Stiffkittin: I found a solution to the problem I was having. I use NWN Installer Tool and employed its portrait manager to experiment with numbers. Seems the update after the update just resulted in a reduced tolerance for the maximum number it could load without crashing. By whittling down (excluding) duplicates and a few dodgy entries I found the sweet spot by keeping the total below 600; with 598 portraits the game runs stably again.
gog2002x: Is the NWN Installer Tool included in the game installation folder or is it a seperate 3rd party download?
I don't plan to add any more portraits for now, but if I do, it sounds like a handy tool to organize the portraits. :)
I've had the game on hold for some time, but will eventually get back to it for another replay. It's also heavily modded lol. I've played the base version so many times (w/o mods), that now modding is a must for me.
Though last time I started it, everything was working good, so I'm reluctant to update it or add additional mods since it took a lot of time to fiddle/tweak to get everything working lol. But portraits might be the one thing I may modify.
As a side note, it, along with Fallout1/2 and BG EE are some of the few games I leave permanently installed in my SSD. MOO2 and IG2 are also 2 more, but these are 4x games.
Does anyone else have favorite games that they leave permanently installed? Just curious, maybe I should start a new thread on that haha.
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NWN Installer Tool (NIT) is a lightweight 3rd party mod manager associated with Neverwinter Vault. It's feature packed, with loads of utilities and takes a little getting used to but highly recommended. Took me awhile to even notice the portrait manager and I've used NIT for years. It let me winnow out individual portraits from the larger packs where there's a lot of overlap without any faff, taking care of the different sizes etc.Probably the best feature about it is how it allows direct in-app downloads of mods from the vault
including all their dependencies, hakpaks, the lot and deploying all files to their correct directories automatically. The only thing you need to do is copy-paste the module's url into NIT and it takes care of the rest.
I always have one of the isometric Fallouts installed depending on what flavour I'm in the mood for; a modded Fallout: NV; og Baldur's Gate 1&2 (enhanced editions are fine but BG1's gameplay isn't the same and I like the original interface); Arcanum; Dragon Age: Origins; Quake; System Shock 2 and a
heavily modded install of Morrowind.