Neverwinter Nights 2 First Impressions(long) - Page 2

WillzZz · 11-04-2006, 11:21 PM

I have a feeling it has to do with the hdri and the way they put that in (Didn't put that in?) or whatever. It's not working like it's supposed to, and I imagine water and terrain normals would be highly dependant on an hdri source for lighting. Just a guess, though, I haven't hardly touched the actual game.

Etadanik · 11-05-2006, 03:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Lyenae

ROFL, nice FPS on a system that would be considered almost top of the line 6 months ago.

Truly PC game developers are fucking dumb as fuck.

Or maybe they have to work with a hundred different possible hardware configurations spread across thousands of different software/driver configurations?

Sure is easier than building for a single console interface. Yep. Dumbass.

Littles · 11-05-2006, 03:22 AM

Loving the story and gameplay, first game in a long while that I will actually buy.

I am running a low end system by todays standards and getting 24 fps with most things on high but the water turned off. I am pretty sure most people with problems with it are the newer end systems ironically.

Bristlebane · 11-05-2006, 06:10 AM

I've got a computer that was top of the line-ish early last year.

Overclocked 3200+, 2 gig RAM, X800XL, and I'm not having any problems. Runs pretty damn smooth for me.

I do have shadows turned off, but I turn off shadows in most games I play. I've always thought having them on was too much of a performance hit.

Jadaki · 11-05-2006, 07:57 AM

Were can you turn off the water settings, I didn't see them in the graphical options?

Khorum · 11-05-2006, 08:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Jadaki

Were can you turn off the water settings, I didn't see them in the graphical options?

ESC->Game Options>Advanced Graphics... there are two checkboxes on the right column, one for water reflections and one for refraction, both are DX9 caps but theyre really expensive in this game for some reason. Clicking them off yields a lot of FPS

To whoever mentioned HDR (and terrain normal mapping) there's an EnableHRDIIfAvailable setting (or something like that) in the ini files, but it doesn't seem to be live in the engine. For good reason probably, since plain specular BLOOM is causing serious FPS problems for SLI systems (lol).

Shadows in this game are just phenomenally done. A great argument for a shadow-rich engine, especially high-res environmental shadows, although shadows are normally a 2nd-order experience, the game is pretty bland without them.

Jadaki · 11-05-2006, 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Khorum

ESC->Game Options>Advanced Graphics... there are two checkboxes on the right column, one for water reflections and one for refraction

They aren't showing up for me. On that screen i have 3 columns, one with Character Shadow Map Size, High Res. Env. Shadow Map, Low Res. Env. Shadow Map, Bloom Effects, Enable light sources from party members.

Second column has Texture Minification Filtering, Texture Magnification Filtering, Mip-map Filtering and Maximum Texture Anisotropy.

Last column just has only Number of Lights per Object.

Is that option something that only appears after patching the game? Speaking of which, I've been trying to patch the game but keep getting an error saying that the updater can not find the patch file /nwn2_pc_english_from095_to101.txt and then it tells me to go to a patch site that has no patch on it. What the hell are they doing?

Khorum · 11-05-2006, 10:39 AM

Hmm yeah, it must be after the patch then, the two checkboxes should be right below Number of Lights per Object.

The whole patcher has proven to be a bit of a clusterfuck for DVD and DirectToDrive users, it's pretty embarassing.

Warrik · 11-05-2006, 10:55 AM

Ive got:

4200+ X2, 2G Corsair 800Mhz Ram, Two nVidia 7900GT's in SLI.

Curious to see how it will run at 1680x1050

r.gun · 11-05-2006, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Warrik

Ive got:

4200+ X2, 2G Corsair 800Mhz Ram, Two nVidia 7900GT's in SLI.

Curious to see how it will run at 1680x1050

I've got the same set up except only one 7900 GT OC and it runs fine with max settings at 1920x1080.

Janx · 11-05-2006, 12:25 PM

Point Lights = the graphics killer (check box @ bottom of graphics tab). Turn it off and watch your FPS jump.

Jadaki · 11-05-2006, 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Khorum

Hmm yeah, it must be after the patch then, the two checkboxes should be right below Number of Lights per Object.

The whole patcher has proven to be a bit of a clusterfuck for DVD and DirectToDrive users, it's pretty embarassing.

I went to get the DVD version and ended up only able to get the CD version, the patching is still totally screwed for me.

Calac Oakshield · 11-06-2006, 05:47 PM

who has a good torrent link?

Hatorade · 11-06-2006, 09:23 PM

My computer is a 3.5ghz 1gig ddr and geforce 6200 512ram....It runs like shit no matter what I do. I could run oblivion/dark messiah etc at some decent settings. Makes me sad.

Also is the camera annoying for anyone else. I having a hard time get an angle that works.

AngryGerbil · 11-06-2006, 10:20 PM

Suddenly I was struck with an overwhelming realization that NWN2 was not a product worth spending money on.

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11-04-2006, 11:21 PM	#16 (permalink)
WillzZz Registered User Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: San Francisco Posts: 1,030 +2 Internets	I have a feeling it has to do with the hdri and the way they put that in (Didn't put that in?) or whatever. It's not working like it's supposed to, and I imagine water and terrain normals would be highly dependant on an hdri source for lighting. Just a guess, though, I haven't hardly touched the actual game.

11-05-2006, 03:22 AM	#18 (permalink)
Littles Registered User Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 394 +2 Internets	Loving the story and gameplay, first game in a long while that I will actually buy. I am running a low end system by todays standards and getting 24 fps with most things on high but the water turned off. I am pretty sure most people with problems with it are the newer end systems ironically.

11-05-2006, 06:10 AM	#19 (permalink)
Bristlebane Registered User Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 1,856	I've got a computer that was top of the line-ish early last year. Overclocked 3200+, 2 gig RAM, X800XL, and I'm not having any problems. Runs pretty damn smooth for me. I do have shadows turned off, but I turn off shadows in most games I play. I've always thought having them on was too much of a performance hit.

11-05-2006, 07:57 AM	#20 (permalink)
Jadaki This space for rent! Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 1,253 -3 Internets	Were can you turn off the water settings, I didn't see them in the graphical options?

11-05-2006, 10:39 AM	#23 (permalink)
Khorum Registered User Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Chicago Posts: 4,594 -33 Internets	Hmm yeah, it must be after the patch then, the two checkboxes should be right below Number of Lights per Object. The whole patcher has proven to be a bit of a clusterfuck for DVD and DirectToDrive users, it's pretty embarassing.

11-05-2006, 10:55 AM	#24 (permalink)
Warrik Ive been reading these boards since noows....that makes me uber Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Rhode Island Posts: 2,093 -3 Internets	Ive got: 4200+ X2, 2G Corsair 800Mhz Ram, Two nVidia 7900GT's in SLI. Curious to see how it will run at 1680x1050

11-05-2006, 12:25 PM	#26 (permalink)
Janx Mr. Pibb + Redvines = crazy delicious Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 509 +0 Internets	Point Lights = the graphics killer (check box @ bottom of graphics tab). Turn it off and watch your FPS jump.

11-06-2006, 05:47 PM	#28 (permalink)
Calac Oakshield Registered User Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 32 +0 Internets	who has a good torrent link?