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To Ellie - Thanks for your advice; prior to posting I had found the WNASPI driver in a different directory, and renamed it, rebooted, no change. I still can't load non-autosaves. But, once again, thanks for trying!

When you use two sabers, when calculating your damage, you take your strength modifier and add it to damage. When you use either a single saber, or a double-bladed saber, you take your strength modifier, multiply it by 1.5, and then add it to damage. For high strength scores, this is a significant improvement, way better than any crystal is going to help you. *EDIT* - Anyone know what Final Lightsaber Form a Guardian/Assassin gets? Niman or Juyo? *EDIT2* - Preliminary analysis shows that a double-bladed flurrying juyo form does the most damage...but a single-bladed POWER ATTACKING (of all things, I always thought this was the worst) juyo-form with a lightsaber built for criticals (Use the Improved Beam Gun lens) comes VERY close. Hmmm. Actually, I believe it depends on your strength score at the time... *EDIT3* Well, according to my simple calculations (comparing two equal-levelled Jedi Guardian/Sith Maurauders), it turns out that a double-bladed lightsaber user using Juyo and Master Flurry will have a SLIGHTLY higher average damage per round than a SINGLE Lightsaber user using Master Power Attack and Juyo (Read - less than 10 damage per round average out of up to almost 500 damage per round). Single-Lightsaber style is VERY VIABLE for people who would prefer that (I am one of those people). Attack bonuses are also similar (Dueling vs the Advanced TWF chain). Power Attack has the cool knockdown effect, and more variable damage with its x3 crits, though. If you want to do MASSIVE damage in a single hit, you're best off with Power Attack, Shien-style and a keen Single-Bladed lightsaber (17~20/x4 damage...Terrifying). Critical strike usually trails this by 40~50 damage a round, but the stun on Critical Strike is hard to ignore.

Depends on the build. "Force Specialist" Jedi work better with double sabers- allow more stat boosts, and they don't care about their strength. Low strength fighters (especially certain Str 10 Watchman and Sith Assassin builds) benefit more from dual-wielding. The extra attack allows them to deal more damage with sneak attack, they lose little from not getting a 1.5x strength to damage, and they can add crystals to raise their stats. High strength fighters are best done with either a single or a double-lightsaber. While fighting this way, your character deals 1.5x strength bonus to damage instead of 1x. I am not sure which is EXACTLY better (essentially, can the critical strike multiplier from the single-saber cancel out the extra hit [with only 1/2 strength bonus to damage] of the double-saber). I am going to do the math tonight. Single-saber definetly CAN compete with dual saber, especially with a strength fighter. Don't think of it as "gimping" your character at all; that's false. The best way to gimp your high-strength fighter is to actually give him two sabers! (or, even better, a blaster rifle or something : ) )

Calantyr, I have the exact same problem. No sight of the driver in my win32 directory, either. I HAVE notived that I can reload AUTOSAVES only, and they work fine. Does that work for you? It lets me play the game, at least.

With a combination of sneak attack, shien form (or whatever form gives you x3 criticals) and the aid of master critical strike, I've done >200 damage per hit with a lightsaber on crits. Start with a high strength, max strength all the way, use best upgrade items, crystals, force valor, battle meditation, weaponspec, whatever you can. Sneak attack adds an average of +35 damage on a stunned opponent...

Well, I'm about to play a Marauder, so I can check on that.... Things I've noticed - Infinite LS/DS loops at Telos (Ilthorian base attacked)/Dantooine (Droid) appear to have been fixed. Infinite XP point (Hssiss spawn) has been left in. Interesting. I believe the Force powers HAVE been fixed. The shield line seems to be giving me defense...haven't checked if the Speed line has, but it's good for the attacks anyway : ). *EDIT* - Just confirmed at least Burst of Speed was giving me +2 defense.