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It's not just laptops! I just loaded my copy on my desktop running an ATI 9600se and I get the same black screen! Any ideas on this? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Look at this thread: Buyers Advice: DON'T and tell me if it worked as well for you as it did for me.

As my suggested solution works like a charm, and I get contacted by laptop owners with the same setup as me just asking that, I give this post a bump. Hope your game runs as smooth as it does now on my laptop now. Hope it keeps working... Still think it's a crying shame that I had to change my whole setup, and invest hours searching a solution on a game that says it's made for the setup I have. But anyway, hope it works for you too! Let us know on this thread, please.

Ding! Dong! I hear a bell ringing. Did you try to change your sound settings (in sound - advanced settings) to software sound? Could help... I have a simular card, and changing to software sound fixed my graphic glitches. I use the latest Omega drivers. For more: see the 'Buyers Advice: DON'T' thread Don't ask me for the logic: it's a game. It doesn't suppose to work, just because you meet the requirements... But on the other hand, since changing my sound settings fixed (till ???) my graphic problems, maybe you have to tinker the graphic settings to get working sound??? (w00t) (w00t)

Hmm, don't know the specifics, but the Omega drivers can be installed on a laptop, which the ATI ones refuse. In my experience the Omega drivers work better with games. They are not officially supported, so it's on your own risk... Never had a bad experience with them, so ...

Could it ... could it really be ??? Since I went to software sound (no big difference as music is all mono) the game works for me. That is: until now... To recapitulate for all you ATI users out there: get the latest Omega drivers. Install them like they should be installed (means uninstalling all things ATI, then installing Omega stuff) change to software sound pray that it works and keeps on working (Killing a virgin and letting the young maiden blood drop on your computer doesn't help, it seems...) Still wonder what will happen after I get a new movie bit, as this seems to trigger off the weird graphic glitches... I'll keep you posted.

No, it's a Realtek AC97 Audio...

The saga continues: I keep you posted, so here is the latest. As I concluded from own experience that tinkering with the graphic settings doesn't change a thing (and after browsing most of the threads here), I decided it's time for illogical tinkering. So I disabled hardware sound in the advanced options of the sound menu. Loaded my latest savegame, and no flickering until now. Wonder how long it will last, and if the changes in the sound departement have anything to do with the sudden stable run? Any ideas? Suggestions?

Meet all the requirements. Game doesn't work. See my other thread "Buyers guide: DON'T". It's a continuous saga of one guy trying to run the game with an ATI Radeon card.

Latest update: And it goes on and on and on... I last left you when exiting the tube. Meanwhile I installed the latest Omega drivers. Everything worked ! ... for a little while. I check the computer of the morgue. When exiting the menu, new mayhem: Now the screen becomes a lot of random garbage. It flicks on and out, and the game is unplayable AGAIN. Any ideas, apart of murdering the whole development crew of KOTOR2?

For those people with a huge reading problem: Every game I have (and I have lots: see installed games in my previous post) works like a charm. I also have 3 'normal' PC's, but as the one with the highest specs is the laptop I use this one. With absolutely every (for those deaf ones out there I repeat: ABSOLUTELY EVERY) game I have it gives the best performance. It used to be the case that laptops were bad for games. But times are changing. So don't give me the laptop is no good bulls***! This is 2005, not 1999... The only problem with laptops regarding games I experienced, is that you can't install the official ATI drivers. The omega drivers fix that. My point is that I don't consider it normal, that I have to install new drivers, change all settings for this one game (and possibly screw up a setup that works with every other major game to date) to be able to play one single game (KOTOR2) which looks almost the same as KOTOR1, when more demanding games like HL2, Chronicles of Riddick, Doom 3, Nexus, the Jupiter Incident, etc... have no problem running. To me, this proves that it was a bad port from X-box. That the code smells like dead fish. I'm quite adept at fiddling with configurations, as I work with PC's since the first ones came on the market. I have a lot of friends though, who can't do that without screwing up their PC. Just imagine buying a car, which doesn't drive without extensive tinkering, although they advertise it should. I think you wouldn't be happy either! And you would ask your money back... I'm happy for those for which the game works without a glitch, but a little browsing on this forum shows I'm not the only one by far with these problems. The game market releases unfinished games, pressed by market economies, then releases patches who work for some, and don't for others. Am I alone to believe that a game release should be flawless and tested on the configurations the company advertises? If the own configuration tool of the game examines my machine, and concludes that the game should run perfectly on my PC, is it then weird that I get pissed if it clearly doesn't? I THINK NOT !!!

Happy 4 u, but something says me you don't have an ATI Radeon 9700? Look at the topics in this forum. I'm not alone... Anyway, glad some can actually play KOTOR2. (That's, strange as can be, what one expects if you buy a game) PS: have HL2, Doom3, KOTOR1, Pirates, RON, Vampire:masquerade, Chronicles of Riddick, Far Cry, AO, Hearts of Iron2, Silent Storm (+sentinels), Morrowind, Nexus: the jupiter incident, Beyond Good & Evil, Homeworld 2, starshatter, Massive Assault and Sacred installed on my laptop. They all work like a charm, installed without a glitch and do what they are supposed to do...

Yoohoo, got the KOTOR2 the day it appeared in the shops. Let's install it. Bummer... After disc 1 I have to put disc 2. Easy isn't it? Then the fun begins: When I change to disc 2, it starts to install, then suddenly it needs disc 1. No prob. Put disc 1 in. Hmm, error. Now it needs disc 2 again. Put disc 2 in. Nice, it continues... for a little while. Then again: error. Needs disc 1 instead of the next disc (disc 3). Put disc 1 in. Errr, error. Needs disc 3. Put disc 3 in. Errr, needs disc 1. To make a very long story short: when I finally get to disc 4 the installation crashes. Oh, never had this much fun in years. After some searching it appears that some program from Norton is the culprit. Hmm, disable everything Norton. Install again. nice, two hours after my first try the game is installed. Woohoo!!! So on to the action. To be on the safe side, I leave Norton out. (It's not because every single other game I have works without problems with norton that a new game should, isn't it?) On to the configuration: I let KOTOR2 check my machine. Hooray, my specs are optimal! No worries... Start the game, drooling like a sick puppy. Hmm, seen better intro movies than this (like in virtually every other game I own) Resolution of movies looks like super low. The movie stops. I choose a character. Now we are rolling !!! Errr, another low res movie, and then : yes, yes, i can hear the beautifull music already. The game will start any moment now. Yes, it will. Sure... Well, it won't. I try not to throw my laptop through the room. I don't. Begin to fiddle with the videosettings. Put it high, put it low, put it everywhere it goes. Enable hardware mouse, disable hardware mouse. Movie works, game won't; Fiddle some more with the graphic settings, in game this time. Somehow, after a long, long while I'm in the game. Finally!!! So let's play!!! I play a while than save it. As I have a good graphic card and good specs, I turn the resolution up. Strange: now it does work. Nice, looks a lot better. Play some more. Stop playing. Save. Do something else. Open save game. Here we go again. Fiddle, fiddle, and fiddle some more. Somehow (don't ask my how) after a little hour I manage to load my savegame. play through tutorial level. Woohoo, on to the station. See another crappy movie. And then, same problem again. Game freezes after the movie. Get a little bit angry. Throw the laptop through the room. Wife does a termendeous save, and manages to catch the laptop (I love that woman). Go to Obsidian forum. Blimey, I'm not the only one with problems. Almost every PC owner has simular experiences. Especially those with a ATI card. Look again at the package. Read specs. Supported cards: should have no problem. Can't install latest ATI driver as I'm on a laptop. Search for Omega drivers then. Uninstall ATI drivers and panel. Install latest Omega driver. Open savegame. A miracle it works,... I think? Movies still look crappy. Get thrown back to desktop, back to movie, back to desktop, back to movie, and so on. What a lousy experience KOTOR2 is. Somehow I get to next crappy movie, and I awake from a tube. Now the adventure can begin. I hope. Wonder what will happen next. Not about the story, but about the glitches. Am bored sick already with this game. Conclusion: if you have too much money, an incredibly amount of patience, sado-masochistic tendencies, too much time on your hands and an ATI card, by all means, rush out to buy the game. If not, buy anything else. Wonder about installiations that run flawless, look at movies from older games which run a lot smoother on higher resolutions. And put the KOTOR2 game where the sun doesn't shine.