neverwinter nights for linux !

PARENA · Guru Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 349

Finally have it running and I know how;

I got the blank screen blip thing.. I did an opengl-update nvidia, logged out, restarted X, logged back in, did opengl-update xfree and WHAM! It worked. It doesn't seem to work if I login with the xfree opengl... weird... but at least I can get it to work now.

Gibberx · Apprentice Joined: 20 Oct 2002 Posts: 217 Location: UMBC

I hit this snag where the game crashed every time I talked to a henchman... re-installing the game fixed it, but today I get home from school and it's back again! What the hell?! Does anybody else get this problem? I hope it's fixed in beta 3.

jay · l33t Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 980

If you want to get it fixed, don't forget to mail that bug to Bioware.

I also filed a bug on the beta2 client too. The mouse moves just too slow. Is there any workaround on shell/xfree to speedup the mouse movement?
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phoen][x · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 9:23 pm Post subject:

I added the ebuild earlier today.

"emerge nwn" should install you the client to /usr/share/games/nwn.

BTW, when you got some time to spare, take a look at http://nwn.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?forum=72&topic=203831 and tell me if you ran into the same problems.

Cyas 'round,
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14:57 < tactless> Gentoo isn't meant to be a standards-compliant distro... we're just the guys checking that the stuff actually compiles.

phoen][x · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2003 9:26 pm Post subject:

@Jay:

Some say that 'export SDL_MOUSE_RELATIVE=0' (before you run ./nwn) will fix the slow-mouse-issues, however it doesn't on my box. Maybe you got any more luck with it.
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14:57 < tactless> Gentoo isn't meant to be a standards-compliant distro... we're just the guys checking that the stuff actually compiles.

Nooloo · n00b Joined: 18 Nov 2002 Posts: 8

phoen][x · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2003 5:20 pm Post subject:

Another update:

I commited app-emulation/nwwine a few moments ago. Merge it and use it to run the nwtoolkit - i'm not good at creating modules but maybe someone else is, heh.
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14:57 < tactless> Gentoo isn't meant to be a standards-compliant distro... we're just the guys checking that the stuff actually compiles.

jay · l33t Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 980

There is another version bump. Current build on Biowares Homepage is now 1.29.6758b Beta 3. It says it fixed some OpenGl bugs and maybe works with ATI cards too.
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phoen][x · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2003 8:49 pm Post subject:

~yawn~

commited that YEARS ago.

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14:57 < tactless> Gentoo isn't meant to be a standards-compliant distro... we're just the guys checking that the stuff actually compiles.

jay · l33t Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 980

phoenix: maybe it is a better idea to separate the client from the installer? once you have installed the data files you only need to update the client and don't need to drag again about ~35mb of data for the installer to patch files.

I'm thinking of something like:
app-games/nwn-server - the NWN standalone server for linux
app-games/nwn-client - the linux beta client
app-games/nwn-installer - ravages installer (make nwn-client as dependency)
app-emulation/nwn-winex - the special winex version for the toolset

and maybe

app-games/nwn which will install server, client and the installer or similiar?

what do you think about this?
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Ante · n00b Joined: 28 Dec 2002 Posts: 14 Location: 127.0.0.1

Dunno what Phoenix thinks about it, but I think it sounds great

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grinch · Apprentice Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 151

sounds good to me too... one question tho... with the special version of winex for the toolkit... how does that affect other installs of winex? will it bork up my winex or does it add a different virtual link to the binary like nwnwine?
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phoen][x · Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2003 6:50 pm Post subject:

grinch · Apprentice Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 151

sweet. thnx for the quick response

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WhiteRazor · n00b Joined: 31 Mar 2003 Posts: 13 Location: Netherlands

for the people with the 'blackscreen-blip-crash' problem, a user on the nwn-forum has written a patch wich solves the problem for me.

look @ this thread:
http://nwn.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?topic=204654&forum=72

or download the patch directly:
http://mschoder.bei.t-online.de/nwnati.tar.gz

the patch includes a file wich should be put in LD_PRELOAD, and a patch for the beta 2 executable. If you have beta 3, just the LD_PRELOAD should do. (see the internal readme file for more info)

apyh · n00b Joined: 17 Mar 2003 Posts: 70 Location: Texas

Hey,

Unfortunately, I'm suffering the same fate as my fellow nvidia users (blanks screen after starting nwn, then back to where i was with no errors).

tailing my /var/log/xfree.0.log i see this:

apyh · n00b Joined: 17 Mar 2003 Posts: 70 Location: Texas

should've refreshed my browser before posting, the post right before mine with the link to the nwn forums worked.

awesome.

apyh · n00b Joined: 17 Mar 2003 Posts: 70 Location: Texas

damn, i'm a fool.

So, it starts up fine, but anything i try from the menu results in a "Illegal Exception".

apyh · n00b Joined: 17 Mar 2003 Posts: 70 Location: Texas

upgrading to xfree 4.3 seeemed to solve my woes with this bing/blank screen bug.

daktak · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2003 3:10 am Post subject:

waiting for an ebuild of beta4 now

i edited my nwn script to change into the dir and turn off esd (and on again upon finishing)

Bonkie · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2003 9:19 am Post subject:

beta 4 ? Damn ... I just installed beta 3

lets see ...

WhiteRazor · n00b Joined: 31 Mar 2003 Posts: 13 Location: Netherlands

Wew!, beta 4 fixes the 'blip-black-screen' thing for me.

you can just unpack beta4 and copy it over beta3, so i expect a ebuild very soon. It shouldn't be too hard to update.

christsong84 · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 1:12 pm Post subject:

beta 4 had no probs for me, works GREAT!...I'm playing online now

elmie · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 3:54 pm Post subject:

Sick Sick Sick, this is sick, I love it.
Those ppl who made NWN are penguin lovers too? hehehe

Hey guys, just a thought, why not just mount your windows drive which have NWN already installed on it and just copy the files over?
dah, thats what I did, works great.. but shit, I didn't know my NWN was like 2gb in size. lol

christsong84 · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 6:45 pm Post subject:

elmie: that's what I did...mounted my WinXP under /windows and did cp -R directories (replace directories with the directory names from the readme file) /opt/nwn &

I tried Ravages installer and it bit it when it asked for the CD-Key (everything about that program froze for some odd reason...coudn't even ctrl+c out of it)

...I've done the cp from my windows dir with slackware, debian, and the *Hats...none of them came close to the speed of my 8 cp commands I ran under gentoo (I'm serious...after the first time I timed them)...most of the size is in the data directory (almost >1.5Gb).