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Re: Free Neverwinter Nights on GOG

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From: Xocyll
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 14:25
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>On 12/6/2016 7:11 PM, Xocyll wrote:
>> Metal Guru <themet...@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails
>> of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:
>>
>>> On Thursday, December 1, 2016 at 9:29:29 AM UTC-5, Werner Punz wrote:
>>>> Hi I just wanted to inform everybody that NWN currently is free on GOG.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Werner
>>>
>>> Has anybody been able to get this game running on Win10? I've tried a million different suggestions found online but nothing seems to work, the game window gets scrunched to the right lower corner of my monitor regardless of what I do. I'm not even going to list everything I've tried because it would take me forever but suffice it to say that I've just given up at this point and will play it on my ancient XP laptop.
>>
>> A quick google turned up
>> https://www.gog.com/forum/neverwinter_nights_series/nwn1_andor_nwn2_windows_10
>>
>> Highlights:
>> Try renaming nwnmain.exe to something else, like nwngame.exe and launch
>> directly from that.
>> and
>> You need to install it anywhere other than C:\ProgramFiles.....
>> No idea if this actually works since I still run win7.
>> Good Luck
>
>Been there, done that and plenty more - nothing seems to work. I have a 
>laptop with dual GPU's (a dedicated nVidia 860M 1GB and Intel HD5x) and 
>I've tried every thing I could think of/find with both GPU's but no go.
>
>No biggie, but thank you for the suggestions anyway.

Can you disable the Intel GPU entirely? 
Just thinking that if the game is detecting that, it may be refusing to
run even though it might be able to using the nvidia GPU, just because
of the presence of a GPU it knows isn't capable.

Never underestimate stupid programmer tricks.

Xocyll
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