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Players on the same network - IMPORTANT

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Sometimes players playing on two or more computers, but using the same wireless or local network (behind the same modem or firewall) or even in the same building, may experience problems or cause problems for the Land of Nordock server by using the same IP address and the same client port.
First, be sure that each player is using a different CD key. (You can find them inside the nwncdkey.ini file in your Neverwinter Nights directory.)

Problems
-- One of the players might time out, making it hard or impossible for all to play at same time.
-- This can be cause Clones / Multiple Characters bug on the server.
-- Crashing of the server

Simple solution
Find your Neverwinter Nights directory and locate the file
nwnplayer.ini
You can open this file in any text editor to edit it (for example in Notepad).

Once it's open, find the entry "Client Port=" in the "[Profile]" section. Simply change the port so each computer has a different one. The default port is 5120. One of you should change it to something else, perhaps 5122. If there is a third player then use Client Port=5123, etc. Note that if you ever use the NWN Server program to host your own multiplayer modules, your server port (default 5121) must be different for every client port on your network. It is recommended that you do not ever set your client port to 5121, whether you use NWN Server or not.

Save the file and close it. Restart the NWN client.
Double-check to make sure that this change is saved and remains, even after running the game and/or rebooting your computer. If the change is still there, you should be fine.

Should problems persist
Make sure your game clients don't use the same port. Look in each nwnplayer.ini file again.
-- Some Internet service providers (ISP), mostly college/university and apartment type connections block multiple users from using some ports that may cause issues with users connecting to NWN simultaneously. You would have to contact your ISP about this.

Be sure to only change the client port and the server port by a few numbers. (IE, change 5120 to 5122, and 5121 to 5123, for example.)
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