Building Cities in YATT

Thangorn · Post by **Thangorn** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 3:03 am

yes I have a 8800GTS 320Mb graphics card..

Wahoo! And I just got an out of memory exception in NW2ToolsetLauncher.dll when I tried to copy all my placeables across from one area to another at once (I still had a version of the area that is not too far back when I wisely decided that it might be a good time to save a module version for good luck)..

The crashes I have with YATT only come when writing terrain attributes and the exception always occurs in the NW2Toolsetrenderer.dll at those times but I am able to create many and varied crashes, crashing is my area of expertise when it comes to the toolset

HEEGZ · Post by **HEEGZ** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 3:06 am

Sorry for the bitching. For the record, this recent showing from Indio has me wanting to toolset again for the first time in a long time.

I reserve the right to bitch in the future tho

Nate

indio · Post by **indio** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:55 am

Regulare crashes in the toolset would have me do the following:

- De-install NWN2 (backup usual files)
- De-install .Net framework
- De-install Video driver
- Manually delete all NWN2 regitry residue
- Check the My Docs/NWN2 directories are completey gone

- Reinstall latest nVdia driver, .Net framework and then the game

And because I'm an all or nothing kind of guy, I'd spend the $60 on a new hard drive, install WinXP, partition it into 3 drives...C for windows files, F for My Docs and G for programs, then install the game anew.

Nw that's obviously overkill, but the clean sweep reinstall outlined above is probably worth it. In honesty, you should not be crashing at all on a desktop anymore, so I suspect when you installed MotB, or any revious patch, files were left in your Override folder, corrupting game files.

indio · Post by **indio** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 8:34 am

I'm actually going to be doing a reinstall myself in the next 2 days so I can set up a raid on my main build machine.

Waterdeep logistics are mind-blowing, and I haven't even managed to touch areas yet...I've just been preparing things. Prefabs, names, placeable categories, backup procedures, computer settings....I'm re-evaluating the lot so I don't make mistakes and can do the build as efficiently as possible.

Thangorn · Post by **Thangorn** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 11:30 am

That rebuild is going to take a fair amount of my time so I wont get to it until at least Monday night..

Updating the game again.. blegh

indio · Post by **indio** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 6:32 pm

Do it in stages then. Try the video driver first. Get the latest from nVidia, uninstall, reboot, instal new, reboot. Should take 5 mins.

Thangorn · Post by **Thangorn** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:39 pm

done the complete re-install, thanks for the assistance indio.

Only problem is, now I'm stuck with patch 1.11 :/ why no goddam rollbacks Atari.. TNT's nwpatcher only does roll backs if you've updated with it..

oh well. guess it'll be time for another game install tomorrow

*grumbles and walks off*

indio · Post by **indio** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 5:23 pm

If this doesn't work I'm sending you a computer that will.

AcadiusLost · Post by **AcadiusLost** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 5:34 pm

At this point, you might want to leave it at 1.11 and just walk softly- we should have patched haks ready shortly, just waiting on the hotfix due out any time now.

Runestaff · Post by **Runestaff** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 10:27 pm

Thangorn wrote:Only problem is, now I'm stuck with patch 1.11 :/ why no goddam rollbacks Atari.. TNT's nwpatcher only does roll backs if you've updated with it..

Though tedious, you could have used the manual patches on the vault to patch up to the level you desired (presumably 1.10). Keep that in mind if you need to reinstall another time and do not want the most recent patch.

Thangorn · Post by **Thangorn** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:26 pm

thanks Runestaff.. I'll probably just sit tight since I'll get bugger all time to build between busiest period at work and organising a big christmas bash for most of my family..

Wynna · Post by **Wynna** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 6:53 pm

Indio, are you happy with the way your guide looks? Your latest screenshots did it. I'm posting to the PW Roundtable and a few other places and including screenshots and a link to your guide as soon as you say it's ready.

indio · Post by **indio** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:49 pm

Yeah, call it a draft, but it's ready to go.

ç i p h é r · Post by **ç i p h é r** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 10:26 pm

Yackity YATT! This is unquestionably on my reading list for the holidays....

Thank you Indio.