Crashing or frezing

[Kunra]

Hi, I have played both games and completed them but got the urge to play them again.

 

When I try to play either game I get about 5-10mins play before my character and the surroundings go dark like they are heavily shadowed, it jerks then my character is unable to move. I have looked at other threads similar and got the advice of if running dual core processors to download a Microsoft hotfix and use vsink. I have done this and all it gets me is a few more minutes before it crashes on me again.

 

both games used to run on my old system but this is the first time I have ran them on my new system so I think it is either my processor or my new graphics card (which has the latest drivers)

 

My computer specs are:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+

ATI Radeon X1950 Crossfire

2 GB ram

Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro

 

Any idea on how to fix the problem or am I doomed to never play kotor 1 & 2 again?

[Darth Mortis]

It sounds like its your graphics card thats the problem-KOTOR seems to dislike Radeon cards. Short of changing you card I can't think of a solution though

[Rycal]

Hi, I have played both games and completed them but got the urge to play them again.

 

When I try to play either game I get about 5-10mins play before my character and the surroundings go dark like they are heavily shadowed, it jerks then my character is unable to move. I have looked at other threads similar and got the advice of if running dual core processors to download a Microsoft hotfix and use vsink. I have done this and all it gets me is a few more minutes before it crashes on me again.

 

both games used to run on my old system but this is the first time I have ran them on my new system so I think it is either my processor or my new graphics card (which has the latest drivers)

 

My computer specs are:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+

ATI Radeon X1950 Crossfire

2 GB ram

Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro

 

Any idea on how to fix the problem or am I doomed to never play kotor 1 & 2 again?

 

From what I can tell it sounds like either your processor but most probably your graphics card overheats, the computer - naturally - slows it down so that there wouldn't be a total meltdown on its circuits. As Mortis said above, KotoR II (and also many other games), seem to dislike ATI-cards.

[Reven of Earth]

I'm not too big into all this computer stuff at all, so i won't even attempt to talk about that. But if you can never get it fixed so it doesn't freeze, you could always just quick save a lot so you can keep advancing no matter what, but i wouldn't recommend that, cause it definetly takes away from the experience.