Yes, that's right. And you can now download all the data you need, so really, you just need to buy the game for the CD key and you're all set.

Also, the Shadows of Undrentide expansion is out and it works with Linux too.

Link please?

So does this include a working Linux installer?

http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/linuxclient.html

yes, working installer, and you can download all the data. you just need a CD key-which means you have to buy the game, but hey, small price to pay to support linux native games, no? :-D

edited to make link more specific

Bioware wants us to download 1.2Gb of data? Are they bloody lunatics? Pffffffft. I don't think so!

scroll further down, there's the option for installing using an existing windows install. i'm sure there are ways to get the necessary files off the CD. i believe tuxgames is making an installer to do this for you.

that 1.2gb of data includes _all_ the necessary files (for the game), meaning all the files you get on the game CD.

Get ravage's installer, install to Linux through that, then get the executables only patch to get the full client.

Shadows of Unrentide is out??? I haven't seen it yet...

I tried ravage's installer, but it didn't work. I don't think it installed everything.

Ravage's installer installs all the necessary files, they you have to patch it with the beta patches... or now the final patch.

If it's not working after that, then there might be something wrong with your installation like OpenGL or SDL not being setup right (download that SDL 2.5 RPM and install it), or you didn't give ownership permissions to the user who will be playing the game (NWN does not run as a multi-user executable). Try those solutions first.

Meet me on IRC and I can help you with ravage's installer. Or he'll probably post in this thread helping you, you never know with him.

I won't be home until Monday though. You'll need the NWN CDs.

http://fnord.andrew.cmu.edu/nwn/NWN-Linux.torrent

Enjoy

Other related info:

1. NWN 1.30 Update on Linux

2. Mandrake 9.1 Installer Problem and Solution

3. Linux ATI driver patch for KT400 chipset owners

While the 1.3 release has been made, the "official" release for NWN is the 1.29 build. So you don't NEED 1.30 to play. 1.30 is for SoU connectivity and a few other enhancements...

It's worth pointing this out so people don't patch up unnecessarily.

I heard 1.30 fixed the mouse problem some used to have as well, so use it when you encounter such problem.

I just read this over on happypenguin.org

TuxGames.com CEO Michael Simms wants everyone to know:
Just thought Id let you know that Tux Games will ship NWN with mpeg versions of all the cinematics, meaning you shouldnt need to bother with emulators to play them. Whilst they dont trigger directly from in the game, we are including an additional program to make them run on request depending on your position in the game.

This sounds good hopefully they will just sell there installer for people that already have the game.

I really don't need the cinematics,... I played the Windoze version of it for a while, and didn't care much for them.

and Ravage's installer is free...

Not that TuxGames is doing a bad thing here. They're jus a little late in getting it together.

Now if they tell me they're selling the Linux version of Knights of the Old Republic, then I'd be very interested (by the way, BioWare hasn't announced whether there will even BE a Linux version).

Well, you can't blame TuxGames for the slowness of BioWare... It's got nothing to do with TuxGames. In fact, they could have just went off and threw the CDs at us and said "there, figure it out."

Sure, you don't need cinematics for all of the chapters as the info gets put right into your journal, but it sure makes the ending of the game anti-climatic...

As far as KotOR goes, BioWare has said already (on IRC) that it is a Microsoft-exclusive game. That means PC and Xbox only. So, I'd stop bugging them about it and go after the other titles that they haven't announced yet... I hope they will port something else, and that we didn't give them too hard of a time with all that has happened with NWN...