NWN Community Expansion Pack

NWN Community Expansion Pack

There are two versions of this named, One & Two.

The version point names are not so easy to understand. I asked advice at http:forums.rpgdungeon.net on a thread called Community Expansion Pack V1.

Installing CEP V1

I said "...requires the CEP.

Further investigation shows it requires amongst other things "cep1patch.hak" & "cep1patch150.hak". I have found the CEP Index Page, together with the cep forums site.

The index talks about a bunch of patches and full installs at a version level. The current CEP V1 version seems to be NWN 1.68 which is what I require; that is the version of the game I have. I have installed the patch but given the error log, believe I need the base product. I am also a bit concerned that there is no V150 on the index page. Any ideas how I can proceed? Do I need to install a full version (i.e. 1.51) and then patch for .52, .53 amd .69? This probably won't give me the *150.hak anyway?"

And with help from Rastor, concluded,

"The Full Install v151 contains v150 patches.

I downloaded a .rar, uncompressed, copied as appropriate, the cep.tlk had the same meta data (timestamps etc) as the v168 so I left it alone. The .rar has a sub directory for the OC, SoU and HotU. Since I have HoTU installed, I used contents of the HoTU sub directory and copied them to the ./hak directory in the neverwinternights folder.

This all works. Obviously the module I am testing requires V1 not V2 as I tested it with V2 and the game wouldn't boot. nor create a log file.

I am assuming that the patches are cumulative, actually they seem not to be patches, in that they don't overwrite installed files. They sit beside, or at least 168 does."

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