my own module for NWN for like 6 or 7 months 24/7 near the end. It was also in Social like Templars (KTR server). Called it Templar 2, I was seneschal at the time and did make it for them, at that time I was thinking of making KTR even bigger and more well known. Well bigger post then I thought again. :P As usual. So yea I played NWN and still don't mind it. For NWN2 I hope that I can play it on my new Linux box. (Just got linux last week sometime, so still a big time newb.)

[joecomstock]

I play NWN offline mostly, but would like to get a little online fun going with some of the people from the forums.

[rasmus91]

Im playing NWN... even though i can't get it running on Ubuntu... yet!

[KhaaL]

I've given up NWN for NWN2. I like the first, but the graphics got really waaay to outdated. Maybe if there was a major facelifting mod done I'd be intrested again.

[kidux]

I've given up NWN for NWN2. I like the first, but the graphics got really waaay to outdated. Maybe if there was a major facelifting mod done I'd be intrested again.

I just got it installed again, this time running on Ubuntu 7.10 and I agree, the graphics are a bit dated. Still, I will be playing it for a long time come considering the glut of quality 3d rpgs for Linux.

[Jaubsmat]

NWN is a great game, and I've had more fun playing it than any other. I found a great RP server some years ago when I played on Windows, and now that I have another computer capable of running it I've found that the same group of players has set up another nice server after despairing of NWN2. If you like roleplay, and you like to have fun, check it out.

You'll find it under Andrune in the Roleplay tab. Requires SoU, HotU, and CEP2 to play. You can usually find 5 or so people on in the evenings, and I'm sure they'd appreciate more players.

Forum: http://com4.runboard.com/bandrune

[EdThaSlayer]

I have the game though. Played it through Wine(my internet isn't fast so it would have taken ages downloading the linux client). Now, the cd is rotting in a disc. :(

[Tyke91]

I play and help to DM a mod called 3Towns :) we have 5 "out in the open" linux users there already (there was a poll on the forums) and we probably have 2 or 3 more who just don't go on the forums.

check it out sometime :) we are 5 years old, have over 500 active players, over 2000 registered forum users (players who may or may not be active) and a player limit of 110 at a time on 2 servers.

[_francis]

i have been playing nwn+exp, tried a lot of mods.... this is what makes this game special, lots of hours gaming, stories and adventures....
never tried it online
currently i m playing nwn2 motb with wine and i ll try some mods soon.

[kidux]

i have been playing nwn+exp, tried a lot of mods.... this is what makes this game special, lots of hours gaming, stories and adventures....
never tried it online
currently i m playing nwn2 motb with wine and i ll try some mods soon.

How well does it run on WINE? Was it a pain setting it up?

[Stabicron]

How well does it run on WINE? Was it a pain setting it up?

Something I would wish to know as well.

[KhaaL]

Guys, you should obviously check appdb (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=4118) (there's a guide on how to install it too, if it can be improved anyhow let me know). But yea, it's a little bit of a pain to set up, thats not only wine fault - the game is a bother to patch...

[Naegling23]

I bought the game shortly after I switched to linux full time from windows. (about 2 years ago). Im still playing it today, and have used it to get myself off of WoW. I signed up to play online in one of the persistant worlds, but I have never actually played online. Too much single player goodness to even bother. I played it more off and on, until I started playing D&D again with some friends, it rekindled my interest in NWN due to how closely it follows the rules.

[kidux]

Guys, you should obviously check appdb (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=4118) (there's a guide on how to install it too, if it can be improved anyhow let me know). But yea, it's a little bit of a pain to set up, thats not only wine fault - the game is a bother to patch...

Naw, I got all that. Went through the wiki, updated (which is where it went wrong, I think). I just wanted to hear his take on it.