does MotB have different system requirements then NWN2?

[deuxhero]

(aside from the increased hardrive space required of coarse)

 

[MetalCraze]

yes. it eats much less resources.
original NWN2 after installing MotB - too.

I was able to run it on my GeForce6600 with medium shadows and all else on max except I turned off bloom - because bloom looks like shit there.

 

[fastpunk]

Yes, they've changed a bit. Obsidian (or Atari) raised the minimum requirements for the CPU, from a 2GHz rated part to a 2.4... but I ran MotB on 2.2GHz Athlon XP and it worked better than the vanilla NWN2, MotB is much better optimized.

 

[Thalkirst]

Yes.

I have both and checked in their respective manuals.

NWN2 / MOTB

OS: Win XP (both)
Processor: P4 2.0 Ghz or AMD equivalent / P4 2.4 GHz or AMD equivalent - P4 3.0 Ghz or AMD equivalent recommended for both
Memory: 512M (1 GB recommended)/ 1 GB (2 GB recommended)
HDD: 5.5 GB (both)
Video: 128M Pixel Shader 2.0 (256M Pixel Shader 3.0 i. i. e. ATI X1600 or Nividia 6800GT or better) recommended/256M Pixel Shader 2.0 (512M Pixel Shader 3.0 recommended)

The main changes are the amount of RAM and the video card.

 

[Starwars]

I believe it was the 1.10 patch that optimized performance (which is, at least partly, included in MotB itself).
So you could get the engine optimizations for NWN2 only as well with the 1.10 patch.

There is not a huge difference otherwise. There are two areas I can think of in MotB where my performance lags a bit more than from anything I can remember in NWN2, and in those cases simply turning off water reflections would pretty much fix it for me.

Also, it seems to me as though that there are certain small visual upgrades here and there in MotB. Faces for example seems to be slightly better in MotB, but it might be me imagining things.

 

[deuxhero]

Thanks, got to ask though, how do I find my video card information? I can find everything else under controlpanel/system/general

 

[NiM82]

Go start / run/ type in "DXDIAG" (without the quote marks), hit Enter, a box will pop up with tabs for Video, Sound, etc. All the info you need should be there.

 

[MetalCraze]

I believe it was the 1.10 patch that optimized performance (which is, at least partly, included in MotB itself).

it was 1.07 patch originally. but then obsidian said - ah oh well we will call it 1.10 now and if you want to install motb revert from 1.07 to 1.06 and then install it as 1.10 and motb.
yep obsidian loves to give us the pain in the ass.

also warning. after installing MotB it WILL screw all of your dialogs and text in both MotB and NWN2. so you will have to patch it further.

 

[deuxhero]

I believe it was the 1.10 patch that optimized performance (which is, at least partly, included in MotB itself).

it was 1.07 patch originally. but then obsidian said - ah oh well we will call it 1.10 now and if you want to install motb revert from 1.07 to 1.06 and then install it as 1.10 and motb.
yep obsidian loves to give us the pain in the ass.

also warning. after installing MotB it WILL screw all of your dialogs and text in both MotB and NWN2. so you will have to patch it further.

That doesn't really matter, as I am waiting for when the Gold Edition comes out 2 months from now.