Problem w/CPU Usage, possibly graphics card?

[Mhoram]

Hi everyone - I know I'm new here, and I'm already asking questions. Silly me. " Anyway...

 

I'm using my laptop to run KOTORII. It's a AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3200+ 1.60GHz, 768MB RAM, and an ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9600/9700 series (64 MB ram), and has Windows XP.

 

Now, I could install and launch the game fine - tweaked some of the graphics so I could run it well - and skipped the Prologue. I got through the whole Pegarus mining section fine, with a few crashes at load points. However, now, when I get to the point where you choose to go to Telos on the starmap in the ship, after the movie cut-scene I get a black screen. I have to do CTRL-ALT-DELETE and get the Windows Task Manager, where it says my CPU Usage is 100% and KOTORII isn't responding. I've tried freeing up programs running in the background, but it isn't working.

 

Any advice?

 

Thanks for any help in advance!

[Mark Havel]

You should try to update the video card drivers, the Windows, the game...