NWN In Ubuntu9.04

Humoresque · July 05, 2009, 04:21:10 AM

Hello, yesterday a virus scan erased my hard drive.

cool

So I switched out of Vista and uploaded Ubuntu 9.04, now I am stuck with the painful process of installing NWN Gold edition + HoTU again. I've been reading over the linux instructions and I cannot seem to find the "Disc1.zip, Disc2.zip or Disc3.zip" that it asks for.

Perhaps anyone can shed some light on this before the darkness is ever so great tomorrow?

core · July 05, 2009, 04:45:24 AM

Wine dog

Cruzel · July 05, 2009, 06:42:16 AM

I thrive on these calls for help.

Humoresque · July 05, 2009, 10:51:54 PM

Okay, so the terminal is checking out fine, I believe I have installed everything fine.

./fixinstall says I'm ready to play but when I log in to EfU it just closes instantly.

If I run a single player module with a basic character, it works fine.
I can run the HotU expansion fine (at least the first area). Some servers I will log into and when I go through the next transition it will exit.

Hrmm. I love linux.

Humoresque · July 05, 2009, 10:52:55 PM

Alright, I was just able to log into EfU as a new character "Hellove A'Test".

When I got into the first area all of the textures were a shiny white snow color, and a lot of the doors are just white.

Hrmm.

Edit: After creating and proceeding through the portal it booted me.

Humoresque · July 05, 2009, 11:30:40 PM

Here's some screenies of what it looks like. It seems to only stop when I go into an area that's COMLETELY white or certain places. I really don't know >.<

FleetingHeart · July 10, 2009, 05:54:36 PM

No, it really isnt. I'd wager it has something to do with the video card. Try installing Envy. http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html

Also, try dropping all of the video settings to nothing. I had a similar problem to this at one point (even in windows). It turned out to be one of the video settings that was enabled. I think it was environmental texture mapping or some such for me.

Aside from that, I can't really say. I had to screw with my video card a bit in linux, but that was mostly resolved with Envy. A new card would probably do me wonders.

siriusdogstar · July 29, 2009, 11:40:47 PM

Quote from: core;134160The problem appears to be your operating system there chief

nope!

FleetingHeart · July 30, 2009, 01:19:47 AM

Just curious, how are you getting it to run in a window? I can't seem to figure that one out. :-\

TheImpossibleDream · July 31, 2009, 07:59:12 AM

I never understood why people change from mainstream to these strange operating systems that not many companies even cater to >_>

FleetingHeart · July 31, 2009, 10:42:34 AM

Actually, a lot of companies cater to Linux. Sure, not many games are written to run natively, but there are a good many server apps that are.

Besides, in my case, running NWN in Windows causes my video card to overheat, beep constantly, and throw errors until NWN or my computer finally crashes. I've tried many driver changes to repair this, but to no avail.

In Linux, it runs better than it ever did in Windows. I've had other programs do the same thing, even when being emulated in Wine.