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Borderless Fullscreen and Fullscreen were basically the same. Couldn't move mouse outside the window
One crash during a 20 hour playthrough of a custom module - This was preceded by the game getting slower a tiny bit each minute or each save/load. Maybe a memory leak, maybe the custom module.
No option to chose resolution after choosing Exclusive Fullscreen. Resolution change in-game changes the desktop resolution even after exiting game.
Randomly and frequently bounces back and forth between 60FPS and 30FPS.
Game runs. Resolution and FPS issues aren't game breaking, just obnoxious.
Tried with native but mod support was spotty. My big issue was that campaign mods that required supporting hak files weren't detecting them (mods like The Prophet and Swordflight Saga). Proton fixed the problem.
The text on the original Deck monitor is difficult to read. It is necessary to connect the monitor.
Works OotB
Custom modules run fine too
Additional setup required for NIT mod manager.
Enhanced Edition allows for increased UI scale, but it only lets you increase by ~10% at 1280x800. The result is constant use of the magnifying glass.
A huge draw of NWN is using it as the framework for community creations. Neverwinter Nights Installer Tool (NIT) is a Windows app, which causes some weirdness with NWN's Linux build.
Download and Setup
- Download NIT (https://neverwintervault.org/project/nwn1/other/tool/neverwinter-nights-mod-installer-tool-nit)
- Download 7zip 64 bit installer
- Download Bottles flatpak via Discover
- Run these commands in Konsole to give Bottles access to your SSD & SD card:
flatpak override --user --filesystem="home" com.usebottles.bottles
flatpak override --user --filesystem="/run/media" com.usebottles.bottles
- Take note of your game's installation and config file paths. If installed on SSD, they should be
/home/deck/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Neverwinter Nights/and/home/deck/.local/share/Neverwinter Nights/respectively. - In the latter aforementioned path, edit nwn.ini and add these lines to the bottom:
[Alias]
NWMFiles=Z:\home\deck\.local\share\Steam\steamapps\common\Neverwinter Nights\data\nwm
- Right click nwn.ini, go to Properties, and in the Permissions tab change Owner to 'Can Only View'.
Install NIT with Bottles
- Open Bottles and create a new bottle named 'NIT' using the Application environment.
- Open the bottle and scroll down to dependancies. Find dotnet48 in the list and install it.
- Use 'Add shorcuts...' to add the installers for 7zip and NIT (Setup and Run.exe).
- Install 7zip first, using the default path it provides.
- Ditto for NIT. When it finishes installing, it'll ask for nwn.exe's location. Close that window.
- Select 'Enhanced Edition' in the subsequent window.
- When asked for your User Files and Library folders, DON'T use the built-in file browser. Instead provide it with the paths from step 5, but beginning with Z: and change every forward slash to a back slash. For a normal SSD install this will be
User Files: Z:\home\deck\.local\share\Neverwinter Nights\
Library: Z:\home\deck\.local\share\Steam\steamapps\common\Neverwinter Nights\
- Proceed through the installer. It may complain your .ini is inaccessible or busted, but it will still manage mods just fine.
- Install and play a mod to be sure it's working.
- Go back to your NIT bottle and use the Kebab menu to 'Browse Files'. Take note of the location, and add NWN Installer Tool.exe as a shortcut (found under
~drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Surazal/NWN Installer Tool/). This will be how you launch NIT.
I was playing it fairly recently, either the game updated, or the OS. I have tried with every version of proton available. Same behavior on ever single one: black screen, quits out.
Overall very smooth gameplay. Getting around 60 fps in the City Core and Peninsula district open areas. Getting in the 70s in interiors.
Setup: Playing with external monitor at 1920x1080 in windowed mode. All Graphics options options except depth of field are turned on and sliders were left at default. DoF is a negligible performance hit, only a few frames are gained from turning it off. Disclaimer: Using CryoUtilities at recommended settings with VRAM set to 4GB in bios.
Installed Workshop Addons: Neverwinter Nights HD Art Pack
GOG Linux Native Works on Deck
Works out of the box. No tinkering done.
Unknown(< 15 minutes with Proton)The game didn't work for me native on Linux. On Proton it works fine, there are only minor graphical glitches with shadows with the highest settings but you can play fine.
Unknown(< 15 minutes with Proton)
