[vox] neverwinter nights

Marianne Waage vox@lists.lugod.org
Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:19:03 -0800


On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 10:09:50PM -0800, Bryan Richter wrote:
> My friend and I have spent the last few hours trying to play Neverwinter
> Nights. We tried on his computer for a while, then moved to mine. We
> both run Debian unstable. After getting past the first few holdups, such
> as making sure /tmp had at least 1GB of space during the install, we
> finally got into the game. However, after generating a character (or
> selecting a prebuilt one), the game flashes a black screen, then drops
> us back to X. There are no messages on the terminal. We're about to give
> up, so I thought I'd ask to see if anyone plays this game, and their
> thoughts on the matter.

I know at least two people who have gotten it running under linux. At
least one of them is on vox-tech. This seems like a thread which could
be considered 'tech', right? :)

-yams, who doesn't read tech