i went and tried to ply KOTOR1 last night just to see if it was just a problem with KOTOR2 and my radeon not liking each other or something else. i got it istalled, patched, and game stated. and just as i thought, i got 5 minutes in to the game and it crashed the vpu.
im DLing the omega drives at the time of this post and gonna give them a try. i would try that second option if i had a little more experience doing such things like that.
this just bothers me to no end cos i was able to play KOTOR1 on an old 64mb geforce4 4200 at lowest game settings. only reason i got the radeon was cos it was about 50 dollars cheaper than the fx5500oc that was availabe at the store i got my radeon at.
anyways, my download just finished, ill post again if this fixes my problem.