NWN Problems

[albonia]

I installed a new 9800 GT graphics card a week ago. The card runs fine and runs other games with no problem. But it does not seem to like NWN if i try playing NWN it runs for about 10 -15 minutes then locks up completely. Nothing seems to work and the only option is to press the reset button on my PC

I am running Windows XP service pack 3

So far i have tried the following. I updated the drivers and downloaded GPU-Z. The card temperature is 47C when under no stress. It will go up when i play a game but i don't think 47C is very high.

Still locking up after 10 minutes or so. I am out of ideas and the stupid Bioware forum tells me i need to be a game owner to post on their forum. Yet when i go into my account there it lists the serial numbers of the NWN discs i own.

Go figure

I suppose its down to playing an 8 year old game. No doubt a 9800GT GPU was not even a twinkle in Nvidea's eye when NWN came out.

[silverdragonams]

I guess to start with the simplest causes, have you turned your graphics way down? Do you have shiny water turned off?

Have you noticed the crashing in any particular area or tileset?

[Xanthalas]

Had a similar problem with an 8500GT, It basically boils down to a backwards compatibility problem. I ended up changing a few options, it's been a couple years, but I think I ended up gaining success with going into the NVIDIA control panel, and making sure the following was done.

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Anisotropic filtering : Application Controlled
Texture Filtering - Anisotropic sample optimization:  OFF
Anti-aliasing - Transparency : OFF

That's pure guess work, so if those do nothing, set them back to their original values. I'll do some digging and see if I can come up with anything specific to your specific model.

[Xanthalas]

Also, I've heard of some success of turning the following option in the NVIDIA control panel.

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Multi-display/mixed-GPU Acceleration:  Multiple Display Performance Mode

[BPanther]

i hope you are not using asus mainboard, if so you should check bios settings. and read mainboard manual for any pcie or agp boost options and try to disable those.

[terror2001]

I have an Nvidia 6850 GT and it will not run NWN with the newest drivers. I had to install an older version of the drivers (185.85).

[albonia]

I tried the things suggested and at one point i had it running for an hour. Then just when i thought i had sorted it same thing crash computer locks up. Now it runs for about 10 min before the crash.

I have done some digging on the Bioware forum (damm thing wont let me post). And it seems that the problem may surprisingly be the realtek sound drivers not the graphics.

I will try disabling some of the sound settings and updating the sound drivers.