Knights of the Old Republic 2

Anyone else have terrible performance with this game? The highest resolution it allows me to go is 1024x768 which is no mystery to me since my max is 1280x800. But I have everything on high and decided to kick in the 2x AA which brings my frames down terribly low. I mean not unplayable low, but one would think that a game this old that AA wouldn't kill performance as much as it does.

 

Could it be because it was an Xbox port? Halo had REALLY bad performance on XP side as well.

I think I tried KOTOR on my XP machine... and it was bad. Not so much slow, or graphically bad... but you couldn't use a gamepad with it.

But still, I fail to see how anything beyond a bad port would cause it to play poorly on that video card.

 

Are you on Vista? That could be a big reason why.

 

Why don't you turn off AA? It barely makes a difference and it murders most laptop GPUs.

 

KOTOR2 is old enough for him to put everything on high and have no issues. Hell I maxed it out on a 6200 at 1280x1024(without AA of course). So the issue here most probably is Vista.

 

When I was trying to get KOTOR working (same engine as KOTOR2), my problem was with OpenGL issues. Even if my old vid card would easily handle the game, it would drag down to decimal framerates because of KOTOR's heavy OpenGL engine.

Could be related, but maybe not...

 

Well, I know you cant set the resolution any higher because the game doesnt support widescreen, and no resolutions of 800 pixels tall. The next up from 1024x768 it supports is 1280x1024. As for the low FPS, I dont know. It runs all max on my Radeon x700. Maybe its vista. Maybe your card is in a power save mode. I'm not sure.

 

Yeah it's all a mystery to me. I did the the trick to fix the performance problem the game has when smoke is onscreen, but this still boggles me. I can get well over 60fps when playing at 1024x768, but with 2xAA turned on I get less then half that. It wouldn't bother me so much if I could play it at a higher resolution, but that resolution causes a lot of noticeable aliasing problems.

I'd probably attribute it to a bad port, but I remember murdering the game with a vanilla GF 6800 back in the day. It's just humourous that I can get similar fps results in most modern games (granted without AA) then I can in a game that's 3 years old.

 

KOTOR2 has some really quirky performance issues. Most of the time it ran fine for me (GF6800), but on specific levels, it became a slideshow. I still don't know why, and I never managed to complete it because of that. (The last level was impossibly slow)

 

Try the patch (Does 1.0a as well) : http://www.gamershell.com/download_8987.shtml