Some questions about EE and 1.69

[Aisolon]

Hello, I own the neverwinter nights complete edition. I have read a few reviews, with mixed opinions. So I wanted to ask a few questions that I havent found any up-to-date answers to.

Which version is more stable crash and bug-wise, 1.69 or EE? I'm not heavy on mods, the only one I install is PRC. This is my biggest concern, potentially losing an entire savegame doesnt sound appealing to me as I have read in EE reviews.

Will Leto PRC and the PRC character creator 1.8 work with EE?

Has anything considerable changed with EE except looks by now?

Does anyone know which version the (awesome) community content gravitates to? Stick to the old, or upgrade to the new?

[Selphea]

They're both unstable but 1.69 tends to randomly crash on launch rather than halfway in.

Editors work, nothing considerably changed visually.

Online community is 33% on 1.69, 67% on NWNEE. NWNEE has all of 1.69's custom content and Steam Workshop.

[Aisolon]

Thx for the reply.

Then i guess the next question is how likely are these "halfway in" crashes? And is it because of custom content or does a clean install crash aswell?
Another thing I forgot to ask about is multiplayer, I want to play the OC's with at least one friend. I know it works over steam, which is likely to be more stable than 1.69 over gameranger, unless you can tell me otherwise?

[Proleric]

Crashes are extremely rare in singleplayer mode. Both versions similar.

There are isolated issues with custom content. For example, Chapter 2 of The Bastard of Kosigan is notorious for crashing (but still worth playing for the great story). That's one module in thousands, though.

Over the years, I've occasionally lost a save in 1.69 but not in EE.

As with all games, it pays to save often, using several different files to ensure there's more than point you can get back to.

[Tesseract]

Originally posted by Aisolon:

Has anything considerable changed with EE except looks by now?

Quite a lot actually. All the release notes are not collected in one place on the web that I could find unfortunately, but you can find them on Beamdog's blog if you go looking. These are the changes in the initial EE release alone: https://www.beamdog.com/files/release_notes/nwnee_release_notes_final.pdf