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Checking for the bloom effect can be somewhat hard if you don't know what to look for; once you do see it, however, it will become VERY noticeable. To check, stand in front of a very bright light source, if your character's outline remains solid your driver can't display it. Since it's a driver issue (shame on ATI for lousy driver support) the "soon" to be released mystery phantom patch can't possibly fix it.

No need to put that line in the .ini if you put the OGL driver in the KOTOR folder. Both the 4.11 and 4.2 DLLs work fine, apparently 4.11 is a bit more stable but 4.2 is the only driver that gives bloom effects on ATI cards.

They never fixed KOTOR1, the OGL driver included in cat4.11 is the only one that makes the game playable in outdoor areas. Luckily copying said driver into the KOTOR folder works perfectly.