Sorry if this is long, so I've loved NWN ever since I discovered it a couple years ago. Not only the main campaign and expansions, but the hundreds of fan-made modules pretty keep it constantly replayable.
Unfortunately, I'm now having problems getting the game to work. For my PC specs, I had a dell..pentium 4, 2.53 ghz, 256 mb of ram. Under these specs, I never really had any problem playing the game..ever. Sure sometimes due to only having 256 mb of ram it would slow down when there were a lot of characters fighting on-screen, but it played reasonably well.
Recently, I had to completely wipe my computer..re-install windows, etc. When I did this, a friend of mine upgraded my ram for me from 256 to a gig of ram. I was happy, as I thought my pc would run better than ever, and NWN would run perfect.
For some reason, that isn't the case. I installed the main game as well as the two expansions, and the community expansion pack(version 1.01 I think).
After that I did what I always do, updated it to version 1.68..except this time it went to 1.69. I decided I wanted to play shadows of undrentide, so I started up the game. I used cheats to level my character up a bit, as I don't like playing the expansion with a level 1 character.
Before I went out and began battling anything, I restarted my pc and went to re-load my game, to which I found for the first time it wouldn't load. It would goto the load screen, get all the way to the end..but then an error would come up. This had never ever happened to me before, and I had used the level up cheat a lot because I play a lot of mods that sometimes require high level characters and didn't auto level you.
I tried quickly creating a character, doing no cheats, saving, exiting, and trying to load..and it actually DID load. Still, if this meant I couldn't use cheats(which again, at least leveling yourself up is needed for some mods) then I couldn't get as much out of the game.
So I uninstalled everything, and re-installed, updated once again, etc. Did everything the same. This time, upon clicking the icon to start up the game..it wouldn't even load up and I'd get an error message. I'd gone from not being able to load saved games, to the game not working at all.
I am not sure what the reason could be, as the ram upgrade wasn't incompatible with my system, so I do not see how it would do anything other than make the game run better.
So..anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this? Does it have to do with me updating the game 1.69? When it used to just goto 1.68 it worked fine, could that be the cause and if so, what is the solution?
The only other thing I can think of that is different is I used to have windows xp service pack 1, and now I have service pack 2, but again can't see how this could be the cause of my problems.
Please, if there is ANYONE who can offer any advice or solutions..this is my favorite game in the world..and it worked before so I know there must be a solution.