This launcher is intended for those who don't want NWN2 to use the
My Documents folder for its user settings.
The launcher will when launched open a dialog displaying buttons
to launch either the NWN2 game, the NWN2 Update, the NWN2 Toolset
and the NWN2 server.
When either of these buttons are pressed your windows "My
Documents" will be set to point to your Neverwinter Nights 2
installations directory (eg. D:\NWN2). Your old "My Documents"
value is retained and will be reset when you close the launcher.
An example:
Your Neverwinter Nights 2 is installed in D:\NWN2
and your My Documents are located at c:\Documents and
Settings\NWNUser\My Documents
Normally your Neverwinter Nights 2 files (savegames etc.) would be
stored in c:\Documents and Settings\NWNUser\My
Documents\Neverwinter Nights 2.
When using my launcher they will instead be stored in
D:\NWN2\Neverwinter Nights 2
The program should work with all versions of NWN2 and the only
thing it modifies is the following registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Currentversion\Explo
rer\User Shell Folders where it changes the value stored in
"Personal", The default value is %USERPROFILE%\My Documents
Should your computer crash whilst playing simply start the
launcher again after booting to restore your "My Documents" to
it's original state. If this should fail for some reason you can
enter it manually using regedit by selecting Run from the start
menu and type regedit followd by enter. Then navigate to the above
shown menu and enter the previous value, if in doubt type in the
default value of "%USERPROFILE%\My Documents" without the "
NOTE:
Running other programs that use the My Documents is of course not
recommended while using the launcher.
If you have already installed NWN2 you should prior to using the
launcher copy your entire My Documents\Neverwinter Nights 2 folder
into your Neverwinter Nights 2 installation directory. prior to
starting the launcher..
Tried the launcher on version 1.03 and now I can no longer run the game at all. It crashes...
Running it from the launcher caused almost instant crash. Updater worked for some reason, but not the game.
So I moved all that junk back to My Documents (and yes, it is retarded to put files anywhere else but where the user tells any installer to) and this time I at least get the music and it tries to switch to game resolution on the screen but then it goes poof. Crash to desktop.
I must have either forgotten some file somewhere supposed to be in My Documents or some silly inifile got messed up somewhere. I really can't tell what is wrong, I canonly see that the game is no longer starting.
Someone bazooka Obsidian for putting files where I don't want them. This is why I tried the launcher to begin with, my C: partition don't have room to spare for this kind of stuff. _________________________ Almost hardcore roleplayer
The problem with games sending things automatically to your My Documents folder is that I use a roaming profile which maps my My Documents directory to my server. Every game that wants to install junk to My Documents never properly references that server location (although everything else does just fine) and thus there will be strange glitches throughout the game (data not saving correctly, patches not fully enabled, some games just plain don't run). So what I end up having to do most of the time is log out of my roaming profile and log back in as local administrator which stores it's profile in the C: drive.
Really I just wish they could balance the drive to make things easy for the inexperienced user and taking away versitility for the power user. Lately, programs have stopped even asking where to install to, they just put themselves wherever (Zune player the most recent offender).
The concept behind putting things in your My Documents however derives from ease of backup (all files in My Documents, so just backup that directory) and difference between users (each user keeps their saved games and settings seperate from the other users). However, I don't see why it would be so difficult for them to program in a why to customize the profile location in case you don't like the default or in case you WANT to share saved games between users. Customization used to be the way of things, but I'm afraid it being stripped away for uniformity everywhere we look.
Ice is right, almost every game is doing this now. No use fighting it really. Unless you really think NWN2 will be dead by the time Vista becomes the standard.
Posted by shadowmere at 2006-11-17 04:11:16 Voted 9.75 on 11/17/06
i agree with most of the guys who have just posted, i feel that adding saves and ini's to my documents is a really retarded thing to do, as i have now got 6 games with saves in my documents, and 8 in the original folders and it gets complicated trying to remember where things are stored , plus wjhat were obsidian thinking having 2 override folders, 2 UI folders etc? i mean where u meant to install addons?
@IceBear_OO
To my knowledge NWN2 does not require Vista to run, or else someone forgot to tell it to my Windows XP ;-)
The My Documents is IMO only a standard, because MS dictated it to be. People may use it because it's there, but most people I know don't like it.. When everything is stored in My Documents it gets harder to make backup of the really important things..
Anyway, thats my opinion and you are of course entitled to yours and if you don't like the launcher just don't use it :)
Get used to it, it's the Vista standard (which was why Obsidian did it that way)
Posted by Jamina1999 at 2006-11-12 04:27:02 Voted 10.00 on 11/12/06
This should have been there from the start. It is wrong to still use space on your main system partition if you chose it differently in the installation. It feels like the power of freedom and choice has been taken from the user once again.
An addition everyone should use. I just hope it will work with most of the stuff available on the vault.
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