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Hi, Congrats on this amazing game by the way, I just discovered it and it's totally sucked me in and I'm not an rpg or a star wars fans to begin with, so good going on doing making an amazing game! I'm facing a few problems at the moment, not sure if it's a game bug or me playing the game wrong, but perhaps someone can clarify a couple things... a) I've just left Telos and the Secret Academy (still have a few missions on Telos) and gone to Dantooine. After completing a couple missions there, decided to go back to Telos, so I get on the Ebon Hawk. , but when I try to exit the Ebon Hawk on Dantooine, the screen goes straight to black, no loading screen or anything. The game doesn't 'hang' like it did before the 1.0b bug-fix after character creation though; I can see the KOTOR mouse cursor and when I hit Alt-F4, the game menu for quiting (warning me of losing my unsaved game data) pops up as if the game is running normal. I lowered all graphics options, removed shadows and grass, but still, the screen goes to black and there doesn't seem to be anything happening (i waited a few minutes to see if it would sort itself out). Interestingly, if I take the ebon hawk back to Telos though, rather than head out on dantooine again, the games loads up fine. I haven't tried other planets yet, but i suspect they load fine. b) at some point half-way through my current game, i don't know exactly when, but for some time if I selected bao-dur and kreia as my party, they do not follow me unless there is a fight, when they'll rush over, unless the AI gets them stuck somewhere. also, i can't seem to be able to initiate conversations with either of them, unless i select one of them as the leader of the party and use them to initiate conversation with my hero character. this probably wouldn't be much of a problem, but it does get irritating and frustrating when fighting, and there's no way to speak to bao dur on-board the ebon hawk, so making a lightsaber was tricky. this doesn't seem to happen if I have others in my party ( ) c) following up on b), I also can't seem to use bao dur to use any workbenches, he simply gets close to them and just stares at them. that kinda sucks because i can't use him to make or repair anything. My computer is a Dell D820 Latitude laptop, Win XP home ed, 1gb ram, 1.8 core duo processor, intel 945gm graphics chipset and I've patched the game to the latest version (1.0b). I have used the save game editor a couple times, but i don't that's responsible. Any help would be appreciated. It's a great game and I'd hate to have to start it all over from the beggining without having completed yet!