[SOLVED] Black Screen in Neverwinter Nights

Question

I'm trying to get Neverwinter Nights Platinum (4 CD version) working, using these instructions.  When I run the nwn script however, I get a black screen.  The sound is working but the screen is black.  I'm running 64-bit arch but I've installed lib32 so I don't know what the problem is.  Here is the content of my nwn script:
#!/bin/sh
# This script runs Neverwinter Nights from the current directory
export SDL_MOUSE_RELATIVE=0
export SDL_VIDEO_X11_DGAMOUSE=0
#export LIBXCB_ALLOW_SLOPPY_LOCK=1
# If you do not wish to use the SDL library included in the package, remove
# ./lib from LD_LIBRARY_PATH
#export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./lib:./miles:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=:./miles:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
./nwmain $@
Last edited by Surrender (2010-05-28 05:17:31)

Answer 1

ngoonee wrote:I believe their version of SDL is older than the system version in Arch? I used to play this (a year or so back) but it doesn't start anymore.
Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.  I finally got it to work.
In case anyone else ever needs detailed instructions, this is what I did:
I copied usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0.11.3 into my NWN lib directory: home/user/nwn/lib
I changed directory into my NWN directory: cd /home/user/nwn
I created a symbolic link to sdl: ln -s libSDL-1.2.so.0.11.3 lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0
Last edited by Surrender (2010-05-28 05:19:11)