NWN HANGS

karan · Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 2:28 am Post subject: NWN HANGS

I just got nwn, installed it on windows, used that and copied to files over to linux. Prob now is that it hangs just before I start a game ( I can choose the character and stuff ). It crashes with root aswell, so I don't think its the permissions. Im using the native client, and not winex. Im using a Nvidia card (geforce4 460mx) and had no probs in windows. I've changed $LDPATH=/opt/nwn/miles, SDL seems to be fine also. It closes with NOTHING in the terminal, it exits cleanly.

Suggestions?
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lomi · n00b Joined: 09 Jan 2003 Posts: 73

so the game crashes as soon as you try to get into the game itself (past the character screen and whatnot)? you might try re-emerging the nvidia-kernel and glx and see if that helps, I have also heard using opengl-update xfree or opengl-update xorg-x11 instead of using your manufacturer name sometimes fixes such issues as these

karan · Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 8:19 am Post subject:

asgardwarrior · n00b Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 46

I had a problem simular to what you had. After creating a new character and starting a new game it would quit with no error messages or anything. Turns out the folder was not writeable for me. So I chmod it and then it worked fine.
Hopefully this helps some.

lomi · n00b Joined: 09 Jan 2003 Posts: 73

no write permissions cause ALOT of programs to crash without any error, try typing:

chown root:users /folderhere
and
chmod 777 /folderhere

see if that helps, make sure you are superuser though, obviously

karan · Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 3:44 am Post subject:

dedxi · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 12

Even root can't write to read-only files (I assume that you meant the game still didn't work when you tried to run it as root). There are a few directories/files that need to be writeable for the game to work:
nwn.ini
nwnplayer.ini
nwncdkey.ini
saves/
localvault/
tempclient/
dmvault/
(and /opt/nwn or wherever the root game dir is)

If you run ./fixinstall from the game directory, it will tell you which one(s) are writeable. I suggest assigning permissions like this:
chown root.games <files dirs>
chmod 0770 <files dirs>
And add whatever user you play it as to the games group. After this is done, run ./fixinstall again and it should say 'PASSED:' for all the checks at the end for writeability. That'll probably fix it, I had a similar problem.

karan · Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 7:25 am Post subject:

Still no good, i've tried that. I've tried playing around with the perms alot.
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demon44 · n00b Joined: 10 Jun 2004 Posts: 57

im new to this but i tink you have a problem with the direct X dependant videos try to diable them in the options menu or try the ingame console .

Bowyakka · Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 3:01 pm Post subject:

You done the ./fixpermissions script thing, otherwise there are issues with modules that can cause nwn to bail out at various stages
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