Foole's Journal: NWN Black screen of death

I bought Neverwinter Nights recently (AU$21 for the Diamond edition! Bargain!)

When I tried to connect to an online game, I got to create a character but when trying to enter the game, the screen went black and nothing happened. The music was still playing and the cursor was working, but I couldn't enter the game. The same thing happened to a friend trying to join a game I was hosting.

I googled a bit and found that this has happened to a few other people. Their solutions seemed random.. from upgrading their router firmware to uninstalling XP SP2.

Using the wonderful Ethereal, I found out that some of the udp packets were getting broken up at my gateway. So I set the MTU for my network card to 1024 and the problem went away!

Hope this helps someone else.

#ifconfig eth0 mtu 1024