(32-bit layer)
Tested: Ubuntu 7.10 • 8.04 64bit - Gnome
Note: This guide shows how to install NWN Client Download English Edition - It still requires the CDs and registration codes - Also that you have registrated your NWN at Bioware.


Neverwinter Nights (NWN) is a computer game set in a huge medieval fantasy world of Dungeons and Dragons. This role-playing game (RPG) puts you at the center of an epic tale of faith, war, and betrayal.

As a player, you are able to choose what skills and abilities you will develop as you voyage though the complex and dangerous fantasy world of Forgotten Realms. Be a deadly and dangerous Rogue moving through the shadows using stealth and secrecy, be a scholarly Wizard and wield powerful magic against your enemies, be a hulking Barbarian whose lust for battle is matched only by his terrible rage, be an armor-clad Paladin who protects the innocent and vanquishes his foes, be a crusading Cleric who heals the sick and defends the helpless… be all this and more.

Neverwinter Nights allows you to create your own worlds. This revolutionary game will come with all the tools needed to construct your own unique lands of adventure. The Neverwinter Nights Aurora Toolset allows even novice users to construct everything from a quiet, misty forest or a dripping cavern of foul evil, to a king’s court. All the monsters, items, set pieces and settings are there for world builders to use. But do not stop there; construct traps, encounters, custom monsters and magic items to make your adventure unique.

But the Neverwinter experience is not just for one person- adventure with all your friends. Neverwinter Nights can be played online with up to 64 friends, all sharing in the adventure. You can organize and run your own adventures through the role of the Dungeon Master and control all the monsters, creatures and characters your friends meet as they journey on their quest. A powerful piece of software that is included with Neverwinter Nights, the DM Client, allows nearly unlimited control for running your own adventures for your friends.

Neverwinter Nights…endless adventure!

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Make sure that the driver to your 3D graphic card is proper installed and working.

Next 32-bit layer is needed;

Code:

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade
sudo aptitude install ia32-libs

The file you need will be downloaded via the terminal, but you might want to go to bioware and download them with a download manager (D4x) as the files are large in size. Just remember to save them to your Desktop.

To the terminal;

Code:

cd ~/Desktop
mkdir -p ~/.Games
wget http://files.bioware.com/neverwinternights/updates/linux/nwresources129.tar.gz
wget http://files.bioware.com/neverwinternights/updates/linux/nwclient129.tar.gz
wget http://files.bioware.com/neverwinternights/updates/linux/168/English_linuxclient168_xp2.tar.gz
tar zxfv nwresources129.tar.gz -C ~/.Games
tar zxfv nwclient129.tar.gz -C ~/.Games/nwn
tar zxfv English_linuxclient168_xp2.tar.gz -C ~/.Games/nwn

Shadows of Undrentide Expansion Pack

Insert Shadows of Undrentide Expansion Pack CD.

Code:

cd ~/.Games/nwn
unzip /media/cdrom0/Data_Shared.zip
unzip /media/cdrom0/Language_data.zip
unzip /media/cdrom0/Language_update.zip
unzip /media/cdrom0/Data_Linux.zip
rm data/patch.bif
rm patch.key
./fixinstall

Hordes of the Underdark Expansion Pack

Insert Hordes of the Underdark Expansion Pack CD.

Code:

cd ~/Desktop
wget http://files.bioware.com/neverwinternights/updates/linux/nwclienthotu.tar.gz
cd ~/.Games/nwn
unzip /media/cdrom0/Data_Shared.zip
unzip /media/cdrom0/Language_data.zip
unzip /media/cdrom0/Language_update.zip
tar zxfv ~/Desktop/nwclienthotu.tar.gz -C ~/.Games/nwn
tar zxfv ~/Desktop/English_linuxclient168_xp2.tar.gz -C ~/.Games/nwn
./fixinstall
nano nwn

Change line 10 so it looks like this:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=:./miles:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Save = [ctrl] + [o] & Exit = [ctrl] + [x]

To make it easy to access NWN with a click.

First download this icon to your Desktop;

Once more to the terminal;

Code:

cd ~/Desktop
mv nwn.png ~/.Games/nwn
nano ~/.Games/nwn-launcher.sh

Add the following;

#!/bin/bash
 
cd ~/.Games/nwn                
./nwn

Save = [ctrl] + [o]
Exit = [ctrl] + [x]


Code:

chmod +x ~/.Games/nwn-launcher.sh
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Go to Games and make a new entry;

Exit.

You can now launch Neverwinter Nights by Applications tab —> Games —> Neverwinter Nights

Enjoy!

Written and Published by Artificial Intelligence