GOG NWN
November 2nd, 2010 by CrusaderClassic PC game retailer Good Old Games now has the role-playing game Neverwinter Nights, developed by Bioware, available from their online store for $10 US.
Unfortunately, it’s the Diamond Edition, which is problematic to install in Linux. There’s an older Linux install guide for the original retail release of Diamond, but I don’t know how much of it still applies (I can’t test as I’ve had NWN since the original pre-expansion pack release). Anyone willing to take a chance and see?
There are also two contests running until November 24, to celebrate the release of Neverwinter Nights:
The game provides players with very an useful and extensive set of tools to create their own quests and adventures. We encourage gamers to create a NWN module entitled “The DRM Monster and the Treasure of GOG” :). For those of you who are skilled enough, we encourage you to take part in the second contest where you have to create a model of the evil DRM monster. From all entries we will reward the authors of the 5 best quests and the author of the best model of the DRM monster with free GOG games, plus we’ll post a special mod spotlight highlighting the winning entries.
November 4th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
It doesn’t really sound as a challenge…
It already was unzip this and that.
Well, you probably just need to install using wine, and then cp the stuff, and fiddle the key from the registry file.
I will be buying it. Just because it’s so much easier than all those cd’s I have :-).
November 5th, 2010 at 1:02 am
Follow the instructions here
http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/linuxclient.html#wininstall
Here’s the cliff notes
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/neverwinter_nights_diamond/linux/post16
The Bioware updates will over write the nwncdkey.ini, so keep a copy outside of your ~/nwn directory.
I had to edit the export LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the nwn start script to remove ./lib to get sound to work.
Everything appears to be working fine on Slackware64 multi-lib.
November 6th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
Arch Linux has a script in it’s AUR that will install and set up everything for the Diamond Edition, works well with the DVD. Hopefully it can be tweaked to support the GOG release.
November 9th, 2010 at 10:30 am
Thanks!