Savegame Loading Glitch

[Tom1664]

Hi,

 

I am having a problem whilst playing - the game itself runs perfectly well but when I attempt to load a previously saved game the loading progress bar reaches between one quarter and one third and then suddenly freezes. It stops in the same place each time, staying there for approximately 2 minutes and then the program crashes. I have tried loading multiple save games under different player profiles with no avail. The most perplexing thing is that I've completed the game twice before on this machine, uninstalled it over the xmas period and it's only now I've re-installed it that the problems arose.

 

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game to see if that helped things, I have also checked that the saved games themselves are uncorrupted as they are still readable by fan made software such as the KOTOR save game editor. I contacted (after reading this forum ) SecuROM and sent them an analysis file but they said it was completely unrelated. Lucasarts aren't handling tech support for this game in the UK, they've delegated it to Activision, who've only got an office hours number...

 

Any help is much appreciated. My system is as follows:

 

Operating System: Windows Vista

[qt3.14159]

Make sure the game is running as an administrator. I think I had similar problems before I made that switch.

[klein]

I also have the same problems and no matter what I can't get it to load.

[teacake]

I'm in the same boat. I've been trying multitudes of different solutions out there to this problem. I've uninstalled/re-installed the game and drivers countless times and I've even tried running the game as administrator. And this never use to happen, I've always played it and beat it in the past with everything maxed out, even with mods. Now it just get about a fourth or a firth of the way in the loading screen, blinks, and just stays put there forever. Why? This has to get fixed.

[cogadh]

If you expecting a fix in the form of a patch or something, forget about it, the game is no longer supported. Besides, you are trying to run it on Vista. Just like with most older software and Vista, you are on your own with making KotOR2 work, since Vista didn't even exist when the game was developed or released.

 

As for how to get around the problem, other than running in admin mode (that's not logging in as an admin and running it, that's right-clicking on the executable and choosing "run as admin", even if your user is already an admin), you can try some other things, like turning off Vista's UAC (User Account Control) or running the game on a single processor core (assuming you have a multi-core processor).

[arwen jace]

Hi,

 

I am having a problem whilst playing - the game itself runs perfectly well but when I attempt to load a previously saved game the loading progress bar reaches between one quarter and one third and then suddenly freezes. It stops in the same place each time, staying there for approximately 2 minutes and then the program crashes. I have tried loading multiple save games under different player profiles with no avail. The most perplexing thing is that I've completed the game twice before on this machine, uninstalled it over the xmas period and it's only now I've re-installed it that the problems arose.

 

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game to see if that helped things, I have also checked that the saved games themselves are uncorrupted as they are still readable by fan made software such as the KOTOR save game editor. I contacted (after reading this forum ) SecuROM and sent them an analysis file but they said it was completely unrelated. Lucasarts aren't handling tech support for this game in the UK, they've delegated it to Activision, who've only got an office hours number...

 

Any help is much appreciated. My system is as follows:

 

Operating System: Windows Vista

[TriggerMikeDJ]

Ok kids, i've finally worked this out! If you're still having freezing issues after doing everything you could find to do (like I was) try this. My issues seemed to be stemming from loading the cutscenes. Go ahead and disable movies in the swkotor.ini if you haven't already.

 

ALWAYS have at least 2 saves in the same area, different locations. I use a hard save and a quicksave.

If your last save or 2 won't load, load 1 that does. Once loaded and if possible switch out your party members, exit the entire mapped area and return. If you're on the Ebon Hawk and can't leave and return, just run through some dialog with one of your crew.

 

This has worked ALMOST every time for me. The times that it didn't work I had to use KSE to change my party members. Hope this helps!!