Avlis:EE Steam

How to Transition to Steam

Avlis is migrating from NWN to Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition. Steam is one of the options for purchasing NWN:EE in order to play on Avlis:EE.

What Is Steam?

A digital marketplace for games and other media. It is one of the platforms you can use to buy, install, and automatically patch Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition in order to play Avlis.

How Do I Install Steam?

1. Go to https://store.steampowered.com/ and select Install Steam at the top right of the screen.
2. Select Install Steam for your platform (Windows, Mac, Linux) though it should automatically detect which operating system you are on the corresponding page: https://store.steampowered.com/about/
3. Run SteamSetup.exe and progress through the various installation prompts.
4. Click Finish at the end of the installation prompts and Steam will automatically open up by default with the open checkbox checked.
5. When Steam first opens you are given the option to create an account or login with an existing one.
6. If you do not have a Steam account, select Create New Account and progress through the account creation prompts.
7. Once you have an account, login with the credentials you set up. Note that these login credentials are for Steam, so you can access the game Neverwinter Nights. This is not your login for Avlis.
8. After logging in, you can proceed through the process of purchasing Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition.

How Do I Buy Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition From Steam?

1. Install the Steam Client (see above for steps)
2. Proceed to the Store tab in the Steam client.
3. In the search box type Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition. After a second, search results will pop up below the input text box.
4. Select the first option that just says “Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition”.
5. Select Add To Cart then select Purchase For Myself.
6. Proceed through the purchase prompts, either supplying PayPal account information, credit card information, etc.
7. Once you have purchased the game you can install it.

How Do I Install Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition?

1. Install (see above sections) and login to the Steam client.
2. Steam will potentially give you an option to install the game upon completion of your purchase. Follow the onscreen prompts if you wish to install immediately.
3. To install the game outside of the game purchase flow, proceed to the Library tab in the Steam client.
4. Scroll down, as needed, through your library of games/media until you find Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition.
5. Select the Install button then progress through the installation prompts.
6. The game will download via the Steam client and once it completes the Install button will change to a Play button.

Where Are The Application Executables (exe files)?

The location will be dependent on your Steam install location and operating system.

We recommend that you do not make any changes to this folder.

However, if you must know:

The path will be something like this:

Windows:

• YOUR_STEAM_INSTALL_LOCATION\steamapps\common\Neverwinter Nights\bin\win32

MacOS:

• YOUR_STEAM_INSTALL_LOCATION\steamapps\common\Neverwinter Nights\bin\macos

Linux:

• YOUR_STEAM_INSTALL_LOCATION\steamapps\common\Neverwinter Nights\bin\linux-x86

Where Are Steam Game Files Located?

The usual place for various files (local vault, portraits, haks, etc.) reside in:

• C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\Documents\Neverwinter Nights

CD Key Transfer

1. Copy your CD keys from your old NWN installation to the NWN EE installation (see How do I transfer, below).
2. ONLY THEN connect to NWN EE multiplayer.
3. You will be prompted to create a NWN EE player name. Enter your non-EE player name (what used to be known as Gamespy ID or GSID), that you use on Avlis.

Both your player name and your CD keys need to match our pre-EE records, in order to allow access to your Avlis PCs (Player Characters).

How do I transfer from GOG NWN Diamond Edition?

1. Find the file nwncdkey.ini in your Diamond Edition install folder from GOG.
This should be something similar to YOUR_GOG_INSTALL_LOCATION\GOG Galaxy\Games\NWN Diamond
2. Install Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition then go to the game file location.
This should be C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\Documents\Neverwinter Nights by default.
3. Copy the nwncdkey.ini file from your Diamond Edition folder to your Enhanced Edition game files folder. (You will see a cdkey.ini file there as well; ignore it.).

This is to ensure that the username you enter in Multiplayer mode is reserved for your keys.
The username you use will be the same as Diamond Edition.

How do I transfer from an older Neverwinter Nights game (e.g., original Bioware disk collection)

You will need to find the file nwncdkey.ini file in your install location for older Neverwinter Nights and copy it, as above. Note that your install location will be different.

For example (if NWN was installed on the C drive): C:\NeverwinterNights\NWN\nwncdkey.ini needs to be moved to C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\Documents\Neverwinter Nights

How Do I Run NWN:EE From Steam?

Normally, you can:

1. Log into the Steam client then select the *Library* tab.
2. Select Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition then select *Play*.
3. A menu popup will display three options:

• Play Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition. If you are simply playing on Avlis, select this option.
• Dungeon Master Client
• Launch Aurora Toolset

Note: If you choose to create a Desktop shortcut on install and launch the game through that, it will always launch as a player.