Neverwinter Nights on x64

Manifold · 2012-02-01 19:45:09

Hey guys,

I've been debugging this for several days now, and I finally found a solution. I thought it would be good to share it here to save people hours of work...

To begin with, I bought the Neverwinter Nights Diamond Edition from GOG.com (http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/neverwin … nd_edition). This installs through wine like normal. Next, I followed these instructions (http://www.gog.com/en/forum/neverwinter … layability):

1- Download the three files (in this how-to we assume you put them in ~/nwnlinux) 
2- Set WINEPREFIX to an empty directory (in this how-to we assume ~/wine); 
3- execute `winetricks sandbox'. It is not necessary, but if you do you are sure wine won't install anything outside WINEPREFIX (i.e., icons); 
4- Using Wine execute the GOG installer and install somewhere (in this how-to we assume c:\nwn), if you want the toolset execute also the official windows 1.69 patch; 
5- create the installation directory (~/nwn in this how-to); 
6- get the game data from NWN Wine installation: 
$ cd ~/wine/drive_c/nwn 
$ mv ambient chitin.key data dialog.tlk dmvault hak localvault modules music nwm override saves servervault texturepacks xp1.key xp2.key ~/nwn 
7- unpack the three tar.gz files you downloaded, follow the order: 
$ cd ~/nwn 
$ tar xzf ~/nwnlinux/nwclientgold.tar.gz 
$ tar xzf ~/nwnlinux/nwclienthotu.tar.gz 
$ tar xzf ~/nwnlinux/English_linuxclient169_xp2.tar.gz 
8- copy the key. 
$ cd ~/wine/drive_c/nwn 
$ cp -v nwncdkey.ini ~/nwn 
9- Use the Bioware script to fix cases and verify playability. 
$ cd ~/nwn 
$ ./fixinstall 
10- delete WINEPREFIX folder (await a little if you want the toolset) 
$ rm -rf "$WINEPREFIX"

Critically, you need to edit the ./nwn file to contain
```
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./miles:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH 
```
You also need to include the line
```
LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH=/usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri ./nwn
```
in ./nwn to load the 32-bit DRI drivers. Thanks to: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions … ib-753161/
One extra thing, install lib32-sdl and lib32-alsa

Hopefully, this should work!

Last edited by Manifold (2012-02-01 19:47:06)

ngoonee · 2012-02-02 01:00:02

This is not suitable for the forums, which are more for on-going discussions etc. You could add this to our wiki, but the best place would be appdb.winehq.org (if its not already there, I know I got my nwn running a year ago on x86_64 basically using their instructions.

ChemBro · 2012-02-02 01:05:26

No love for the nwn aur package?

ngoonee · 2012-02-02 02:00:42

That's the linux version, the OP is talking about running the windows version via wine. In my experience it did work better...

Darksoul71 · 2012-02-02 06:16:03

@Manifold: Thanks for sharing !

@ngoonee: The OP is talking about doing a WINE-based installation with the Windows installer from GOG and usage of the Linux NWN client afterwards.

This is not suitable for the forums, which are more for on-going discussions etc.

With all respect: bb's of other distributions are full with guides and how-tos all over the place. The arch wiki is a great place to share informations but not every bit need to be in there.
Someone searching on this topic (e.g. NWN on Linux) will find any entry. Either be it in the wiki or at the forums.

Just my two cents,
D$

ngoonee · 2012-02-02 06:43:45

Darksoul71 wrote:

Someone searching on this topic (e.g. NWN on Linux) will find any entry. Either be it in the wiki or at the forums.

Like I said, forums serve a different purpose from wikis. It does not matter what other distro's do, the Arch forums are discussion forums, not "let's post some advise here, google will always find it" forums. The wiki has multiple advantages for that sort of information, and so it should be used.

ChemBro · 2012-02-02 09:43:08

ngoonee wrote:

That's the linux version, the OP is talking about running the windows version via wine. In my experience it did work better...

Well, I installed the "Linux version" via Wine. Also the Linux version worked for me better in my experience. And you know, the Linux version is nothing else than the Windows version just with a few added files. And to make it easier, there is an AUR-package for nwn-diamand (including x64 support).

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#1 2012-02-01 19:45:09

Neverwinter Nights on x64

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