Special thanks to Hipmaestro (I copied and pasted a lot from his post), Skildron ( I used many of his answers to other people's threads in other forums), Wolfram (wrote original guide), me (lol, I tried to make it more "copy and paste", many of these fixes were from my trial and error), and several people on the internet.
Some things in this guide are for 64bit (ia-32-libs) but this guide works for 32bit as well, also some tweaks and settings may work for a wine install and the good old games version. Movies are working in 64bit! See below at bottom!
Also Kingmaker will not work because the one on the disk needs to authenticate on biowares website, that is no longer hosting for Neverwinter Nights, so I skipped those instructions but will update this guide if I find a way.
For some trouble shooting after installation check the bottom of this post under "Other Tweaks that helped me improve performance".
To install Neverwinter Nights Diamond Edition (assuming DVDs automatically mount at /media/cdrom):
1. Install some dependencies that are needed.
Code:
sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2debian libsdl-sound1.2 libsdl-mixer1.2 libsdl-net1.2 libsdl-image1.2 libstdc++5 libx11-dev ia32-libs ia32-libs-multiarch
2. Create a directory where you wish to install Neverwinter Nights (the destination directory). Neverwinter Nights Diamond requires 4.6 GB of free hard disk space.
Code:
mkdir nwn
cd nwn
3. Unzip Data_Shared.zip from Diamond DVD into the destination directory. Unzip Data_linux.zip from Diamond DVD into the destination directory.
Code:
unzip /media/cdrom/Data_Shared.zip
unzip /media/cdrom/Data_linux.zip
4. Unzip data/XP1.zip from Diamond DVD into the destination directory (overwriting all). Unzip data/XP2.zip from Diamond DVD into the destination directory (overwriting all).
Code:
unzip -o /media/cdrom/data/XP1.zip
unzip -o /media/cdrom/data/XP2.zip
5. Download nwclientgold.tar.gz (7.2 MB) and extract it into the destination directory (overwriting all).
Code:
wget http://nwdownloads.bioware.com/neverwinternights/linux/gold/nwclientgold.tar.gz
tar -xzf ~/nwclientgold.tar.gz
6. Download nwclienthotu.tar.gz (37.7 MB) and extract it into your nwn directory, overwriting all.
Code:
wget http://nwdownloads.bioware.com/neverwinternights/linux/161/nwclienthotu.tar.gz
tar -xzf ~/nwclienthotu.tar.gz
7. Update to latest version (506 MB).
Code:
wget http://na.llnet.bioware.cdn.ea.com/u/f/eagames/bioware/neverwinternights/updates/linux/169/English_linuxclient169_xp2.tar.gz
tar -xzf ~/English_linuxclient169_xp2.tar.gz
8.[Optional] Get the C.E.P. (Community Expansion Pack 2.4, required for many modules made by players)
Code:
wget http://vnfiles.ign.com/nwvault.ign.com/fms/files/hakpaks/7849/CEP_24_a.rar
The cep has instructions on how to install it here (pdf):
Code:
wget http://vnfiles.ign.com/nwvault.ign.com/fms/files/hakpaks/7849/Downloading_and_Installing_CEP.pdf
9. Run ./fixinstall from the destination directory.
Code:
./fixinstall
[10. To run Neverwinter Nights, run ./nwn or ./dmclient from the destination directory to run the player client or DM client respectively.
Code:
./nwn
11. If you get this message:
"nwmain: ../../src/xcb_lock.c:77: _XGetXCBBuffer: Assertion `((int) ((xcb_req) - (dpy->request)) >= 0)' failed.
Aborted"
- - Remove ./lib from LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Code:
sed -i~ 's|\./lib:||' nwn
NWMovies puts the movies back into the Linux client just like they are on the Windows clients.
1. Install NWMovies v4.0 RC1.
Code:
wget http://home.roadrunner.com/~nwmovies/nwmovies/nwmovies-latest.tar.gz
tar -xzvf nwmovies-latest.tar.gz
2. Install the Bink Video command line Player for x86 GNU/Linux.
Code:
wget http://www.radgametools.com/down/Bink/BinkLinuxPlayer.7z
unzip BinkLinuxPlayer.7z
sudo chmod 755 BinkPlayer
3. Modify the 'nwn' startup script.
Code:
sed -i~nwmovies '\|\./nwmain|iexport LD_PRELOAD=./nwmovies.so' nwn
4. Optionally enable Screen Flickering at movie beginning/end fix:
Code:
sed -i '\|nwmovies|aexport NWMOVIES_GRAB_HACK=1' nwn
5. Run NWN.
Code:
./nwn
6. You get this message:
"NOTICE: NWMovies: INI File written: Now exiting. This is perfectly normal!
NOTICE: Your next run of NWN should be complete, and include movies."
- - Run NWN a second time.
Code:
./nwn
Other Tweaks that helped me improve performance
1. Neverwinter Nights is not multithreaded so dual cores and hyperthreaded processors may cause performance issues as it does for many people. Also access to more memory will help shuddering as well
Solution:
Open your file manager and open the "nwn" folder. Right click "nwnplayer.ini" and select your text editor (mine is leafpad). Copy the text below and paste it under the [Game Options] section.
Client CPU Affinity=1
Max Memory Usage=512 (or anywhere up to 4096 mb, depending on your ram)
2. Enabling better graphics capabilities that are not always available within the game menu's.
Solution:
Open your file manager and open the "nwn" folder. Right click "nwn.ini" and select your text editor (mine is leafpad). Then choose options you want to enable.
example:(ATI cards only)
Replace the line "Enable Truform=0" under [Video Options] with "Enable Truform=1"to enable a more round appearance on round objects, if that line isn't there then just copy and paste "Enable Truform=1" without the quotes.
3. Possible permissions issues
Solution:
Highlight all the files in nwn folder, not the folders and right click, select permissions tab and set all option to anyone. Do this in all folders inside nwn folder. For some reason if you right click the folder(s) and go under permissions tab the option to make executable isn't there, and it will set all files to non-exacutable. So you will need to do all files inside the folder, and not the folder. Symlinks will give an error that is normal.
4. Help I cant see my character
Solution:
Disable Creature environment mapping in "options->video options>advanced video options" in game or change "Enable CreatureEnvironmentMapping=1" to "Enable CreatureEnvironmentMapping=0" in the nwn.ini file inside you nwn folder. I don't have this issue but some people do
5. Missing gui layout file error
Solution:
The data files off the disk were not fully copied, you will need to redo step 4 of installing nwn
6. Other sound options
Optionally if sound isn't working you can try to enter either of these lines in your nwn file inside you nwn folder.
export SDL_AUDIODRIVERS=alsa
export SDL_AUDIODRIVERS=pulse
Movies in 64bit!
1. You need to make sure you have the appropriate 32bit libs then try to symlink them in the nwn folder (see below if there is an error)
Code:
cd /home/user_name/nwn
ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 libX11.so. (32bit will have to search where the file libX11.so.6 is at)
ln -s /usr/lib32/i386-linux-gnu/libSDL_gfx.so libSDL_gfx.so (32bit will have to search where the file libSDL_gfx.so is at)
2. Now you need to edit your nwn.ini.
Open your file manager and open the folder nwn, then right click the nwn.ini folder and pick your text editor. Under [Display Options] change the line "FullScreen=0" to "FullScreen=1" or add the line "FullScreen=1" if the option isn't there. Also add the line "AllowWindowedMode=0"
3. Now you need to edit your nwmovies.pl
Open your file manager and open the folder nwn and then nwmovies. Right click nwmovies.pl and pick you text editor. you will need to put a "#" symbol infront of the lines $ENV{"BINK_SCALE"} = 1;, $ENV{"BINK_SMOOTH"} = 1;, and $ENV{"BINK_NOPERF"} = 1; so they look like this
#$ENV{"BINK_SCALE"} = 1;
#$ENV{"BINK_SMOOTH"} = 1;
#$ENV{"BINK_NOPERF"} = 1;
and add these lines if you are using a resolution of 1024x768 in game and computer so the movies will be at same resolution.
#$ENV{"BINK_WIDTH"} = $1024;
#$ENV{"BINK_HEIGHT"} = $768;
4. You need to make sure that "binklib.so" is in your nwmovies folder.
Open your file manager and go to your nwn folder, then open your nwnmovies folder and make sure it is in there. If it isn't then you will need to download BinkLinuxPlayer.7z, decompress it and copy the file binklib.so to your /nwn/nwmovies folder.
5. If there was an error when trying to symlink the libSDL_gfx.so file then you need to download getlibs-all (64bit only, not in repository)
Code:
wget http://usablesoftware.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/getlibs-all-deb.pdf
Then delete the .pdf extension, it isnt a pdf, that is because wordpress didn't allow the .deb extension. Right click the resulting .deb file and install. Then you will need to install the libSDL_gfx.so file
Code:
getlibs -l libSDL_gfx.so
That will install the appropriate file and then you may symlink it. If it complains of permissions use sudo.
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