Hmm, regarding the black loadup screen, that's is an issue I've had before. The very first time I loaded up the campaign, (vanilla NWN, no PRC) I saw the same thing. I restarted, selected premade character and on the second try it loaded up fine.

I'm not sure this will work for you. I think there's some sort of special resource unpacking that is done the first time a campaign is loaded, however, so it's worth just trying again if you haven't. If that doesn't work, I would restore my campaign files to the original .nwms and see if they work. (If that doesn't work, it probably means the gog.com install uses a version of the install that is not 'retail'-equivalent. We can try puzzling over that together, or you might try reinstalling.)

If it resolves the black screen issue, then go ahead and open the PRC Updater and patch the vanilla OC with PRCPack, and then with prc_ocfix, and see if it's still working.


Now, as for the SoU issue, I'm not quite certain why SoU would seem to disappear. Is it not appearing in the PRC Updater? Or is it just not appearing in game? Does it appear in the updater & game, but is it unable to load when you try starting a campaign in it?

Can you get it to work by restoring it to the unmodified .nwms?

Win 7 Regedit is pretty much the same as Win XP with the exception of some very specific dual 32/64 branches. For this, you shouldn't have to worry about those, however.

Considering that I'm new to the PRC, I've no idea whether it uses anything unusual to locate NWN, but my guess is that it's pretty simple and uses the following keys. Note that you can royally wreck your PC if you futz around with the wrong stuff in your registry. If you don't understand my directions and take responsibility for any possible issues that arise from following them, then don't proceed.

Registry information inside spoiler brackets.

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My registry keys for NWN are at HKLM\Software\Bioware\NWN.

Note that I have NWN installed into the folder "P:\Bioware\Neverwinter Nights\". You will want to make sure that on your system it uses the folder you installed to.

Here's a copy of the relevant export info:

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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Bioware\NWN]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Bioware\NWN\Neverwinter]
"Flavour"="Retail"
"InstallType"=dword:00000002
"Language"=dword:00000000
"LastInstalledVersion"=dword:00000003
"Latest Installed XP"=dword:00000002
"Latest Installed XP Name"="Neverwinter Nights Collection"
"Location"="P:\\Bioware\\Neverwinter Nights\\"
"Version"="1.69"
"Path"="P:\\Bioware\\Neverwinter Nights\\"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Bioware\NWN\Underdark]
"Location"="P:\\Bioware\\Neverwinter Nights"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Bioware\NWN\Undrentide]
"Location"="P:\\Bioware\\Neverwinter Nights"
If you open up regedit and add/change the location and path keys, that might fix it. If they aren't there at all, you might try copying the above code into a text file and replacing each instance of "Location"="P:\\Bioware\\Neverwinter Nights\\" & "Path"="P:\\Bioware\\Neverwinter Nights\\" with your NWN install path. (Remember to use the '\\' instead of '\' for folders.)

Save the text file and rename it to a .reg extension then right click on the file and select merge to install it into your registry.

I hope this is helpful.

The filesize and opening with NWN Explorer both seem to check out. Final line of portraits.2da within the bif is 565 Rakshasa_f_ 4 20 **** 0 **** .

As it's apparently not a simple issue, I'll go ahead and try a full reinstall and see if that resolves it.

I started out by opening the manual and reading through the install instructions before trying anything, and while I'm pretty certain I haven't missed a step, I think the solution has to be pretty simple.


Preramble:

I'm using PRC 3.5, and JavaCC 1.8. I've also copied the resources for Project Q 1.4 and CEP 2.4a into my NWN install -- which by my understanding shouldn't have any effect on the PRC install. I downloaded everything everything yesterday.

I also downloaded the PRCQ merge and copied the files into NWN, then ran the PRC updater to patch the OC with PRC + Q. I'm not completely certain I did that step correctly, but I believe I followed the readme properly.

I'm using Java build 1.6.0_27-b07 and NWN+SoU+HotU 1.69 - Complete Edition from Gamer's Gate on Win 7 x64.

I have the JavaCC setup to use the haks as described in the directions - using the hak files:
prc_2das.hak
prc_race.hak
prc_textures.hak

and the tlks:
Custom - prc_consortium.tlk
Default tlk


Onto the issue:

I'm having an issue with the Characters Creator throwing up an error and crashing from not finding certain 2da files. The first time it complained about not find portraits.2da. This occurred even with vanilla NWN gender/race combos. (Male/Human specifically.)

So, I did some browsing around online and in these forums, and found nothing. I opened up everything (search utility) and checked and portraits.2da didn't exist, but I had a file called 2dasource.zip in the root NWN directory. (No 2da files in any subfolder of my NWN install, though.)

So after some googling, PRC manual scouring, and finally resorting to an educated (lucky) guess , I dropped portraits.2da into the portraits subfolder that the JavaCC directions had me create. That resolved it for the portraits.

I was now able to progress through choosing a class, but when I get to packages I receive a similar error. Upon choosing a package (I've tried different classes/packages), the CC spits out an error about being unable to find the relevant Pack with "FatalError - <Packname> not found. Your Data might be corrupt." Since the pack names correspond with more 2da filenames in the 2dasource.zip, I assume it's more of the same.

However, I have no idea where these 2da files should actually be or if there's something else creating this issue and futzing around with shoving 2das in various folders would just cause more harm than good. As I mentioned above, I've tried searching, not just in these forums, but also via google for information on this problem and on where the 2da files should properly be.

My results to this have been fairly limited or end at dead sites. As you know, nwn.bioware is gone (along with my account and a set of my old NWN keys, which I'd also lost the paper slips for - GRRRRRR). Nwn.wikia.com has some interesting info on the 2das, but I'm only finding that the original 2das should supposedly be packed other files and not be needed except for haks. And for the most part, other results are for NWN2 or completely irrelevant.


So, in summary:

I haven't played NWN in years and am really keen on playing with some of the new content and reading about the PRC has me amped; however the JavaCC is complaining that I don't have all the 2da files and crashing. Can someone help me fix this?

Thank you.