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The first time I played KotOR II with a male character, this happened to me all the time, although playing again with a female, I think it happened about twice for the entire game and only on Peragus. In any case, to fix it, all I did was save when my character wouldn't move, exit to the main menu and reload my game. Then my character would move again. Annoying, but certainly not the worst bug I've been unfortunate enough to come across.

Okay, that worked... sort of. I removed all of the Dantooine save files from the "gameinprogress" folder and the black screen of death is now gone. It did, however, reset the entire Dantooine portion of the game, although I was able to go to the Jedi Enclave and it all resumed as normal, so it's all good... sort of. I would suggest posting this tip from the LucasArts boards as a sticky: "Load a savegame before the crash (before traveling to Dantooine or leaving the Ebon Hawk on Dantooine) then ALT-TAB from the game (or ALT-ESC or doing whatever is necessary to bring up Windows desktop without exiting the game). Now, in your KOTOR2 installation folder you should find a gameinprogress folder. You would need to enter it and find files with .sav extensions related to Dantooine (DAN***.sav, I presume). Then you would have to remove them, re-enter the game, go to a different planet than Dantooine, exit the Ebon Hawk then return to Dantooine again."

It says that there's supposed to be a "gameinprogress" folder that you can edit while running KotORII. I don't see any folder like that. Anybody know how to bring it up?

I tried loading as far back as Nar Shaddaa (my second planet) which was my earliest back-up save. Same problem. My last chance is something I found on the LucasArts forums from another member here who asked the same question. It somehow involves screwing with the save file. Didn't really work for him because the end result was that when his character left the Ebon Hawk, the entire Dantooine portion of the game had reset and he had to do it all again. Better than starting over, I guess. Suppose I'll give it a shot now...

Don't suppose anybody's come up with some way to work around this without starting the whole game over again at least?

I've looked through posts regarding this, and it appears to be a common bug. Upon returning to Dantooine to meet with the masters, I exit the Ebon Hawk, choose my party characters and click OK, but the screen then goes black. The cursor stays on screen, but there's no load, no "KotORII has stopped working" message, it just stays black. There's no real solution in the threads that I've already read. Has somebody come up with a patch for this or anything?

I had a spare one sitting around anyway, so it's all good.

It worked! A gazillion thankses to you, Hassat Hunter!

Er, I guess I'll try that. Knowing me and game mods, I'll probably melt my computer or something. It's strange that I had full health, wasn't under attack or doing anything strange like saving in the middle of a battle or watching a scene or whatever. I just saved my game, and then the next time I tried to load, my character drops dead on me every time... Oh well. Thanks.

I can move the mouse around her in a full 360 degree spin, but the only options on the screen are Load Last Save, Restart Level (or something) and Return to Main Screen, so nothing happens. She just stands there and I can't go back into gameplay because, I guess, the game still thinks she's dead and only gives you the options you would normally have after you've died.

I tried that. Even tried giving health while it's loading, but nothing happens. Strangely though, I've noticed that when the return to menu screen comes up, if I hit the Windows button and return to Windows, then click on the game again, my character gets to her feet and stands there as normal, only I can't actually do anything other than reload another game. It's pretty frustrating. Been playing Diablo instead while waiting for a reply. Thanks for the suggestion, anyway.

Not a single reply in a couple of days, eh? Looks like it's the totally screwed part.

I'm playing through KotOR II for the first time and so far I've had no serious problems with the game in terms of functionality. However, after saving my game in the Secret Tomb on Korriban, I've found that my character instantly dies when I attempt to load the save. Because there's only one character in my party, I can't do anything but return to the main screen. I'm wondering if the Secret Tomb has something to do with this, as I realised that after clicking on the Dead Jedi, enemies would constantly appear and I could use the opportunity to strengthen my character. However, after doing this for many hours, I think I might have broken my game... I'm a female Level 32 Jedi Watchman, and my only other saved game is at Level 19, which is some time back. I haven't had any problems with saves in either the original KotOR or KotOR II up until this point. Is this a common bug that can be fixed or am I totally screwed?