Crashy McFly

[Zealote]

Alright, i dont knw what to do. I cant play because NWN crashes on the first ''loading''. I cant even start. I havent change my config. My game is updated with worldgate and the latest patch. I just keep crashing before the first area. All i can see is the boat with the phycodelic sky.
Can someone help me?

-Raffael

[otomotetsuo]

Zealote, you are not alone.

I have been unable to login and stay logged in for any normal duration of gameplay.

The majority of my in-game crashes are at area transitions.

From what I can tell, the reason why I am constantly crashing when trying to log in - it is because I have managed to successfully login, leave the boat and get somewhere along the trade way. Once my character's location is set as one of these maps, if I try to hit an area transition I will crash and then I cannot get logged back into the server at all.

Each time I try to log back in after crashing I get through the loading module prompt and the loading area bar will start to progress, I usually get through the area load and will most often crash when it is going through the area updates. Once I get there - like clockwork - bang - I am down again.

I really need some expert advice on this because it is driving me absolutely crazy.

I have tried dropping all of the display settings in the game options down to next to null - for this reason, I don't think it is because I am getting blasted by a graphics overload.

Someone please help me. I need xp - bad.

-OT

[jasonpauldegraaf]

Agreed. I've been crashing quite a bit, mostly at transitions.

[tlantl]

*frowns*

I have been having the same trouble all day. Haven't been able to visit my friends at all. Seems like the gods are having trouble keeping the world together.

A cataclysm of epic proportions.

[DM Sir Carnifex]

Well, I got about a 50% crash rate for the first couple hours I played today when making area transitions, but it began to work better after awhile.

[jmlfoo]

DEVs might be able to do something for transition crashes:

nwn2.wikia.com/wiki/PW_Builders_Troubleshooting

And a quote from "PW Player troubleshooting":

Crashing

* Crashing while transition or logging in

Corrupted Hotbar – Turn off your hotbars in options- interface and uncheck all 4 ( Arcane Scholars do this a lot ) If crashing stops, ask your dm to delete the hotbar nodes from your character file, play without hotbars, or create a new character.

* Crashing while logging in

Corrupted character files – Try a different character to test, or create one. Inspect file to see if it is extremely large (DM or other means). Check and see if entire server crashed if you isolate to a single character, and if so contact a DM.

* Crashing While Idle, Random Crashes

This can be caused by another player having one of these issues. Just double check that you are not the cause, check your files are up to date.

* Crashing Entire OS / Video Card Issues

This is usually related to your video driver, make sure it is up to date. The ATI Catalysts driver (7.10 released on Oct 11) seems to have made things better for a lot of people

* Disable AGP fastwrite. You can turn it off in your BIOS. If that option is not in your BIOS, Nvidia video card owners can download an application that does it for you here

forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=4432

* Dual Core Crashes

Neverwinter is designed for single core, and dual cores report more crashes
But you can avoid this by setting the “affinity” to just a single core.
Start the game and then hit CTRL-ALT-DEL which brings up the task manager. Right click the nwn2main.exe process, then hit “Set Affinity...”
Then set the affinity to run on only one core by unchecking one of the boxes.
(There is a dual core hot fix, that helps some timing issues for XP running SP2, something about the power manager being incorrect... support.microsoft.com/kb/896256 )

* Familiar Crashes Transition only when you control your character, possessing a familar or similar can cause a crash.

* Transition Crash While VFX on Weapon is visible.