Any ideas on how to shorten or remove the playername check?

Since Bioware isnt bringing the master server back up, having to wait for the player name authorization at every log in is irritating me. Anybody know a way to get rid of it, or at least make it time out much faster?

No, but the Premium mods are now playable with it not running, so play 'em if you got 'em.

This has stopped for me since installing the NWNCX stuff that is required to see the new weapon vfx's.. I think that there is something in the coding for that that removes this check...

I use the launcher to play with that stuff too... it does add a minor "cmd line" check but that is much preferable to the (upto) 5 minute wait for the master server to not respond ....

Talked to last night and he said the same thing. I DL'ed and installled NWNCX.

Lo and behold!

No more authentication timeouts!!

- the readme for the NWNCX was a little unclear about where to put all the files from the 7zip archive. I extracted them to my NWN folder and it worked.... but I didn't see anything instructing me to use that location. Mayhaps an update to the content page on the vault for the weapon VFX and also a note on the downloads page of our main website?

Come to think of it, I've noticed that since installing NWNCX, the authentication log-in is gone ... so BioWare has no plans to bring the server back up?

daveyeisley wrote:Mayhaps an update to the content page on the vault for the weapon VFX and also a note on the downloads page of our main website?

Will that include that NWNCX chases away the timeouts? Might be handy info to share!

So, I have downloaded the files, now I just extract direct to the NWN folder?

Skywatcher wrote:So, I have downloaded the files, now I just extract direct to the NWN folder?

From on another thread; may also be on the Home page:

Here's the info. Sorry about that. It was included with the VFX submission, but I neglected to put the info here.

- NWNCX (Neverwinter Nights Client Extender) version 0.2 or later:
- - Players need the following files:
- - - http://data.virusman.ru/nwn/nwncx/nwncx-0.2.rar
- - - http://data.virusman.ru/nwn/nwncx/nwncx_tweaks-0.1.rar
- - - Visual C 2010 redistributable (available for free from Microsoft's website)
- - - - if unable to install, place this DLL in NWN folder:
- - - - http://data.virusman.ru/nwn/nwncx/msvcr100.rar
- - For the "patch" option with this, players need to start with an unmodified nwmain.exe file (NWNCX includes camera angle modification).

OK sorry, I have the files, and they are in the C:\Neverwinter Nights\NWN directory, along with all the usual files and folders. What do I do to initiate the sequence of events that ends with the new visuals and no authentication?

Double-click the nwncx_patch.exe file... when the little window opens up, make sure "create a backup" checkbox is checked, then click the "patch" button. Let it finish.

Then start the game as normal.

OK, that explains it. My verdamnt AV program is reading it as a virus (due to the exe I assume?) and is deleting it as fast as I extract it. Will I hurt anything if I disable the virus program while I run it and then restart it?

That should work just fine.... I would recommend cloasing all other programs, and also unplugging your network cable from the PC before turning off your antivirus, and dont plug it back in again until you turn the antivirus back on (and I would even reboot, too).

Also, make sure your copy of the original starting nwmain.exe is not one that already has something like an unlocked camera angle modification, otherwise the patched one may not run for you when you go to try it out.