Is using Boot camp to run NWN2 on win7 on iMac ok?

[Regas]

Just want to be sure before I take the leap to an apple ...

Thanks

[gribo]

Make sure the mac has a decent video card (Nvidia 9600 or ATI x2000 or better)

[Hialmar]

It works quite well on my Mac mini 2010 (GeForce 320M) so any mac should run it well.

[darrenhfx]

That's the set-up I've been using with my macbook pro for about a week or so now and the only issue I had was when trying to move my toon with just the trackpad. So I dusted off my mouse and all is well. There may be some differences in the toolset but I need to play around with it more before I can say definitively.

*edit* I forgot that I had to mess around a bit with my video drivers, if you run into any issues just let us know.

Good luck.

[Mirabai]

Could anyone using a mac check out the DM client and the toolset and let me know if they work? Thanks!

[darrenhfx]

Toolset yes, DM client untested.

[Hialmar]

same here.

And I had to modify my graphics drivers as well. Apple's did not work so I had to install NVidia's ones.

Edit: just tested the DM client and it works well.

[AcadiusLost]

Anyone tried it using Parallels instead? Trying to decide which way to go with Lou's new laptop.

[Hialmar]

Never tried with Vmware (I don't have Parallels) but it's slow with most 3D games on my machine so I don't think it will be working.

[Regas]

ok, I have the game installed on my (wife's) new iMac, using Windows 7 I get an error saying that the game can't find a 3dx compatible system (graphics card I assume). The Mac has an ATI Radeon HD 5750 installed. Is this a driver issue? If so, any thoughts on which drivers I need or where to get them?

Thanks,

Regas

[Hialmar]

The best is to install the last drivers provided by the graphics card manufacturer (ATI here).
Apple is very late on drivers usually and even more on bootcamp than OSX.

[Regas]

I have it working...

required I use the RTFM procedure ....

Thanks!

Regas

[Regas]

Things appear to be working ok except on the DM client. When ever I right click on a player, DM or other object, the client crashes. This was happening in two areas so far, Silverymoon east and west. I changed miece and it made no difference. Video drivers are fairly fresh, within six months though I haven't found the most recent yet, I don't think that's going to matter for a game this old.

Is this a familiar bug for anyone or just something unique to a Mac?
Running a full version of Win 7 on Bootcamp on an iMac.
Thoughts?

Thanks,
Regas

[AcadiusLost]

I seem to remember a DM contextmenu bug that was plaguing folks for a while; is your DM avatar an unusual / ECL / planetouched or other similar race? There may be an issue with too many racial/class abilities on the right-click contextmenu leading to the crash. I'd recommend trying a human Fighter DM avatar and see if it makes a difference.

If not, perhaps try installing Skywing's Client Extender (post on it in New Players' forum), as that resolves a lot of DM client crash issues, and provides useful errorlogs on the crashes that it doesn't fix (which I can pass along to Skywing for future versions).

[Regas]

AcadiusLost, you are correct as usual, changing Avatars seems to have helped. I was able to dm most of a session but I crashed several times, once accessing the inventory of a possessed npc, then while on the travel map. I was not able to recover on the travel map, I just kept crashing. Also, I don't seem to be able to use the grab-box control feature for handling groups of NPCs, though, this never worked well anyway.