K, followed the install advice for NWN2 from their forum:
Quote: Posted 01/11/08 23:08 (GMT) by _-Faceless-_
wine 0.95.2 fixes alot of stuff (such as minimap not working, aqua colored loading screens).
Here's the settings you need to play it:
*start with a clean wine directory or make a seperate one
· Add overrides for devenum.dll and dxdiagn.dll and Copy devenum.dll d3dx9_30.dll dxdiagn.dll to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/
· Run regedit and add the following key and string values:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Wine\ Direct3D]
OffscreenRenderingMode = fbo
UseGLSL = enabled
VideoMemorySize = 256
· install updated through the unofficial NWN2patcher.
· Enjoy
I THINK I did the registry changes correctly, I will post if someone wants to see them. Basically I just created a string named each of those things and then set the value as the item after the = sign.
I am using Wine 1.1.4, NWN 2 version 1.11.1152 English, Ubuntu 8.04, and the ATI driver for my radion 2600.
When I launch the game, it seems to load ok (launcher, then splash screen) but as soon as the game itself launches, all I get is a pure black window that locks up. I have to kill the process just to get it to close.
Any advice? I don't even know where to start... I hear that the ATI driver is potentially the problem?
NWN2 completely black screen
So I removed everything and reinstalled right after Wine 1.1.5 came out, and sure enough there was a change!
Bad news was, not a change for the better.
Now I get this weird flickering overlay of the web browser (I keep firefox in the background so I can alt-tab out of the frozen game) with a diagonal slash accross it. Looks like bars of web browser interlaced with bars of black screen. Also, Alt-tab no longer gets me out of the program, but I can right click the toolbar at the bottom and close it. This leads me to suspect a graphics card problem, and I have the ATI driver for a radion card, so that would not be surprising. Anyone get ATI drivers to work with NWN2? Thanks.
I am really trying not to turn this into a dual boot machine, cause I am not a windoze fan...
Bad news was, not a change for the better.
Now I get this weird flickering overlay of the web browser (I keep firefox in the background so I can alt-tab out of the frozen game) with a diagonal slash accross it. Looks like bars of web browser interlaced with bars of black screen. Also, Alt-tab no longer gets me out of the program, but I can right click the toolbar at the bottom and close it. This leads me to suspect a graphics card problem, and I have the ATI driver for a radion card, so that would not be surprising. Anyone get ATI drivers to work with NWN2? Thanks.
I am really trying not to turn this into a dual boot machine, cause I am not a windoze fan...
