NWN-linux( was Re: [H-GEN] Script for Arson?)

[Sandra Milne]

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At 19:07 20/04/2003 +1000, you wrote:
>Ok, I have NWN running on Debian/Unstable (and am mighty addicted).
>Firstly, what kind of video card are you using?  Are you using the
>vendor's drivers, or DRI/XFree drivers?

NVidia XFree kernel/GLX. Latest as of a few weeks ago. I could try and see 
if there's a later version of the drivers available I supppose, but I've 
got a TNT2. Somehow I doubt the drivers for this card are going to change 
much any more. Seems that most ppl with the problem have TNT2 cards as 
well. Unfortunately the GeForce2 resides in my fiance's machine, and he 
won't be able to play NWN in windows if I take possession as his cpu is 
only a 450.

>Secondly, have you upgraded your windows install of NWN to 1.29?  If
>not, do it, and copy over all the data again.  There were MD5 sums of
>all the required files posted somewhere on nwn.bioware.com, I can't
>remember exactly where tho.  Make sure these match.

Yup it's 1.29. Updated it two days after it came out. I'm not really sure 
what to do with md5sums (please don't hurt me!), but the fixinstall script 
seems happy with the files as they are.

>Lastly, which beta version are you using?  1.29beta4 works fine for me,
>betas 1-3 didn't (apparently it was a problem with ATI's drivers).

Definitely beta 4. Beta 2 didn't work for me so I thought I'd wait a bit 
and retry when another beta came out. Still got the same issues. I've 
recopied all files 3 times from my fat32 partition and doesn't seem to make 
a difference.

>Hope these pointers help!  Although, it may not be a good thing to get
>it working ;-)

Considering I spent 3 hours this afternoon playing it in windows, I'm cool 
with it :-) It's only a 3 day week for work so I'd love to get it working 
ASAP. Of course I'm supposed to be spending next weekend doing TAFE work, 
but I'm sure I can do both ;-)

I'm grateful you're willing to troubleshoot with me, and I'll take the 
discussion off-list if requested. I just thought others might be interested.

Sandra.

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silne at optusnet.com.au
"There are 10 types of people in the world -- those that understand binary, 
and those that don't." 


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