{"id":4963,"date":"2020-05-28T23:12:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T23:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=4963"},"modified":"2020-05-29T09:31:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T09:31:54","slug":"nwn2-and-w10-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/nwn2-and-w10-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"NWN2 and W10 (2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a new windows laptop and need to bring my NWN2 game forward from the old machine; both are windows 10, although the new one is 64 bit. I wanted to economise the build’s storage space this time and had to overcome what looks like a 32\/64 bit pragma problem; here is what I did.<\/p>\n

It appears that NWN, installs with a global folder and<\/strong> a local folder. This is probably appallingly wasteful of space but I had made copies of both these folders from the source system,<\/p>\n

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  1. I used my GOG installation files. (Actually, the 2nd time, the first I tried to copy the old installation folder, but the 64 bit pragma error (see 2 below) may have caused the same problems as described in 2.) This creates the global folder of the NWN2 game, and it does so at \".\/Neverwinter Nights 2 Complete\"<\/code>, beside the folder with the GOG installations files.<\/li>\n
  2. I tried to get it to work, and firstly it complained that d3dx9_30.dll<\/em> was missing and when I installed the 64 bit version<\/a>, from this page at dll-files.com<\/a> it threw a 0xc000007b error; I fixed this by, after a bit of googling, installing the 32 bit version in the NWN2 global install folder. It then installed the rest of direct X on the first time boot. (This exercise took me back nearly 15 years as we nearly always had to augment the builds with some magic runes and I had said to the family that it was bit like dungeons and dragons exploring the virtual tunnels of the internet, looking for treasure, although then I was looking to augment Windows<\/a> with a taste of its future<\/a> while today, we\u00a0 have a backward compatibility issue.)<\/li>\n
  3. Having created a working binary, I booted the game and made a saved game; I discovered where it was, in my case \"C:\\Users\\${user name}\\OneDrive\\Documents\\Neverwinter Nights 2\"<\/code>. I then copied my copy of the old local folder into the new folder and for the three files that existed in both, I overwrote them with the saved\/source copies.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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