Can't launch the game

[cc]

Just bought the game. It won't launch. Pressing "Play" (or launching via .exe) does nothing - game stays in the process until I manually kill it with End Task. "Neverwinter Nights" folder is missing in my Documents.

So far I've tried
- checking integrity, reinstalling the game
- switching to various beta versions (including 32-bit one)
- disabling Windows Defender (not using any third party software atm), adding game folder to the exclusion list
- disabling Windows Ransomware Protection
- reinstalling OpenAL and Redist
- updating Windows&drivers
- torrenting cracked version

Still nothing. Can't find more solutions online.

Win 10 / i5-4670k / GeForce 1060 / 16GB RAM

[cc]

Whew, what a mess.

Okay, after spending more than 6 hours to find the appropriate solution I get it working somehow.

There's two possible issues at play - faulty OneDrive installation/deinstallation and leftover Windows Registry keys from previous installations. Both of them supported by the fairly recent forum post where person claimed to fix this exact same issue by installing fresh copy of Windows.

What I did:
- Uninstalled OneDrive. Launched regedit, located [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders] section and fixed appropriate links to my Documents, Pictures and Desktop folders, deleting respective OneDrive subfolders from the path (e.g. changing %USERPROFILE%\OneDrive\Documents to %USERPROFILE%\Documents)
- Deleted every single registry key containing "Neverwinter".
- Restarted my PC

This fixed my issue.

[MUST 𝔣𝔯𝔞𝔤]

cant start the game :(

[Sam]

Originally posted by cc:

Whew, what a mess.

Okay, after spending more than 6 hours to find the appropriate solution I get it working somehow.

There's two possible issues at play - faulty OneDrive installation/deinstallation and leftover Windows Registry keys from previous installations. Both of them supported by the fairly recent forum post where person claimed to fix this exact same issue by installing fresh copy of Windows.

What I did:
- Uninstalled OneDrive. Launched regedit, located [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders] section and fixed appropriate links to my Documents, Pictures and Desktop folders, deleting respective OneDrive subfolders from the path (e.g. changing %USERPROFILE%\OneDrive\Documents to %USERPROFILE%\Documents)
- Deleted every single registry key containing "Neverwinter".
- Restarted my PC

This fixed my issue.

I'm having the same issue and apparently it is indeed a Onedrive thing, but this is more than what I'm willing to do for just one game. I'd like to point out that the issue happened in a freshly formatted PC, although Onedrive did its thing so it must be that.

[KupiłemPsa...Zdechł]

I just went to the game folder /bin/win32 and forced nwmain to open as admin and it started working in my case.

[sergey2021]

Maybe delete system32 will solve problem?