Black Screen when launching Neverwinter Nights (Forceware Driver Issue)

Black Screen when launching Neverwinter Nights (Gold/Platinum/Diamond)

Windows Vista and XP users that are using Nvidia ForceWare drivers from 158.22 to 162.22 encounter a black screen in place of the main menu when launching Neverwinter Nights 1.68

BioWare's contact at Nvidia has now been made aware of the issue.

The current solution for Windows XP users (Using a GeForce 8000 series card) is to roll back to Forceware version 97.94 .

Windows XP users (not using am 8000 series card) can solve the issue by rolling back to 94.24

Windows Vista users (6000, 7000 and 8000 series cards) can resolve this issue by installing the ForceWare 163.11 (Beta Drivers) which support the 6000, 7000 and 8000 series cards. A Windows XP version of these drivers is forthcoming.

A viable work around for those users that either want to wait for a non-beta driver or do not want to roll their existing drivers back is to create a shortcut to nwmain.exe, right click on it, choose "Properties", the "Shortcut" tab, and then in the "Target" field add the following text after "\NWN" (i.e. C:\NeverwinterNights\NWN\)

nwmain.exe +TestNewModule "modulename"

Please note that there is a space before the + sign in the above line. This will launch the game and immediately try to load a module with the name "modulename" (which shouldn’t exist). You could then use the "cancel" button to back out to the main menu and start your game as normal.

Additional updates to the issue will appear in this thread. Please avoid starting new threads to discuss this issue, conversation in existing threads is encouraged.

There's another way to fix this. Just use XFire and launch Neverwinter Nights from the launch menu.

Source :: Bioware Forum