Mark Havel

I think we'll have to wait until the patch comes or Ati fix the OpenGL part of their driver. I hope it'll be done ASAP (ie before next friday ).

In your case, it's clearly written on the game box which graphic cards will work and which will not. You just have to read to know.

It's already done for me. Thunderbird has sent a lot of mails today.

I do not hate Obsidian and anyway, I'll stay there to push them the more I can to get all the issues fixed (slaughtered musics, Ati owners, maybe other bugs...).

The SP2 never messed up with my programs nor the Windows itself after installing. No one difference, no one change. I've just set some programs to not be run with the memory protection and I never had a glitch or any issue. I don't think the SP2 is responsible for all the mess with Ati cards.

They MUST fix all the mess with Ati cards. If they could give us better compressed soundtrack (ie: at least 128 kbps 44100 Hz Stereo MP3), it would be fine.

Two ways: reinstall the new driver directly over the previous and overwrite all the files. The recommended one is to uninstall the previous driver, reboot, and then install the new one. I doubt this will change many things to the issues encoutered.

I was sure you have an Ati card when I saw your thread. It seems there will be no way to fix this but having an nVIDIA (stupid solution) or waiting for the must come patch.

I have the same issue (and made a thread here) in Nar Shaddaa. It seems the game has been programmed to crash there. More infos here.

I tried and it did not fix mine unfortunately.

You may find some bugs anyway... Seems that Lucas Arts did not test their game with Ati cards or did not make anything to fix the bugs they must have found.

Let me guess... You have an Ati graphic card with the lastest drivers (any drivers in fact...)?

It will be hard to use the KotOR I music in KotOR II. The tracks have specific names which are certaintly used by the game to be played. Plus, the tracks must have been done to give a certain ambiance to the current scene the player is. It should give a strange result to hear the Malak Theme Battle while fighting Darth Sion or Nihilius, even if the tracks were renamed.

Here is my questions to the developpers: Why didn't you or Lucas Arts test the game with Ati cards? Why did you or Lucas Arts slaughter the musics with lazzy compressed soundtrack (32000 Hz mono 48 kbps MP3)?

I've just mailed Obsidian about this issue.

This is a quite good idea and if this thread has success, I just hope it'll be pinned. For the framerate drops on Dantooine with Ati cards, here is the solution which worked with me: Open the "swkotor2.ini" file in the root of the KotOR II directory, go in the "Graphics Options" section and add the line "Disable Vertex Buffer Objects=1".

I did not encoutered the same bug. The twilek which manages the races says me I did not beat any record even if I did the second time and so don't give me any reward for this. Weird.

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I have them and it did not fix my bug.

I'm thinking about mailing LA and Obsidian about this issue. I'll try to be kind. And I'll told them something like "What about testing the game on Ati cards?" too.

The one who did this deserves to die. At least leave the players the possibility to get a better quality score via downloading.

Hum, exact. And I don't think this will be possible to have both of the best of Ati and nVIDIA in one single chip since the architectural choices are quite different and incompatible.

You should know that the Radeon 8500 is faster than the 9200. Don't trust the Ati denominations, some of them are quite confusing. For example, the 9500 Pro outperforms a 9600 Pro or XT, and the 9550 is also completely outperformed.

If the effect itself does not disappear, it may be a bug inherited from the fisrt KotOR, which I've encoutered.

I'm just beginning to be pissed of theses glitches. Even in its first version, the first KotOR did not crashed so much... Anyway, it's now systematically crashing in Nar Shadaa. I'm in the labyrinth, just after the toxic bar. It seems I've found the exit. I see the cut scene between the Wookie and the Quarren. The game says me I will take control of Mira to deal with the Wookie, and some other objectives, then says me that Mira has a rocket launcher. Then, it crashes, and Windows ask me if I want to send an error report (which I've obviously accepted). I've got an Athlon XP 3000+, 1 GB of RAM, a Radeon 9600 Pro with the 5.2 catalyst drivers, the mainboard is an Asus A7N8X-X with the lastest nFORCE 2 driver, the 5.10 from nVIDIA. My OS is Windows XP SP2 fully upgraded. I've obviously tried a lot of solution after looking around this forum and Lucas Art's one (old Ati driver version, tweak the config file, even tweaked the CCC OpenGL section, lowered the graphics details...). Whatever I've tried, the game still crashes to the desktop with the error report proposition from Windows. Oh, yes, I tried to desactivate the buffer overrun protection for the KotOR II executable in case the security fixes of the SP2 were in cause, which not to be the case. I really wonder if Lucas Arts is aware that Ati has significant parts of the gamer graphics card market since those kinds of bugs are quiet noticeable and I hope a patch will arrive VERY soon.