Neverwinter Nights Forum

Hello,

I recently installed this setup on my Mac and, though it was pretty straightforward, I thought someone else might benefit from me spelling out the recipe.

WHAT WORKS
The game, including GameSpy server browsing.
WHAT DOESN'T
The toolset.
Movies.

INGREDIENTS
1) Legal copies of Neverwinter Nights, Shadows of Undrentide, Hordes of the Underdark.
2) Crossover Games 7.0.0.
3) iMac.

PREPARATION
1) Download latest patch (1.68 at time of writing) from this page: http://nwn.bioware.com/support/patch.html. You will need to use the link 'Critical Rebuild'.

METHOD
1) Insert NWN Install Disk 1. Crossover Games will notice and ask you how to proceed. Choose Express Install, or Advanced if you really want to, but Express will work.
2) Just let NWN install all the way.
3) Insert NWN Shadows of Undrentide. This time, tell Crossover Games to do an Advanced Install. When asked to select a bottle, be sure to select the same bottle that you installed NWN into. Ignore the little message in red.
4) Do the same with Hordes of the Underdark.
5) When all is done, and the patch from Preparation is downloaded, manually start the installer process (Configure menu, Install Software).
6) Install Unsupported Software, Continue. Other existing bottle: select the one with NWN in it. Ignore red message, continue. Choose Installer File, and select the patch you just downloaded.
7) Once that's done installing, go to Programs menu, Run Command. Choose your NWN bottle and enter 'notepad.exe'.
8) When Notepad is running, choose File, Open, then go to C: and find your NWN installation folder. Open the file nwn.ini.
9) Under [Display Options] enter the following two lines:
Disable Intro Movies=1
AllowWindowedMode=1
10) Save, quit Notepad. Now you have a working, playable NWN. :)

HANDY HINTS

• While playing the game, press Option-Return to switch to windowed mode.
• If you ever hear sounds, but see nothing on the screen, press Escape. It's probably playing a movie, which doesn't work. Pressing Escape quits the movie and brings you back to gameplay.

DISCLAIMER

• This procedure worked for me. That's all. So there.

(not sure if they'll allow this post to stay...)

I tried basically similar steps installing and manually patching running latest Darwine, it would crash at start up without getting rid of the intro movie and forcing it to run in a "window" but all the movies during the game are actually working...

CX games has its advantages (but doesn't seem NWN is one of them,) but I just post this as it seems odd that movies work in a standard free Wine build off 1.1.9... maybe something good in there Codeweavers hasn't gotten back into crossover yet?

I am re-installing NWN + all expansions on a more recent version of Crossover Mac, and found that in between installing each expansion pack, I had to close and reopen Crossover. Not a big hassle, but if I didn't I would see an odd error message about 'channel 12'.

I'm confused as to why people would rank this game as gold even though the videos do not play at all. Isn't a roleplaying game about the story? If you just want a hack and slash game, go grab WoW or something!

I rank it gold because all my videos work fine, except the intro video that is useless to the story.