Claude Verysoft
Game Owner
 NWN
NWN: SoU
NWN: HotU
Mass Effect PC
Joined: 21 Mar 2003
From: Nacka, Sweden |
 Posted: Thursday, 05 November 2009 11:22AM |
Hello all
I missed Neverwinter Nights and reinstalled the trilogy on my little Debian EEE netbook. The performance isn't good, I get 9-12 frames per second.
I remember that the system requirements was bumped when HotU (or SoU?) came. I guess the polygon count got higher or something.
Was there any mods attempting to downgrade the graphics to vanilla NWN sys req? I'm thinking it could be useful again. Does anyone remember? |
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lucasjung
Game Owner
 NWN
NWN: SoU
NWN: HotU
Joined: 12 Aug 2002
From: All Over the Place |
Posted: Saturday, 07 November 2009 12:54AM |
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What kind of graphics hardware does that thing have? Most of the netbooks I have looked at don't have any 3D acceleration at all, just 2D graphics. That would force nwn to do all of the 3D in software, which would pretty much bring your processor to it's knees. |
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Claude Verysoft
Game Owner
NWN
NWN: SoU
NWN: HotU
Mass Effect PC
Joined: 21 Mar 2003
From: Nacka, Sweden |
Posted: Saturday, 07 November 2009 10:10AM |
Yeah the machine have one of those integrated cards; GMA 900. It works, but a tad slow.
I'm looking for some way to "degrade" the graphics from HotU's sys reqs down to NWN/SoU's requirements. HotU bumped up the requirements from 450MHz to 800MHz. I remember that it stirred some discussions back in the days, and I hoped that maybe someone made a low-polygon graphics override to keep playing on their "old" machine.
(Maybe installing NWN without HotU would make a difference?) |
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Eyrdan
Joined: 05 Dec 2002
From: Sainte-Foy, QC, Canada |
Posted: Sunday, 08 November 2009 05:38PM |
I haven't heard of any such mods. They'd pretty much need to redo all of the HotU data files (models, textures, animations, etc.). The mod would probably turn out to be very big and fall into a legal gray area because it would no longer be derived work but reproduction of copyrighted material.
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