System Requirements

[cal1s]

These are the official System Requirements for Neverwinter Nights 2:


System Specifcations

Recommended:
3 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
1 GB System RAM
ATI X800 series, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series, 256 MB, or higher video card
Minimum System Requirements:
Windows XP, Windows 2000
512MB System RAM
2.4 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
Hard Disk Space: 4.9 GB free hard disk space
128MB Direct3D compatible video card and DirectX 9.0 compatible driver;
DirectX 9.0c (included)
DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card
DVD-ROM Drive: 6X speed or faster
Keyboard, Mouse

Supported Video Card Chipsets:

ATI X1950 series
ATI X1900 series
ATI X1800 series
ATI X1600 series
ATI X850 series
ATI x800 series
ATI x700 series
ATI x600 series
ATI Radeon 9800 series
ATI Radeon 9700 series
ATI Radeon 9600 series
ATI Radeon 9500 Pro
NVIDIA GeForce 7950 series
NVIDIA GeForce 7900 series
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 series
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 series
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 series
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 or above

If you're unsure if your system will be able to handle NWN2 or not, test your hardware at the System Requirements Lab and see if you meet the requirements.

- System Requirements Lab (http://www.srtest.com/)

[Kiwi]

This is also a pre-release list. It also looks like an uncredited lift from one of my message threads on the Official Forums in the days leading up to the release, and when someone at BioWare screwed up, in a link they posted in their Tech Forum's pre-posting data page, that wasn't edited for a week to ten days after the game's release, with accompanying more strict requirements:

System Requirements (from game DVD Readme), Replaced Version # 1 ( http://nwn2forums.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?topic=5026 48&forum=116 )

Recommended:
3 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
1 GB System RAM
ATI X800 series, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series, 256 MB, or more, video card

Minimum System Requirements:
Windows XP (Windows 2000 added by Obsidian. Atari doesn't "know that", through now)
512MB System RAM
2.4 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
Hard Disk Space: 4.9 GB free hard disk space (twice that for unpacking space)
128MB Direct3D, Dx9 (hardware-compatible) video card and DirectX 9.0 compatible driver;
Minimum: ATI Radeon 9700 Pro or NVidia Geforce 6600 (no other makers' GPUs supported)
DirectX 9.0c software (included)
DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card
DVD-ROM Drive speed: 6X speed or faster
Keyboard, Mouse

Supported Video Card Chipsets:

ATI X1950 series
ATI X1900 series
ATI X1800 series
ATI X1650 series
ATI X1600 series
ATI X850 series
ATI x800 series
ATI x700 series
ATI x600 series (Ouch - the Vanilla card is very slow)
ATI Radeon 9800 series (Amended) 9800 Pro, 9800 XT only
ATI Radeon 9700 series (Amended) 9700 Pro only
NVIDIA GeForce 7950 series
NVIDIA GeForce 7900 series
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 series
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 series
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 series (Ouch - the Vanilla card is very slow)

In case you've skipped right past it, only ATI and nVidia GPUs are on the list, no others.

If you're unsure whether your system will be able to handle NWN2 or not, test your hardware at the System Requirements Lab and see if you meet the "requirements" that they test for. Be aware that the results are often anomalous, and the Requirements Lists that they refer to, same as at D2D, have often been out of date -- as of my editing date, D2D continues along in its oblivious state, months behind the current list, and SR Labs as well.

The tests are at http://www.srtest.com

Note: nVidia's 8800 cards are far too new to have been included in the lists.

There have never been any supported Laptop video devices for NWN2, nor any supported 64 MB video cards, nor any supported Intel graphics of any kind. If you receive the error message "Cannot find compatible Direct3D Device" when attempting to start the game, you've ignored the video requirements above, and must upgrade