Game doesnt run on Windows, only at Mac.

[joaordantas]

Hi guys, Ive been able to play the game only at my Mac. Nowadays my 2 PCs are Windows and the game still doesnt work on this system despite the many patches launched.

[Hitori]

Their latest patch broke the game, just have to wait for them to get off their incompetent asses to fix it

[nospamformike]

I was also having trouble today, where it would run on one computer but not another. I fixed it for me by choosing another build version. In case this helps someone else:
- Right click the game title on the list on the left
- Choose properties
- Choose Beta Participation
- try a different build number (for me both "oldstable" and the newest version worked for me).

When googling for fixes I saw a lot of other suggested fixes but not to try another build version.

Also (again, in case this helps someone else), Originally this was what I had:
- When I run it, the process nwmain.exe would show up in task manager but no game window showed.
- none of the windows compatibility settings made a difference or messing with the graphics driver
- I tried the oldstable build (from beta participation tab) and it worked
- I then tried changing back to the normal build and got an error message complaining that it couldn't create the Neverwinter Nights folder in my documents. It was very emphatic that this was not a bug and must be a problem with my setup.
- I then tried the latest build number that was available in the beta participation and it works just fine.
- this makes me think that the message blaming my setup is BS and it's just a problem with the latest release.

[littlemelphina]

It might be ya antivirus is blocking it, I have had my antivirus block games before.try creating a exception for in the antivirus,if this works for ya then it was it .if not I am sorry wish could help more.

[nospamformike]

That's a good point.

For the latest build I found that windows defender was blocking access to the My Documents folder. I have no idea why it only impacts the recent update. I added nwmain.exe as an exception in the Controlled Folder Access settings.

I also had an issue with some builds looking for the saves folder on a drive that doesn't exist (I can only assume it was a setting synced via steam cloud or something, because the path exists on my other computer). The way I sorted that was to add -UserDirectory [path to correct folder] as a command line parameter in Steam, and also I had to edit nwn.ini to refer to the correct paths for each folder, AND (for some reason every time I opened nwn it rewrote the old p wrong path into the nwn.ini) set nwn.ini as read only.

After doing those 3 things, I can now run the latest version.

Again, hopefully this helps someone else. It's such a stupid solution.