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I have recently put a video card in, I had previously had a worse one, that worked fine, but now I can't play the game atall!

Can you help, or tell me why this has happened?

Damn, new fangled inventions!

what r ur specs craig? can't really help u much without them.....

Is it just NWN you're having trouble with or is it all games?

Duron 800, 256meg ram and 64 video.(What ever that means)

I don't have any other Games on my machine, I have all the Drivers and patches, on any resolution other then 800X600 60hz itgoes black, and even on that it it slower then a... very slow thing. Any way, any more help?

Originally posted by craig
Duron 800, 256meg ram and 64 video.(What ever that means)

I don't have any other Games on my machine, I have all the Drivers and patches, on any resolution other then 800X600 60hz itgoes black, and even on that it it slower then a... very slow thing. Any way, any more help?

I would need soem more specs to help anything.... it ould be motherboard vs graph card problems or somesuch......

If you can fil out as many of teh below as you can and know..

CPU brand:
CPU speed:
RAM and type:
Soundcard manufacturer:
Soundcard Brand:
Soundcard driver:
Motherboard manufacturer:
Motherboard brand:
Motherboard driver:
Graph card manufacturer:
Graph card brand:
Graph card driver:

I know none of them...

By any chance are you using a Voodoo card? I remember experiecing similar problems when I tried to play it with my Voodoo 3 card. Of course, that was when I had some problems with my sound card as well, so it was hard to tell which was screwing up what.

According to some people, NWN doesn't support Voodoo cards (they're out of production) so people who use them have to do some fancy mojo with their system config just to make it run... barely.

Cool, I'll check, but I remember it was something savage... I have no Real idea though.

Originally posted by craig
I know none of them...

you should try to disable sound, or maybe roll back a couple of drivers for fot teh garph card......

Pardon? fot teh?

gee it's a typo ..... "for the" it's suppsed to say....

Did you have to install any software or drivers for the new card? If not, then it's most likely that it's using the default Microsoft driver for the card which may not support OpenGL or Direct3D. I recommend downloading and installing the latest driver for the card (sounds like it's an S3 Savage4) and checking that you have DirectX 8 installed.

::waves hand hypnotically in front of craig::
You must buy an MSI motherboard and an nVidia GeForce4 Ti video card.

: ockets checks from MSI and nVidia::

::waves hand hypnotically in front of self::
His jedi mind trick do not effect me.

Savage 4 thats it, I'll try undoing the sound, as I put in a driver for it. i have DirectX 8.1(I think?) when I patched NWN.

if not try drivers dot com, drivers.com, youll get to the right page, also go to windows updates for thier latest drivers, taking for granted you have windows operating system, also look for update drivers for your motherboard and chipset, flash bios if necessary, sorry, i do get carried away, but it works.

Ok, some pretty common sense solutions that might solve your problem:

1) Update your video card driver to the latest version
2) Update your sound card driver to the latest version
3) Get the latest version of DirectX
4) Get the latest patch for Neverwinter Nights

You've also said that the game runs really slowly at 800x600, try to turn down all the graphical settings to a bare minium and see if it increases the frame rate. Also, Neverwinter Nights is a very hardware-intensive game. Your Duron 800 MHz and 256 MB of RAM might not be enough, so maybe that's why you are experiencing lag.

I got a new card, Nvidia I think, works lovly.

Originally posted by craig
I got a new card, Nvidia I think, works lovly.

Immune to the Jedi Mind Trick . . . ::snort::