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Delphiki · Guru Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 337 Location: A2

I tried it in a window and a black window comes up then closes with the same error. disabling sound also did not help. Also, the logs are empty.
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akhkharu99 · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 4:00 am Post subject:

all i get when i type ./nwn is

vtomj · n00b Joined: 11 Mar 2003 Posts: 27

I get the same quick launch of a black window and exit with no errors. I set the library path right at the command prompt and now I can launch ./nwmain and I get the window and exit with no library exit so it does not seem to the library that is the problem. Earlier I got an error which made me try to upgrade to the latest version of nvidia driver but it failed on my first attempt and now I can't get the error again. So close I can taste it.

akhkharu99 · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 4:53 am Post subject:

okay, it appears that there is a problem with the ./nwn script.
when i run ./nwmain as root, it get this

Delphiki · Guru Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 337 Location: A2

I don't understand why you're trying to run nwmain instead of nwn. Anyway, if you want to run nwmain all you need to do first is export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/path/to/nwn/miles

P.S. The name Akhkharu sounds familiar but I can't place from where... did you ever play muds? Or is it a name from a computer game or something else like that?
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akhkharu99 · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 5:02 am Post subject:

i was trying to see if i could manually put the miles libs in my LD_LIBRARY_PATH in case the ./nwn script was not doing it correctly.
either way, i tried your advice, but i still only get

Delphiki · Guru Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 337 Location: A2

I was getting Error like that earlier but it was followed by a segfault, it was selective though. not quite sure why it was happening.. I'm thinking I might not be able to run this until another beta comes out or something though.
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akhkharu99 · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 5:30 am Post subject:

btw, akhkharu is the Damascus word for vampire. it is a screen name i have had for 8 or so years...

phantasy · n00b Joined: 07 Mar 2003 Posts: 17

My procedure to fix the SDL Parachute error:

Delphiki · Guru Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 337 Location: A2

phantasy · n00b Joined: 07 Mar 2003 Posts: 17

Oh yeah, sorry. I forgot to add that you need to remove the patch.key file afterwards

ZeroDivide · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Mar 2003 Posts: 86

I finaly got NWN to run.. I was having the problem where it would load for a second go fullscreen - ding - and then exit with no error.
The way I fixed it was to enable the AGPGART for my geforce2 mx400.
You can check to see if it's loaded by typing

Uranus · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 7:51 am Post subject:

I'm staring at my NWN CDs atm... wanna know why?

Cojack · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 8:15 am Post subject: Possible solution to segfault

For those of you experiencing the immediate crash to desktop after hearing a short blip of noise, I just solved the problem on my system. I had been running the latest stable nvidia accelerated driver version (1.0.3123) and fixed the crashing problem by upgrading to the latest unstable version (1.0.4191-r1).

I'm running an AMD Thunderbird with GF2 GTS 64MB card. Judging from the posts in the bioware forums I strongly suspect this is an opengl driver issue, so if you're running an ATI card and experiencing the same symptoms, the best advice I could offer is to try the latest version of your card's drivers.

Overall, I'm very pleased with the performace of the beta (aside from the initial segfault headache...). Now if only it weren't lagging 3/4 of a year behind the win-dork version. :roll:

Oh well, at least it's out now. Better late than never.

Cheers!

ZeroDivide · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Mar 2003 Posts: 86

haha.. Sounds like it's time for a little spring cleaning.
My nwn directory is taking up 2.1gig.. your almost there :wink:

Uranus · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 12:10 pm Post subject:

RagManX · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 2:07 pm Post subject:

Uranus · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 3:34 pm Post subject:

IvoryTiger · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 132

jay · l33t Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 980

Thanks for the tip regarding the patch.key file. You indeed have to remove it when the SDL Parachute error appears.

NWN starts fine but when I try to load a new game it quits and in the konsole the message " ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:428 Device or resource busy" appears. Runnning nwn with artsdsp doen't matter. Anybody knows a workaround?
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ASCI Blue · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 May 2002 Posts: 132

The libmss error is for the miles libraries found in the libmss directory it gets installed when you use ./nwn.

RagManX · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 8:18 pm Post subject:

Just saw over on NWVault a link to an icculus.org provided data installation tool. Looks like something of use to those trying to install without a Winderz install to start from. I haven't tried it out yet, but maybe that will help others. Also, there is already word of beta 2 release soon.

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Delphiki · Guru Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 337 Location: A2

I got it working. It turns out my data files were bad. I reinstalled them and now it works like a charm. The beta 1 worked and beta 2 seems to work better.
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ZeroDivide · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Mar 2003 Posts: 86

Glad to see your up and running IvoryTiger

Man they got that Beta 2 out real quick! I didn't notice too many changes but they did fix a realy annoying bug. When i used to right click and use the circular menu the mouse would jump to weird spots on the screen but in Beta2 it seems fine

I must be blind but i cant seem to get it running in a window.. I tried changing the fullscreen variable in the nwn.ini file to 0 but that didn't work.. Anyone know what im doing wrong?