Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition
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Developers | |
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Beamdog | |
Engines | |
Aurora | |
Release dates | |
Windows | March 27, 2018 |
macOS (OS X) | March 27, 2018 |
Linux | March 27, 2018 |
Reception | |
OpenCritic | 55 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase, DLC, Expansion pack |
Microtransactions | None |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Bird's-eye view |
Genres | RPG |
Themes | Fantasy |
Series | Neverwinter Nights |
Neverwinter Nights | |
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Subseries of Dungeons & Dragons | |
Neverwinter Nights (1991) | 1991 |
Neverwinter Nights | 2002 |
Neverwinter Nights 2 | 2006 |
Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition | 2018 |
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | Limited local release.[1] | |||
Developer website | A Beamdog account is needed to download, as well as the Beamdog client. | |||
GOG.com | Includes Neverwinter Nights. | |||
Steam |
DLC and expansion packs
Name | Notes | |
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Dark Dreams of Furiae | ||
Darkness Over Daggerford | ||
Heroes of Neverwinter | ||
Infinite Dungeons | ||
Pirates of the Sword Coast | ||
Tyrants of the Moonsea | ||
Wyvern Crown of Cormyr |
Essential improvements
Enable Player Party Control
Set in settings.tml[2][3] |
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Notes:
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Helmet and Cloak Visibility Toggle Mod
Toggle via ingame chat |
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Notes:
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Neverwinter Nights\*.ini |
macOS (OS X) | |
Linux | ~/.local/share/Neverwinter Nights/ |
- It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Neverwinter Nights\saves\ |
macOS (OS X) | ~/Documents/Neverwinter Nights/saves/ |
Linux | ~/.local/share/Neverwinter Nights/saves/ |
- Save files from the original Neverwinter Nights are compatible with the Enhanced Edition.
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | Update 1.69(A) 22 March 2017 on GOG Galaxy added support for cloud saves in GOG Galaxy 1.2 or newer. | |
OneDrive | Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers. | |
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | |||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | Alt+↵ Enter to switch between fullscreen and windowed. | ||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | |||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | Limited. Cannot rebind hotbar keys for example. Best workaround is autohotkey scripts. | |
Mouse acceleration | Follows windows settings. Called "Enhance pointer precision" in windows | |
Mouse sensitivity | Follows windows settings as long as hardware-pointer = true is on in settings.tml (It is by default) | |
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Sound Effects, Voices, Music | |
Surround sound | While DirectSound 3D and thus EAX support has been removed. The new audio system, wwise, has been set up correctly to run it through software. So most effects like ambient sounds are heard as 3D position sound sources still. | |
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | Does not mute by default. Can be enabled with Special K |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Italian | ||||
Polish | ||||
Russian | Fan translation, download | |||
Spanish |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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LAN play | ||||
Online play | 64 | Co-op, Versus Co-op, PvP and even MMO like persistent worlds are available. The entire game was built to be playable in multiplayer co-op, but the expansions were not, though fan-mods exist to fix the issues presents in the expansions to allow them to completed in multiplayer as well. The enhanced edition has made it easier to play on persistent worlds by allowing automatic download of assets. |
Issues fixed
(NVIDIA) NWN Toolset crashes when area view is loaded
- Recent NVIDIA drivers cause the NWN Toolset area view to crash the entire toolset upon loading.[4]
Disable Threaded Optimization[5][6] |
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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OpenGL | 3.3 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | ARM | Notes |
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Windows | Support for 32-bit systems was discontinued on December 3, 2019 with patch 1.79.[7] | |||
macOS (OS X) | Support for 32-bit systems was discontinued on December 3, 2019 with patch 1.79.[7] ARM support was added in 2021.[8] | |||
Linux | Support for 32-bit systems was discontinued on December 3, 2019 with patch 1.79.[7] |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Audio | OpenAL | Wwise audio package |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 7 | 8.1, 10 |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core i3-32xx | |
System memory (RAM) | 4 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 12 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | 2 GB of VRAM OpenGL 3.3 compatible |
macOS (OS X) | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 10.11 (El Capitan) | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core i3-32xx | |
System memory (RAM) | 4 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 12 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | 2 GB of VRAM OpenGL 3.3 compatible |
Linux | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | Ubuntu 18.04 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core i3-32xx | |
System memory (RAM) | 4 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 12 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | 2 GB of VRAM OpenGL 3.3 compatible |
References
- ↑ Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition - cdp.pl
- ↑ Youtube - How to control henchmen the new way - Let's Learn Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition
- ↑ Patch 8193.32: Apple M1 support, Performance Improvements & more!
- ↑ NWN Toolset: Enhanced Edition. Try the new updates and share your feedback - last accessed on 2019-11-01
- "Hey guys, we hope you're enjoying it! We've confirmed an issue with the latest Nvidia drivers and the toolset, and it affects not only our update but the current stable release. If you have a Nvidia card and experience this, you can try rolling back your drivers to the last update and chance are you'll be back in the modding busines"
- ↑ Steam Community Discussion - NWN Toolset crashes when Area view is loaded (comment #2) - last accessed on 2019-11-01
- "Turn off Threaded Optimization in the Nvidia control panel"
- ↑ Verified by User:Expack3 on 2019-11-01
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Steam :: Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition :: Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition 1.79 Stable - last accessed on 2019-12-03
- "Both client and server are now 64bit binaries. We do not provide 32bit binaries anymore as of this patch."
- ↑ Patch 8193.33: Pathfinding Improvements & Bug Fixes - last accessed on 2021-11-04