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  1. I've played trough the whole game without any major problems on a Dell Inspiron 5150 with a GeForce go 5200.
  2. I don't think that the game will not run for most (>50%) people. You probably get a pretty bias picture of the percentage of people having trouble with the game from reading at a technical support forum.
  3. This information is from the 24th but as far as I know nothing new has been released since then. http://forums.lucasarts.com/thread.jspa?th...=31417&tstart=0
  4. Problem solved! I got the card replaced today. The guy at the store said that a manufacturing problem (bad memory) was verly likely the cause. It runs flawlessly with the new card! So it was a faulty card. Thanks for all the suggestions!
  5. Hi, Sloth! I seem to have the same exact problem as you do. I have a Club3d 6600GT AGP, with P4 2.6, can't remeber which MOBO (I'm writing from work). PSU is the one that came with Antec Sonata case. Latest official drivers from NVidia. WIN2k + SP's. With 1024x768, 2xanisotropic and 2xantialiasing KOTOR2 runs like a dream. With 4xanisotropic I got the same glitches as you did after about two hours. With higher resolutions KOTOR2 was playable for maybe 30 mins. After that the game looked like your screenshot. It's a new card, so I haven't tryed it with much else than KOTOR2. Ghost Recon we played online for hours, 1280x1024, absolutely no problems, so I believe it can't be temperatures or my powerless PSU (though it's an older game). But I just checked what the release notes for the latest NVidia beta drivers said: "Issues Resolved in Version 67.03. GeForce 6600 GT AGP: Fixed a 3D corruption problem that appears when this card is used with certain motherboards, such as SIS motherboards."" So could it be, that it's just a driver problem? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> This problem seems to be quite rare so it made me think that it could be unique to the club-3d cards. Now I get the corruption from the first second I play so it cannot be overheating I think. At least not in my case. But since you don't get the problem from the beginning and get it sooner when you have higher settings maybe you should try downloading some software that measures your GPU temperature. I have the PCI-E version of the card and I use the latest drivers (have tried with a bunch) so I'm not sure it is driver related. I'm actually pretty clueless at the moment but I have written to Club-3d support so I'll wait and see what they have to say.
  6. Actually I have cheap ram that is not on the offically supported list, but one would think that computer would be unstable of the ram is bad, it has crashed once during a period of three weeks. Maybe I could try and borrow ram from a friend and see...
  7. I tried both your suggestings but no luck, thanks for the suggestios anyway. Unfortunatly I don't know anyone with a pci-e card so I cannot try with a different card. I wrote to club 3d a couple of minutes ago, hope they will have some suggestion and not give me the usual update your drivers answer.
  8. Thanks for the info I had just decided that something was wrong with the card then I read your post and now I just don't know.
  9. Card in blue shot, the SLI in single mode, actually it was in dual mode from the beginning even though the manual states it should be in single mode when the card is shipped. I got the Antec 480W Neopower psu now which should be more than sufficient, I have a single 6600gt card which requires about 3.5 amps both on the 5.5 and 12v rail. All in all I need about 18amps on the 12v rail and I have 33, the margin on the 3.3 and 5.5rails is even bigger. All power connecters are plugged in. Are you running xp sp2 by the way, could the gfx drivers have problems with sp2? Thanks for suggestions.
  10. Thanks for the suggestions I have tried different drivers, I actually reformated the harddrive , reinstalled windows installed the nvidia shipset drivers ver. 6.39 and then the ForceWare 71.81 WHQL drivers. I have at least the four most recent drivers from Nvidia prior to this including the beta driver. I have also tried running the game with one ram stick at a time. Since I have this problem in other games and in 3dmark05 it is not directly related to Kotor2. My test score in 3dmark05 is a bit above 3000 so it seems the card doing ok in that respect but it does not display the grahics as it should. Don't really know what to do but I guess it's about time to contact the manufacturer.
  11. Im running on a Antec Neopower 480W PSU now. Unfortunately I have the same problem with the game, but the problem is with all games and also in 3d Mark 2005. I get really bad fps from 3d mark 2005 so I guess a got a bad gfx card from club 3d, I
  12. Thanks for the info. I just checked the specs for my psu and I have 18amps on the 12v rail, that could be a bit low. Anyone know if this could have damaged my gfx card permanently or will it work as it should again if I upgrade the power supply. I know it could be hard to know but your best guess would be appreciated. Cheers!
  13. Yeah I just tried Battle for middle earth and have the same problem so something is wrong with the gfx card and/or the psu it would seem.
  14. The power supply is called i-Tee PS2 type P4 it was pretty cheap, can't remember the price though.
  15. I have both my processor and gfx card at the default speed so no overclocking. Im using win xp sp2 tried also with win 2003 x64 same result. I can for example view dvd movies and so on without any problems but maybe the GPU could still by faulty in some way since it has special functions for shadows and so on that may only be used in certain games, though I have the problem also when I disable all advanced graphics options in kotor2. Is there any way to test if the gpu works correctly without replacing the graphics card?
  16. This was the first game I tried on the computer. I get the same problem in kotor1 v1.03, I will try with some other game tonight.
  17. It has only turned the power of once but that also made me think about the power supply issue. I have not overclocked neither the cpu or the graphics card. The recommended power according to Asus are Configuration Heavy Load Normal Load Light Load AMD K8 939 CPU Type FX-55 3800+ 3500+ PCIe x16 Video Cards 6800Ultra x2 6800GT x2 6600GT x2 DDR DIMM Modules 4 2 2 HDD(IDE or SATA) 4 2 2 CD/DVD (IDE or SATA) 2 2 1 PCIe x1 Cards 1 0 0 PCI Cards 3 2 1 1394 Devices 1 0 0 USB Devices 6 4 3 Requied + 12V current > (25A) > (20A) > (17A) Required wattage >= 500W >= 400W >= 350W I have 400w and is only using one grahpic card, 2dimms, 1usb device. I do have two external firewire harddrives so I tried turning them off but the problem was still there. I would guess 400w should be pretty safe when the external harddrives are turned of and as I said it has only shut down once.
  18. I was real bored at work, that's why the post was so long. Sorry I was a bit unclear about the actual problem. It is not the top ten percent of the screen that is missing it is about 10% of the pixel rather randomly scattered that are displayed as black. Have a look at the attached picture. Screen.bmp
  19. Yes, also nvidia users have problems see my post that it linked below. http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?showtopic=30064
  20. If anyone is playing the game with a GeForce6600GT and the Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard please tell me what drivers and BIOS versions you are using. Also my GeForce is from Club-3D if that could make any difference.
  21. Dear all, Here is the story of my attempts to play Kotor2 on my new, rather high end desktop system. I hope this will, if nothing else, bring some consolation to all the ATI users who have been struggling with the game, you are not alone. Edit (I have come to realize that the problem is more general and not directly related to Kotor2) Edit 02/24 It turned out to be a manufacturing problem with the card so there is really no help in the string for kotor2 specific problems. First the computer specs, one Geforce 6600GT graphics card on an Asus A8N-SLI motherboard with an Athlon64 3500+ (socket 939) processor and 1GB of ram. I started of by using the ForceWare 61.77 drivers and, now you won't be expecting this one, it worked like a charm. Resolution 1600*1200 all graphics settings maxed out, fast and smooth game play. Wish only this was the end of the story. Ok so everything went great until I had finished the tutorial and the in-flight movie to the mining base was supposed to start. Then the computer shuts down, and I don't mean a nice little crash to desktop it actually turns the power of and shuts down. Ok I haven't seen this happening before but I'm not to worried, I restart the computer download the officially supported Forceware 66.93 drivers, guess I should be safe now since I'm on the officially supported list with both the chipset (GeForce 6series) and the driver. Yeah right, when I get to the game screen with the pale Sith lord (options, load, new game and so forth) about 10% of the pixels on the top half of the screen are black like the monitor was broken. Consulting Lucas Art support page I try with lowering the resolution and mix with the setting for Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering, five setting for each gives you 125 different combinations to try out so I'm busy with this for a while, bloody combinatorics. Actually after a while I find a setting that works with a res of 800x600. This lets me enjoy the game for about an hour until my dear Norton Antivirus has something so important to tell me that it forces me back to Windows. Yes I know, my mistake, I should of course have disabled all other programs before I even though of playing the game. I give Norton an irritated
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