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How To install Neverwinter Nights on Linux

Posted by Hemos on from the much-time dept.

Joe Barr writes " As soon as I saw the news that BioWare released a beta of a Linux client for its popular and successful Neverwinter Nights title, I downloaded the beta (registration required) and went shopping for the prerequisite retail Windows version of the game. Before I proceed, let me offer this brief warning: Neverwinter Nights is the mother of all timesinks. Do not follow my path unless you have nothing important you want to get done for the next week or so."

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  1. Timesink is right by Winterblink · · Score: 5, Informative
    This is very true. Even if you're not a D&D type guy (and really, who on /. isn't), the game will eat away at all available free time you might have. Couple that with the near-infinite replayability of the thing and you've got something worth getting (even if you gotta buy the Windows CD for the data).

    A quick check of the NWN modules section on Bioware's site shows over 2000 player created ones. Carry on then. I don't anticipate I will be seeing you around here much from now on. :)

    --
    "I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar."
    -Hoban Washburn
  2. Re:Best April Fool's joke yet by boola-boola · · Score: 1, Informative

    Haha. Maybe you're a little bit behind the times, but the Linux client beta has been out for a while now. You can download it HERE. (you need to be logged in to download it)

  3. Very pleased with nwn by Vicegrip · · Score: 2, Informative

    Installed flawlessly and took me about 15-20 minutes to copy stuff around. I've already logged countless hours playing my dwarf and monk....

    I wonder how hard it would be to re-write their game editor in qt..

    Thanks Bioware! My rebooting time has been drastically reduced.

    --
    Do not spread "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0" over the internet, thank you.
  4. Re:Really? by boola-boola · · Score: 5, Informative
    ...in related news, Gentoo now has an ebuild for NWN, though you will have to manually unmask it to install. :-)

    /* end shameless plug */

  5. Not an April Fools Joke! by Colin+Walsh · · Score: 5, Informative

    Unfortunately this had to be posted today of all days...

    Anyways, the Linux Client really exists (you can even check the packets coming from Bioware, the 'evil bit' is set to 0! :) and the game is a blast. It's also good to see that news of the installer is getting out, as there are many people who don't know about it.

    -Colin

  6. Strait to the point by dark-br · · Score: 3, Informative

    As the article fails miserably to do that...

    Where to download the Linux NWN instaler:

    Here or here or here.

    MD5SUM for the files: b72d9ec2b9c43e7e3cd39bec22afbe7c

    You will need to download these extra file to play in your language:

    French
    German
    Italian
    Spanish

    Unzip into your nwn directory and move the files to their correct case. ie.

    mv dialog.TLK dialog.tlk
    mv dialogF.TLK dialogf.tlk

    Notes:

    This installs the 1.29 English version by default. See above to play in your language.
    The beta2 binaries are included.

    CDROM Mount Point

    If your cdrom mount point is not listed below, you will have to set an environment variable first.
    These are the mount points: /mnt /mnt/cdrecorder /mnt/cdrom /mnt/dvd /media/cdrecorder /media/cdrom /media/dvd

    If your mount point is not listed here, before you run the installer, from a shell, type export SETUP_CDROM=/path/to/cdrom/mountpoint.
    Replace /path/to/cdrom/mountpoint with where your cdrom gets mounted.

    Temp Directory

    This installer uses close to 1GB of space in /tmp during installation.
    If you have limited space in /tmp, change your temp directory to somewhere where you have more than 1GB free.
    eg. from a shell, type export TMPDIR=/home//

    If any of these apply to you, do them otherwise Neverwinter Nights will not install.
    If any of these do not apply to you, then you can just run the installer.

  7. Re:In the words of the Duke: Not Hardly! by StarTux · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yet another person who missed what NWN is all about; The single player is not the main part of the game, unlike Baldur's gate (really great game too)...And I managed to also finish the Official Campaign within a week, but something I found:

    http://www.neverwinterconnections.com

    And then

    http://www.layonara.com

    There are some amazing modules and even semi persistant worlds available, even with different rules and game items/monsters.

    Yes the Official Campaign is kind of short, but still very good. Would be nice to end up on the side of evil for a change, something that was not part of it.

    The new expansion is supposed to add a lot more feats and spells to the game, along with a longer more involved Official Campain. Its called Shadows of Urentide.

    Oh I forgot the toolset, which partly thanks to Borland's floundering around won't be natively supported in Linux nor Mac...Buit openknights.sourceforge.net are trying to create their own tools to cover this omission.

    Overall, the wording still very very much stands as it is: Huge Time sink.

    StarTux

  8. A solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
    disable unneeded services. Disable your hardware manager, since you will likely not need it (how often do you add new hardware?). Disable your eth0 interface from coming up - you can start it in 2 seconds later if you need it. Edit you /etc/inittab and remark out all but your first two tty's.

    Should half your Linux boot up time.