zero0w Posted March 22, 2003 Report Share Posted March 22, 2003 Someone might want to mirror the 1.29 installer, the download speed is pretty slow right now. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOlson Posted March 22, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2003 Someone might want to mirror the 1.29 installer, the download speed is pretty slow right now. :( Yeah, someone will be mirroring it, but they aren't responding to my messages yet. I'll post a URL once they do. By the way, here's the new steps: Get ravage's installer. su to root run installer cd /usr/local/games/nwn chown -R user.group ../nwn (put the apropriate user/group in there) chmod -R u+wr g+wr o-w * (optional step, just ensures permissions) that's it! Now you can run NWN. If you run into problems, read my earlier post, or check out the BioWare forums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted March 22, 2003 Report Share Posted March 22, 2003 Ok, here you will find all your needs for NWN Linux Client, and possibly also the support in the future: http://nwnlinux.project404.org/downloads.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ral Posted March 24, 2003 Report Share Posted March 24, 2003 Finally :) I am planning to use the installer here (should be finnished downloading when I get home later.... sigh life on 56k): http://icculus.org/~ravage/nwn/ Or should I use a different one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archiesteel Posted March 24, 2003 Report Share Posted March 24, 2003 Installed the game with ravage's installer - that went over very well. Unfortunately, the program unexpectedly quits whenever I get start a new game a choose to create a new character or select a pregenerated one. No error messages, nothing. Anyone else got this problem? Or, better yet, found a way to solve it? Mandrake 9.1 (cooker) glibc 2.3.1 SDL 1.2.5 (built from the sources found on the Bioware site) DOlson (Grabthroat Shinkicker, I presume? :-), I tried the nwnlinux.md5 found on your site but it failed for several files. Did I miss a step? Basically what I did is run the 1.29 version of Ravage's installer as root (and entered my CD key), chown'ed and chmod'ed the files and ran the nwn executable...it works up the point specified above. Any ideas what I might have done wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted March 24, 2003 Report Share Posted March 24, 2003 Installed the game with ravage's installer - that went over very well. Unfortunately, the program unexpectedly quits whenever I get start a new game a choose to create a new character or select a pregenerated one. No error messages, nothing. Anyone else got this problem? Or, better yet, found a way to solve it? Mandrake 9.1 (cooker) glibc 2.3.1 SDL 1.2.5 (built from the sources found on the Bioware site) DOlson (Grabthroat Shinkicker, I presume? :-), I tried the nwnlinux.md5 found on your site but it failed for several files. Did I miss a step? Basically what I did is run the 1.29 version of Ravage's installer as root (and entered my CD key), chown'ed and chmod'ed the files and ran the nwn executable...it works up the point specified above. Any ideas what I might have done wrong? the md5sum check looks for GUI_32bit.erf / Textures_Tpa.erf / Tiles_Tpa.erf / Tiles_Tpb.erf on my install they were all lower case so the script was unable to find them. After changing from 16bit to 24bit colour on the desktop the game went alot longer before crashing. I think i need to get rid of all my sdl stuff and completely reinstall it again. OOPS i spoke to soon! after a reboot NWN seems to run perfectly. BTW do you have a nvidia graphics card? It doesn't seem to work on Ati cards from what i have seen on the nwn forums. If so do you have the nvidia drivers installed? eg can run glxgears etc. Again make sure you use 24 bit display if you aren't using it already NWN WOOOHOOO!! 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archiesteel Posted March 25, 2003 Report Share Posted March 25, 2003 If so do you have the nvidia drivers installed? eg can run glxgears etc. Again make sure you use 24 bit display if you aren't using it already Yup, got nvidia drivers. I can run glxgears no problem. I'm not sure about the 24 bit display...do you mean setting the game to 24-bit, or the desktop? My desktop is already at 24bit, and I'm not sure how to change it for NWN...I can't access the Advanced Video Options, it crashes instantly. Hmm...would twinview be to blame? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted March 25, 2003 Report Share Posted March 25, 2003 If so do you have the nvidia drivers installed? eg can run glxgears etc. Again make sure you use 24 bit display if you aren't using it already Yup, got nvidia drivers. I can run glxgears no problem. I'm not sure about the 24 bit display...do you mean setting the game to 24-bit, or the desktop? My desktop is already at 24bit, and I'm not sure how to change it for NWN...I can't access the Advanced Video Options, it crashes instantly. Hmm...would twinview be to blame? No i meant 24bits on the desktop So i wouldn't have a clue then sorry, have a look in the nwn linux forum http://nwn.bioware.com/forums/viewforum.html?forum=72 Oh wait a minute you are already posting there doh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archiesteel Posted March 25, 2003 Report Share Posted March 25, 2003 So i wouldn't have a clue then sorry, have a look in the nwn linux forumhttp://nwn.bioware.com/forums/viewforum.html?forum=72 Oh wait a minute you are already posting there doh. I think the problem (like just about every problem I have with my computer these days) might be related to glibc - I'm using Mandrake 9.1 (cooker), which uses a new version of glibc (2.3.1) which currently breaks wine. Since Ravage's installer uses wine, there's a good chance that this might be it. Actually, I just tried installing with the latest version of the installer, and I got this right after it asked me to put in Installation Disk 1: InstallShield 6.x Cabinet Util Version 0.2 -] fOSSiL & Morlac - 2000 [- chitin.key wine: lstat /tmp/selfgz6766/wine/wineserver-feanna.local.nut/socket : No such file or directory wine: lstat /tmp/selfgz6766/wine/wineserver-feanna.local.nut/socket : No such file or directory wine: lstat /tmp/selfgz6766/wine/wineserver-feanna.local.nut/socket : No such file or directory wine: lstat /tmp/selfgz6766/wine/wineserver-feanna.local.nut/socket : No such file or directory wine: lstat /tmp/selfgz6766/wine/wineserver-feanna.local.nut/socket : No such file or directory Installshield extraction failed! Did you export SETUP_CDROM before installing? Unable to find file 'data' Unable to find file 'dmvault' Unable to find file 'docs' Unable to find file 'localvault' Unable to find file 'modules' Unable to find file 'servervault' This looks pretty bad. I guess I'm going to have to reboot in Windows and do it the long and painful way...Damn! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOlson Posted March 25, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2003 I have an FAQ up on my website now: http://icculus.org/~dolson/mdkxp/?c=artcls/nwnfaq Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archiesteel Posted March 26, 2003 Report Share Posted March 26, 2003 Okay, it seems I was right: the version of glibc found in Mandrake 9.1 (glibc 2.3.1) has problems with Wine, which causes ravage's installer to fail (I think...) I tried installing NWN using the "official" method (fortunately I still have a Windows box on my LAN), following all the steps detailed on the Bioware website and - lo and behold! - everything works fine! I did have to manually update NWN with the critical rebuild patch, however... Finally...I can play NeverWinter Nights on my Linux box! Coooool!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ral Posted March 27, 2003 Report Share Posted March 27, 2003 Will try that. Used Ravages installer. All I get are CTD's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted March 29, 2003 Report Share Posted March 29, 2003 NWN Linux Client Beta 3 is out! 1.29.6758 Beta 3 - Release Notes: * fixes an OpenGL bug * fixes a crash when putting gold in a container * fixes middle mouse button camera control ATI Radeon series display card and Riva TNT/2 should be working now with Beta 3 :). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JaseP Posted March 31, 2003 Report Share Posted March 31, 2003 I don't get this. Every time I try to run a more modern game (wolfenstein, nwn) I get lock-ups. When I run older titles, the system works fine. What could cause the x-windows system to hard-lock when loading a game??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted March 31, 2003 Report Share Posted March 31, 2003 I don't get this. Every time I try to run a more modern game (wolfenstein, nwn) I get lock-ups. When I run older titles, the system works fine. What could cause the x-windows system to hard-lock when loading a game??? That depends for example the newer games may be using features of the nvidia drivers that older ones do not. I mean opengl & or SDL calls not used in the older games. I assume you have a nvidia card? have you tried yanc for configuring it?, switch between nvidia & agpart and see if you get a difference. I rebuilt all SDL packages and the nvidia drivers for athlon arch, not that this seems to make a huge difference, but i haven't experience a crash to desktop since while playing games(though it is still early days). I tried rebuilding XFree but got some strange non-dependency errors, must try again tonight. Oh and i never have crash problems with RTCW, my only problem with that game has to do with PB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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