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I was really looking forward to this game. 
But I spent almost 24 hours trying to get it to work on my desktop without any luck. 
Even after downloading the patch, I couldn't get it to play anymore than just the opening titles before it froze up--which meant I had to repeated crash my computer. I meandered around the various support sites of the makers, following their suggestions as to changing my video configuration and turning off the sound to ascertain whether it was a soundcard compatibility problem. I even uninstalled the game and reinstalled it again. All with no luck.
The last possiblity was to deactivate my CD-burner. Apparently the game has a built-in incompatablity with some CD-burners to aid its copyright protection. But that was a bridge too far. Dang it, game manufacturers should be going out of their way to make the games compatible not incompatible with their customers' hardware. I paid for that CD-burner, and I'm not about to deactivate it just to play their stupid game.
This morning, I had the bright idea of installing the game on my laptop, which doesn't have a CD-burner.
But the video card on my laptop isn't up to Neverwinter requirements, and the pointer cursor fluttered constantly, more off than on.
So, looks like I'm out of options.
But I spent almost 24 hours trying to get it to work on my desktop without any luck. Even after downloading the patch, I couldn't get it to play anymore than just the opening titles before it froze up--which meant I had to repeated crash my computer. I meandered around the various support sites of the makers, following their suggestions as to changing my video configuration and turning off the sound to ascertain whether it was a soundcard compatibility problem. I even uninstalled the game and reinstalled it again. All with no luck.
The last possiblity was to deactivate my CD-burner. Apparently the game has a built-in incompatablity with some CD-burners to aid its copyright protection. But that was a bridge too far.
Dang it, game manufacturers should be going out of their way to make the games compatible not incompatible with their customers' hardware. I paid for that CD-burner, and I'm not about to deactivate it just to play their stupid game.This morning, I had the bright idea of installing the game on my laptop, which doesn't have a CD-burner.
But the video card on my laptop isn't up to Neverwinter requirements, and the pointer cursor fluttered constantly, more off than on. So, looks like I'm out of options.
The store wouldn't take the game back. They have a policy of not accepting returns on any games which have already been opened. The best they could do was to exchange the game for another identical game in case my problem was a defective disk. 
an outdated driver on my videocard. I just got done downloading the latest driver for my NVidia TNT (from the archive section of NVidia's website 
) and the game is up and running.
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