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So the lead is only 15% if you actually use 64-bit Windows. BTW, I've switched back to 32-bit XP yet again, after my 3rd stint in x64. There is simply no advantage and lots of little quirks.

That SIS760 is integrated graphics. It's very slow too, I've tried one. It could hardly run Morrowind or Jedi Knight 2, both from 2001 abouts. That means KOTOR2 is not going to run playably. The KOTOR games really dislike working with 3d chips not on their compatible lists, especially integrated stuff. If that's not a notebook, you need a new video card. There are tons of cards <$100 that will run KOTOR2 quite well. A GeForce 6600 or Radeon X700 would be many times faster than that SIS760. A Radeon 9600/9550 would be ok too (lot slower tho). Don't buy GeForce FX cards (5000 series).

LucasArts has never been big on patches. Never in any game of theirs I've played have they released more than 1 or 2 patches if I recall correctly. Though really few of their games are buggy enough for it to matter. I actually think it's pretty mind-blowing that KOTOR2 wasn't totally broken on release. It was developed in like record time, especially for an RPG.

This is no way the movies are 1600x1200. The game would have to downsize them most of the time since most people don't even have monitors that can run 1600x1200, not to mention the sheer size of a movie of that resolution LOL. The game engine may scale up the movies. It's possible. You know, like Media Player does. That's definitely what should be done in a modern game in the LCD era. I seem to recall a movie resolution setting in the INI file. I haven't bothered to install any of these addons because I gave up on this half ass game months ago.

If the game is changing resolution for the movies and you're playing it on a LCD you're movie quality is going to suck. Sorry this is an inherent flaw in LCD screens. LCDs must be used at their native resolution or they are horrible.

OMG I can not believe this patch has shown up. This is some sort of miracle moment lol. How long has it been? LOL!

YES! HALT I SAY! 14 pages of If Then Else looped conversation!

Heh I'm a lightsider that somehow managed to end up on the evil General's side and killing everyone. And I'm still maxed out on light side even after slaying a Jedi Master! Once I got stuck on this path somehow there was no way to get off of it..... I'm some kind of mentally twisted lightsided zealot!!! This game is such a mess heh.

The obvious loophole is that there is always a "next week".

I haven't really had many stability problems or graphical bugs between my Radeon 9600 and GF 6800 Go. My biggest complaints are the tons of little bugs throughout the game with stuff like the dialog skipping, odd NPC comments, loopy conversations, and the general finickyness of the influence system. One moment my companions love me, next I can do no right. Lol. Onderon looks horribly rushed IMO. The texturing is terribly repetitive and boring, lighting bad. It looks like a DX5 game to be honest. Some places are very nice, but then something sticks out like that. And a big thing for me is the horrible music quality. Mono, 11KHz audio isn't acceptable. Sorry. The cutscene quality is VERY similar to KOTOR1 and is acceptable for me. It's not better or worse than a lot of other game vids.

You have no idea what you are talking about. 9000 user: The game seems to run a bit choppier than KOTOR1 on my 9600, but it runs fine. My 9700 PRO runs KOTOR2 fantastic. Just be sure that you have the newest driver, or the driver that they "tested" the game (ha, did they really test the game) with. You have two options as a mobility user. Either Omega drivers (which I question as they are just hacked Catalyst drivers), or the official ATI Catalyst drivers. I'd go with ATI personally. To run the Catalysts on a mobility chip you must first mod them with a simple utility. http://www.driverheaven.net/patje/ Seriously I'd also check out ATITool and see what you can overclock it to. You may be surprised. I've been overclocking laptops for 2 years now. (9000,9600, and now a GF6800 Go). A Radeon 9000 GPU (RV250/M9) is a Radeon 8500 minus a texture unit per pipeline, so it's a 4x1. It also has just one vertex unit to 8500's two. It's a great little chip though. If you have 64MB or more of video RAM it's a 128-bit bus. I played KOTOR1 thru on one, and it was a 9000 32MB 64-bit bus on a Vaio notebook. http://www.beyond3d.com/reviews/fairway/r9000pro/ http://www.beyond3d.com/misc/chipcomp/?vie...er=Order&cname= R9000 IGP/9100IGP (RS300) is a lot different. It is a 2x1 architecture with no vertex shader. Vertex shading is done on the CPU (not a terrible thing with the powerful CPU most of these systems have). It's still one of the fastest IGPs though, second only to ATI's Xpress 200 chipset. If you can get recent drivers on it the game should run, albeit pretty slowly due to the 2x1 nature and it using system RAM. http://www.beyond3d.com/previews/ati/rs300/ http://www.beyond3d.com/misc/chipcomp/?vie...er=Order&cname= The 3xxIGPs are not gonna cut it though. They are actually based on Radeon 7000 and are way too slow and lack far too many features.

I've finished Dantooine now and on my 6800 it run as well as anywhere else.... I was using 76.50 and now 77.72.

Good lord people. Stop buying new 9550's (and NEVER buy a SE anything) when you can buy a 9500 PRO off eBay for $50 or so. A 9500 PRO is a 9700 chip with a 128-bit memory bus. It would be a beast for a game like this. Or just go with a 9700 PRO or even a 9800. 9500 PROs on eBay 9700s on eBay Do not buy anything SE! They are crippled with 64-bit memory buses. There is nothing wrong with ATI's drivers. KOTOR is designed to run optimally on Xbox, which is a NV chip. So obviously it's tweaked as hell to run as best as possible on Xbox/NV. They need it to look as best as possible on that underpowered little console (relative to PC). They may even use some specific NV driver optimizations. KOTOR2 runs fantastic on my 9700PRO, and my laptop with a 9600 ran it pretty well as well.

To install Catalyst drivers on a Mobility chip you need to use this after you are told there is no compatible hardware installed: http://www.driverheaven.net/patje/ Let that mod the drivers for you then it will install fine.

Well I see Blizzard just released a new patch for StarCraft/Brood Wars. How does it feel to you guys to know Blizzard supports a game from 1998 when LEC won't support a game from 6 months ago?