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NeverWinter Nights Dedicated Linux Server Released
Ivan writes: "Bioware has released a dedicated Linux server for NeverWinter Nights. It requires a Windows install to use, but it definitely shows that they care about Linux users and are making progress towards the Linux client."
Now that a server can be installed on a proper system I can install a 1U server with it :)
For Simon Brooke: Buy it, you'll like it if you like RPGs and/or D&D.
For those who love to comment without knowing WTF they're talking about:
I have the game, and am running it on Winsucks ONLY because I want to play it more than I want to wait for the Linux client. I will convert to 100% Linux when the client is out.
In the mean time, I have been following the forums and keeping up to date as much as possible on what's up. My take is that it requires a Windows installation because it is in sync with the latest Windows patch, 1.19. In order to get the patch, you must update the game online, and in order to do that, you must have a client. There is no Linux client, so the ONLY way to update is via Winsucks.
So, you update the Winsucks version, copy the necessary files to Linux, install the Linux server, run the check program (fixinstall), and you're all set.
Many people have purchased the game because it supports Linux. There has been a LONG thread in the NWN forums, and given that only about 1 out of 1000 people will actually take part in an online discussion, statistics say that Bioware stands to make (and has made) a load of $$ from Linux gamers like me.
I now have the server installed and running, and I can connect to it from my Winsucks box. Once I get the Linux client, I will be using the Linux version exclusively. I just hope the toolset will be ported to Linux as well (I've heard it's supposed to be) so that I will have no need for Winsucks NWN at all (the damn thing is unstable as hell on Winsucsk, like everything else I have is.)
For those saying that someone should tar up the game after installing on Linux:
I say you need to be flogged and your Linux privledges removed. Linux needs more game companies like Bioware/Atari/Infogames supporting it, but if this is the attitude of Linux users, than it serves us right if we never get another game for Linux ever again. Oh, and please refrain from D/L my game engine. Though it is GPL, I shudder at the thought of you (and you know who you are) tainting it with your electronic touch.
PGA (AKA Rohan)
I note the instructions require not only the Windows install but patching of the Windows installation under Windows via the autoinstaller to bring the NeverWinterNights version to 1.19. ( first round of patches was to 1.18 ) The 1.19 patch came out yesterday 6/27.
Could be the 1.19 fixed an issue for the linux server as well since the release of the linux server follows on it's heels. I saw on their site forums reference to a manual patch d/l and apply process so that's worth a search if you can't use autoupdate under Windows.
Despite the misteps this is a good thing for Linux.
Well, someone else commented on the CHITIN.KEY's non keyfile nature. I happen to know that the actual keyfile is not encrypted -- it is a plaintext file. As such, if you are transferring a keyfile you can simply open it up with emcas or pico and swap out the old with the new.
STOP MISUSING APOSTROPHES, YOU MORONS!!!