Neverwinter Nights 2 Performance Thread

I bought it a couple of days ago and been trying it out a little bit. It was performing quite well on my mobility x1600. Bot no shaddows. Shaddows does quite a lot for the games i think visually and looking at the screenshots pre release this game looked way better than oblivion in my eyes.

I havn't been playing it a lot.. just messing around to get in to the controls and gameplay then i'll make a serious character and actually "play" it.

So if anyone is playing this game.. it would be fun to see how the game performs on their machines.. I'll post some more specs and FPS rates later but until then i'm curious how other graphic cards perform on this game..

 

How does this game compare to Oblivion:

Graphicaly?
Story line?
Open endedness?
Replayability?

Overall?

My new laptop will be here soon and i need an RPG. Cant decide between this or Oblivion.

 

Graphically. On par with oblivion if you can play with some nice features like Shadows, bloom, and other goodies.. But generally Oblivion looks more realistic, better or worse.

I havn't played very long time to give any good words on the storyline, but there's quite too many annoying cinematics and spoken dialogue. Voice acting and Lipsync as in oblivion. The storyline so far grabs you a bit deeper in to than oblivion i think .. dont know why but it felt like that

Open endeness? from what i know you can play it pretty much how you like and it will alter the storyline. I read there should be quite a few sidequests as well so it will certanly keep you busy a while.

Replayability = Huge. I already been trying out a few different characters that i created and played them differently. Some good guys and some nasty bad guys, and for all the classes and skills there is to choose from there are endless possibilites of character costumization, mixing classes playing other races etc.etc.

It also has a toolkit same as oblivion so it will have downloadable mods coming shortly too i suppose...

There's also an option to play with friends on a LAN network or internet. =)

 

I'll let you guys know how it runs on my laptop as soon as it arrives. Should be here today or tomorrow.

 

I am currently playing it on my Asus V6Va, Pentium M, 1.86 GHz, 2G Ram, X700 128MB. I could not get it run comfortably at native resolution 1400x1050. It feels a bit sluggish with the "recommended" setting at that resolution. I finally move it down to 1024x768 and it runs smoothly now.

Compared to Oblivion, NWN2 has worse graphics. However, NWN game is not about graphics, the gameplay is superior to Oblivion.

Here are some screenshots.

 

Guys this may sound a bit odd but it is true: this game cannot be compared with Oblivion. Oblivion looks 100x better then this. Just look at those figures and look at the paths and grass.

I do not know how the story of this game is, but when it comes to graphics it is not comparable with Oblivion.

Charlie

 

Of course it is. Graphics is so much more than poly count. I think even Guild wars looks way better than Oblivion. Yes there's not so good looking tree's and grass, and all the GPU hungry fancy schmancy stuff, but the 3D and Texture artist work and meet up to it.

In fact. I hate the player & NPC models in oblivion. The animations are some of the worst I've seen too.

I'm not comparing special FX, but overall impression. That edge between close land and distant land is soo ugly i sometims play without the distant land and some fog instead cuz it's bugging me less

Best Game Graphically i played so far is Titan Quest. That's major kick ass work. It all blends together perfectly the detail in items and building is astonishing. I never saw any area in that game that looked bad. It's well thought through and carefully assembled by REAL artists..

The Trees in oblivion arnt even hand crafted. They are generated and placed Randomly at certain locations. The grass too. There's not much thought to the landscape itself.. it's just a booring outdoor are filled with some generated fancy trees and Grass that eat GPU. And for the grass.. it doesnt even blend good with the grass and surrounding textures.. It looked so bad it was the first thing i turned off.

Back To Neverwinter Nights 2. I think it's on par becouse of other things than fancy effects etc. Take a look at the Models and animations. Yes things not might be as detailed but what is detail to overall experience? I will take some sceenies at maximum settings just to compare..

 

I coudlt figure out where the screenies went =// anywyas.

here's some screenies i googled up, Take a look and tell me it's not on par with Oblivion.

http://hardwired.hu/img/wg/2/55/Neverwinter_Nights_2_35.jpg
http://www.sg.hu/kep/2006_05/0504nev2.jpg
http://www.sg.hu/kep/2006_05/0504nev3.jpg
http://www.sg.hu/kep/2006_05/0504nev4.jpg
http://medias.jeuxonline.info/www/captures/176/8/3338.jpg
http://img2.kult-mag.com/photos/00/00/69/03/ME0000690382_2.jpg
http://www.gamesradar.com/us/images...er Nights 2/Bulk Viewers/PC/2--screenshot.jpg
http://www.nwn2news.net/uploads/photos/193.jpg
http://www.gamebanshee.com/screenshots/neverwinternights2/renders/screenshot13.jpg

There's some =) Imagine it with with maximum settings on everything.. Probably not as GPU hungry as oblivion, but looking **** good.

 

Ive seen Neverwinder Nights 2 screenshots with settings maxed. Without even lookin at my Oblivion with my lower settings I can tell you it has nothing on Oblivion.

 

I think BG2 looks 100x better than NWN1, Morrowind, etc. Maybe Oblivion is pretty equal. The hand made backgrounds just look amazing. Nothing in 3D can compare to that. It's not about eye candy.

 

BG2 is prerendered scenes, while this is nice, it rather criples any modability, they are also too still and lifeless.

NWN2 has great voice acting, some good humour and a strong story line. The graphics and fancy spell effects are nice if not "next gen" (shudder to using that term).

This is an RPG, they got this right:

story line > graphics

Blows oblivion apart in that area IMO.

 

I'm also one who prefers a good storyline, gameplay and stability to "state-of-the-art" or "next-gen" graphics.

 

Well it seems to be running fantastically on my Toshiba. Have everything up on high

 

Why has this discussion turned into NWN2 vs Oblivion graphics-wise? Come on, people, stop comparing the two. Different developer and different type of game altogether, you're comparing koreans vs apples here (well, not quite, but you get the idea).

 

They both ARE RPGs. And since Oblivion was the last major RPG to come out, why not compare them?

Anyway, i too prefer a good storyline to graphics. i was just curios because i wanted to test my new laptop out. Wanted to see how much it could handle.

 

Thats the whole point of what I'm saying. They shouldn't be compared .. totally different things ... I expected this thread to say things like it works here and there and these many FPS and with these cards and these settings; not a Oblivion owns it and Oblivion better or it sucks cause Oblivion this and Oblivion that. I mean, come on, stop it with the Oblivion thing already. Some people just posted comments like that and it's not what I was looking for.

The title of the thread says "Performance Thread" not Oblivion vs NWN2 eyecandy thread.