# Neverwinter Nights 2

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neverwinter-nights-2/374835>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 1, 2006, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neverwinter-nights-2/374835 "2006-10-01T15:37:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neverwinter-nights-2/374835/21 "2006-10-17T23:15:39Z")

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Freaking Shader 2.0 required on video cards… _swears a little bit_

I guess I REALLY have to upgrade sooner rather than later, 'cause this is the second thing in a row that I want to play but can’t because of my oldie-but-goodie GEForce4 Ti4200 (…which, other than the shader issues, performs as well or better as most of the 5000 series… :()

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**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neverwinter-nights-2/374835/22 "2006-10-18T00:00:22Z")

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[QUOTE=Kiros]  
Freaking Shader 2.0 required on video cards… _swears a little bit_

I guess I REALLY have to upgrade sooner rather than later, 'cause this is the second thing in a row that I want to play but can’t because of my oldie-but-goodie GEForce4 Ti4200 (…which, other than the shader issues, performs as well or better as most of the 5000 series… :()  
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Heck, I wound up upgrading my old GeForce2 (from 2001) earlier this year just so I could play freaking _Civilization IV_. What is the world coming to when a 32 MB video card can’t handle a Civ game?

I’ll be somewhere in the middle of the requirements. I won’t be able to play it on the highest settings like I can NWN, but I’m not sure what the highest settings really get me anyway, other than eye candy.

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**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/neverwinter-nights-2/374835/23 "2006-10-18T04:13:20Z")

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[QUOTE=Earthworm Jim]  
I loved NWN1 and I _was_ really looking forward to NWN2. But, last I heard, it was for Windows XP only.

I refused to buy XP on principle due to the “We make it phone home every time you swap out a component” business model, and I’m not about to compromise my principles for a game. (Though I’ve been tempted once or twice for this one!)

I’m hopeful that it will run on Win2K with few or no hacks. It would be even better if it runs under Cedega or Wine. (I’m really hoping Atari crumbles on the whole DirectX only thing & authorizes a Linux port, but that’s just a dream.)  
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I had a similar problem a few weeks ago. Back when I learned about it (2002ish?), there was basically little to no internal difference between 2k and XP. Things may have changed, but I dunno.

Software started having “only compatable with XP, if you continue to install this on 2k, we won’t support you” and installed and worked - I’m thinking this “XP only” trend where they won’t install might be a similar trend. That the games would actually run on 2k, but they don’t want to have to do the testing/support to find out, so they just block it from being installed.

I eventually just caved in and got XP and run a dual boot system for certain games. But the idea occured to me - maybe you could install the game in an XP virtual machine with vmware, and then run it regularly in win2k?

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