Heeeeeeeeeeelp!

Sononara · Post by **Sononara** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 4:04 am

Now this is not your trivial desperate plea of help...
i
dare i say it
have lost my manual.
is there any way of retreaving my cd key???
i fear the worst...my parents threw it out...

Ravager · Post by **Ravager** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 4:07 am

It might be somewhere in your NeverWinter Nights directory. Check for a file like NWN.ini.

I'll look properly for you later.

Sononara · Post by **Sononara** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 4:09 am

you, my friend, are a god!
thank you!

Ravager · Post by **Ravager** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 4:10 am

Is it there? Lucky guess.

Good job you had NWN installed

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Make sure you keep the number safe from those annoying people that have to clear to the place out once in a while...

Sononara · Post by **Sononara** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 4:15 am

lol, no, i dont know, i cant find it, its just the fact someone had a suggestion. im the kind of easy to please person.

Ravager · Post by **Ravager** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 4:18 am

Very easy. Normally people wait before delivering such praise

. Good luck with finding that CD-Key. I'll check my own installation and see if the CD-Key is somewhere in there a bit later.

Oh, do you have NWN installed? It will be harder to get a CD-Key otherwise. If you don't you might need to contact Bioware.

Sononara · Post by **Sononara** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 4:32 am

yeah, its like you said, they decided it would be funny to cleanse the computer....so yesh. is the pdf manual file thingy only available once you install the game?

Ravager · Post by **Ravager** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 4:37 am

The PDF manual should be somewhere on CD1. I'm not sure if it would have the CD-Key on it though- it's probably just a generic manual. If they included CD-Keys on electronic manuals it would probably spoil the point of having a key in the first place.

You shouldn't need to do an install to find the manual on the CD, but it may be a big search.

Sononara · Post by **Sononara** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 4:44 am

i see...ok thanks for your help, oh god...

Ravager · Post by **Ravager** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 4:48 am

I'm going offline now. I'll check through the NWN material and maybe have something for you later.

Good luck.

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 6:01 am

Contact Bioware and hear about your options, perhaps they can help you.
I don't know if you did it when buying the game, but if you have registred your game on their website, you had the option to write your key for retrival (which was a very good idea of Bioware imo)

However, if not - then I strongly doubt you'll be able to dig out the CD-key from any ini file, it has never been custom to let such information be placed in a settings file.
The only possibility I could think of is that the GUID keys in the registry is an encrypted version of your key, but that will do you no good either.

But contact Bioware and hear about your options. They are the only ones that can help you.

Oh - and as advice, it is generally a good idea to actually name your thread something relevant - and perhaps use just the one e? It will make it easier for people to actually help you.

Ravager · Post by **Ravager** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 10:23 am

Uh, sorry to contradict you Xandax, but there is a file in the NWN directory called NWNCDKey.ini that seems to record the CD Keys from NWN and expansions

. Look in the main directory and open the .ini file with a program such as Notepad.

I think it's main purpose is to allow you to consult it for entering the numbers in the Bioware website. Not that I think it's wise that numbers are kept on the PC like that.

I'm not sure if Sononara has NWN installed though. If it isn't, then I recommend following Xandax's instructions and contact Bioware.

btw, the pdf manual does not show the front and back page of the manual- so no CD Key to be found there

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Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 11:10 am

Heh - strange, I've never seen that file before (but then again - I've never lost my keys)

Sononara · Post by **Sononara** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 3:24 am

thanks a million, chaps, you've been a great help.
as it happens, i shant have time to contact bioware for about a week, as im going away for sport
oh but wait... for the key to register itself on the cd, a suppose there would have to be a file or pragramme that records the key, should there not?

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 3:28 am

[QUOTE=Sononara]<snip>
oh but wait... for the key to register itself on the cd, a suppose there would have to be a file or pragramme that records the key, should there not?[/QUOTE]

I have no idea what you mean?

Sononara · Post by **Sononara** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 3:30 am

when you enter the cd key, how does the cd know it's the right one? shouldnt there be a file or program that registers a correct cd key?

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 3:34 am

Of course there is a function which test a key to validate it is a correct key.

Sononara · Post by **Sononara** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 3:35 am

then, shouldnt i be able to find this, and get the key from there?

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 3:41 am

No. Even though each key is unique, the key itself is not embedded in the function which test for validty. It is not like each CD is shipped with a file containing a key against which the validate function test the entered key to see if they match.

The keys are likely run through a hashing function and then all legal keys produce a valid checksum.