Ati Card and Neverwinter Nights

[Wathil]

Just a shoot in the dark if anyone here knows how to resolve this. I already
posted to the Neverwinter Nights Website Forum, but got no real answer other
than to say to use the Omega Drivers, which I am. Heres the situation:

Game Version: 1.67.8093 (Diamond)
Game Language: English
Processor Manufacturer: Intel
Processor Type: Pentium 4 800Mhz BUS 1gig Cache
Processor Speed: 3.0GHz
Operating System / Service Pack: WindowsXP Pro with SP2 and all patches
System RAM: 1024 megs
Video Card Manufacturer: ATI (Sapphire)
Video Card Model: X1600 AGP 8x
Video Card RAM: 256 megs
Video Card Driver Version: Omega 3.8.253 (Catalyst 6.5)
Sound Card Manufacturer: Creative Labs
Sound Card Model: SB Audigy2
Sound Card Driver Version: 5.12.1.443

Ok, the gamma slider is broken. The strange thing is I have a saved game
that was used with an Nvidia card before I updated to the Ati card. When I
placed the saved game in the computer and ran it, the gamma worked fine.
This leads me to believe that it is a configuration issue or the saved game
would also experience the same result.

The result is the game plays rather dark, and I change the gamma slider and
it works for that game session. When I exit out of the game and start it up
the game is dark again, but the slider is set at the same place of the last
game session. So I slide it up a bit more then the next session its dark
again until the slider is all the way up to maximum. I then reset the slider
and the process starts over again.

Any help would be welcome and thanks in advance.

 

[Mox 13]

Hello Wathil,

First, a shot in the dark back. After you changed video cards did you click
the Configure button on the opening screen of NWN so the game could check
your current system?

I have been using Nvidia cards since I built my first computer, so I do not
know a great deal about ATI. However a few months ago I bought a Gateway
MX7525 laptop. It came with a ATI Mobility Radeon X600 card (128 MB) and it
is running the ATI 6.14 drivers. I have never had a darkness problem or any
system related problem with the game. So far I am very happy with the video
card.

Gateway MX7525
AMD 64 2.6 GH
ATI X600 128 MB local, 256 MB shared, ATI 6.14 Drivers
1 GH ram
XP Home, Media Edition SP2

Mox

 

[Wathil]

Yeppers, did that and it was a clean install of windows from ground up so no
driver conflicts.

Thanks for your response ^_^

 

[Wally Anglesea™]

Just a shoot in the dark if anyone here knows how to resolve this. I already
posted to the Neverwinter Nights Website Forum, but got no real answer other
than to say to use the Omega Drivers, which I am. Heres the situation:

Game Version: 1.67.8093 (Diamond)
Game Language: English
Processor Manufacturer: Intel
Processor Type: Pentium 4 800Mhz BUS 1gig Cache
Processor Speed: 3.0GHz
Operating System / Service Pack: WindowsXP Pro with SP2 and all patches
System RAM: 1024 megs
Video Card Manufacturer: ATI (Sapphire)
Video Card Model: X1600 AGP 8x
Video Card RAM: 256 megs
Video Card Driver Version: Omega 3.8.253 (Catalyst 6.5)
Sound Card Manufacturer: Creative Labs
Sound Card Model: SB Audigy2
Sound Card Driver Version: 5.12.1.443

Ok, the gamma slider is broken. The strange thing is I have a saved game
that was used with an Nvidia card before I updated to the Ati card. When I
placed the saved game in the computer and ran it, the gamma worked fine.
This leads me to believe that it is a configuration issue or the saved game
would also experience the same result.

The result is the game plays rather dark, and I change the gamma slider and
it works for that game session. When I exit out of the game and start it up
the game is dark again, but the slider is set at the same place of the last
game session. So I slide it up a bit more then the next session its dark
again until the slider is all the way up to maximum. I then reset the slider
and the process starts over again.

Any help would be welcome and thanks in advance.

I noticed the same thing. I have an ATI 9550, and mostly the same
specs as you.


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