I recently purchased the UK version of KOTOR 2 and installed it on my gamer machine:
Athlon X2 3800+, 1 GB RAM (Dual Channel), NVIDIA 7800 GTX (drivers updated yesterday), SB Audigy 2 ZS, Direct X 9.0c, WinXP SP2 + several hotfixes.
After installing the game, I tried to start it and it worked... after applying the first official patch it still worked... after applying the second patch (1.0b, 16MB), I tried to start the game...
...and got a Windows error, even before the LucasArts Logo appeared. The CD didnīt even start to spin...

So I uninstalled and tried the whole procedure again, but it didnīt help. After doing it for a third time on a different HD-partition and still no success, I felt funny and manually copied the swkotor2.exe from the game disk over the patched EXE... and, strange enough, the game runs. I played for about an hour (Oh man, great game...) and went to bed.
My fear is now, that the game will hang or abort sometime in the future, since the original swkotor2.exe is only half the size of the patched (1.0b) one and will probably not be compatible with all the other patched files...
What am I to do? Re-install and play without patches? Re-install and just apply the first patch? Game on and hope for the best? What is wrong with patch 2?
Thanks,
DarkPadawan