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Didn't even realise you put it up. D:

Question though, do you use CEP?

edit: What version is the server running? :S

Version is listed on the first post. v1.68

I was hoping you forgot to update that post; I'm at 1.69. D:

I was hoping you forgot to update that post; I'm at 1.69. D:

There are downgrade instructions on Bioware's website.

[quote]I was hoping you forgot to update that post; I'm at 1.69. D:

There are downgrade instructions on Bioware's website.
If running 1.68 was for my benefit, but everyone else has patch 1.69 working, it would probably make sense to bump the server up to the new version (y'know, "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of..."). I can have another go at 1.69--maybe the 4th time is the charm. ;)

Any word yet regarding my team damage question in the other thread?

[quote][quote]I was hoping you forgot to update that post; I'm at 1.69. D:

There are downgrade instructions on Bioware's website.
If running 1.68 was for my benefit, but everyone else has patch 1.69 working, it would probably make sense to bump the server up to the new version (y'know, "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of..."). I can have another go at 1.69--maybe the 4th time is the charm. ;)

Any word yet regarding my team damage question in the other thread?

1.68 was chosen as it has a 98% success rate, compared to the 1.69 with a huge failure rate. Also what question of team damage? I never could find it.

sucks...

It looks like I've gone and corrupted my server character for NWN real good. Every time I log in, as soon as I load the gameworld my display goes nuts--as if my video card is dying (textures gone, smeared text, etc.). Local NWN characters load fine, other games load fine, driver is current, DXdiag tests OK. Only happens with the server character, and if I don't end-task the process quickly I get an nv4_disp driver error. :shock:

Sooooo...does the server maintain character backups, or am I just screwed with a capital 'F'?

Didn't by any chance change/update the video drivers recently?

Didn't by any chance change/update the video drivers recently?

Did update my video driver after the problem occurred--no change. When I was playing the other night, the game got real sluggish after an area change (specifically, I ran out of a building and an enemy followed me). I continued to play for 5-10 minutes, but then gave up and exited. The first time I tried playing on the server again is when the problem started. I've also tried a critical rebuild of NWN--no change.

In a nice bit of irony, this is one of the prime reasons why, until now, I've never played an MP game that required server-side character storage. I never liked the idea of my game data being out of my control. Fortunately this is only a level-4 character...I can't imagine how it would feel to lose something that took dozens or hundreds of hours of gameplay to build. :(

Generally, any MMO would have some pretty tight security around the characters you build (you're paying to play, usually). That's not counting someone hacking your account or something, but I digress.

Regardless of the version of your server, I don't see it anywhere.

I've never seen an online game where your char. wasn't server-side, otherwise the cheating would be too easy.

I mentionned the video drivers because ever since the nvidia versions passed 1.75 or so, I've had random occurences of 'texture frenzy' where everything goes stretchy, like a major overclock gone bad or overheat, only that's not the case because there's no overclocking and heat is low enough that I feel cool air out the case and even opening it wide doesn't help.

I've never seen an online game where your char. wasn't server-side, otherwise the cheating would be too easy.

Same here, The only two that I can think of are Titans Quest (The Online was thrown in as an after thought, its really just for 2 friends to start a game and play with each other. And the original Diablo. Then Blizzard learned oh so much with Diablo and the massive amounts of cheating on it that they made the characters stored serverside in Diablo2.

I've never seen an online game where your char. wasn't server-side, otherwise the cheating would be too easy.

Yeah, I know the games work that way. I just find it ironic that the first server-side character I've ever created gets lost due to data corruption.

I mentionned the video drivers because ever since the nvidia versions passed 1.75 or so, I've had random occurences of 'texture frenzy' where everything goes stretchy, like a major overclock gone bad or overheat, only that's not the case because there's no overclocking and heat is low enough that I feel cool air out the case and even opening it wide doesn't help.

That is similar to what is going on with me. Here is what the game looks like when I load the server character:


I can load local NWN game saves without trouble. I even created a new character on the server that plays without error. This only happens with the first character I created on the server, and it happens every time. I have no idea what I did, but all the evidence points to corrupt data.

[quote]I've never seen an online game where your char. wasn't server-side, otherwise the cheating would be too easy.

Yeah, I know the games work that way. I just find it ironic that the first server-side character I've ever created gets lost due to data corruption.

I mentionned the video drivers because ever since the nvidia versions passed 1.75 or so, I've had random occurences of 'texture frenzy' where everything goes stretchy, like a major overclock gone bad or overheat, only that's not the case because there's no overclocking and heat is low enough that I feel cool air out the case and even opening it wide doesn't help.

That is similar to what is going on with me. Here is what the game looks like when I load the server character:

I can load local NWN game saves without trouble. I even created a new character on the server that plays without error. This only happens with the first character I created on the server, and it happens every time. I have no idea what I did, but all the evidence points to corrupt data.

Wow, that is weird! I would say that the server is missing some textures but since other people aren't having that problem I can't say what it is. did you try deleting the local cache ? I don't have it installed so I can't tell you where it is, but I know when I hosted NWN servers back in the day it use download a copy of the character locally. that's if my memory servers me correctly...hrm...my brain is failing me. I could be wrong, but would be worth a shot.

did you try deleting the local cache ? I don't have it installed so I can't tell you where it is, but I know when I hosted NWN servers back in the day it use download a copy of the character locally.

I assume you mean the files in the NWNlocalvault folder. I tried that--no change. Can't think of anything else to try.

On the scale of mishaps this isn't so bad. I'll just have to start up a new character when I can.