wanted to send this to support but can't get system report file and it won't send w/o it.

sudo apt-get install playonlinux
playonlinux

Try to install NWN2 from the 3 files that I d/l from you.(1 exe and 2 bin )
I get the error for VB005 missing, then runtime error 69:445

will this not work on 16.04.1?
Do I have to download it again?

I did have this running under 14.04

GA-Z97X-UD3H, i5-4670K 3.5@4.3, Corsair H80i V2 liquid, 8GB ram, Ubuntu Unity 16.04.1/Win7, Sammy 250GB SSD, Gigabyte R9 270.

tried gog-system-report but command not found.


EDIT: when I go to the virtual drive and try to click on things using
open with wine windows program loader
I get a few messages like "unable to detect a video card with hardware 3D acc.........

Have you seen this and especially this?

No. I changed the wine to 1.7.12 and a box pops up saying it had encountered a serious problem. 1.6.2 causes a window to appear, than disappear.

EDIT but the 3D message went away.

Looking at your second suggestion, what module is that that's being modified?

EDIT: tail end of debug

err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {b9f3eb85-b781-4ac1-8d90-93a05ee37d7d} not registered
err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {b9f3eb85-b781-4ac1-8d90-93a05ee37d7d} could be created for context 0x1
fixme:mountmgr:harddisk_ioctl The DISK_PARTITION_INFO and DISK_DETECTION_INFO structures will not be filled
fixme:wbemprox:enum_class_object_Next timeout not supported
fixme:mountmgr:harddisk_ioctl The DISK_PARTITION_INFO and DISK_DETECTION_INFO structures will not be filled
fixme:wbemprox:enum_class_object_Next timeout not supported
err:wbemprox:wql_error syntax error, unexpected TK_ID, expecting $end
fixme:wbemprox:enum_class_object_Next timeout not supported
fixme:dbghelp:elf_search_auxv can't find symbol in module
fixme:dbghelp:MiniDumpWriteDump NIY MiniDumpWithDataSegs
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000000 at address 0x44124d (thread 0022), starting debugger...
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000000 in 32-bit code (0x0044124d).
Register dump:
CS:0023 SS:002b DS:002b ES:002b FS:0063 GS:006b
<snip>

same thing only the window was transparent.
a box pops up saying it had encountered a serious problem

I have purchased this game as well, but its in my backlog. I am running Debian Stable, but with Backports - meaning I have (almost) cutting edge kernel and 3d libs. I also have AMD GPU, but not GCN - a VLIW one, using r600g+radeon driver.

I will try to give it a spin today, but please run these (as regular user !) two and post the output:

glxinfo|grep -i opengl

lsmod | grep 'radeon\|amdgpu'

I have the game running well on Mint 18 (which is based on Ubuntu 16.04) using Wine Staging 1.9.18 via PlayOnLinux (details). As well as the other suggestions here, try installing it using the details I posted in the other thread & let us know how things go.

I am using an Nvidia GPU though

Huge thanks for looking in!
Just saw this so will answer in order:

kris@kris-Z97X-UD3H:~$ glxinfo|grep -i opengl
OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD PITCAIRN (DRM 2.43.0, LLVM 3.8.0)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.1 (Core Profile) Mesa 11.2.0
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.10
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 11.2.0
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.0 Mesa 11.2.0
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.00
OpenGL ES profile extensions:
kris@kris-Z97X-UD3H:~$
kris@kris-Z97X-UD3H:~$ lsmod | grep 'radeon\|amdgpu'
radeon 1515520 3
ttm 94208 1 radeon
i2c_algo_bit 16384 2 i915,radeon
drm_kms_helper 147456 2 i915,radeon
drm 364544 113 ttm,i915,drm_kms_helper,radeon
kris@kris-Z97X-UD3H:~$

Please note that at one point I had it working but no sound.
I have Clonezilla'ed back to prior the playonlinux install. I lost a week but that didn't cost me much.
I will start over anew.

------------------------------------------------------------------- Huge thanks for looking in.

I had reinstalled it many times - once, it ran but w/o sound.
I Clonezilla'ed to before playonlinux install so will start off clean again, also using your recomendations

Off to experiment!

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I believe I did all that, get error in nwn2main, details:

Unhandled exception: unimplemented function setupapi.dll.CM_Get_Child called in 32-bit code (0x7b4409a2).
Register dump:
CS:0023 SS:002b DS:002b ES:002b FS:0063 GS:006b
EIP:7b4409a2 ESP:00328b24 EBP:00328b98 EFLAGS:00200202( - -- I - - - )
EAX:7b42b76d EBX:7b644028 ECX:00000008 EDX:00328b44
ESI:00000002 EDI:003299b0
<snip>


When I try to add setupapi to wine (winetricks) I get a sum error on the module

This is interesting!
You are running the same Mesa version as me and also have the same kernel driver(radeon), although a bit different hardware and my LLVM is older (3.5.0, you have 3.8.0). I will look into it.

Huge thanks!!!!! By the by, NWN(1) installs and works easily. So it's just NWN2.

EDIT - scrapped playonlinux and installed it with wine.