Neverwinter Nights crashes....

Jaypee · Post by **Jaypee** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 2:32 pm

I didn't have this problem with my old computer and graphics adapter, but now the game just crashes after a while of playing. I really don't have any solution for this. I've tried re-installing and getting new drivers. Nothing seems to work.

Anybody had similar problems?

I'm running with Windows XP, Club3D Radeon 9600XT, AMD 64 3000+ and Gigabyte K8M800 motherboard.

Thanks in advance.

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 10:51 pm

Do you have any anti-virus programs running?

And when you say crash, simply crash to desktop or does it "hang" the program etc?

Jaypee · Post by **Jaypee** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 6:03 am

The program and windows hang as well. It doesn't exit from the game. The screen gets jammed too. Cntr-Alt-Del doesn't work. Only pushing the reset button.

In background Antivir and Zonealarm are running. But I had these with my old computer too, no problems then.

Jaypee · Post by **Jaypee** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 8:41 am

I figured it out a while ago. I took everything off in the ATI Catalyst Center advanced options. I mean everything and reduced the graphics quality in the game. Now it's stable, but this is last time ever I touch ATI graphics adapters when buying.... I'm even planning to trade this piece of **** I already have for cheaper nVidia card.

No profanity, please, as per forum rules. - Xandax

Rookierookie · Post by **Rookierookie** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 2:36 am

That's the problem with CCC, not with the hardware itself. Next time, use a driver that does not contain the CCC.

Jaypee · Post by **Jaypee** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 2:47 pm

Same problem and solution with KotOR. Not a big surprise though.Now I'm really starting to get angry.

ruroni · Post by **ruroni** » Wed May 04, 2005 10:37 pm

I concur ATI is a piece of digestedFood

My NWN Crashes to the desktop too (sometimes it reboots, sometimes it just hangs) As far as the theory of it's not the hardware it's CCC...
My omegaDrivers 2.6.05a, based on Catalyst 5.2, use RadLinker... (Omega drivers CAN work with CCC, but they are not included, and it's not recomended to use CCC w/OmegaDrivers)

The only way I can get some game time before crashing is if I turn AA and AF off on the card itself, and AA in the game video options, then lower all graphics setting to somewhere in the middle including the textures from 64meg to 32 meg... I tried disabling my Avast during game time, but that changed nothing.

Given my system, I would imagine I should be able to play the game with better settings; I would hope, It's not like NWN came out yesterday...

Although truth be told it's not ALL ATI's fault. BioWare pretty much abandoned those w/o nVidia cards, I figured when I noticed their inGame AA settings have Quincunx as one of the options, eventhough ATI doesn't have Quincunx.

I know there are other none Quincunx settings, in the game's AA options, but the fact that there is such a setting kind of leads me to believe that all the AA settings are based on nVidia's AA method. Maybe even the entire game may be optimized for nVidia, same way HL2 is optimized for ATI. There are those who would argue against the existence of such optimizations and the inconsequent cause for crashing, but they get paid to say that, or they simply are loyal to a particular brand (fanPerson).

Never-the-less, that doesn't change the fact that to play NWN 1.65 I have to drop the graphics setting. And on top of that I get a little crash-A-roonie every now and again.

Weeeeeee!!!

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Wed May 04, 2005 10:47 pm

Actually, fellas, it isn't the card that's the problem, so much as it's Neverwinter Nights. Since launch, the game has had this finicky little problem of just deciding not to run with certain set ups, but on a set up to set up basis. The only reason I know this, is because it failed to run when I was using (for the time) the top of the line Nvidia GeForce 4Ti card, yet it ran with the whimpering little Radeon 64mb card I had in stock.