Posts for: #Gaming

[SOLVED] Neverwinter Nights (from GOG.com) black screen in Wine 1.6

The problem

I bought Neverwinter Nights for my father to play on his Ubuntu 13.04 system and wanted to get it working on my own machine before trying on his.

After installing, I was having trouble with the whole screen being black and unresponsive to keyboard and mouse input. The only option was running it in safe mode (a safe mode shortcut is created by the GOG installer).

I found an extremely simple fix for this while trying to disable the intro videos. Disable the intro movies.

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Fixing Initial PS4 PSN Login Trouble

If you’re like me, and you just got a PS4 because you F5’d the stock page for your local electronics retailer until you could send a retired family member to snatch a PS4 from the clutches of some other deserving gamer, you may be having some difficulty signing in to the Playstation Network.

I certainly was, until I came across the following thread on the Playstation Support Forum. http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-4-Support/i-cant-log-onto-my-acc-stuck-on-quot-please-wait-quot/td-p/42126099/highlight/true/page/4

The following directions seemed to work for me:

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