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Can you clarify what exactly you're having problems installing? Are you installing the game from CD's? Are you talking about one of the patches? To fix your "permission" problem - (assuming you're using Window's Vista): First: make sure that User Account Control (UAC) is actually turned on. You can turn UAC on by going to Control Panel, then double-click User Accounts and yjou'll be able to see where to turn it on. It will require you to reboot your computer everytime you turn it on or off though. Personally, I absolutely hate the UAC option and only turn it on when certain installations require me to. Otherwise I leave it off. Having Windows give a pop-up message asking "Are you sure you want to do this?" for (basically) every little action = super annoying. You can get the correct permission levels through two different methods inside of Vista: 1st - By adding the permission levels directly on your user account - Right click whatever file and/or folder you're dealing with, then select "Properties." Then click on the "Security" tab where it will have a list of "Groups ands Users onames." From there you can click on each individual user account to see it's permission levels. If your user account is missing a permission - simply hit the "Edit" button, and put check mark(s) next to the appropriate permissions you need. 2nd - Tell Windows that you will takeover the "ownership" on whatever files and/or folders that you need: Right Click > Properties > Click the button listed as "Advanced" under the Security Tab (which will open yet another new window. To take ownership, click on "Owner" Tab > Hit the "Edit" button (about 1/2 way down the page) and then add your username as the owner.

Can you clarify what exactly you're having problems installing? Are you installing the game from CD's? Are you talking about one of the patches? To fix your "permission" problem - (assuming you're using Window's Vista): First: make sure that User Account Control (UAC) is actually turned on. You can turn UAC on by going to Control Panel, then double-click User Accounts and yjou'll be able to see where to turn it on. It will require you to reboot your computer everytime you turn it on or off though. Personally, I absolutely hate the UAC option and only turn it on when certain installations require me to. Otherwise I leave it off. Having Windows give a pop-up message asking "Are you sure you want to do this?" for (basically) every little action = super annoying. You can get the correct permission levels through two different methods inside of Vista: 1st - By adding the permission levels directly on your user account - Right click whatever file and/or folder you're dealing with, then select "Properties." Then click on the "Security" tab where it will have a list of "Groups ands Users onames." From there you can click on each individual user account to see it's permission levels. If your user account is missing a permission - simply hit the "Edit" button, and put check mark(s) next to the appropriate permissions you need. 2nd - Tell Windows that you will takeover the "ownership" on whatever files and/or folders that you need: Right Click > Properties > Click the button listed as "Advanced" under the Security Tab (which will open yet another new window. To take ownership, click on "Owner" Tab > Hit the "Edit" button (about 1/2 way down the page) and then add your username as the owner.

I spent 3 consecutive evenings attempting to get past the "has stopped working" bug, and none of the fixes worked. I then I read this post and decided to give it a try even though I had an AMD chipset with an ATI Radeon graphics card (instead of a Intel chipset laptop with on-board video). I was SO shocked and happy when it ended up working! Turned out I did not have to execute anything/everything with the options "Run as administrator" and "Run in Compatibility Mode." That made installing things much easier! My specs: OS = Vista Home Basic 32 bit. Processor = AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3600+ 1.90 GHz Video card = ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO Memory (RAM) = 2.00 GB I don't know what is/isn't absolutely necessary, so I'm just listing what method actually worked for me.: 1. Installed KOTOR2 using a Normal CD Installation method. (I did not use any 'Run as administrator' or 'Run in Compatibility Mode' options.) 2. Installed the game to the local user directory "C:\Users\UserName\Documents\KOTOR2" since Program Files directory hadn't been working for me. (NOTE: This will probably limit the game to a single user being able to play it). 3. Downloaded and installed program '3D-Analyze v2.36' - Download Link 1 --- Download Link 2 4. Downloaded and installed 1.0b patch. (Again, I did NOT use the options "Run as admin' or "Run in Compatibility Mode") 5. Downloaded and installed Optional Media Update Patches. (without "Run as admin' or "Run in Compatibility Mode") 6. Rebooted computer. 7. Ran "swconfig.exe" from KOTOR2 game directory C:\Users\UserName\Documents\KOTOR2 and set launch options Resolution: 1024x768, Refresh Rate: 85, Texture Pack: High, Enable Hardware Mouse: checked, Disable Sound: checked, all other options: not checked. (Again, did not use run as admin or compatibility options). 8. Started program 3D-Analyzer. Under "File Selection" (top left box) selected swkotor2.exe from game directory. Under 'Hardware Limits', checked "emulate HW TnL caps". Hit the "RUN" button - game finally loaded, but without sound. ## In order to get SOUND working ## 9. Downloaded zip file containing Mss32.dll and extracted it to the KOTOR2 game directory "C:\Users\UserName\Documents\KOTOR2" (thus replacing the already existing Mss32.dll). 10. Started swconfig.exe - unchecked "Disable Sound" option. Used "3D Analyze" to run swkotor2.exe and woohoo!! - GAME WORKED WITH SOUND!!! Assuming it wasn't necessary to run the game once without sound, here's brief summary: 1 - Using game CDs, install game without run as admin or compatibility options. (possibly to a local directory such as C:\Users\UserName\Documents\KOTOR2) 2 - Install 1.0b patch normally. 3 - Install (optional) media patches. 4 - Reboot Computer 5 - Place new copy of Mss32.dll into game directory. 6 - Use 3D Analyze program with "emulate HW TnL caps" checked and execute swkotor2.exe in order to start the game. Here's a list of download Links for all files/programs I ended up using: 3D Analyze v2.36b - Download Link 1 --- Download Link 2 Version upgrade: 1.0b patch Optional Media Patches Archive file containing modified Mss32.dll I hope this will end up helping someone else be able to play this very fun & great game. I know that I exhausted every other fix option without success and was very relieved when I got it to start working. (Hopefully I won't encounter the other bugs I've read about like the "Telos bug", etc.) Thank you to all other posters contributing their fixes. Without their contribution, I would not have been able to get it working. -Enjoy!