KOTOR question

So, I've just purchased the original KOTOR (a few years late) and I'm having problems running it. I've installed it and all available patches and everytime I've tried to start a new game I get an error message and it shuts down. I've gotten as far as choosing a character profile, but thats usually when the game shuts down.

From reading a lot of the threads it seems almost everyone on here has played the game, so I'm curious if anyone else has encountered this and how they fixed it. Any advice would be most appreciated!!!

By the way, I've got a pretty new notebook (Sager 5760, Intel Core 2 duo, 7950 GTX, 2gb ram) so I don't know if this could be causing the problem.

Thanks for any responses!

Chris

 

So...what's this error you're getting?

 

Are you running Vista?
I've heard horror stories of running KOTOR on Vista...

 

The error I'm getting is just a standard "This program is experiencing problems and must shut down. We are sorry for the inconvenience blah, blah, blah" followed by "do you want to send a message to Microsoft?"

I'm also running XP sp2.

Thanks for any help!

 

If you are running it on Vista:
There are a few things you may want to test:
1) Make the program to 'Run as administrator' (find the .exe file, right click on it and you should be able to find the option).
2) Make it run in compatibility mode: Windows XP SP2

I hope these options can help.

 

I have run KOTOR in vista....no problems at all. In fact, I have installed many things on my vista laptop....zero problems...from software to games.

Chris, I have never had that problem. But on my XP desktop I had troubles in other ways running KOTOR. Mainly the drive not reading it. But it read most other games.

KOTOR is a great game. Have fun!

 

just re install it, has problems because it was a ported game, a lil buggy

 

I doubt re installing will do anything, this used to happen to me actually, until I installed different video drivers. You can try un installing yours, drive cleaning them, and re installing, or choosing other ones...I used to get crashes at the very beginning until I did this. It never crashed again.

 

Thanks everyone for the suggestions!

I already tried re-installing, but it had no effect. I'll try a new driver to see if that helps (currently running169.32) Any suggestions on a compatible driver (7950 gtx video card)?

I've heard that this game is one of the best and I'm super stoked to start playing....if only I could get it working.

 

Could try the 174.16 driver? Its the best one I've used so far.

 

Hey Chris, it's definitly the drivers!

Those are the ones I used when it crashed constantly, I believe 169.69 didn't crash, I'm using 171.32 right now, and it seems stable...so yea it's definitley the drivers

And it is one of the best RPG's you'll play

 

Thanks radditz and Dman! I'll try those drivers after work and hopefully that will solve the problem and I can start playing one of the better RPGs around.

Now I'm excited...stupid work....

Chris

 

Glad to help, enjoy the game! It's going to be twice the fun when you get your lightsaber

 

KOTOR is one of the best games ever made!! And I'm not even a Star Wars fan!

Chris, since you're running XP you should be ok. I had a nightmare trying to work the Sith Lords until I found a fix on the LucasArts website.

The problem you will face is that there is no official widescreen support, try googling for "widescreengaming" for a fix. If that doesn't work, you may have to run the game with two black bars on either side of the screen.

It is still one of the best RPG's of all time. No doubt.

 

Responding to Cthulhu, I'm currently running KOTOR on a 1440X900 resolution, and 1024x768 is the highest resolution that supports my widescreen. This resolution isn't bad at all considering if you set everything else to max.

 

Thanks everyone for the tips! I changed the driver and it works perfectly now. I feel kind of stupid for not thinking it was a driver problem from the beginning.

Well, I'm off to enjoy one of the best games around for the first time (damn, that's a good feeling).

Peace!

 

I just got KotOR and with dual 4850's and the newest drivers it was giving me 10-12fps..... I turned off soft shadows and it bumped up to 30fps and thats playable but omg wow.... It should be like 300fps lol.

 

its buggy, but rele? mine runs between 40 and 120 and thats with everything maxed with forced 16xAA

 

Yeah really, and I just patched up the game to increase the res from 1280 to 1920x1080 and FPS is the same, its definitely a driver issue.

it may go up if I turn off crossfire, but in the 30's its ok.

 

disable XFire, i think that will solve the problems, the game is too old to have any definitive XFire or SLI support.