koudoulis Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 hi guys i recently got kotor 2 after playing the first one in order to play while i d stay in bed cause of a back surgery(no big deal , just a little painfull and very very uncomfortable) i have an acer notebook with an intel centrino 1.5 ghz , 512 mb ddr sdram and an ati mobility radeon 9700 3d graphic card with 64mb ram the first game was running smooyhly but for the in-game movie sequences which took a couple of minutes to load... so i installed te game , generated a character saw the star wars introl with the text n the space font and that was all. afte that i ve a black screen with a soft music , i suspect that the game is running but i cant see it. i have patced the game and installed laest drivers and not only it wasnt fixed but the kotor 1 , which i hadnt finished doesnt run properly anymore any ideas??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eden Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 I have anti card too and have the same problem, I had to dl the upgraded catalyst driver for it to work. I have a desktop though, not a notebook.....still might want to check for updates, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haitoku Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 I hate to tell you this... But TSL requires OGL1.4, The first Kotor only required OGL1.3 on ATI cards. Your graphic card doesn't support 1.4. =( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Havel Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 The two games share the same graphic engine, totally unmodified. So if you computer was able to run KotOR I, it'll be able to run the Sith Lords. You should try to get the lastest version of the drivers. It is said that Ati will release drivers for notebooks in their next version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haitoku Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 The two games share the same graphic engine, totally unmodified. So if you computer was able to run KotOR I, it'll be able to run the Sith Lords. You should try to get the lastest version of the drivers. It is said that Ati will release drivers for notebooks in their next version. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Wow, aren't you listening. TSL has higher requirements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koudoulis Posted May 12, 2005 Author Share Posted May 12, 2005 i hope u re wrong but thenx anyway i ll try contact ati but nothing will propably happen... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flokr Posted May 12, 2005 Share Posted May 12, 2005 That's not right. TSL definetely works on a mobility radeon 9700. The only thing you have to do is downloading the newest Catalyst drivers and modifying them with the DHModTool, so that they can be installed on a laptop. Don't tell me something about OpenGL 1.4. TSL is running on my system and I have a mobility radeon 9700, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koudoulis Posted May 13, 2005 Author Share Posted May 13, 2005 woow thats good news... dhmodtool?? where can i find that i found the driver that obsidian says that i need (for windows xp) to run TSL, but in the ati website and not in acer . tey are still a version back so i guess i have to modify myself as you say (though i dont know how ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sys64739 Posted May 13, 2005 Share Posted May 13, 2005 have a look here. i hope thats the right one. http://www.driverheaven.net/patje/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metadigital Posted May 13, 2005 Share Posted May 13, 2005 have a look here. i hope thats the right one. http://www.driverheaven.net/patje/ <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hey, Commondore -- great link! I played K2 with my ATI Mobility Fire GL T2 128MB VRAM, but I had the same problem as outlined in the topic. The game works fine with the movies off (there is a movie played just after character creation). I have been able to play the movies in batch, as well, though after a couple there is the ubiquitous memory overflow error (yeah, must be difficult to manage the 1GB RAM with the 128MB VRAM " ). Great Avatar, too. OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flokr Posted May 13, 2005 Share Posted May 13, 2005 Yes, that's the right tool. The only thing you have to do to get the Catalyst drivers working is unpacking them, copying the dhmodtool.exe into the folder in which the drivers were unpacked, starting the dhmodtool and selecting your graphic card. Then you can start the setup.exe and everything works fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Havel Posted May 13, 2005 Share Posted May 13, 2005 Wow, aren't you listening. TSL has higher requirements. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> If the developpers has not modified the engine, which seems to be the case, I can't see how the game could require the support of an higher version of OpenGL. By the way, the games games were supposed to run on the XBox, so they couldn't really modify the engine; it was enough sluggish in the first KotOR on XBox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antagonist Posted May 13, 2005 Share Posted May 13, 2005 Errr, the developer has actually modified the engine as was stated on numerous occasions by Akari. The most obvious change was done to the weather as the engine now supports rain but I am sure Akari mentioned more modifications. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashtray Posted May 13, 2005 Share Posted May 13, 2005 Works fine on my p4 2.8 512ram mobitly 9600 128 meg notebook running 1280x 720 WS. everything on high. but soft shadows turned off. useing moded ATI's 5.4 cats. good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koudoulis Posted May 15, 2005 Author Share Posted May 15, 2005 u guys wont believe the answer they gave me at acer support................... they said that acer notebooks are designed for work and not games and that there will be problems if i try to run any games with higher requirements( higher than microsoft word???) , when all i asked was when would the next version of the driver would be out since they were only one version behind , i think i really dont think they have the right to respond in such a way , especially since my system has the ability to run what i asked for . they could at least say they cant help me or something. i wont let this pass easily maybe i ll mail maddox..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruto Posted May 16, 2005 Share Posted May 16, 2005 useing moded ATI's 5.4 cats. which ones exactly? because I'm not really happy with the perfomance on my A64 3000+ (overclocked, too), X850XT, 1Gb RAM and catalyst 5.4 And setting the detail to minimum (at 1280x960) doesn't help much, the FPS is still below 25 in alot of areas Can't count on a game patch with engine optimizations being released anytime soon, but maybe there're better drivers out already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashtray Posted May 16, 2005 Share Posted May 16, 2005 useing moded ATI's 5.4 cats. which ones exactly? because I'm not really happy with the perfomance on my A64 3000+ (overclocked, too), X850XT, 1Gb RAM and catalyst 5.4 And setting the detail to minimum (at 1280x960) doesn't help much, the FPS is still below 25 in alot of areas Can't count on a game patch with engine optimizations being released anytime soon, but maybe there're better drivers out already <{POST_SNAPBACK}> sry i modded them for my laptop with the mobilty tool program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decameron Noir Posted May 16, 2005 Share Posted May 16, 2005 Maybe someone around here can help me too. I want to play this game so much! I have a laptop too, a mere celeron one would say but I run a lot of games on it with no problems at all. KOTOR 1 worked just fine, though I had to disable the movies. KOTOR 2, on the other hand crashes instantly after charcter creation . Now, I know this is an ATI thread, but my HP laptop uses the Intel 82852/82855 GM/GME chipset. A lot of people say it's crap, but that's the computer for good or for worse. I was told before that it couldn't even run the previous game, but after updating drivers and disabling movies everything was fine... Can someone help me ? please? Thanks ahead , Decameron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koudoulis Posted May 16, 2005 Author Share Posted May 16, 2005 By the way , i made the modification and it worked... (w00t) it even fixed Kotor I and now i can complete it(only Star forge remained) thanx so much guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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