Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition

Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition

Developers
	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
Controls	Point and select
Genres	RPG
Themes	Fantasy
Series	Neverwinter Nights

Neverwinter Nights
Subseries of Dungeons & Dragons
Neverwinter Nights (1991)	1991
Neverwinter Nights	2002
Neverwinter Nights 2	2006
Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition	2018

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Limited local release.
Developer website		A Beamdog account is needed to download, as well as the Beamdog client.
GamersGate
GOG.com		Includes Neverwinter Nights: Diamond. The default Windows version is 64-bit; a separate set of 32-bit installers is also available.
Humble Store
Steam

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
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.

Go to %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Neverwinter Nights. Open settings.tml in a text editor. Change player-party-control = false to player-party-control = true. Notes: Allows players to control their non-PC party members in the same way as DMs do. ie like the player character, but requiring holding keys to differentiate. Hold Ctrl while clicking or dragging to select party member(s). Hold ⇧ Shift to direct them like the player character. Some commands such as use will still only command the player character; what works is mainly just telling party members where to go and what to attack.

Henchman Inventory & Battle AI Mod

Configurable mod to improve general AI and interactions with your AI companions.

Choosing AI options and installing.

Download and run Main install exe. Change Destination Directory to %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Neverwinter Nights\override Select which components of the AI mod you want to install. Select Install. Notes: Includes improved battle tactics for all NPCs, especially with regard to weapon switching and spell casting. Allows random roaming capability for monsters. Enables access to the inventory of familiars and animal companions. Allows for more useful henchman behavior (buffing, item-gathering) outside battle. Improves feat and spell selection for The Wailing Death's companions. Not enabled by default options include replacing Bag of Holding with Large Box, the ability for monsters to open and/or unlock doors, and K2's inventory stackable hak.

NWN Mod Installer Tool - NIT

Software made for ease of use in organizing and managing, installing, and uninstalling mods and their dependencies for the original and Enhanced Editions.

Can download mods directly from Neverwinter Vault Links.

Auto converts movie videos from BIK to WBM for the Enhanced Edition.

Constructs installers from many different formats while allowing for editing the installation files.

Handles the userpatch.ini automatically for what patch mods are installed.

Faster Rest

Shortens rest time from 10 seconds to 3 seconds for all player levels.

File can be opened in a text editor to edit rest times for each level, 1-60.

Helmet and Cloak Visibility Toggle Mod

Toggle via ingame chat.

Save the github's files into %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Neverwinter Nights or use NIT, so that the scripts in the downloaded override folder are pasted into your installation's override folder. When ingame, enable debug mode by entering ##DebugMode 1 into the chat. Toggle helmet visibility by entering ##dm_runscript toggle_helmet into the chat, and/or toggle cloak visibility by entering ##dm_runscript toggle_cloak into the chat. Disable debug mode by entering ##DebugMode 0 into the chat. Notes: These commands can be assigned to quickslot macros to toggle with ease. Macros are part of save data, so they will be lost if you load an older save. Visibility is applied to the gear you are wearing itself rather than the gear slot on your character. It will need to be reapplied each time you equip a new helmet and/or cloak, but that also means you can visibility toggle gear before giving it to your party members.

Inventory Sort

Provides an inventory manager that works with any NWN game (even ones in progress).

Sorts PC / henchmen inventory by placing items with same base type next to each other.

Has a secondary function for dropping useless inventory junk on ground.

Is implemented by adding a console command that will give the player character a feat called "Player Tool 10" to use to sort.

May cause plot of some modules to break when used, so keep a save before using it for the first time.

Game data

Game settings.

Feedback settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Neverwinter Nights\*.ini
macOS (OS X)
Linux	$HOME/.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
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Neverwinter Nights\saves\
macOS (OS X)	$HOME/Documents/Neverwinter Nights/saves/
Linux	$HOME/.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
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

Basic video settings.

Advanced video settings.

Graphics feature	State	Notes
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.

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  Advanced frame-buffer effects.

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  Resolution and UI scaling.

Input

Input settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
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

Audio

Basic audio settings.

Advanced audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
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
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Polish
Russian				Fan translation, download
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
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.

Disable Threaded Optimization

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
OpenGL	3.3

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	ARM	Notes
Windows				Support for 32-bit systems was discontinued on December 3, 2019 with patch 1.79. The last 32-bit version is kept in a Steam beta branch and a GOG.com bonus installer.
macOS (OS X)				Support for 32-bit systems was discontinued on December 3, 2019 with patch 1.79. ARM support was added in 2021.
Linux				Support for 32-bit systems was discontinued on December 3, 2019 with patch 1.79.

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	OpenAL	Wwise audio package

Mods

Enhanced Player Portrait Pack

A large general purpose package of diverse portraits made for players of the Arelith persistent world mod.

Beamdog's HD Art Pack - With Community Fixes

The official HD model and texture pack for the Enhanced Edition with optimization and model fixes and additional effects by the community.

The same lead artist, Bill Harper, has been continuing to make HD assets for parts not covered already by the pack such as:

• Daggers
• Scimitars
• Bastard Swords
• Battle Axes
• Hand Axes
• Maces

System requirements

Windows

macOS (OS X)

Linux

Windows
	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)
	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
	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