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I installed NWN using CX8. I installed the patch using toby's advice. However, when I try to run it, it simply does not work. The menu opens and I press 'Play.' The black window with the NWN eye symbol pops up, then just disappears, and the NWN logo in the dock disappears as well. There is no error message.

Update - I closed Steam, since I thought NWN might work if it were the only thing CX was running. The same thing happens; the only difference is that the icon does not disappear from the dock.

CX8 cannot handle the movies. You can turn off the intro movies in the .ini file, but you will still have problems when you try to play the game (because there are opening and chapter movies that will cause CX8 to blank out and effectively hang).

That isn't the issue. I've disabled the intro movie already. It's not that it starts up and goes to a blank screen, or anything like that - it simply doesn't start up.

Ah, ok. I never had that problem - but even if you could get it to load, you'd never get past the movies in the campaign (which you can't turn off).

I am having similar problems using CX9.2. Installation goes fine, but NWN will not boot up aftwerward. I followed the instuctions from the How-to: NWN+SoU+HotU thread. In other words, install NWN, install SoU, install HotU, install patch (I used 1.69 instead of 1.68). Then I manually inserted the Disable Intro Movies and AllowWindowedMode lines into the nwn.ini file (although I'm not sure I got this right, there was no [Display Options] section, so I created my own or tried inserting into different lines of the nwn.ini file).

But, NWN still won't boot.

-MacDude

What exactly is the problem that NWN is displaying? Is the game simply not launching or is it displaying a blank screen on startup? It'd also help to know what your system specs are or what OS version you're running...

I am having the same problem. I have made no changes to my settings and am trying to run NWN Diamond downloaded from GOG on an XP bottle.

I'm on a mac pro, 2.4ghz core. 2gb ram running latest version of lion. I am using cross over games v10.1.1

The main menu opens, I choose play, the NWN eye appears and then the game shuts down - cross over stays open.

Any help would be appreciated.

Andy

I'm experiencing the same exact thing. Since the Lion update, I can no longer play the Mac version of the game. I got all excited when I saw these "Gold" ratings, but sadly I can't get it working.

I've also tried Wineskin and get the same exact problem. Here's my log file if anyone who knows enough can shed some light:

fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33f040,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33f040,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:ntdll:server_ioctl_file Unsupported ioctl 24000 (device=2 access=1 func=0 method=0)
fixme:wave:wodDsCreate DirectSound not implemented
fixme:wave:wodDsCreate The (slower) DirectSound HEL mode will be used instead.
err:ole:COMPOBJ_DllList_Add couldn't load in-process dll L"a3dapi.dll"
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {92fa2c24-253c-11d2-90fb-006008a1f441} could be created for context 0x1
fixme:wave:wodDsCreate DirectSound not implemented
fixme:wave:wodDsCreate The (slower) DirectSound HEL mode will be used instead.
fixme:wave:wodDsCreate DirectSound not implemented
fixme:wave:wodDsCreate The (slower) DirectSound HEL mode will be used instead.
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33f0a0,0x00000000), stub!
path: 8974_0xe0008c
Assertion failed: (XLIB_SEQUENCE_COMPARE(event_sequence, <=, dpy->request)), function poll_for_event, file xcb_io.c, line 221.
wine: Assertion failed at address 0x000b:0x96a329c6 (thread 0034), starting debugger...
Unhandled exception: assertion failed in 32-bit code (0x96a329c6).
Register dump:
CS:000b SS:0023 DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:1007 GS:000f
EIP:96a329c6 ESP:0033ebac EBP:0033ebc8 EFLAGS:00200246( - -- I Z- -P- )
EAX:00000000 EBX:45ebc000 ECX:0033ebac EDX:96a329c6
ESI:00000006 EDI:410f7600
Stack dump:
0x0033ebac: 95976f78 00001f03 00000006 00000000
0x0033ebbc: 00001f03 0033ebec 959dd1e9 0033ebf8
0x0033ebcc: 95967bdd 410f7600 00000006 00000000
0x0033ebdc: 959885a3 45ebc000 ffffffff 959dd1e9
0x0033ebec: ffffffdf 45ebc000 ac711730 0033ec28
0x0033ebfc: 9599c20b 45ebc000 959dd1e9 442b6390
0200: sel=1007 base=7ffc0000 limit=00000fff 32-bit rw-
Backtrace:
=>0 0x96a329c6 (0x0033ebc8)
1 0x95967bdd (0x0033ebf8)
2 0x9599c20b (0x0033ec28)
3 0x441d93aa in <wine-loader> (+0x441d93a9) (0x0033ec78)
4 0x441d9477 in <wine-loader> (+0x441d9476) (0x0033ecb8)
5 0x441d9ac2 in <wine-loader> (+0x441d9ac1) (0x0033ecd8)
6 0x441d9b49 in <wine-loader> (+0x441d9b48) (0x0033ecf8)
7 0x441bb231 in <wine-loader> (+0x441bb230) (0x0033ed18)
8 0x44748570 in <wine-loader> (+0x4474856f) (0x0033edc8)
9 0x43e000f0 in <wine-loader> (+0x43e000ef) (0x0033ee28)
10 0x43e0034d in <wine-loader> (+0x43e0034c) (0x0033ee98)
11 0x43e070f3 in <wine-loader> (+0x43e070f2) (0x0033ef08)
12 0x43e07695 in <wine-loader> (+0x43e07694) (0x0033ef48)
13 0x4472fab9 in <wine-loader> (+0x4472fab8) (0x0033efd8)
14 0x4076ff5c in <wine-loader> (+0x4076ff5b) (0x0033f028)
15 0x46c214b4 in <wine-loader> (+0x46c214b3) (0x0033f088)
16 0x46c234a3 in <wine-loader> (+0x46c234a2) (0x0033f138)
17 0x46cc8088 in <wine-loader> (+0x46cc8087) (0x0033f2d8)
18 0x46b78b9c in <wine-loader> (+0x46b78b9b) (0x0033f338)
19 0x46c3bffe in <wine-loader> (+0x46c3bffd) (0x0033f3e8)
20 0x46b7a9f9 in <wine-loader> (+0x46b7a9f8) (0x0033f5a8)
21 0x46b7c85f in <wine-loader> (+0x46b7c85e) (0x0033f608)
22 0x300028ba in binkw32 (+0x28b9) (0x0006008e)
0x96a329c6: jnb    0x96a329d6
Modules:
Module    Address     Debug info    Name (39 modules)
ELF     0-82001000    Stabs <wine-loader>
PE     400000- 626d000    Deferred nwmain
PE    21100000-2115f000    Deferred mss32
PE    22100000-2211f000    Deferred mssa3d.m3d
PE    22200000-22219000    Deferred mssds3d.m3d
PE    22300000-22329000    Deferred msseax.m3d
PE    22400000-22417000    Deferred msssoft.m3d
PE    22600000-2261c000    Deferred mssdx7.m3d
PE    22700000-22764000    Deferred mssrsx.m3d
PE    24100000-2411c000    Deferred mssdsp.flt
PE    26400000-26436000    Deferred mssvoice.asi
PE    26f00000-26f2a000    Deferred mssmp3.asi
PE    30000000-3006d000    Deferred binkw32
PE    401b0000-401b4000    Deferred version
PE    40490000-40494000    Deferred advapi32
PE    40710000-40714000    Deferred gdi32
PE    43da0000-43dd9000    Deferred user32
PE    43ef0000-43ef8000    Deferred ole32
PE    44040000-44044000    Deferred rpcrt4
PE    440d0000-440d4000    Deferred opengl32
PE    44320000-44386000    Deferred winmm
PE    443d0000-443da000    Deferred msacm32
PE    44400000-44404000    Deferred dinput
PE    44450000-44454000    Deferred wsock32
PE    44460000-44464000    Deferred ws2_32
PE    444a0000-444a4000    Deferred iphlpapi
PE    444c0000-444c3000    Deferred glu32
PE    44560000-44564000    Deferred imm32
PE    446f0000-446f4000    Deferred winex11
PE    44a90000-44a94000    Deferred mmdevapi
PE    45e80000-45e83000    Deferred msacm32
PE    45e90000-45e93000    Deferred midimap
PE    45ef0000-45ef4000    Deferred dsound
PE    45f50000-45fe2000    Deferred oleaut32
PE    46080000-46083000    Deferred winecoreaudio
PE    46b70000-46b74000    Deferred ddraw
PE    46bf0000-46bf4000    Deferred wined3d
PE    7b810000-7b91b000    Deferred kernel32
PE    7bc10000-7bc14000    Deferred ntdll
Threads:
process tid prio (all id:s are in hex)
0000000e services.exe
0000001e 0
00000014 0
00000010 0
0000000f 0
00000011 winedevice.exe
0000001a 0
00000016 0
00000013 0
00000012 0
00000018 explorer.exe
00000019 0
0000001b plugplay.exe
0000001f 0
0000001d 0
0000001c 0
00000033 (D) C:\NeverwinterNights\NWN\nwmain.exe
00000042 0
00000041 0
00000040 0
0000003e 0
0000003d 15
0000003b 15
00000039 0
00000038 0
00000037 0
00000035 0
00000034 0 <==
Backtrace:
=>0 0x96a329c6 (0x0033ebc8)
1 0x95967bdd (0x0033ebf8)
2 0x9599c20b (0x0033ec28)
3 0x441d93aa in <wine-loader> (+0x441d93a9) (0x0033ec78)
4 0x441d9477 in <wine-loader> (+0x441d9476) (0x0033ecb8)
5 0x441d9ac2 in <wine-loader> (+0x441d9ac1) (0x0033ecd8)
6 0x441d9b49 in <wine-loader> (+0x441d9b48) (0x0033ecf8)
7 0x441bb231 in <wine-loader> (+0x441bb230) (0x0033ed18)
8 0x44748570 in <wine-loader> (+0x4474856f) (0x0033edc8)
9 0x43e000f0 in <wine-loader> (+0x43e000ef) (0x0033ee28)
10 0x43e0034d in <wine-loader> (+0x43e0034c) (0x0033ee98)
11 0x43e070f3 in <wine-loader> (+0x43e070f2) (0x0033ef08)
12 0x43e07695 in <wine-loader> (+0x43e07694) (0x0033ef48)
13 0x4472fab9 in <wine-loader> (+0x4472fab8) (0x0033efd8)
14 0x4076ff5c in <wine-loader> (+0x4076ff5b) (0x0033f028)
15 0x46c214b4 in <wine-loader> (+0x46c214b3) (0x0033f088)
16 0x46c234a3 in <wine-loader> (+0x46c234a2) (0x0033f138)
17 0x46cc8088 in <wine-loader> (+0x46cc8087) (0x0033f2d8)
18 0x46b78b9c in <wine-loader> (+0x46b78b9b) (0x0033f338)
19 0x46c3bffe in <wine-loader> (+0x46c3bffd) (0x0033f3e8)
20 0x46b7a9f9 in <wine-loader> (+0x46b7a9f8) (0x0033f5a8)
21 0x46b7c85f in <wine-loader> (+0x46b7c85e) (0x0033f608)
22 0x300028ba in binkw32 (+0x28b9) (0x0006008e)
XIO: fatal IO error 35 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":3273"
after 86 requests (86 known processed) with 1 events remaining.

Hi,

...for the sake of clarity here, the poster above cites using CXG-10.1.1 ; you -should-
be using CXG-10.1.2 if you're running MacOS 10.7.x ....

...in that regard, you should be (now) running MacOS 10.7.2 (which has changed a couple
of things wrt crossover & other apps), and for sure, 'pointing the bone of blame' at MacOS
and without mentioning which video card/chipset you happen to have, isn't really useful...

...anyhow, the critical section of that debug log, is this bit...;

// Assertion failed: (XLIB_SEQUENCE_COMPARE(event_sequence, <=, dpy->request)), function poll_for_event, file xcb_io.c, line 221.
// wine: Assertion failed at address 0x000b:0x96a329c6 (thread 0034), starting debugger..

...and that, is fairly gakky ~ if I'm right, that's not NWN at fault .. it looks
more like the xserver code and OS display are arguing... hmmm ... I'll see if
I can get a Ninja to have a look at this thread to see if it's a known issue...

Cheers!

You're right - I totally neglected to mention my machine specs. I'm on a mid 2010 Macbook Pro. i7 processor and 330m graphics card. I have all the latest updates that you mentioned.

Thanks for passing this along! I'll keep an eye out here for developments.

JP wrote:

You're right - I totally neglected to mention my machine specs. I'm
on a mid 2010 Macbook Pro. i7 processor and 330m graphics card. I
have all the latest updates that you mentioned.

Thanks for passing this along! I'll keep an eye out here for
developments.

I started to just push this to our team as a "newer Mac" causing problems... it wouldn't be unheard of. But then I remembered that there was something I wanted to ask.

Can you install and run anything else on that Mac? Like, does Wizard101 or another Supported Game work? I mention Wizard101 because it is free2play.

I just signed up for and installed Wizard 101 using the CrossTIE. Everything works great! I was able to log in straightaway.

Thanks and let me know if you need any other info.