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I just cannot get the commands to work. There are several posts about this, but some say different things. One says open console by just pressing ~. I tried that and nothing happened, not even the 'yellow at the top of the screen'. Another said press Enter to access chat, then ~. Another said his problem had been that he was pressing Shift ~ but when he just pressed ~ it worked. But ~ is an upper-case character so you HAVE to press shift! Another says type in DebugMode 1 and that it is case-sensitive. Others say it isn't case-sensitive and you can type it however you want! One guy said you have to type in ~DebugMode 1~ then TAB. others say you only press ~ to get into the console, you don't press it to command, eg: DebugMode 1 SetSTR 20 ENTER. Every single person says it's easy!! No matter what I do, nothing works!
I know it must be me 'cos I'm stupid, but could someone PLEASE tell me how to bring up the console and type commands, with an example?
Thanks guys!

The '~' key is because many MORE games require that key than don't.

The REAL key that opens the console is the '`' (Remember: I use the English(US) Keyboard, and the key changes from language to language), or the key directly left of the 1 key.

Example:

Select a Character within the party (such as the PC)
press '`'
type: debugmode 1
type: setstr 18
type debugmode 0
press '`'

This will give the selected char a strength of 18.

Agreed, however, the commands are case sensitive!!!

Example:
` (this is the key to the left of the 1 key right beneath the ESC button)
DebugMode 1 (enter)
givexp 10000 (enter)
DebugMode 0 (enter)
`

Doing this will
1. Open the window, which for me covered most of my screen by default.
2. Enter debug mode so that you can access commands.
3. Give your party 10,000 experience points each because all characters share the points.
4. Exit debug mode so that you don't see the areas that cue dialog/events ect. in bright yellow.
5. Close the window so that you can actually play the game again.

Each command should be entered as separate lines and be in the correct case.

BAD EXAMPLES
DebugMode 1 givexp 10000 (enter)
debugmode 1 (enter)

For a list of all of the commands possible, type "commands" and enter.

Hope it helps!

Indeed the key location changes based on keyboard layout - mine being Danish the ` key is located different then the English ones.
However, I sometimes have to press ´ prior to ` (same key, but without shift) to get the console to work. I figure it is some sort of issue due to the language set-up of keyboards as I had the same problem in NwN1.

You can however as mentioned yourself, also type commands in your chat bar (enter) but IIRC you need to prefix the commands with ## like this: ##DebugMode 1

Lleliwyn wrote:Agreed, however, the commands are case sensitive!!!

No, they're not.

debugmode 1

works just fine. Generally speaking, the commands aren't case sensitive, but the arguments (the stuff after the commands) are.

SWC

You guys rock!

Thanks guys! The '`' worked great. I had to tweak a bit; on my pc DebugMode 1 IS case-sensitive. Also, whilst in the console the upper half of my screen isn't yellow, its grey (could be my graphic card which is only GeForce 6200), but I don't have to type DebugMode 0 to get rid of it, I just press ENTER to execute the command then ` to get out of the console. I'm thinking that maybe the whole console/command thing may work a little differently on some computers. Anyway, it works!
Many thanks again for your help!

Out of curiosity, Paul and Lleli, are you playing the standard North American release of the game, or are you playing some other language version? It's odd that the commands are case sensitive for some but not for others.

SWC

swcarter wrote:Out of curiosity, Paul and Lleli, are you playing the standard North American release of the game, or are you playing some other language version? It's odd that the commands are case sensitive for some but not for others.

SWC

I think it's the standard NA release... I'm not sure however. If you could tell me where to check for this information I would do so.

swcarter wrote:Out of curiosity, Paul and Lleli, are you playing the standard North American release of the game, or are you playing some other language version? It's odd that the commands are case sensitive for some but not for others.

SWC

I heard a rumor over on the Main (Bioware) Forums that the Presence of Mask of the Betrayer alters the case sensitivity of the actual commands, swcarter. Perhaps this is true.

Paul & Lleli: Are the two of you playing NWN2 only, or do you have THe Expansion pack installed?

Based on other posts, Lleli has MOTB installed, so that's not it. And I'm assuming that she has an English-language version, so it's probably the NA version, so that's not it, either.

Not that this really matters, but it's odd.

SWC

Standard version

I'm from the UK, so my version is just the standard version of NWN2. I don't have MotB installed.