Hello,

I just purchased/installed Neverwinter Nights Diamond Edition on my computer and am having significant problems gettign it playable. It seems to have installed properly and runs, but...the resolution is so off that the camera is focused on a corner of the screen. I tried searching the forums but didn't find anything that looked like what I'm experiencing, though I may have missed something.

Attached is a screenshot of how the game looked when it first loaded. I then managed to get into the game by making a premade character, but messing with the resolution didn't seem to fix things. As you can see in the second screenshot, the menu is still weirdly off to the side and cut off.

What options do I need to mess with to fix this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. :)

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reducing size of a pic use higher compression when saving the file, this option normally appears only when saving.

And for links, if you do separate or omit the www. part you can post the rest ;)


Oh and in some cases to add to PeterScott, it might be also because you used some scaling of Windows.

Update, I fixed the problem with screenshots. Still don't know what to do though. Please help!

So I did the first suggestion and that seems to have fixed my first issue, but I am still a bit confused. It had the screen as a tiny little window surrounded by black so I set it to the lowest resolution, which does fit the screen but looks....pretty bad. Is there no middle ground? Is making the resolution tiny the only way to make the screen bigger?

If you have a Nvidia display card, go into the Nvidia Control Panel >Adjust Desktop Size and Position >
Set Perform scaling on GPU
And Override the scaling mode set by games and programs.

One more question. Have you actually got into the game proper, where you can see your character and control him?

Because the 2D UI doesn't resize, and it is smaller, the higher the resolution you run at.

So when in the 2D interface before the game starts you get central UI surrounded by black.

Once in the actual game, you get full screen 3D environment, with no surrounding black.

I did play a bit, yes, in the minimum resolution. I didn't think to try messing with it again in the game itself.

One issue is I'm also visually impaired, and even with the minimum res, the conversation text is rather small for me.

If you are in the actual game and still have black bars, you need to check your drivers as Olnorton suggested.

So I don't get black bars or anything, the game seems to be running correctly. Problem is now that, well, as I said, if I run it on a good resolution, I can't read things, but the visible resolution looks awful. Is there some way to trick it into making the UI/text bigger in the better resolution?

Here are screenshots of the difference.

Note, I have Big Fonts installed, which does help a bunch on the low resolution, but seems to mess with things on the high one....

Sorry no. The UI does not scale at all.

There is a setting under advanced video options for "Use High resolution Font", but that only makes a small difference, and it is almost certainly smaller than any custom "big font" that you installed. Bigger fonts will likely end up breaking something somewhere, even if you don't run into issue right away.

But if your vision is that bad, what is the issue running at lower resolution to make it big enough to read properly?

People only usually complain about running at lower resolution due to a slight blurring/softening effect, that you should really only notice if you have good vision and are looking for it.