19-08-2002 01:42									#1
	Well, Neverwinter Nights is going back to the store tomorrow. Support Apolyton, buy Civilization III: Complete

I was really looking forward to this game. But I spent almost 24 hours trying to get it to work on my desktop without any luck.

Even after downloading the patch, I couldn't get it to play anymore than just the opening titles before it froze up--which meant I had to repeated crash my computer. I meandered around the various support sites of the makers, following their suggestions as to changing my video configuration and turning off the sound to ascertain whether it was a soundcard compatibility problem. I even uninstalled the game and reinstalled it again. All with no luck.

The last possiblity was to deactivate my CD-burner. Apparently the game has a built-in incompatablity with some CD-burners to aid its copyright protection. But that was a bridge too far. Dang it, game manufacturers should be going out of their way to make the games compatible not incompatible with their customers' hardware. I paid for that CD-burner, and I'm not about to deactivate it just to play their stupid game.

This morning, I had the bright idea of installing the game on my laptop, which doesn't have a CD-burner. But the video card on my laptop isn't up to Neverwinter requirements, and the pointer cursor fluttered constantly, more off than on.

So, looks like I'm out of options.

	19-08-2002 03:25									#2
	Put an end to popups!

Sorry to hear that because its good fun if only you can get it to run. The curse of all modern PC games seem to be that there is always a small number of machines they won't run on even if all the hardware seems fully compatible, correctly configured, runs the latest version of DirectX and has all the right drivers.

	19-08-2002 05:42									#3
	Support Apolyton, buy GURPS/ Alpha Centauri

Games are way too difficult and complex now.

Bring back the NES!

	19-08-2002 08:05									#4
	Get a bigger avatar today!

In their quest to stop pirates, these people are doing more harm by alienating legitimate customers.

I fart in their general direction.

	19-08-2002 08:48									#5
	Support Apolyton, buy Call to Power 2

See if you can get the pirate version of the game. No cd-protection = no extra problems running the game.

I have bought the full version of Warcraft, but its still unopened as I don't want to install the real version. I much prefer not having to swap cd's whenever I want to play a different game.

God bless Razor

Last edited by Skanky Burns on 19-08-2002 at 09:51

	19-08-2002 09:24									#6
	Re: Well, Neverwinter Nights is going back to the store tomorrow. Got spare money?

I have one word for you

Morrowind


Did you try Bioware/Black Isles own tech support, as well as that of your sound/graphics card?
I've never had a problem with any of the BG series though so I wouldn't know how good they are...

	19-08-2002 09:42									#7
	Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

I did try BioWare, and worked my way through their suggestions on their support FAQs.

I did not try my sound card manufacturer--although I did follow either BioWare or Atari's suggestion to disable my soundcard to see if that was the problem. It wasn't.

My graphics card is far above the minimum requirement, and I even reconfigured things to lessen any strain...e.g. running with minimum pixels. Nada

	21-08-2002 12:27									#8
	Support Apolyton

you may need the no cd crack. and bioware is never going to suggest that!!

although I haven't needed the crack.

and I sure hope you aren't using a voodoo card. If you are you might want to return it.

	21-08-2002 14:08									#9
	Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

I had it in my hands yesterday, together with WarCraft 3, and refused to take it(for free).

Damn exams.

	21-08-2002 15:47									#10
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

Now that is what I call willpower!

	22-08-2002 06:47									#11
	Tired of ads?

I have an S3 card which is unsupported. I can´t get to run that damn game and there is NO WAY I´m gonna shell some 100$ for a new card just for this game, no matter how delusingly fantastic it is!

	22-08-2002 23:21									#12
	Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

First the bad news. The store wouldn't take the game back. They have a policy of not accepting returns on any games which have already been opened. The best they could do was to exchange the game for another identical game in case my problem was a defective disk.

Now for the good news, I went through the extensive steps in e-mailing the makers and explaining the problems I was having. In a few days, they figured out what my problem is an outdated driver on my videocard. I just got done downloading the latest driver for my NVidia TNT (from the archive section of NVidia's website ) and the game is up and running.

	26-08-2002 07:22									#13
	Increase the size of your Attachments

Could you further specify the characteristics of your card?

	26-08-2002 08:10									#14
	Enter the AD-FREE zone

quote: Originally posted by Mr. President Games are way too difficult and complex now. Bring back the NES!

Last night I got stoned and played Contra with some friends. Contra is way the hell more difficult than NWN.

Even with the thirty lives cheat we kept having to continue. It was sick. We eventually gave up around stage 7.

NES games were way the hell harder than modern games.

	26-08-2002 08:13									#15
	Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

Er, okay. NVidia RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro

	26-08-2002 10:10									#16
	Enter the AD-FREE zone

Heh. I think thats exactly the same as mine (I had to update the drivers when I installed Dungeon Siege).
I'll keep this in mind for when I pick NWN up (as soon as I'm through with Morrowind - which, by the rate at which I'm currently progressing, should be sometime 2008. )