Swing and a Miss

[dolmore]

I applaud Beamdog for trying to resurrect obsolete games, but their record of success seems spotty.

This one has some pretty serious framerate issues. It runs fine through the opening cutscene and character creation but drops to 1FPS when the introduction slideshow starts. I tried letting it run for an hour to see if it would straighten itself out once the game actually loaded, but to no avail.

Ran through every suggested fix on both this forum and the Beamdog support page, but nothing worked.

Contacted Beamdog support and sent them a copy of my config file as requested but haven't heard from them since. That was three months ago.

I hoped beyond hope that the latest Beta patch might fix it, but . . . nope.

I'll think twice before getting any more games from them.

[Underprivileged White Male]

Originally posted by dolmore:

I applaud Beamdog for trying to resurrect obsolete games, but their record of success seems spotty.

This one has some pretty serious framerate issues. It runs fine through the opening cutscene and character creation but drops to 1FPS when the introduction slideshow starts. I tried letting it run for an hour to see if it would straighten itself out once the game actually loaded, but to no avail.

Ran through every suggested fix on both this forum and the Beamdog support page, but nothing worked.

Contacted Beamdog support and sent them a copy of my config file as requested but haven't heard from them since. That was three months ago.

I hoped beyond hope that the latest Beta patch might fix it, but . . . nope.

I'll think twice before getting any more games from them.

Works fine for me and the vast majority that play it.

It's likely something with your hardware. Let me guess you grabbed an RTX 3XXX card? Those things are only half supported by most new games, and basically unsupported for nearly all older games.

[Dementia5 認知症]

The forensics you've described do not include examination of your video card, which sounds to me like the bottleneck here. Going through every suggested fix on both this forum and the Beamdog support page is impressive if not exaggerated, but not seeing a list of these actions makes it hard to recommend a COA.

A lot of issues are mitigated by updating the driver, or replacing the video card. Although the latter is not appealing, I reckon it will solve the problem. I would rule out any Windows API and CPU performance. I should ask how much vRAM you have? and Beamdog software can be ruled out since their track record on this is too good, especially with the recent updates. I also recommend testing a game on your system before allowing the return policy to expire.

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Originally posted by dolmore:

This one has some pretty serious framerate issues. It runs fine through the opening cutscene and character creation but drops to 1FPS when the introduction slideshow starts.

That is because you have crap computer
This is upgraded graphics with upgraded post processing effects.

You have likely 20 year old computer.
My suggestion is instead of buying video games buy a new computer.

Original NWN requirements
Pentium II (came out in 1997)
Ram: 96 MB
File Size: 1,000 MB (1 gig, biggest hard drives were ~4 gig)
Video Card: 16 MB TNT2-class OpenGL 1.2 compliant video card

Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition
Intel Core i3 (came out in 2010 , 13 years later)
Ram 4,000 MB (or 4 gig, over 100x more)
File Size: 12,000 MB (12 gig , over 10 times more)
Video card likely some 500gtx nvidia card or something like that real low.
In reality you shouldn't have something lower than 9XX gtx series

You are trying to fit a square peg through a round hole.

[allenayen96]

I use a GTX 980 video card, and have no problem with FS
I am thinking of upgrading my video card. Any suggestions?

[dolmore]

Alienware Area-51 R5
Dual GTX T1080Ti w/SLI enabled
You should keep your crap assumptions to yourself.

[Dr.Gloom]

Originally posted by dolmore:

Alienware Area-51 R5
Dual GTX T1080Ti w/SLI enabled
You should keep your crap assumptions to yourself.

Did you try to run the game without SLI?

[dolmore]

Yep, but it didn't help the framerate drop. Also tried to lower the FPS in increments manually all the way down to 30 with no change. Since this game ran fine on my ancient XPS in Win 7 I tried compatibility mode with no luck either. It seems to be something about Win 10.

[FireGryph]

Originally posted by dolmore:

Yep, but it didn't help the framerate drop. Also tried to lower the FPS in increments manually all the way down to 30 with no change. Since this game ran fine on my ancient XPS in Win 7 I tried compatibility mode with no luck either. It seems to be something about Win 10.

If it was something to do with windows 10, you could expect this to be a more widespread issue than it is.
Do you have this issue with any other games?

[dolmore]

Several. All worked in Win 7 but some won't even load in Win 10.

[Ninja]

Probably not a great idea to initially blame the game and developers and then admit that several other games have the exact same problem, unless they're all Beamdog games. What are the other games that have the problem? Windows 10 is all updated and your video drivers are up to date? I'm not sure if the GeForce Experience app is good but that's supposed to automatically adjust your settings per game if you want to try that. You have your monitor(s) connected to your graphics card, PSU is enough? Do you have any programs that can display how your PC's running while playing games to see what's working/not working? Maybe turning off/on like V-Sync or Anti-Aliasing

[dolmore]

The other Beamdog games that I have (Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale series) all run fine. Didn't even require any tweaking of files or patches.

The other games that don't work seem to be hit or miss. Witcher 2 hangs on the launcher but the other two in the series work great. Drakensang won't work at all in Win 10, but that seems to be pretty common. Dragon Age Origins won't load, but the others in the series run no problem (even EA tech support admitted to me that DAO has serious issues in Win 10 but they have no intention of fixing them).

NWN loads and runs through the intro movie and character creation smoothly but suddenly drops to 1FPS after hitting PLAY.

OS and all drivers are up to date. Tweaked every setting on the cards through GeForce, game options menu and manually on the card settings themselves.

Beamdog support thought at first that it might have to do with Win 10 not playing well with WebM, but disabling movies didn't help so said they'd get back to me and haven't heard from them in 3 months.

This one now resides in my library Boot Hill. Maybe someday there will be a fix out there that lets me dig it up from the grave.

I waited too long hoping for a patch/fix in order for me to get my money back and I posted more as a warning to others that if it doesn't work right out of the box it probably never will so don't hesitate to ask for a refund.

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Originally posted by dolmore:

It seems to be something about Win 10.

I have windows 10 and so majority of gamers.

Originally posted by dolmore:

The other games that don't work seem to be hit or miss. Witcher 2 hangs on the launcher

Something is wrong with your computer

Its overheating...?
It has tons of viruses?
It has worn out dying hardware?

You are talking about games billions of people play fine