I've been running into frustration with the n...

September 26, 2003 by Adam in NWN1

I've been running into frustration with the new patch. It seems to crash about 90% of the time after I click the "Select Pregenerated Character" button. Very frustrating.

I'm running into some issues with Dreamcatcher 3 as well, so I'm delaying the update for the moment. It got too frustrating trying to test when the game crashed nearly every time I tried to get in.

On the other hand, I got a lot of stuff done yesterday. The arena area is looking pretty complete, except for the necessary playtesting. I balanced out the creatures a bit more so that their creature type and level doles out an appropriate amount of gold and experience. I also have the spirit pouch working so that you can summon your creature outside of the arena. This doesn't add to your maximum total of summoned creatures, animal companions, and familiars, so it's an extra bonus to all that can help quite a bit in a fight.

Finally, the last of my new computer parts arrived yesterday. The highlights are:
AMD 2500+ Barton (hopefully overclockable to 3200+)
Radeon 9800 Pro
SEAGATE 160GB SATA hard drive
ASUS A7N8X DLX motherboard
Alpha PAL heatsink
DVD writer (Panasonic LF D521)
2x Crucial 512 MB memory
AOpen case and power supply

I assembled it and powered it up without any major problems. Now I just need to install XP and a ton of software. I'll probably move my NWN development to this box as soon as possible, as it should be quite a bit speedier (and might even work).