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CD Key Already in Use on that server?

PhotonPhoton Member Posts: 5
edited May 2018 in Technical Support
Hello,

I have just purchased four NWN:EE games, on four different Steam accounts. 3 of the 4 have no problem creating or joining a LAN game. The fourth one, however, gives this error:


"Connection error: Your CD Key is already in use on that server". This makes no sense, how can 3 of 4 games and accounts link up, but not the last one? Super frustrating. My daughter is playing a character solo, and waiting for a fix to join the rest of the party.


Anyone know of a fix? Or even a reason why this would occur?

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  • PhotonPhoton Member Posts: 5
    edited May 2018
    I already tried uninstalling the game, and reinstalling the game from her Steam account, to no avail. Twice.
  • PhotonPhoton Member Posts: 5
    I have discovered that her machine will not do ANY multiplayer at all, the same error keeps coming up when creating or joining ANY Neverwinter Nights EE LAN/Internet game. So, what's up with that?
  • PhotonPhoton Member Posts: 5
    After experimentation there is some conflict between my steam CD Key and her steam CD Key, both of us cannot access NWN:EE LAN at the same time. If I host the game she can't join and if she hosts the game I can't join.


    How do I fix this?
  • JuliusBorisovJuliusBorisov Member, Administrator, Moderator, Developer Posts: 22,754
    edited May 2018
    Hello! Can you try to reinstall the game on your daughter's PC and remove a cdkey.ini (located in the NWN folder in Documents) so that Steam could create it again? (don't forget to create a backup of that file)

    Based on this and this
  • PhotonPhoton Member Posts: 5
    edited May 2018
    I've tried this method, on each of our computers, to no avail. The cdkey.ini file is removed from that folder, and after re-install, it is created again, with the same CD Key as before. Both computers have an identical CD key, despite the purchase being made from separate Steam accounts. I have four charges on my credit card, for the four games.


    Whenever multiplayer is started, there is a super-fast message about the CD key, but is only visible for a microsecond, and then the game goes to the server as normal, but we still have the same problem with the re-created CD Key.



    I have purchased Neverwinter Nights, and Neverwinter Diamond edition a few times, trying to create multiplayer in the past, so I tried one of those CD Keys for those old games. I entered it manually into the cdkey.ini file, but it says that CD Key is invalid when trying to start a multiplayer game.


    I deleted that cdkey.ini file, and started Neverwinter again, tried multiplayer, and it re-creates that same original CD Key file automatically, with the same CD key every time, on both machines. It must be getting that info from somewhere.
  • ShaidenShaiden Member Posts: 181
    Sent you a PM :)
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