Community Expansion Pack V1

[lennon]

The game the Last Inn states it requires the CEP.

Further investigation shows it requires amongst other things "cep1patch.hak" & "cep1patch150.hak". I have found the CEP Index Page, together with the cep forums site.

The index talks about a bunch of patches and full installs at a version level. The current CEP V1 version seems to be NWN 1.68 which is what I require; that is the version of the game I have. I have installed the patch but given the error log, believe I need the base product. I am also a bit concerned that there is no V150 on the index page. Any ideas how I can proceed? Do I need to install a full version (i.e. 1.51) and then patch for .52, .53 amd .69? This probably won't give me the *150.hak anyway?

Does anyone here know the answers? Or do I have to delve into the bioware forums and/or cep forums?

[Rastor]

The current version of CEP is V2, not V1  .

For NWN v168, you should be using CEP2 - just download the executable and run it.  For those handful of mods that require CEP1, grab that from the legacy download page and then there's one patch that you need (it'll say v166 to v168 or something like that).  You can use either the with cloaks or without cloaks versions.

Sorry if that isn't clearer, NWVault can't be accessed from my work computer.

[lennon]

The current version of CEP is V2, not V1  .

Yup, but the missing hak packs are v150. The module fails to load with CEP2 installed.

For NWN v168, you should be using CEP2 - just download the executable and run it.  For those handful of mods that require CEP1, grab that from the legacy download page and then there's one patch that you need (it'll say v166 to v168 or something like that).  You can use either the with cloaks or without cloaks versions.

Sorry if that isn't clearer, NWVault can't be accessed from my work computer.

It looks like this is one of those modules. So take a full version and patch once, i.e. patches are cumulative. Thanks

[lennon]

The Full Install v151 contains v150 patches.

I downloaded a .rar, uncompressed, copied as appropriate, the cep.tlk had the same meta data (timestamps etc) as the v168 so I left it alone. The .rar has a sub directory for the OC, SoU and HotU. Since I have HoTU installed, I used contents of the HoTU sub directory and copied them to the ./hak directory in the neverwinternights folder.

This all works. Obviously the module I am testing requires V1 not V2 as I tested it with V2 and the game wouldn't boot. nor create a log file.

I am assuming that the patches are cumulative, actually they seem not to be patches, in that they don't overwrite installed files. They sit beside, or at least 168 does.

This was done after a chat session with Rastor. So thanks, and enjoy.