I've got a Radeon Mobility card, and I've tried every driver I can find. Omega Drivers (for both Catalyst 5.2 and 4.1) and the Catalyst drivers themselves (using Patje's mobility modding program). I haven't gotten any better performance.
What happens is that I can create my character, and it plays the first movie...and then it shows one of three things:
1. Black screen with the area's sound in the background (this is what it almost always does when I'm starting again, rather than after a restart)
2. Interior of the Ebon Hawk, with the top of T3-M4's head, picture freezes, same sound in the background.
3. Actually starts showing the scene, but stops playing it at about where 2 is.
Occasionally I have heard T3's beeps as well.
I thought this might just be an issue with starting directly from the movie, so I saved a game on my friend's computer and transferred it to mine. Loading gets me either 1 or 2.
Is there any way around this?
KotOR worked fine for me on Ax16 and High-Res textures at 1024x768 (60 Hz refresh rate, though), with shadows. I mean, it didn't look WONDERFUL (missing light bloom and some other effects), and was a bit choppy, but all in all it worked just fine with the now 3-year-old drivers I had on my laptop when I got it. This won't even start up with the newest ones.
Oh, right, and I'm using Windows XP.