Ahh.. that's a shame. Thanks anyhow.

I wish there was some way to encourage them to release a multiplayer patch for it... This is really the first stable multiplayer build they've released. As it stands now I can hardly play it because of the corrupted save game problem. I can save maybe once or twice if I'm lucky before it corrupts a save file and crashes... This patch is supposed to fix that problem. This patch also enables saving on a dedicated server, another feature that was desparately needed...


-Added the ability to Save Games in the Windows Dedicated Server
-Contest of Champions module included
-Items located in Creature Inventory slots will now be DELETED when validating a Player through ELC and ILR. Custom modules that use Creature Inventory slots to assign Sub Race abilities will have to re-add items on joining the custom module.
-Item Costs will now be properly calculated for Plot items in ELC checks.
-Sped up character listing coming from a Dedicated Server.
-Fixed an issue with saving at inopportune times resulting in breaking save games.
-Fixed some item "ghosting" issues.
-Fixed the DM Faction bug, where possesing a creature results in that creature's friendly faction going hostile.
-2DA files are now being loaded in the proper order in Hak Paks.
-General bug fixes.

The attached text file should tide you all over until a cracked executable comes; this file is, essentially, a generic fix that does the exact same thing that a cracked executable will do for you. In other words, if you follow the directions in this file, you shouldn't ever need an updated cracked 'nwserver.exe.' You WILL still, however, need the most up-to-date cracked 'nwmain.exe.'

Private Internet & LAN Server Fix

Have fun....

Editing the hosts file is fine if you don't use the dedicated server.. but many of us, myself included, make heavy use of the server app and would like to see an updated nwserver.exe from Fairlight. Or anyone for that matter. :(

Ah yes, very good point Thraxus. I never run a dedicated server, myself, so I totally overlooked it. But you are right; and I too share your hope that a release group, or talented individual, will take up the challenge of keeping us supplied with an up-to-date cracked 'nwserver.exe' executable....

Just curios:

why the heck need the windows ded. server be cracked? :confused:

I run the linux server with the magic entry in /etc/hosts and so everybody can connect.

Thanks for that information...

I'll give that a shot until the dedicated crack is released.

-Xenios

Hey schlaufer

You mean that by putting the entry in your hosts file, you're able to run the dedicated server just as well as if you had the cracked version?

I realise you're using the linux version, but now I'm anxious to get home and see if that works just as well for the Windows one as well.

If that's the case, then the DEViANCE nwmain.exe would be all I'd need.

A link was posted to the Deviance crack earlier in this thread... From what I understand, you can use the hosts workaround to play multiplayer games, but you can't run the dedicated server until someone cracks it...

That's what I thought as well, but what schlaufer said made me wonder if there was another way around it...

Guess I'm just being hopeful for an alternative solution, since Fairlight seems to have given up on NWN. :(

Hi there,

I posted the /etc/hosts workaround in an earlier thread as well. But it the whole thread was deleted - for good reasons, is against the rules: http://www.fileforums.com/showthread...threadid=27215

So there are three things left to say:

1.) Fairlight's fix does the same thing as the hack from me.
2.) This is a workaround for a forgotten serial.
3.) Buy the game - it gives the needed serial. No need for hacks. No hassles.

funny how this whole site is about cracks yet you can't talk about them or ways around them ! ;)

ahh es you can.. you can talk about all the cracks you want.. just no No APPz, WAREz or SERIALz!!

Johnny

Well for anyone that wants to know, having that magic line in the hosts file of the system running the dedicated server seems to work just as well as the Fairlight nwserver.exe crack. :D

Now I feel silly for having waited all these days for them to release... oh well :p

whatabout a crack for version 1.10.6710?
 

I need a crack for the version straight from the box. I was wondering if they had one. Remember, I would really appreciate a crack for the version installed when you first install straight out of the box. Thanks, you can e-mail me at sweeper22001********com to give me the location of it.

Sweeper