NeverWinterNights2OnLinux

Notes

• AppDB entry
  • Install vcrun2005 (MSVC80 blah crap) via winetricks so that you can get all the way through the installer. Mine kept failing around some "merdelain" module otherwise.
  • Use of dll overrides "devenum.dll" and "dxdiagn.dll" are necessary for the game to run.
    • In particular, I needed to get devenum and dxdiagn from my XP VM, in /windows/system32/. What tripped me up a bit was that although the fake-windows dir in my wine area didn't have a devenum.dll already, it did have a (tiny, fake) dxdiagn.dll, so I kinda assumed I didn't need it. I realised I was wrong when I saw the file sizes, and replacing the dxdiagn.dll finally solved my "You have less than 128M of graphics RAM" error.
  • Installation of MS .NET 2.0 and d3d9 via winetricks may be necessary, though when I attempted the dot net one, it seriously fucked up my wine area. MAKE BACKUPS.
  • The following Wine\Direct3D registry key changes are recommended (which you can mostly do via winetricks. The VideoMemorySize? one seems to want a string key.):
  • To get the autoupdater to run, a registry key needs to be changed: In `HKey_Local_Machine>Software>Obsidian>NWN2>Neverwinter>NWUpdate` change the value of "Internet Connect" from 0 to 1.

my user.reg

[Software\\Wine\\Direct3D] 1267887342
"OffscreenRenderingMode"="fbo"
"UseGLSL"="enabled"

[Software\\Wine\\DllOverrides] 1267888254
"d3dx9_24"="native"
"d3dx9_25"="native"
"d3dx9_26"="native"
"d3dx9_27"="native"
"d3dx9_28"="native"
"d3dx9_29"="native"
"d3dx9_30"="native"
"d3dx9_31"="native"
"d3dx9_32"="native"
"d3dx9_33"="native"
"d3dx9_34"="native"
"d3dx9_35"="native"
"d3dx9_36"="native"
"d3dx9_37"="native"
"d3dx9_38"="native"
"d3dx9_39"="native"
"d3dx9_40"="native"
"d3dx9_41"="native"
"d3dx9_42"="native"
"devenum"="native,builtin"
"dplayx"="native"
"dpnet"="native"
"dpnhpast"="native"
"dpwsockx"="native"
"dxdiagn"="native,builtin"


my system.reg

[Software\\Obsidian\\Neverwinter Nights 2\\1.00.0000] 1267868449

[Software\\Obsidian\\NWN 2\\Neverwinter] 1267876915
"GUID"="{D656D1B3-5810-49f1-A9B7-24CF06F5BA8A}"
"Installing Name"="Neverwinter Nights 2"
"Language"=dword:00000000
"Location"="D:\\Neverwinter Nights 2"
"Version"="1.23"

[Software\\Obsidian\\NWN 2\\Neverwinter\\NWUpdate] 1267872485
"Debug"="0"
"Internet Connect"="1"
"Ping Timeout"="1000"
"RebootMessageCount"=dword:00000002
"Window Position"="331,150"
"Window Size"="618,447"

Bane of my existence

As usual, PulseAudio Fucks Things Up. Probably the least shitty way to get most wine apps not-failing is to prefix all your `wine` invocations with `padsp`. Sound quality suffers a bit, but it works. I can't seem to kill pulse on my machine anymore, something - upstart or gnome, I'm looking at you - keeps resurrecting it.

cd "Neverwinter Nights 2"
padsp wine NWN2Launcher.exe