Return to Dantooine issue.

[Starbreaker 12]

I've looked through posts regarding this, and it appears to be a common bug. Upon returning to Dantooine to meet with the masters, I exit the Ebon Hawk, choose my party characters and click OK, but the screen then goes black. The cursor stays on screen, but there's no load, no "KotORII has stopped working" message, it just stays black. There's no real solution in the threads that I've already read. Has somebody come up with a patch for this or anything?

[Starbreaker 12]

Don't suppose anybody's come up with some way to work around this without starting the whole game over again at least?

[Jediphile]

Well, that part of the game is notoriously bugged. Something frequently goes wrong with it, though I must say your problem is far worse than any I've heard of before. Usually it's during or just after actually meeting the masters things go wrong, and if I run into a problem, I can usually just reload from an earlier save and encounter no problems. But since you've doubtlessly tried that already and your game crashes rather than continue with some bugs, I'm not sure what you can do. Hopefully someone else can. Sorry.

[CoM_Solaufein]

The black screen of death. You either have to reload another saved game or start over. I had this happen to me on Dantoonie was well. I had to start a new game.

[Starbreaker 12]

I tried loading as far back as Nar Shaddaa (my second planet) which was my earliest back-up save. Same problem.

 

My last chance is something I found on the LucasArts forums from another member here who asked the same question. It somehow involves screwing with the save file. Didn't really work for him because the end result was that when his character left the Ebon Hawk, the entire Dantooine portion of the game had reset and he had to do it all again. Better than starting over, I guess.

 

Suppose I'll give it a shot now...

[Bass-GameMaster]

Happen to me aswell, loading before is the only solution. I think?

[Starbreaker 12]

It says that there's supposed to be a "gameinprogress" folder that you can edit while running KotORII. I don't see any folder like that. Anybody know how to bring it up?

[Starbreaker 12]

Okay, that worked... sort of.

 

I removed all of the Dantooine save files from the "gameinprogress" folder and the black screen of death is now gone. It did, however, reset the entire Dantooine portion of the game, although I was able to go to the Jedi Enclave and it all resumed as normal, so it's all good... sort of. I would suggest posting this tip from the LucasArts boards as a sticky:

 

"Load a savegame before the crash (before traveling to Dantooine or leaving the Ebon Hawk on Dantooine) then ALT-TAB from the game (or ALT-ESC or doing whatever is necessary to bring up Windows desktop without exiting the game). Now, in your KOTOR2 installation folder you should find a gameinprogress folder. You would need to enter it and find files with .sav extensions related to Dantooine (DAN***.sav, I presume). Then you would have to remove them, re-enter the game, go to a different planet than Dantooine, exit the Ebon Hawk then return to Dantooine again."

Edited August 27, 2008 by Starbreaker 12

[Kelverin]

Thanks for the tip.

 

I had issues with returning to Dantooine, but your fix worked like a charm.