Wine and NWN

Wine & NWN

Introduction

This page is about my attempts to install NWN under WINE on my MAC. I finally got this working in March 2011 and then attempted to ensure that this page focuses on the NWN actions and runes, and that my WINE page deals with installing WINE on the MAC.

My MAC

$ uname -a
Darwin DaveMac.home 9.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.8.0: Wed Jul 15 16:55:01 PDT 2009; 
    root:xnu-1228.15.4~1/RELEASE_I386 i386

Neverwinter Nights

I started this in Jul 2009, and finally got it working, as far as I can tell, in March 2011. My early experiments failed when running the installer from the CD. This seemed to confirm one piece of advice from this article/tutorial at arstechnica which states that the installer fails, but the game works. The ars article documents a Linux build and it advises that one copies the game install folders from a windows install. The winehq apps db, says it will install, I need to test this and update the apps db page.

To see about installing WINE on the Mac, check out my notes on the WINE page here on this site.

After installing WINE, I copied the game folders and installations onto the Mac and then into the WINE c drive. Actually I have only copied one of the installations into the C: drive. I need to play the game a bit, but I have not added any additional DLLs, nor run/used winetricks. This comment was written after bringing the game up in a macports installed version of WINE.

I was advised at the Wine Forums, in this thread, to give Wineskin another go. I did and have written a blog about it here. To see my notes on Wineskin, you need to read the comments on the blog article.

The MAC now needs tidying up, too many installs of WINE.

NWN2

Bioware forums has a thread NWN2: For the Mac within their NWN2 board. They seem to have a Mac Version, albeit less functional than the wintel version. My research on NWN 1, suggested that there was a PPC port to MacOS, but that for intel systems, they relied on Virtualisation vendors.

I installed from the CD using wine. This works OK. The appsdb page for NWN2 recommends a registry change to permit the updater to connect to the internet.

HKey_Local_Machine>Software>Obsidian>NWN2>Neverwinter>NWUpdate := 1

I try to run the game, I get the main menu when I select Play, I get an error, which talks about a missing VC80.CRT.

The WINE appsdb page suggests a bunch of winetricks calls, but vcrun2005 requires cabextract. This takes me to http://www.cabextract.org.uk/, which takes me to http://www.macports.org/install.php.

See also my macports page. macport is working on my Mac. 1 April 2011