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There are various threads about with people complaining about crashing problems.
I thought it might be useful if there was one where people could not just mention the current problems they have but to talk about problems they had and how they have overcome them.
This might make useful reading for people dealing with some certain types of crashing.
I thought I might just start of the thread with a bit of NWN2 installation optomisation method that I use myself.
It's a little bit obsessive but this is the way I install NWN2 and for myself it has enormously reduced lag and crashing.
1. Take any save game files and haks and PWC files and tlk and all such stuff like the sundren haks and store them in some suitable named files in your my documents folder or however you prefer. Basically anything that would be lost forever by deleting the game. Keep these files safe, to put back into your new intallation.
2. Uninstall NWN2 and then pysically remove any remnants of the game that appear left over on your machine.
3. Now you want a nice clean system that is all well organised and anyway.... trust me here.
Go to control panel - open internet options - where it says browsng history click delete - Select Delete all (unless there are certain things you would rather not delete in the list)
4. Next go to START - All Programs > - Accessories - System Tools - Disk Cleanup. Run the program and when a list with little check boxes comes up, select any box that has anything other than 0 files next to it. - Click OK and the program will clean off a lot of old temporay intallation files and temporary internet files and compress old unused files, clean out caches and all sorts of magical things.
5. Now I use a little program i got of the internet, it's free but you can donate. I love this program, I run it about 1/week and it keeps my system running like new. Cleanup! - http://www.stevengould.org/index.php...=29&Itemid=223
Check it out, you don't have to use this if you don't want to but i'll vouch for this program as really awsome for getting rid of all that junk on your computer that clogs it up and makes it slow and has nothing to do with the day to day running of things.
6. Now your system is like a virgin again. Go to START - All Programs > - Accessories - System Tools - Disk Defragmenter.
I don't care if it needs it or not, again trust me on this, there is stuff about defragging on the NWN1 and 2 forums. Just do it.
7. Now your system is like a virgin who is bathed and washed and wearing the vestidial white robes. time to take out the NWN2 main play disk.
Put it in and install.
8. Once installed, run the updater. (If you just install all the expansion disks first you get some problems running the updater later, god knows why)
9. Defrag again. This works in the long run, bigger picture thing here. O.C.D. maybe.
10. Install Mask of the Betrayer expansion pack.
11. Run the updater.
12. Defrag again. (you'll notice de-fragging doesn't take so long anymore, you are literally only condensing and reorganising the NWN2 files around now into a nice orderly stack on your hard drive.)
13. Install Storm of Zehir Expansion pack.
14. Run the updater.
15. Defrag again. (quit whining)
16. put all your save game files, haks, pwc, tlk all that stuff back into the game folders where they came from.
17. Run the Sundren updater
18. Defrag again.
19. Go to bed since the sun is likely coming up by now.
20. Get up, go to work, come home, have dinner, get online and thank me personally via a tell in game.
I thought it might be useful if there was one where people could not just mention the current problems they have but to talk about problems they had and how they have overcome them.
This might make useful reading for people dealing with some certain types of crashing.
I thought I might just start of the thread with a bit of NWN2 installation optomisation method that I use myself.
It's a little bit obsessive but this is the way I install NWN2 and for myself it has enormously reduced lag and crashing.
1. Take any save game files and haks and PWC files and tlk and all such stuff like the sundren haks and store them in some suitable named files in your my documents folder or however you prefer. Basically anything that would be lost forever by deleting the game. Keep these files safe, to put back into your new intallation.
2. Uninstall NWN2 and then pysically remove any remnants of the game that appear left over on your machine.
3. Now you want a nice clean system that is all well organised and anyway.... trust me here.
Go to control panel - open internet options - where it says browsng history click delete - Select Delete all (unless there are certain things you would rather not delete in the list)
4. Next go to START - All Programs > - Accessories - System Tools - Disk Cleanup. Run the program and when a list with little check boxes comes up, select any box that has anything other than 0 files next to it. - Click OK and the program will clean off a lot of old temporay intallation files and temporary internet files and compress old unused files, clean out caches and all sorts of magical things.
5. Now I use a little program i got of the internet, it's free but you can donate. I love this program, I run it about 1/week and it keeps my system running like new. Cleanup! - http://www.stevengould.org/index.php...=29&Itemid=223
Check it out, you don't have to use this if you don't want to but i'll vouch for this program as really awsome for getting rid of all that junk on your computer that clogs it up and makes it slow and has nothing to do with the day to day running of things.
6. Now your system is like a virgin again. Go to START - All Programs > - Accessories - System Tools - Disk Defragmenter.
I don't care if it needs it or not, again trust me on this, there is stuff about defragging on the NWN1 and 2 forums. Just do it.
7. Now your system is like a virgin who is bathed and washed and wearing the vestidial white robes. time to take out the NWN2 main play disk.
Put it in and install.
8. Once installed, run the updater. (If you just install all the expansion disks first you get some problems running the updater later, god knows why)
9. Defrag again. This works in the long run, bigger picture thing here. O.C.D. maybe.
10. Install Mask of the Betrayer expansion pack.
11. Run the updater.
12. Defrag again. (you'll notice de-fragging doesn't take so long anymore, you are literally only condensing and reorganising the NWN2 files around now into a nice orderly stack on your hard drive.)
13. Install Storm of Zehir Expansion pack.
14. Run the updater.
15. Defrag again. (quit whining)
16. put all your save game files, haks, pwc, tlk all that stuff back into the game folders where they came from.
17. Run the Sundren updater
18. Defrag again.
19. Go to bed since the sun is likely coming up by now.
20. Get up, go to work, come home, have dinner, get online and thank me personally via a tell in game.
Shiv Shadowsong
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