sirsri

The KOTOR box says it requires a ATI 8500 or higher card. I think your video card might be too old, you can probably get a cheap 9000 series card that will work in your computer or if you really want to play KOTORII I recommend getting an Nvidia card because of the problems with ATI cards.

Well it did work just fine before, both the 4.2 and 4.3 drivers not only have no slowdown in outdoors levels at all, they also have working gloom effects. No idea why both have been broken ever since. I just know it never took Nvidia a year to fix a bug with their driver so I'll go back to Nvidia for my next graphics update... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> This is actually an engine problem not an ati problem persay. Between 4.2 and 4.3 (4.6 for us x??0 series users) ati updated its openGL renderer to the new type (1.1, 2.0 maybe? I think it is? I can't remember). Unfortunately they aren't all that backwards compatible. I doubt ATI really has much of an intention of trying to do the backwards compatibility thing. As far as I know the KOTOR engine is the only one that still uses the old open GL renderer. The fault is with bioware/obsidian for not updating their engine to support the latest methods etc.. When MS released SP2 it was up to vendors to update their software to support SP2. MS put a lot of thought into trying to keep SP2 backwards compatible, but there's only so much you can do, after that its up to the vendor. ATI's new renderer is WAY better than the old one (as more modern games that use it demonstrate nicely). If it weren't for the other incompleteness in the game I would be suprised at obsidian not having put time into updating the engine.