Neverwinter Nights FAQ

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General FAQ

  • - What does Neverwinter Nights coming to Beamdog mean?
  • - When does the game come out?
  • - What does this new Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition include?
  • - Will whatever other content for this game be available at launch?
  • - Can I get everything as a single packet?
  • - What platforms can I play on?
  • - If I purchase on Beamdog.com will I get a Steam primal?
  • - How exercise I discover my Steam fundamental?
  • - Who is working on the updated version of Neverwinter Nights?
  • - How much does Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition cost?
  • - What is the Advisory Board?
  • - How does the Community Patch (CPP) fit into this?
  • - Will the server browser piece of work once more?
  • - Are yous changing existing content in whatever manner?
  • - Will NWNX work with NWN: Enhanced Edition?
  • - Will my existing modules and saves piece of work in NWN:EE?
  • - Will I retain ownership of the premium modules I purchased from BioWare?
  • - Will 1.69 clients be able to connect to NWN:EE servers?
  • - What languages will NWN:EE be released in?
  • - Will NWN:EE work on macOS or Linux?
  • - Is NWN:EE DRM gratis?
  • - Will Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition be bachelor on mobile (iOS and Android)?
  • - Will Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition run on old systems, like Windows XP and Windows Vista? What well-nigh nwserver.exe?
  • - Beamdog has a lot on the go. Is NWN:EE affecting timelines on other projects?
  • - Can I play the premium modules in multiplayer?
  • - How long is Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition?
  • - Will Beamdog provide ongoing server system back up for Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition like BioWare did for the original game?
  • - Volition Beamdog host a Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition Community Site?

NWN:EE Content FAQ

  • - What does Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition look similar with the different features turned on or off?
  • - Which modules for Neverwinter Nights are available in Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition? How can they be accessed?
  • - Where are the new shaders and graphics features located?
  • - How practise I adjust my resolution or size of my UI?
  • - How does the Aurora Toolset work in Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition?
  • - How do the Dungeon Master client components work in Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition?
  • - Will mods for Neverwinter Nights work on Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition?
  • - What are the major technical changes since Neverwinter Nights 1.69?
  • - Will there be achievements, trading cards, and other Steam features?
  • - Can I use save games from Neverwinter Nights in Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition?

Multiplayer FAQ

  • - How do I play multiplayer?


Persistent World FAQ

  • - Are there any changes in the way persistent worlds piece of work in Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition?

Linux FAQ

  • - My Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition working directory has defaulted to a hidden directory
  • - I'm experiencing issues while using Ubuntu 17

General FAQ

What does Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition mean?

Beamdog will exist continuing development of Neverwinter Nights as Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition. In addition to all the features already included in Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition, we have created a dwelling house for the Neverwinter Nights community on our forums and our back up team welcomes feature suggestions, bug gear up requests, and player comments to assistance make Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition fifty-fifty ameliorate.

When does the game come out?

Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition is currently available on Beamdog and Steam!

What does this new Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition include?

Content

  • The original Neverwinter Nights campaign
  • Ii expansion packs:Shadows of Undrentide and Hordes of the Underdark
  • 3 premium modules:Kingmaker, ShadowGuard, and Witch's Wake

Features

  • Improved Display:Your portrait, combat bar, inventory, and other UI elements adjust in size based on your chosen resolution including 1080p and 4k.
  • Advanced Graphics Options:Pixel shaders and mail service-processing effects make for crisper, cleaner visuals. Enable contrast, vibrance, and depth of field options as preferred.
  • Community Endorsed:Original developers take teamed with key members of the Neverwinter Nights community to curate important fan-requested improvements to support players, storytellers, and modders.
  • Backwards Compatibility:Works with save games, modules, and mods from the original Neverwinter Nights. A galaxy of community created content awaits.

See the pre-social club Release Notes for more than details.

Will any other content for this game be bachelor at launch?

Yeah! The following additional items are bachelor for buy.

Premium Modules

  • Pirates of the Sword Coast
  • Infinite Dungeons
  • Wyvern Crown of Cormyr
  • Darkness over Daggerford

Soundtracks

  • Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition Official Soundtrack
  • Premium Adventures Official Soundtrack
  • Darkness over Daggerford Official Soundtrack

Additional DLC

  • The Heroes of Neverwinter Portrait Pack

Can I become everything as a unmarried packet?

Yes! All content is available in a single parcel on Beamdog.com and Steam.

What platforms tin I play on?

Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition is playable on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It is currently available on Beamdog and Steam, and GOG.

If I purchase on Beamdog.com will I get a Steam central?

Yes, a Steam central is made bachelor on purchase. Check the Game Keys area on your Beamdog.com account to find information technology. Please contact support@beamdog.com if you need assist.

How practise I find my Steam key?

Log in to your account on Beamdog.com using the Sign In option at the pinnacle of the page. Navigate to the Game Keys tab and re-create the 15 character cardinal code next to Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition. If you purchased the Digital Deluxe bundle, Steam keys for each slice of DLC will too appear here. Find more than detailed how-to instructions here.

Who is working on the updated version of Neverwinter Nights?

Quondam Neverwinter Nights squad members such as Mark Brockington (who wrote the scripting and multiplayer systems among many others) and Jason Knipe (who wrote the Aurora graphics engine) were our key developers on the project. Trent Oster, the original projection director for Neverwinter Nights, is leading the team. We've brought Bernhard Stöckner, a community leader who maintains Neverwinter Vault, onto the development team. We also have an informational board consisting of talented Neverwinter Nights modders and longtime community members who are essential to the time to come of Neverwinter Nights Enhanced Edition.

How much does Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition cost?

Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition is available on Beamdog and Steam! for $xix.99 USD.

What is the Advisory Board?

The Informational Board is a grouping of talented modders and programmers that have been deeply involved with Neverwinter Nights for many years. We gathered the Advisory Board together to curate and develop Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition. Going forward we volition exist directly interacting with the Neverwinter Nights customs on the Beamdog forums and elsewhere to ensure fan voices are heard. Your feedback and the input of the Advisory Lath will direct where our work is focused in future updates.

How does the Customs Patch (CPP) fit into this?

We have been working very closely with Shadooow to incorporate portions of the Customs Patch (also known every bit CPP or 1.71). Nosotros plan to continue incorporating fixes which will appear in future patches.

Will the server browser piece of work again?

Yeah, the server browser has been rewritten then you can one time once more find servers for multiplayer. At this time the original NWN restrictions apply: The server host must be reachable at the external UDP accost and port advertised through your NAT firewall.

Are y'all changing existing content in any way?

Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition includes UI and quality-of-life features. All the included story content remains as it was in Neverwinter Nights Diamond Edition.

Will NWNX work with NWN: Enhanced Edition?

Nosotros are working with the NWNX team to ensure compatibility with Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition.

Will my existing modules and saves work in NWN:EE ?

Yep, existing modules and saves will continue to work inNWN:EE.

Volition I retain ownership of the premium modules I purchased from BioWare?

If you already have the premium modules (Wyvern Crown of Cormyr, Pirates of the Sword Coast, or Infinite Dungeons), they will role properly in Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition.

Will 1.69 clients be able to connect to NWN:EE servers?

No. While save games and modules created in older versions of Neverwinter Nights are usable in Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition, NWN i.69 players won't be able to connect to NWN:EE servers. Like all previous patches, we modify the networking model continuously to allow us to implement new features and gear up bugs. Yous volition need the same NWN:EE client version to connect to an NWN:EE server.

What languages will NWN:EE be released in?

At launch Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition supports English, French, Italian, High german, Spanish, and Polish. Italian and Castilian localizations are both text-only.

Boosted language back up is something we're looking into for the future.

Will NWN:EE piece of work on macOS or Linux?

Yes, Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition supports both macOS and Linux. Yet, at this time, the Aurora Toolset is all the same Windows-only.

Is NWN:EE DRM free?

The unmarried thespian Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition experience is DRM gratis. NWN:EE multiplayer requires a unique CD-Central.

Will Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition exist available on mobile (iOS and Android)?

At this time Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition is desktop-only.

Will Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition run on one-time systems, like Windows XP and Windows Vista? What about nwserver.exe?

At this time Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition is simply available on Windows 7 and upwardly.

Beamdog has a lot on the get. Is NWN:EE affecting timelines on other projects?

Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition is existence worked on by a split up developer squad than the Infinity Engine titles.

Can I play the premium modules in multiplayer?

Yep. Premium modules now support multiplayer, however some (such as Kingmaker) were designed equally single player experiences.

How long is Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition?

The master entrada of Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition is 50 to 60 hours.

Each of the expansions are xx to xxx hours long

Premium modules vary, ranging from eight to xx hours of gameplay.

Volition Beamdog provide ongoing server system back up for Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition like BioWare did for the original game?

Yes.

Will Beamdog host a Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition Customs Site?

We have created a total Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition expanse in our forums the NWN community is actively participating in. Hop in and suggest features and fixes for future NWN:EE updates.

NWN:EE Content FAQ

What does Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition look like with the unlike features turned on or off?

NWN: Diamond Edition vs. NWN: EE With All Advanced Filters

NWN: Diamond Edition vs. NWN: EE With Vibrancy Filter

NWN: Diamond Edition vs. NWN: EE With Depth Of Field Filter

NWN: Diamond Edition vs. NWN: EE With High Contrast Filter

NWN: Diamond Edition vs. NWN: EE With No Filters

Which modules for Neverwinter Nights are available in Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition? How can they be accessed?

NWN:EE supports modules created for earlier versions of Neverwinter Nights. Yous tin can notice many community-created modules in Steam Workshop and more than over at the Neverwinter Nights Vault.

Where are the new shaders and graphics features located?

Under the Options carte, get to Video Options and select Avant-garde Frame-Buffer Effects. These options tin can be toggled off and on in any combination pre-game or during play.

How practise I adapt my resolution or size of my UI?

In the Options card, go to Video Options and cull Resolution and UI Scaling.

How does the Aurora Toolset work in Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition?

The Aurora Toolset works exactly as information technology did in the original Neverwinter Nights. You should exist able to access the toolset from the Beamdog Client on the right mitt side of the Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition section. If y'all don't run across the launch toolset pick, try expanding the window.

To access the toolset through Steam, launch Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition and choose Launch Game Editor.

How practise the Dungeon Master customer components work in Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition?

The Dungeon Principal client works exactly equally it did in the original Neverwinter Nights.

Volition mods for Neverwinter Nights work on Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition?

Some mods volition require updating before they are compatible with Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition.

What are the major technical changes since Neverwinter Nights 1.69?

Marking Brockington: We've decided to make the game into a good Windows denizen. We at present have a write-able directory where your files reside and a read-but directory where the read-but files reside.  This allows united states of america to patch the game without us having to worry about a patch blowing away your content.

We've re-enabled the master server and accept the service up and running within the UI. There is no need to patch your executable to go server lists anymore!

We've as well added a cantankerous-platform library (SDL) for implementing our input systems.

Jason Knipe: The graphics engine has been updated so that everything runs through GLSL shaders, including the toolset. The shaders reproduce the old hardware T&L functionality from the original NWN, and were not meant to add particular or fidelity that did not exist in the original. However, this ways that you can create and use your own custom shaders in the game which opens up a wide diverseness of graphical possibilities.

Bernhard Stöckner: We've done a thorough security inspect of the codebase, removing all known exploits and crash bug in the process. We accept also addressed a great many engine, game and rules problems, equally well as improved server operation significantly.

On the big characteristic front end, we have done work too. In improver to things mentioned elsewhere, y'all can expect to see a collection of new scripting commands and ini configuration flags, hak loading before character creation, area instancing, and much more than as the beta will progress and bring in feedback.

Final, but not least, nosotros've approached the NWNX developers and are actively helping them with a clean and consummate rewrite of the codebase to the new release, so that the majority of server transitions will go as smooth as possible. Future patches will receive the same loving attention!

Notice the full list of changes in the Release Notes.

Volition there exist achievements, trading cards, and other Steam features?

NWN:EE will launch with Steam Workshop and Friends List features enabled. We programme to make trading cards available soon afterward launch. Achievements and other features are things we're working towards.

Can I use save games from Neverwinter Nights in Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition?

Yes. Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition supports save games from Neverwinter Nights.

Multiplayer FAQ

How do I play multiplayer?

Joining a game in progress:

  1. From the main menu, click 'Multiplayer'
  2. Click 'Join Internet Game'
  3. You volition be presented with a server-listing
  4. From here, yous may either join a game from the server listings, or y'all may straight connect with a game'south IP accost

To join a game from the browser

  1. Discover the game you are looking for in the server listings
  2. Left click the server-name
  3. Left click 'Connect' button
  4. If a password is requested, enter the password in the provided textbox, and click 'OK'
  5. Select your preferred pre-fabricated character, or create a new character and click Play

To directly connect to a game

  1. Click 'Straight Connect'
  2. Enter the IP accost of the server you wish to bring together into the Server IP Address text box
  3. Enter a password if one is required in the Player Countersign text box
  4. Click 'OK'
  5. Select your preferred pre-made character, or create a new grapheme and click Play

Creating / Playing in an LAN|Internet Game:

  1.  From the main card, click 'Multiplayer'
  2. Click 'New Cyberspace/LAN Game'
  3. A 'Campaign to load' screen will appear. This mimics Single-player game creation. Select the game / module yous want to play
  4. On selecting the entrada y'all want to play, yous will exist provided options for your multiplayer game at the lesser of the screen. Activate what settings you desire
  5. Avant-garde options are also bachelor under the 'Advanced Options' carte du jour
  6. On having all options prepare as is desirable, click the module / chapter name,or the 'load' push button
  7. Select your preferred pre-made grapheme, or create a new character
  8. Based on your option selections other players should be free to join your game

Loading / Playing in an LAN|Internet Game:

  1. From the main menu, click 'Multiplayer'
  2. From the multiplayer menu, click 'Load Internet|LAN Game'
  3. A list of salve-games will be provided (Should any exist)
  4. A list of optional server-settings will exist listed below
  5. Avant-garde options are listed under 'Avant-garde Options'
  6. When ready, click 'Load'

Loading a Dedicated Server (GUI)

  1. From the Beamdog Client, aggrandize the window with Neverwinter Nights selected. Click 'Launch Neverwinter Nights Server Tool'
  2. Alternatively, in the install directory, under 'bin --> System type' yous can run nwserver.exe
  3. GUI element will be presented, select / enter all relevant settings
  4. Once 'Module Proper name' has been filled in, the 'Load' push will be usable. One time all settings are fabricated, click 'Load' to offset the game

Loading a Defended Server (Command prompt)

  1. The nwserver file is located in the 'bin' folder in the install directory
  2. Running the nwserver file with the appropriate dash-codes allow the server to be hosted with appropriate options
  3. If you want to host a server, you lot will need to brand certain that port 5121(default port) is accessible to the other clients either by allowing it through your firewall or forwarding the port from your router to the computer hosting the game

Persistent World FAQ

Are there any changes in the way persistent worlds work in Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition?

In the current Neverwinter Nights 1.69 patch, on persistent worlds, players are more often than not identified by their public CD key and the histrion name as a pair of information. Before the Gamespy system went down in 2014, those player names were unique in a global sense, but are now just unique on a per server ground.

In the globe of the new patches (NWN:EE), Beamdog has no intention of forcing player names to be unique per server anymore. (Server admins may cull to bind a unique role player and dungeon master name to a specific CD key, merely information technology's not a requirement of any server to exercise this.) One thing that is unique to each person'due south experience is their own unique CD primal that is purchased via store.beamdog.com or Steam. If they've purchased the game, and launch through the Beamdog Client, they volition have their CD central bachelor to them for authentication purposes.

We intend on using the public CD Key as the directory for where someone saves their servervault characters.

We have a master server upwardly and operational that volition validate that the CD keys are valid, and so we no longer need to resort to other authentication methods for NWN:EE servers. However, when it comes to migrating characters from the 1.69 servervault (where characters are stored by role player proper noun) to the NWN:EE server vault (where characters are stored by public CD Fundamental), things get a little fleck strange.

And then, how are server admins going to translate from 1.69 to NWN:EE hands?

The server admin copies their ane.69 servervault to the new NWN:EE user directory ~/nwn/oldservervault.
The server admin creates the "oldservervault.2da" file in ~/nwn/override that contains the player ID / CD Central pairs of their 1.69 users (such as the post-obit):

2DA V2.0         Role player             CDKey169   0      trilobyte          USVE763A one      trinketpony        UCDEFGHJ 2      trottingkrip       URERLADE        

When a client logs in to a server, nosotros volition provide you with the public NWN:EE CD key. But, we will also provide (if the user has moved their nwncdkey.ini into their ~/nwn binder) the one.69 key to the server, at startup, along with the actor's proper name.

When nwserver/NWN:EE sees a user log in with a new CD Key (and has no characters congenital), merely matches the player name in the oldservervault list, we will await at their 1.69 Key and verify that it is the same as the one that was passed in. If they are the same, we volition re-create the files from oldservervault/trottingkrip to servervault/(NWN:EE CDKey), and so disallow those files to be copied ever again.

Instance of how this works. Trottingkrip used your server extensively before NWN:EE to create Deekin'southward cousin Beekin (trottingkrip is terrible at naming characters), and now you're running a NWN:EE server alongside the 1.69 server to let people to migrate equally they meet fit.

So, trottingkrip logs in to the NWN:EE server (which he can meet from the in-game server browser that accesses (yet-to-be-determined-URL-for-master-server). His NWN:EE public CD Key is UKJKHDWE, and ane.69 public CD Key: URERLADE.

We examine the folders:
~/nwn/servervault/UKJKHDWE has no characters.

Only there is a grapheme here:
~/nwn/oldservervault/trottingkrip/Beekin.bic

Since trottingkrip is the player's proper name, and they've given their 1.69 public CD Key, nwserver can copy the .bic characters from oldservervault/trottingkrip to servervault/UKJKHDWE, and then irresolute the file extension of the oldservervault characters to ensure they can't exist automatically copied over again (merely we leave the files at that place, just in instance you need to restore a specific user'south copy ability).

~/nwn/servervault/UKJKHDWE/Beekin.bic ~/nwn/oldservervault/trottingkrip/Beekin.xbc        

If the Prisoner of war client has not installed their 1.69 CD Key, they volition show upwardly without their servervault characters, and be given the opportunity to make a new i. The server admins (and forum stickys) can then counsel them on how to install the old nwncdkey.ini file into their new working directory to utilize the PWs they know and love in NWN:EE .

Linux FAQ

My Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition working directory has defaulted to a hidden directory

Run the following control to create a symlink to the neverwinter nights information in your documents binder:

ln -s ~/.local/share/Neverwinter\ Nights ~/Documents/Neverwinter_Nights

Also, at that place MAY Non exist a ~/Documents directory already created (though most major Unix manufacturers are starting to follow this standard, so the docs probably should read:

cd ~
mkdir Documents
ln -s ~/.local/share/Neverwinter\ Nights ~/Documents/Neverwinter_Nights

I'm experiencing bug while using Ubuntu 17

The team is currently looking into issues with this version of Ubuntu. We recommend using Ten session instead of wayland.