PeterScott: Then you must have screwed something up.
Because the critical rebuild patch doesn't do anything to a fresh install of the English GoG NWN Diamond.
People repeat what essentially amount to old wives tales with no actual basis in fact, as "fixes" for NWN.
jimbobslimbob: No need to be so hostile. It worked for me, so it may work for others. It certainly cannot hurt to try. I didn't "screw anything up", it just didn't work from a fresh install.
A fresh GoG install is bit for bit identical, to the 1.69 patch.
The patch does nothing to a fresh English language install. I actually verfied this because I was tired of people giving this useless advice.
I did a fresh install, made a backup copy of it, applied the patch and ran a file comparison.
It changed no files.
It does nothing to a fresh install.
This is right up there with changing your CPU affinity...