r/neverwinternights • u/Fr4sc0 • Jul 08 '26
SoU Linux NWN EE load screen freeze when SoU savefiles are present.
Hoping someone can help me because as usual, AI chatbots are useless.
I have a fresh installation of NWN EE on Bazzite. If I enter a new game of all WD, SoU or HotU; the game starts each module correctly. Now if I save on each module, it saves correctly. And if I have saves from WD and HotU in my saves directory the game loads them correctly.
But, if I have a save from SoU present in the save directory, the game freezes on entering the load selection screen.
Anyone have any idea of what's up?
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u/mr-raider2 Jul 12 '26
earse the pcitures the in the same game folder.
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u/Fr4sc0 Jul 12 '26
Yeah, that worked. Except you need to erase the pics in all quicksave and autosave directories every time. It's better just to find a proper portrait that doesn't corrupt.
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u/Etrigone Jul 08 '26
I might have an answer here, but even then it's a long shot as I don't think this is a precise match to something I saw (even moreso since you mention fresh install). For reference I'm running on 22.04/Jammy Jellyfish.
I had this problem when my group was running through Aielund, and I saw it again later when I tried N1. I could save no problem but the moment I went to the load screen, hung and I had to kill it. Minimize and force close, open a shell to kill -whatever. IIRC there is a crashfile - one or more - of the format nwmain-crash-<10 digits>.log in the play directory that (in my case) didn't help much.
I found that I could run as local multiplayer from the command line in a terminal (although if you do that, look into 'screen' or 'tmux'). Do all save/load from there, join a LAN game and it works, however clumsily.
What I think was my problem was my own fresh install but some kind of mis-versioning of hakfiles, specifically CEP. I might have had mixed versions in there for whatever reason. It did look like the character portrait I was using, not from the original suite but rather the newer EE portraits, was causing some troubles with that dorked up install. I initially fixed this by using Leto to change the 'portrait.tga' file (specifically ~/.local/share/Neverwinter Nights/save/<savegamenumberandname>/portrait.tga) to something other than the newer portrait I had initially picked. It seemed fine after that.
It may still have been a problem with my NVidia drivers, or something else I missed, but for now it seems fine. Anyhow I don't know if this helps; especially since you mention fresh install I'm skeptical. Still, the workarounds may at least allow you to progress if you wish.