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Post Your System Config and Play Experience

Discussion in 'Neverwinter Nights 2' started by Death Rabbit, Nov 22, 2006.

  1. Death Rabbit

    Death Rabbit Straight, no chaser Adored Veteran Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    [​IMG] Just as the title says. Since so many people are having technical woes with this game, I thought it might be helpful if the people who have the game could post their system specs and describe their overall game performance (and issues) so that people who don't yet have the game will know what to expect when they do. This could also serve as a "will my machine run this game?" thread.

    Bits and pieces of the above have been posted in various threads thus far, but it felt to me like it needed its own home here.

    Thanks.
     
  2. Atmer

    Atmer Wandering... Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!)

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    Okay, so here is my system config:

    AMD 64 3700+
    ATI Radeon x1600 Pro - 512 Mb
    2 Gb RAM

    The game runs just fine in my machine. I just use the graphics setup the game chose for me.
    It looks good enough in my opinion and I had no performance's issues.
     
  3. Blackthorne TA

    Blackthorne TA Master in his Own Mind Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Core 2 Duo E6600
    2 GB RAM
    NVidia 7900GT

    I run the game at 1024x768 with everything on max and it is sweet! :)
     
  4. Alavin

    Alavin If I wanted your view, I'd read your entrails Veteran

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    AMD64 3800+
    Radeon X800 Pro (AGP)
    1GB RAM

    All settings except water reflections and a checkbox about lighting are on full, and it runs perfectly.
     
  5. catbert

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    This would make more sense if you post your framerates.

    Pentium D 3.6G
    GeForce 7950GT 512mb
    1gb of DDR2

    Settings on high, number of lights per object at 2, shadows off, water effects off, resolution 1280x1024

    Getting a nice 30 fps, CPU main core use at about 60%, second core at 0%. The game uses about 1.2gb of RAM for the process at any time.

    I noticed that AMD64 processors have more issues running this contraption than Intels. Mind you, a lot of people probably forget that the game has a separate executable for those CPUs.
     
  6. Shaitan

    Shaitan Always forgive your enemies; it annoys them so

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    Uh then I think I also can run it - better write it on my wishlist then.
     
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    AMD 64 3800+
    ATI Radeon x800 XL (256MB)
    1GB Ram

    Ran everything at max with shadows on low. Everything ran fine as long as I didn't run 10+ programs in the background at the same time. (ie: power guzzlers like STEAM).
     
  8. Harbourboy

    Harbourboy Take thy form from off my door! Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    No wonder this game runs so well for you! You're only about two chips off having the fastest possible personal computer available! That's like having R2D2 behind your PC, increasing the power and locking down stabilisers. I want BTA's PC, please.

    EDIT: Just checked TradeMe and people are on there selling computers with BTA's build for $NZ2,399 (without a monitor).

    [ November 22, 2006, 19:42: Message edited by: Harbourboy ]
     
  9. Blackthorne TA

    Blackthorne TA Master in his Own Mind Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Heh :) Well, I have always admitted I had a powerful computer and that I didn't think anyone should spend a pile of money just to play NWN2. But if you were going to anyway, NWN2 was lots of fun.
     
  10. Merlanni

    Merlanni Veteran New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!)

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    AMD 64 3500
    asus m2n-e am2 motherboard
    2 gig ddr2 800
    ati x1600xt

    The game is stable, and runs smooth. Not all settings are at full but most are. Shadows not.
     
  11. Sir Belisarius

    Sir Belisarius Viconia's Boy Toy Distinguished Member ★ SPS Account Holder

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    Pentium 4 2.66 Ghz
    4 GB RAM
    ATI x1600 Pro (512MB video)

    It slows down a little in the outside areas, but indoors and dungeosn it seems to run fine.
     
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    Pentium D 3.0GHz
    1 GB RAM
    GeForce 7600 GS w/256MB

    Wide-screen monitor forces me to play in 1440x900 resolution, the only wide-screen res offered. I could get more FPS at a lower res but everything's stretched out horizontally and looks awful. No shadows, no reflective/refractive water, highest textures and anti-stropic textures turned on. I'm getting 15-20 FPS which is playable but far from great.

    The amount of stuff in a given area has a huge affect on FPS. If I'm in a bare room with no lights I'm getting 45 FPS. In Neverwinter itself, outdoors, with lots of people wandering around and my party buffed up with lots of spell effects I'm getting about 12 FPS.

    I've tried many of the suggestions for improving FPS: set the game's affinity to single-core (no improvement at all), latest Nvidia drivers (no improvement), shut off every other application on the PC (no improvement).

    The game only seems to be using about 500MB of RAM, so having anti-virus running in the background doesn't really cause any problems.

    The biggest FPS killer with this game, by all accounts (even Obsidian's), are the shadows. They absolutely devastate FPS, which is a shame because they look great.
     
  13. Marceror

    Marceror Chaos Shall Be Sown In Their Footsteps Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    One thing to note, and hopefully look forward to is that patch 1.03 claims to improve performance in several aspects of the game. It's currently in beta, so fingers crossed.

    I have a P4 3.2Ghz, 2GB RAM, GeForce Go 6800 256MHB (It's an alienware mobile desktop, for anyone wondering how I have a p4 and geforce go in the same machine).

    I've resigned to stay in 1024 x 768, shadows on low, water settings off, point light shadows are on, and texture resolution set to medium.

    I'm getting between 25 - 35 fps at these settings. I'm considering turning point light shadows off and trying to bring texture resolution back to high-- as medium resolutions are just really disapointing to look at for me.
     
  14. catbert

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    Not quite. Consider your swap file which goes in the 700s once you start NWN2... The game likes RAM, 2gb tends to help. Ideally, it would use up a gigabyte of ram - the convenience it doesn't have when it's sharing it with WinXP - so it takes the slower route and swaps its operations...
     
  15. Marceror

    Marceror Chaos Shall Be Sown In Their Footsteps Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    so I went ahead and installed the 1.03 beta patch. I set my texture resolutions back to high. Loaded an old save. Went to the dock districts and let a bunch of thugs attack me.

    Docks district + the web spell were previously dropping my frames down to 1 to 5 per second!! Obviously unplayable. This time I stayed at a steady 20 - 25 FPS during the fight!! Wow!!

    Now I'm just hoping that the patch didn't break anything that was previously working for me :)
     
  16. Harbourboy

    Harbourboy Take thy form from off my door! Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Sounds good, Marceror.
     
  17. Rotku

    Rotku I believe I can fly Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!)

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    I cut mine down to the lowest settings straight off. I'm enjoying the game too much to try and work out what setting I can get it at and still have it running smoothly. Something I might play around with once I've finished the game.
     
  18. Harbourboy

    Harbourboy Take thy form from off my door! Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Rotku - I value your opinion. Why are you enjoying the game so much, given all the bad press about graphics, performance, useless camera, idiotic AI, linear story, lack of any roleplaying choice, forced companions, and immortal NPCs?
     
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    Pentium D 820 Dual Core (I'm still wonder what's the difference between Dual core and Core Duo)
    1Gb Ram
    nVidia 7600GT

    I run the game at 1028x, shadows at minimum, the rest, high. Smooth play, I don't have any slow downs, even in the big fight at the begining where everybody seems to be casting spells and all of that.

    About the inmortal NPCs.
    I just fought against Mephistopeles (sp?) at the end of HotU, he killed Deekin and I used the resurrection rod to bring him back, it took me 3 or 4 rounds, so, isn't the same as having 'inmortal' NPCs?

    By the way, how can you see the FPS in game without having to use Fraps or any other external tool?
     
  20. Marceror

    Marceror Chaos Shall Be Sown In Their Footsteps Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    hit the "`" key ingame. Then type "showfps".

    hit ` again to resume the game (but keep performance info visible, or type showfps again to hide the fps, and then hit ` again to resume game.

    If any of that was confusing, it should make more sense once you actually try it.
     
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