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Because they put in on their box under "supported hardware"? That is the biggest euphemism I heard since a doctor told me the gastroscopy was going to be "a little bit " unpleasant. Excuse me, but when I use a several year old engine which is infamous for compatibility issues with certain hardware, then I should consider solving the problem before the releasedate. Especially since the engine does plain and simple look ugly and did so 2 years ago. Such bad performance is unacceptable. What did they do in those 2 years??? Was the entire team occupied with storywriting? I don't think so. The programmers had 2 years to optimize the engenine and did not. They have not done any major changes in either gameplay not visual appearance. What did theiy do in those 2 years? I also find it unacceptable, that I have to play this game on the lowest resolution because otherwhise the game crashes during certain cutcenes. Also, I really despise the fact that they did not even make the efford to implement high resolution cutscenes and sound files. I am not one to emphasis looks over substance, but when there are cutscenes, they better not insult my eyes. Do not get me wrong. I lake teh game in terms of gameplay. The changes being made fit in and improve the overall feel. The changes are basically covering everything that bothered me on Kotor1. But the overall anger about having to tingle my system for 5 days to even make it run remotely stable somewhat spoiled it. The only drawback is that the game is awkwardly balanced and far too easy, but that is a matter of taste I guess. Overall, the game makes the appearence of a quickport from Xbox to PC, plain and simple and since LA was responsible for QA, this leads me to a simple conclusion. I will certainly not spend any money on an LA project anytime soon.

Had the same problem. Atton was misplaced somehow. In my case, he was lying outside the cellroom next to the Last Handmaiden. I found him there and could progress as if nothing happened. The dialogue went as usual and Kreia responded as if we were in the same room. Unless you cannot find Atton anywhre on the map it won't be a problem. Try a savegame befopre you entered the Acedemy. In worst case you ahve to reinstall and load the savegame then. If that is too much of a hassle for you, well, it does not really affect the game anyway.

Guess what, I did not have to update any drivers for any other game I played since 2 years. The first time I had to update a Graphic driver for my ATI was actually Kotor1. Everything since then, including DOOM3 and Halflife2 run without any complains. Then why in hell is that the manufacturers fault? ATI releases their drivers and its usually the game developers task to make their game run smootly with them in case they want to have their support. If the Devs put those video cards on their list of supported hardware, THEY are responsible for making it work and NOT the manufacturer. So either the problem is going to be fixed VERY soon, or that is going to be the last Kotor I have spent money on. I find it absolutely inacceptable that such an ugly and outdated engine (lets face it, Kotor1 was already ugly back then) which is known to run bad on ATI systems has not been reworked to support it properly within 2 years of development. This is especially grave since only minor gameplay changes have been made. I addition to that are upsetting me the many smaller ingame bugs like disappearing feats or the many graphical glitches. This is absolutely sloppy, and whether the publisher is responsible ot the developing team, it will certainly affect my customer behavior towards both in the future, unless the issue is going to be solved VERY soon. I am not one to go ranting and raving on message boards of games as a normal habit. This is in fact the first time I attended to a particular games message bord, and I did so to find a solution for my performance problems. I have not. I am also waiting for an official statement about that matter and information about future fixes. I have not found any, neither here nor on the LA boards. That is not a way to treat your customers. I have a feeling growing that this PC version is a quickport of the XBbox game. They could at least have included highquality sound and cutscenes of a higer resolution. Sorry, but the presentation is more than bad. I am no one to give a particular high priority on eyecandy, but seriously, I really do not buy games to have my eyes insulted by 680x468 pixel cutscenes, that are not even properly centered unless I reconfigure my monitor setting just for this game ...

Are you insane? I would never in hell change my hardware because one game does not work properly. Moreover, I do not understand why this should be ATIs fault? All other games including Doom3 and HL2 run without any problem on my radeon 9600 pro. If a 3 year old, outdated engine which is KNOWN to have issues in the first place is used in a game and the devolpers don't manage to get this straight, I know what actions are to take and that is certainly NOT including replacing my video card ...

I would personally rather have an answer to the question why this game perfoms so horrendoulsy. I cannot continue the game past telos becaus of a 100% repetetive crash. I cannot play a game I paid for. Considering that the game is made on a tried and trusted (and outdated, for that matter) engine, and considering that those issues were common in the first game too, it is inaceptable that the game is performing so bad. I do not complain about the game itself! what I've seen so far is meeting my expectations, though I think the game is badly balanced (too easy) I am merely talking about the bad framerates, lags, modelglitches, bugs and crashes. Also, they could at least have made high resolution versions of the cutscenes.

Here. Got an Radeon 9600 pro. Tried 3 diffferent drivers by now, different resolutions etc. Did not work. Worst thing is im Stuck because of a chash issue on a critical spot. That chash is preventing me from playing the game. The game is ugly. outdated (it already was outdated in kotor1) and performacne is hiliarously bad. When they used an old and trusted engine, and in the first one already have been such issues, why did they not fix it the by now? They had 2 years to make that engine run stable on ATI systems. This is definately not OK. I am really tempted to return the game.

Same here. Is that ATIs fault, too?

Well tried and failed. Did nothing. Guess that means waiting for the patch.

---Some Spoilers ahead!--- My game crashes on 2 occasions. Both are dialogue cutscenes. (no video sequences) First issue is after being captured by the handmaidens. In the chat with Atris, when talking about the Trial and the exiliation of the PC. When Atris talks about the past and mentioned that the PCs struck his lightsaber into the stone, the game crahses. I assume the scene shows the lightsaber, I havent seen it so far. Second issue us after leaving telos. On the ebon Hawk, T3 shows the Holo of the trial. When I tell him to play the holo, the game crashes when starting the new sequence. The first crash is avoidable, the second one prevents me from playing the game which kinda upsets me. I already tried the infamous ATI fix wihtout results. Ive updated my Cataclyst drivers. I triedstarting with deactivated sound and movies. I allso tried reinstalling the game and tried again with the former savegames. Also I expereince some overall laggy performance, which is rediculous considering the ratehr outdated visual qualitiy of the game AND the fact that the engine is trusted adn tried. Especially some serious failures at displaying the charakter models resuls in some quite grotesque geometrical construcs tending to look like from a very bad horror movie. One time, a character was displaced. When Keira talks to Atton, Atton was not in his cell at one time I tried. I found him later next to the "Last" Handmaiden, lying on the floor. When Talking to him, the dialogue happens as if he was in the cell, including Keira reacting to the questions about Attons Enchani training. here are my specs taken from the games owen hardware scan file report. [sWKotOR] ReportDateTime=11.02.2005 23:05:49 SysInfoVersion=v1.00.60 GameExists=1 GameVersion=v2.00.424 GameInstallLocation=F:\GAMES\LucasArts\Kotor\ [OS] Name=WinXP Version=Windows XP v5.1 build 2600 Service Pack 2 Service Pack=Service Pack 2 Status=Pass [swapFiles] C:\pagefile.sys=1150 [CPU] CPUCount=1 CPUSpeed=1992 CPUFamily=15 CPUModel=2 CPUStepping=4 CPUVendor=Intel CPUName= Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 2.00GHz Status=Pass [Memory] RAM=768 Status=Pass [Disk Free Space] C: (NTFS), UNICODE=13.00GB D: (NTFS), UNICODE=2.29GB E: (FAT32), UNICODE=2.85GB F: (NTFS), UNICODE=15.64GB Status=Pass [CD-ROMs] DriveLetters=G:\,H:\ Drives=IDE DVD-ROM 16X,IDE DVD-ROM 16X,IDE DVD-ROM 16X,IDE DVD-ROM 16X,SONY CD-RW CRX1611,SONY CD-RW CRX175A1 [Video] Video Card Name=SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 PRO ATLANTIS Video Memory=128 Desktop Resolution=1280x1024x32 @ 85Hz DirectX=DirectX 9.0c (4.09.00.0904) OpenGL Version=1.5.4898 WinXP Release OpenGL Vendor=ATI Technologies Inc. OpenGL Renderer=RADEON 9600 x86/SSE2 Vid Card Status=Pass Vid Card Driver Status=Pass GL Status=Pass DX Status=Pass [Audio] Sound Card Name=CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device Status=Pass ;Game Options from swkotor2.ini [Display Options] FullScreen=1 Disable Movies=0 Disable Intro Movies=0 Sort Modules=1 Width=640 Height=480 BitsPerPixels=32 RefreshRate=60 [sound Options] Number 3D Voices=14 Number 2D Voices=64 2D3D Bias=1.50 EAX=2 Sound Init=0 Disable Sound=0 Force Software=0 [Graphics Options] EnableHardwareMouse=1 FullScreen=1 AllowSoftShadows=1 RefreshRate=85 Width=1024 Height=768 Emitters=1 Anisotropy=1 Frame Buffer=1 Soft Shadows=0 Brightness=57 V-Sync=0 Texture Quality=2 Anti Aliasing=0 [Game Options] UnlockedPlanetSongs=4 TooltipDelay Sec=1 Disable Movies=0 [config] firstrun=0