The World of Avlis

Ok, I have been psyched since joining this wonderful world... many Kudo's to you designers and programmers... well here goes.

1. Where can I locate an 'offline'/out-of-game map of the zones? I was playing last night with a friend and call me tainted, but having a hard copy map to work with is a BIG help.

If one is not provided (role-playing purposes... aka need to see area 1st) would it be possible to have maps for sale 'in-game' that may show points of interest (tourist map)?

2. This is a technical question. I have no prob when running NwN on my home PC. (Athlon 1800+, 512RAM, 80gig, 64meg video), but when I try to run it on my laptop (yes... I said laptop... I can use my spare time at work to game... call me lucky.) specs: Pent III 700mhz, 256meg, 14gig, 8meg video, the game crashes as soon as I get the initial load screen. I have no problem running Morrwind (has higher video requirments than NwN) and have DirectX8.1 loaded. Any suggestions?

Thanks, and hope to get to know some of you (in-game and out) soon.

Rich
AKA Vinney "Da'Ranger" Bowielder

1. You can buy maps for the bartenders in the Inns. Just flip through the different tabs up top.

as for the laptop thing...

try manually setting the video to the lowest textures settings through the config utility. i think that is how I got it to run on mine... and my dell laptop is a very similar configuration to yours. and make sure you try and turn off all the advanced video settings once you get to that screen.

still the slow FPS really sucks compared to my desktop machine.....

good luck

My thanks to you both for your quick (and to the point) responses... I am off to train the Laptop... and then to buy some maps....

Vinney wrote:
Pent III 700mhz, 256meg, 14gig, 8meg video, the game crashes as soon as I get the initial load screen.

Anyone feel free to correct me here, but I believe you need 16 meg vid card or higher to play NWN.

yes a 16MB is required. I had a box that had one of those crappy integrated motherboards with the sound and video on board. Needless to say the game wouldn't even run. Go GeForce!!

the sys requirements do state 16MB video RAM, but the problem depends on the laptop. A lot of laptops use shared RAM for their video processing, for instance my Dell Inspiron 4000, which really only lists 8MB video RAM as well, but since it shares systtem RAM, it can actually fulfill the requirements to run the game. Like I said though, FPS really really sucks and I would never try to play online with it. I have tried multiplayer LAN and that was bad enough.

What suprised me was that I can run Morrowind (Elder Scrolls 3) which has a min video requirement of 16meg. Yes the FPS stinks... but I can still play.

I am not looking to play on-line with the laptop, just 'time killing single player"

I do appreciate all of the input. I put it all to the test this weekend