In this post, I detail my experiences getting Neverwinter Nights 2 (NWN2) to install and run correctly on Windows 7. When I first installed NWN2 on Windows 7, I received a warning toward the end of the installation giving me an ERRORDXINSTALL message; however, the installation seamed to finish.
Neverwinter Nights 2 Patch 1.23
Attempting to patch Neverwinter Nights 2 with Mask of the Betrayer and Storm of Zehir. There is a common glitch with off-the-shelf SoZ that causes the original campaign to crash at the Sunken Flagon and wrecks the dialogue audio in MotB. A patch fixes it. However when I attempt to patch I get this. Nov 01, 2012 how to extend trial period of any software in 5 minutes - 2018 latest trick - Duration: 7:28. Trick Tell Tech Recommended for you.
When I launched the game, Windows complained that the game had stopped working. So, after searching on the internet, I did the following to get it working.
I am not sure if the first step needs to be performed, but I will list it in case it is needed. The first thing I did was install the DirectX 9 redistributable package, located. I realize that Windows 7 is being bundled with DirectX 11, but the above package will not conflict with it.
The next thing I did was manually patch NWN2 as far as I could, as the game’s automatic updater would not patch the game until the game had been run once, and as you know, I could not run the game. You can find NWN2 manual patches.
Apply the official Neverwinter Nights 2 v1.05.912 Patch. Replace the original NWN2MAIN.EXE & NWN2MAIN_AMDXP.EXE files with the ones from the File Archive.
If you know how to manually patch NWN2 you can skip the following details. Obtain and run the NWN2. Note the version of NWN2 that you have installed, located in the bottom right had corner of the manual patcher, when it is launched. Assuming you don’t have any expansions installed yet, you need patches with the following naming convention: nwn2pcfromto.zip. You need to download and install consecutive patches starting with the version you noted above. Install up to the highest version you can get to, but make sure that each patch is an nwn2pc patch, you install patches consecutively, and there are no gaps between patches.
There is a gap between patches if you install patches A and B, one right after another, and the ending version number of patch A does not match the starting version number of patch B. At the advice of a friend, I unzipped each patch into my NWN2’s installation directory before installing them.
However, I’m not sure if that is necessary. I was able to install patches from version 104870 to version 1111115. After performing the steps above I was able to launch NWN2. So, I tried to install the Mask of the Betrayer expansion. After doing so, I tried to launch the game and again Windows complained that the game had stopped working.
So, as before, I manually patched NWN2 as far as I could. This time, patches should be of the form nwn2pcx1fromto.zip. Pcx1 stands for expansion 1. You will have to check the version of NWN2 as you did before to know which patch to begin with. I installed patches starting with version 1101115 and ending with version 1211549. At this point, NWN2 with Mask of the Betrayer patches launched and played.
However, roughly 15-20 minutes into creating a character in multiplayer mode, it crashed. So, I launched NWN2 in administrator mode, made it through character creation, saved, and relaunched without being in administrator mode. That seamed to fix all of the problems. I’m not sure why administrator mode fixed the problems, but I will hazard two guesses as to why. There was some save file to which NWN2 was trying to write, and it did not have permissions to create the file.
After having run the game in administrator mode, the file was successfully created. There is a bug in NWN2 character creation that administrator mode somehow overcomes.
3 Responses to “Getting Neverwinter Nights 2 to Install and Run on Windows 7”. Thanks for this post, it was very helpful for me!
Cerielle said this on. After I manually patched (with MWN2Patcher) to 1.05.912, the stock NWN2 Updater would actually not complain anymore that the game needed to be run first before any patches could be applied (what a stupid concept in any case). After clicking on Update, it would happily chug along, incrementally patching all the way up to 1.24.1765 Took an awful while (14:45) but didn’t require any more manual intervention on my part. As far as I can tell, NWN2 runs fine now, but I’m not very far into it.
This is the U.S. English version on Windows 7 64bit. I did manually install DX9 beforehand. Thanks for pointing the way. Stefan said this on.
Good advice. I took a simpler approach. I installed DirectX 9 like you described. Then i ran nwn2.exe in windows xp sp2 mode to get it activated.
And finally ran the autoupdater. Said this on. Just like everyone else, I too am busy. As such, I have several future blog entries in mind that I've not had the time to complete. I want to post them here, so you know what's in store for the future.
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Welcome to the unofficial guide for Neverwinter Nights 2. You will find here a detailed walkthrough for the main campaign mode and all of the side quests in the game. Since the gameplay structure is quite specific, most of the subquests have been discussed alongside the main plot - due to their being quite closely related to them, which would make it pointless to discuss them separately. The ones, whose completion is completely independent of the maim plot, have been discussed at the very end of this guide. Apart from that, we have also included an extensive set of hints on the development of the Keep, which the player receives at some point during the game. Virtually all secrets, which you can find throughout the game, are connected with this matter. Good luck!
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Author : Krzysztof 'Lordareon' Gonciarz for gamepressure.com
last update : May 5, 2016
Guide contains : 75 pages, 227 images.
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Neverwinter Nights 2 Video Game
Neverwinter Nights 2 (NWN2) is a computer role-playing game set in the fantasy world of the Forgotten Realms, one of the popular campaign settings of Dungeons and Dragons. It takes the player from the tiniest of villages into a sweeping tale of danger and war, chronicling their rise from a peasant to a full-fledged hero of the Realms, defending it against one of the greatest threats of the age.
Build a character that suits your style of play - good or evil, chaotic or lawful, with any number of skills, feats and professions available at the click of a button. Whether lobbing fireballs and researching forgotten spells as a powerful Wizard, hacking a trail through legions of orcs as a Fighter armed only with a battle axe and your courage, or taking on the role of a Rogue that can slip into the shadows at a moment's notice and take the purse from even the most perceptive of guardsmen. Choose your alignment, your allies, your companions, and how you want your character to develop... design the character you want, role-play the way you want, and carry the battle to the enemy. The design aspects of Neverwinter Nights 2 don't stop there, however. Past the campaign included with the game itself, Neverwinter Nights 2 also gives you all the tools you need to build your own modules, campaigns, and adventures for your friends - move buildings, terrain, script encounters, write dialogues, create quests and items - everything you need to create an epic adventure of your own is included in the toolset for you and any other worldbuilder to use.
Neverwinter Nights 2 PC version System Requirements
Recommended: Pentium 4 3 GHz, 1 GB RAM, graphic card 256 MB (GeForce 6800 or better), 5.5 GB HDD, Windows XP
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