David Noelte

This weekend I tried to get my old Neverwinter Nights PC version with both addons running on my Macintosh as I thought it might work so I don’t have to buy the game again. But I found out its more a money making thing that this doesn’t really work. Well my thoughts were all I need are the binaries to run NWN on my Mac.
That was wrong. Well I did a basic install of NWN on my Windows XP machine. Copied it over to the Mac. Then there is a nice tool called NWNUpdate on sourceforge which is a program that lets you install the Windows Version of the addons on your macintosh and also has an update option. So I copied the windows install over, run the program to install both addons but then stop. Whats the story with the keys it doesnt ask for them. No you have toedit the nwnkey file by yourself and have to add the keys manually. Ok no problem I have a backup of my old key file. Then I run the update option in the NWNUpdate program, after 20minutes of download the patch it told me an error and he couldn’t update. Well I downloaded the Patches manually and then …. TADA … nothing. All I could start was the Dedicated Server and there was not even text in all the boxes, they were just empty but when I tried to start the DM Client or the NWNClient it just crashed. Check the logs … nothing in it. Ok that’s funny because I got the binaries there. So I started looking in the forum about anything simular because there must be somebody out there that has tried that before. But all I found was that you need the NWN Mac Version because there are the binaries on it that are not in the patches (so they must be linked to something) and that it’s because the NWN Mac version is made by MacSoft and that they wouldn’t make any money if you could install NWN with the PC Version and that Bioware doesn’t support any exchange (what I understand because they just made the game and not the CD).

So my final conclusion is I got at least Diablo 2 running ( after installing OS9 Classic) and that I have to buy NWN for Mac. But I won’t because I have the game and I have also gentoo on my laptop and I might try to get it running on that then. But I won’t buy it again. Either I play on my old windows desktop or I try to get it work with gentoo.

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