Tag: Enhanced Edition

Neverwinter Nights Enhanced Edition produces black screen on Linux

I decided I wanted to start playing the new release of the classic game Neverwinter Nights, on my Chromebook using my Ubuntu Linux chroot. My download comes from GOG. While my install worked great on my Windows desktop and Fedora laptop, the game isn’t starting on my Chromebook. It just produces a black screen instead of the game’s main menu.

Another Beamdog re-release, Baldur’s Gate, works great on here. The solution for NWN should be pretty simple: turn off full screen mode. But how can you do that without entering the game?!

Easy:

  • Navigate to /home/<your user>/.local/share/Neverwinter Nights
  • Edit nwn.ini
  • Change the following:
FullScreen=0
FullScreenDesktopMode=1
Borderless=1

You’re done! The game won’t run in true full screen, but it will be a full-screen borderless window.