That's sounds odd. KotOR without patching was a nightmare, i had 512mb ram with 3gb swapfile, but still the game would run out of memory and crash.
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The only problem, well not a problem since it was funny, was a image of the injured soldiers in the containers from the doctor in Taris showed up on Korriban. It only happened to one game though and hasn't showed up since.