Houston we have Achieved Orbit around NWN!

[HalfElfSorcerer]

Ok, ok. I admit that I was just yanking everybody's chain with that jest about having a life. I'm probably just jealous. Probably because I have relatively limited cash reserves (read: am 13 years old) and have to clear purchases with a higher authority (read: my parents). I'm not much of a computer game person, despite the small fortune I've spent on computer games. I hold out hope that NWN may be the first computer game I actually find a reason to play. So, again, I apologize for attempting to bring you people to reality, where I am, at the present time, firmly rooted. I guess I have to make do with watching my COMPLETE DVD SET OF "MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS!!!!" HA HA HA HA HA!!!!! BET YOU DON'T HAVE ONE OF THOSE!!!
Oops. Oh well. Geek on, my friends, geek on.

 

[Leopold]

Ok, ok. I admit that I was just yanking everybody's chain with that jest about having a life. I'm probably just jealous. Probably because I have relatively limited cash reserves (read: am 13 years old) and have to clear purchases with a higher authority (read: my parents). I'm not much of a computer game person, despite the small fortune I've spent on computer games. I hold out hope that NWN may be the first computer game I actually find a reason to play. So, again, I apologize for attempting to bring you people to reality, where I am, at the present time, firmly rooted. I guess I have to make do with watching my COMPLETE DVD SET OF "MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS!!!!" HA HA HA HA HA!!!!! BET YOU DON'T HAVE ONE OF THOSE!!!
Oops. Oh well. Geek on, my friends, geek on.

sucks to be you!! MUHAHAHAHA I laugh whilst I slaughter the enemy in NWN!!

 

[Scorch]

Tried out Multiplayer Last Night

Warning: Some techno geek stuff in here.

Last night I told WizarDru and Valanthe that I would try and get a multiplayer game up and running on my server through my ADSL connection. After messing around with CD Keys, Multiplayer Game on Player Client vs Multiplayer Game on DM Client, and Serverside characters versus local characters I was able to get a game up and running starting with Chapter 1. We played characters we had each played through on the Prelude so we were third level with equipment. I had to play on my server because I only had one CD key but it was playable. The only lag we suffered was when my 5400 ROM drives thrashed to load data and send large text blocks. Once stuff was cached in memory things ran smoothly.

I played Gunter Thyckeskull, 3rd level Half-Orc Barbarian (from Wizardru's Beta Story Hour).
Valanthe played, well, Valanthe, a third level rogue (from Wizardru's Story Hour).
Wizardru played Stabby Applebottom, another 3rd level barbarian from a one shot game we ran at Worldcon last year.

We got equipped then tackled the Penninsula Prison break. We got as far as the inner prison before Valanthe's computer locked and we decided to call it a night. Two hours had just flown on by!

Here are some of the highlights that I remember:

1) Gunter being dragged down to the dark side as he stands by and watches Stabby shake a poor woman down (alignment hit because we were partied).
2) Gunter getting drawn back to the light when Valanthe helped a poor person escape the prison riot.
3) Gunter getting his first Great Sword and naming it TOECUTTER!
4) Gunter being dissed by a guard while Valanthe sweet talks him and Stabby makes friends with him.
5) Stabby and Gunter running into a group of escaped prisoners and just letting loose with an industrial sized can of WHOOP ASS!
6) A prisoner taking a swipe at Stabby and he ducks under the blow! CRIT HIT!
7) Watching Cleave in action! WHA-BOOM!
8) Running into a square and seeing escaped prisoners, charging into battle, and one of them opens up with a spell that nearly kills Stabby and takes Gunter down a few notches. We then smile and say "Our turn, BIZATCH!"
9) Fighting in a sewer. Gunter and Stabby engage the prisoners and Val gets behind them and SNEAK ATTACKS!
10) Oh?!? You gonna cast that spell while I am next to you? Attack of Opportunity!!!! WHAM!
11) Val sneaking down a corridor looking for traps and then walks right up to a chest and gets SPIKED! Granted, it was right after combat and were too jazzed to be careful.

 

[Xar666]

man you lucky stiffs that can get 32 and 64bit textures to work..mine crashes like hell unless i hit 16bit...

Post your system specs and OS.

I am running a P3 733mhz with 512MB RAM and a GeForce3 TI200 on WinXP Pro. It runs smooth at 1024x768 with 64-bit textures and Quincux Antialiasing.

 

[Leopold]

Post your system specs and OS.

I am running a P3 733mhz with 512MB RAM and a GeForce3 TI200 on WinXP Pro. It runs smooth at 1024x768 with 64-bit textures and Quincux Antialiasing.

AMD 1.4
Win XP
512mb DDR
GF3 Ti200 128mb
SB Live Audigy
U160 SCSI 9.1gb HD
3C905 NIC

I run my game at 1600x1200 at 16bit and it craps out any higher..i tried lower and it still heaved..i have the latest Nvdia drivers and it stil bombed. Installed the latest SB drivers same deal..so i set it to 1600x1200 at 16bit tex and been playing it ever since ...ps i hate that i can't change the font..

 

[toberane]

I got it! I finally got it!

OK, this might not be exciting to those of you who got your grubby little hands on the game 2 or 3 days ago, but I wasn't able to FIND A COPY ANYWHERE IN TOWN until today.

Getting ready to try to fire it up on my computer here at work, but I don't hold out much hope that it will actually work....

Can't wait to get home to my Athlon 1800 & GeForce4 Video Card.

Leopold: Have you tried lowering the resolution? Simple solution, and you've probably already tried it, but I thought I'd ask.

 

[Leopold]

I
Leopold: Have you tried lowering the resolution? Simple solution, and you've probably already tried it, but I thought I'd ask.

dropped it down a few notches to 1024x768 same deal..trying 800x600 tonite when i leave work...

 

[Hikaru]

My Pentium III 600 Mhz 128 RAM Voodoo3 and myself feel like crying. :'o(

 

[JCLabelle]

P2-350, 256 Meg Ram, GF2 32 mb, works great. Graphics are at fastest, in 800X600, and it works great. I'm using the 16meg textures. The *only* noticeable problem I've had was when I used Polymorph Self to transform into an Umber Hulk. The model of the Umber Hulk ( when played by me -- I encountered multiple Umber Hulks later and had no graphics slowdown ) seemed to cause problems while walking around.

 

[Henry]

AMD 1.4
Win XP
512mb DDR
GF3 Ti200 128mb
SB Live Audigy
U160 SCSI 9.1gb HD
3C905 NIC

Doc, you got problems with THAT!?!?!?!?!

That's ten times the machine i've got!

AMD XP1600
Win98
512MB PC133 RAM
GF3 32 MB generic card
SB32 AWE
UDMA100 Hard drive

I was able to run up to 1024 x 768 with 64MB textures, but I set it down to 800x600 with 32 mb textures because it was getting a little choppy, and am fine with it there.

THe only thing I can say is - perhaps winXP is causing problems, or at least is putting too much overhead on the game?