Strange but worked.

[racofer]

This still makes no sense for me, but I've found a way to get rid of all my stuttering/choppy performance on Kotor 1 & 2.

 

What I did was........

I started Kotor, loaded a game normaly. I was getting something like 18 fps on mostly anywhere in either Kotor 1 or 2, no matter what display settings I used. Then for some unknown reason, I minimized the game, launched Task Manager, and set the process priority for the game to Above Normal.

 

After doing that, the stutter was still present, but after I returned the game to Normal priority, it was so smooth it felt like I was watching a movie or something.

 

Now everytime I start Kotor, I minimize, lauch Task Manager, set process priority to any value (doesn't matter, I usually set it to Below Normal), and then set it back to Normal priority and the game plays super smooth. It works all the time with me, and I can't figure out what I does to have such effect.

 

My specs:

Athlon XP 1700+

1024mb PC2700 Ram

GeForce Ti4200 128mb

SBLive X-Gamer (using KxDrivers)

 

Maybe someone else could test this method and see if it improves something.

[dufflover]

Have you tried doing it without changing the priority.

Maybe you're always getting the "ALT-TAB bug" where you have to Alt-tab out then back in? But that's usually cos of like a Windows mouse pointer popping up and stuff like that (and kills performance).

[racofer]

Yes I tried only alt-tabbing but nothing changed. Even because as I said, I've changed the priority to Above Normal and nothing changed, but right after changing priority back to Normal the stutter was gone.

[themacman]

got anti-virus software running in the background??

that usualy slows things down allot.

[metadigital]

I thought this was going to be a thread about Morris Minor and the Majors.