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Djeserkheperure · Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 8:08 pm Post subject:

If I gambled, my money would be on "sound related problem". I found Previous CatalystTM Drivers. You said it crashes after black screen. Does it name any culprits, like .dlls or something or just blame it on nwn.exe?

If you haven't already, try if it lets you in with sound disabled.

Xianio · Player Joined: 20 Jun 2005

Odd, it doesn't seem to have anything under the 3D provider. Perhaps this is the problem? And my DisableSound is already =1

And it blames it on nwn.exe
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Djeserkheperure · Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 10:59 pm Post subject:

Well, blast. Looks like sound isn't an issue, if it's already disabled.
Here's my nwnmain.exe's Properties dialogue's Checksums tab

Xianio · Player Joined: 20 Jun 2005

I don't know how to check that. Also, should my system have a 3D Provider could that be the cause and if so how do I get one?
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sniqow · Player Joined: 25 Aug 2005

you can get several generations back of these drivers from the ATi web site itself. You look in the same place as for the newest drivers, and there is a link for "history" or something, with a big long change log and links to each referenced version.

Also is it possible to paste the exact error message here?

Djeserkheperure · Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 2:18 am Post subject:

Just compare that MD5 sum of my nwmain.exe to your nwmain.exe's MD5 sum. They should be identical. If they differ, one of us has a buggy file. Right click your nwmain.exe and choose properties and the checksums tab.

3D sound provider will be chosen only when your sounds are enabled.
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Xianio · Player Joined: 20 Jun 2005

Perhaps I'm doing this wrong but when I select properties from nwmain.exe I can't find a checksums tab. Where should I be looking for this?

Currently I've had a friend come by and switch up my driver to the omega one and still no luck. I'm DL'ing (woo canada) the CD's now and hopefully it's just an issue with my HotU CD or something. Hopefully that works because currently I'm at a loss.
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Djeserkheperure · Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 10:29 am Post subject:

I'm so full of !@#$^. It's a shell extension that I have installed. Embarassed

HashCheck. I needed to get MD5 sums and picked up this open source thing from the net some time ago. I guess it's so neatly integrated I eventually ended up thinking that's stock Windows XP equipment. I could have been!

Did you have any luck with the Previous CatalystTM Drivers showed in earlier post or is this Omega series considered better way to be backward compatible with older standard graphics? Last time I was thinking about Omega series, was when my nVidia card got dropped into evergrowing ranks of Legacy hardware. I had bad luck, though. They no longer had anything for nVidia in that Omega pool.

I got a good feeling about you downloading that HotU CD. My feeling has been wrong for so long now that it just has to be right this time.
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