FredSRichardson

I'm no expert, but upgrading drivers can be a bit tricky. You probably want to do this one driver at a time and "roll back" the system if anything goes wrong (i.e. use the MS system restore thingy if you have XP installed). The first step is identifying what hardware you have. If you don't already have a tool for doing this, check out Everest Home Edition. As far as finding drivers goes, it's usually safest to start with the support site for your machine (if it's not a home-built unit). Then go to the support sight for the manufacturer of the device you want to upgrade. I also highly recommend a google search to see what other people have done to upgrade the same piece of hardware (I've found this last bit can be difficult). Given all that, I'd recommend starting with your video drivers, then maybe your audio drivers. If you can determine that other drivers (or the bios) for your system are highly questionable (i.e. upgrades exist for them and the upgrades actually appear to fix bugs -- as opposed to just supporting new versions of the hardware) then I'd go for this next. But definitely use caution and try to go with the support site for your machine if at all possible.

I just bought the game and I'm having the same problem. At different points in time during the installation I'll recieve a message telling me the wrong volume is in the drive and I need to insert KOTOR2_1 in the D: drive. This looks to me like it must be the first disk, but after putting that in I also get the crash message in ISRT._WaitOnDialog. The disks look quite clean, and were untouched before the first time I tried this installation. I'm wondering if the disks were just very cheaply manufactured. I think if I can successfully copy the CD's onto the hard disk then I might be able to install off the HD unless the copy protection prevents it. But I think I'd also have to be able to verify that the disks were copied exactly (now I'm not so sure how easy that's going to be). The right thing to do is to return the disks for a replacement. Such a pain... EDIT: I took a look in the event log and it looks like I did have a bad block reading from the cdrom. So I'm going to try cleaning the CD's really carefully, but I suspect this has to do with poor quality mass produced CD's. EDIT2: I finally got the game installed. I did this by making ISO images of each disk (which took two tries with one of the disks), then mounted the disks using a free utility called VCdControlTool. From the mounted images, the install ran smoothly (but this does take a lot of disk space). I still need to use the first CD to play the game, but that doesn't (yet) seem to cause any problems. At least part of the problem I'm having has to do with my CD drive. I have an LG GCA-4040N and I noticed that there is a firmware upgrade for it. Upgrading the firmware is slightly daunting because it means uninstalling/reinstalling my CD writing software (and I've had this happen before where old firmware versions get stuck in system registry keys), but I do think the problem I've had lands between cheaply mass produced media and a cheap CD drive with possibly buggy firmware.