Tardis1701F Posted May 31, 2011 Posted May 31, 2011 (edited) Hi I have installed KOTOR 2 on my windows 7 machine. When i click on the KOTOR2.exe nothing happens, when i disable the sound the game works flawlessly. My sound drivers are up to date and i have no other problems with other games. The sound drivers are realtek HD audio. The KOTOR 2 config found the sound drivers to pass with a green light. I have searched the web before writing this and have already tried the mss32.dll fix and have contacted securom and they said it wasn't thier problem. I have even tried to take mss32.dll iles out of other games and put them in the directory but no effect. I have also tried installing KOTOR 2 in other areas of my computer such as program files and my documents. I have tried the unofficial 1.0c patch aswell. Any help would be much welcome. [sWKotOR] ReportDateTime=5/31/2011 3:56:59 PM SysInfoVersion=v1.00.60 GameExists=1 GameVersion=v2.01.420 GameInstallLocation=C:\Users\Martin\Documents\SWKOTOR2\ [OS] Name=WinXP Version=Windows XP v5.1 build 2600 Service Pack 2 (It is running windows 7 trust me!) Service Pack=None Status=Pass [swapFiles] ?:\pagefile.sys=0 [CPU] CPUCount=1 CPUSpeed=2593 CPUFamily=6 CPUModel=7 CPUStepping=10 CPUVendor=Intel CPUName=Pentium Edited May 31, 2011 by Tardis1701F
Gorth Posted June 1, 2011 Posted June 1, 2011 It's been a long time since playing Kotor2... I seem to remember some other older games having success with a few tips and tricks. Some of them involved changing core affinity (to simulate running on mono core cpus), disabling audio hardware accelleration, running the game in Windows 2000 compatibility mode (for some reason, some games like that better than Windows XP compatibility) etc. Of couse, I'm a pack rat, so I actually have an old P4 computer tucked away somewhere for playing old stuff on Edit: I wonder if it wouldn't be possible to play Kotor2 on VirtualPC? “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
Tardis1701F Posted June 1, 2011 Author Posted June 1, 2011 (edited) It's been a long time since playing Kotor2... I seem to remember some other older games having success with a few tips and tricks. Some of them involved changing core affinity (to simulate running on mono core cpus), disabling audio hardware accelleration, running the game in Windows 2000 compatibility mode (for some reason, some games like that better than Windows XP compatibility) etc. Of couse, I'm a pack rat, so I actually have an old P4 computer tucked away somewhere for playing old stuff on Edit: I wonder if it wouldn't be possible to play Kotor2 on VirtualPC? Thanks for the response I have just tried to change cpu affinity to one core but it has had no effect. I don't think that Windows 7 has the ability to disable audio hardware acelleration due to the way vista was made. I tried running the game in Windows 2000 compatability aswell as all the other ones but still no effect. If you know of someway to disable the audio hardware acelleration in windows 7 please tell me. The VirtualPC idea i will try as a last resort as the only problem i have is with the sound not the computer in general. What i have noticed is that even with sound off it will not run unless i turn OFF the option to run as admin. I have found that the game runs fine with the speakers pulled out of the audio jack. But when the game has started and i plug them back in i still hear no sound. Edited June 1, 2011 by Tardis1701F
Tardis1701F Posted June 1, 2011 Author Posted June 1, 2011 If any one has any other ideas i'd love to hear them as i love this game and desperatly want to play it
Tardis1701F Posted June 2, 2011 Author Posted June 2, 2011 I have managed to play about with mss32.dll files and "miles" folders and i now have the error message "The procedure entry point_RIB_provider_library_handle@0 could not be located in the dynamic link library mss32.dll" I hope this is a step in the right direction. I have tried to download a new mss32.dll file but no it has not worked. Welcome any help please.
Gorth Posted June 3, 2011 Posted June 3, 2011 I have managed to play about with mss32.dll files and "miles" folders and i now have the error message "The procedure entry point_RIB_provider_library_handle@0 could not be located in the dynamic link library mss32.dll" I hope this is a step in the right direction. I have tried to download a new mss32.dll file but no it has not worked. Welcome any help please. Do you have Kotor1? I seem to remember a lot of players successfully copying the mss32.dll (Miles Sound System or whatever it is called) from the Kotor1 install folder and use in the Kotor2 installation folder. “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
Tardis1701F Posted June 4, 2011 Author Posted June 4, 2011 (edited) I have managed to play about with mss32.dll files and "miles" folders and i now have the error message "The procedure entry point_RIB_provider_library_handle@0 could not be located in the dynamic link library mss32.dll" I hope this is a step in the right direction. I have tried to download a new mss32.dll file but no it has not worked. Welcome any help please. Do you have Kotor1? I seem to remember a lot of players successfully copying the mss32.dll (Miles Sound System or whatever it is called) from the Kotor1 install folder and use in the Kotor2 installation folder. I have tried to copy the mss32.dll from kotor 1 into kotor 2 but it displays the same error message. What i did to get the error message was use the miles folder from Neverwinter Night 2 and put it in kotor 2 as people have suggested that as a fix. Hope that helps you to understand what i have done. Thanks for the suggestion though, I thought it might work but sadly. Edited June 4, 2011 by Tardis1701F
Tardis1701F Posted June 11, 2011 Author Posted June 11, 2011 Hi i'm still looking for any suggestions of a fix Any ideas would be greatly appreciated as i am desperate to play this game.
dergyll Posted June 12, 2011 Posted June 12, 2011 can we have the specs for your computer? From the looks of it, its probably a sound hardware conflict issue...I had this happen to me with Borderlands, where my Beats Audio was interferring with my windows-installed driver. Anyway, lets have the specs please Derg
Gorth Posted June 13, 2011 Posted June 13, 2011 can we have the specs for your computer? From the looks of it, its probably a sound hardware conflict issue...I had this happen to me with Borderlands, where my Beats Audio was interferring with my windows-installed driver. Anyway, lets have the specs please Derg I think most of it is in his very first post in this thread The only program I've ever bought that crashed right away because of sound issues was Cyberlink PowerDVD. I paid a fortune for it and was getting increasingly pissed off that it refused to run until I found a hint in a forum that it didn't like having two audio devices on the same computer. Disabling the onboard Realtek soundchip in the bios fixed the problem (since I only ever used my Creative card anyway). Tardis1701F, do you by any chance have other sound cards than the detected Realtek one? “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
Tardis1701F Posted June 14, 2011 Author Posted June 14, 2011 (edited) can we have the specs for your computer? From the looks of it, its probably a sound hardware conflict issue...I had this happen to me with Borderlands, where my Beats Audio was interferring with my windows-installed driver. Anyway, lets have the specs please Derg I think most of it is in his very first post in this thread The only program I've ever bought that crashed right away because of sound issues was Cyberlink PowerDVD. I paid a fortune for it and was getting increasingly pissed off that it refused to run until I found a hint in a forum that it didn't like having two audio devices on the same computer. Disabling the onboard Realtek soundchip in the bios fixed the problem (since I only ever used my Creative card anyway). Tardis1701F, do you by any chance have other sound cards than the detected Realtek one? I have searched in my Bios and found about 4 seperate entrys besides my realtek audio for a Nividia High Definition audio but i have never seen it before. My Graphics card is Nividia but i have nothing else to do with Nividia on my computer I'll show you what came up so you can understand Name NVIDIA High Definition Audio Manufacturer NVIDIA Status OK PNP Device ID HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10DE&DEV_000A&SUBSYS_10DE0101&REV_1001\5&32E8D465&0&0001 Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\nvhda64v.sys (1.2.22.1, 170.10 KB (174,184 bytes), 26/05/2011 15:40) Name NVIDIA High Definition Audio Manufacturer NVIDIA Status OK PNP Device ID HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10DE&DEV_000A&SUBSYS_10DE0101&REV_1001\5&32E8D465&0&0101 Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\nvhda64v.sys (1.2.22.1, 170.10 KB (174,184 bytes), 26/05/2011 15:40) Name NVIDIA High Definition Audio Manufacturer NVIDIA Status OK PNP Device ID HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10DE&DEV_000A&SUBSYS_10DE0101&REV_1001\5&32E8D465&0&0201 Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\nvhda64v.sys (1.2.22.1, 170.10 KB (174,184 bytes), 26/05/2011 15:40) Name NVIDIA High Definition Audio Manufacturer NVIDIA Status OK PNP Device ID HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10DE&DEV_000A&SUBSYS_10DE0101&REV_1001\5&32E8D465&0&0301 Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\nvhda64v.sys (1.2.22.1, 170.10 KB (174,184 bytes), 26/05/2011 15:40) Name Realtek High Definition Audio Manufacturer Realtek Status OK PNP Device ID HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0888&SUBSYS_102802E0&REV_1000\4&32634E45&0&0201 Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\rtkvhd64.sys (6.0.1.6363, 2.72 MB (2,854,504 bytes), 31/05/2011 14:53) Could you tell me a way to disable them as i always use the Realtek Edited June 14, 2011 by Tardis1701F
Tardis1701F Posted June 14, 2011 Author Posted June 14, 2011 can we have the specs for your computer? From the looks of it, its probably a sound hardware conflict issue...I had this happen to me with Borderlands, where my Beats Audio was interferring with my windows-installed driver. Anyway, lets have the specs please Derg I think most of it is in his very first post in this thread The only program I've ever bought that crashed right away because of sound issues was Cyberlink PowerDVD. I paid a fortune for it and was getting increasingly pissed off that it refused to run until I found a hint in a forum that it didn't like having two audio devices on the same computer. Disabling the onboard Realtek soundchip in the bios fixed the problem (since I only ever used my Creative card anyway). Tardis1701F, do you by any chance have other sound cards than the detected Realtek one? I have searched in my Bios and found about 4 seperate entrys besides my realtek audio for a Nividia High Definition audio but i have never seen it before. My Graphics card is Nividia but i have nothing else to do with Nividia on my computer I'll show you what came up so you can understand Name NVIDIA High Definition Audio Manufacturer NVIDIA Status OK PNP Device ID HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10DE&DEV_000A&SUBSYS_10DE0101&REV_1001\5&32E8D465&0&0001 Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\nvhda64v.sys (1.2.22.1, 170.10 KB (174,184 bytes), 26/05/2011 15:40) Name NVIDIA High Definition Audio Manufacturer NVIDIA Status OK PNP Device ID HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10DE&DEV_000A&SUBSYS_10DE0101&REV_1001\5&32E8D465&0&0101 Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\nvhda64v.sys (1.2.22.1, 170.10 KB (174,184 bytes), 26/05/2011 15:40) Name NVIDIA High Definition Audio Manufacturer NVIDIA Status OK PNP Device ID HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10DE&DEV_000A&SUBSYS_10DE0101&REV_1001\5&32E8D465&0&0201 Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\nvhda64v.sys (1.2.22.1, 170.10 KB (174,184 bytes), 26/05/2011 15:40) Name NVIDIA High Definition Audio Manufacturer NVIDIA Status OK PNP Device ID HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10DE&DEV_000A&SUBSYS_10DE0101&REV_1001\5&32E8D465&0&0301 Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\nvhda64v.sys (1.2.22.1, 170.10 KB (174,184 bytes), 26/05/2011 15:40) Name Realtek High Definition Audio Manufacturer Realtek Status OK PNP Device ID HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0888&SUBSYS_102802E0&REV_1000\4&32634E45&0&0201 Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\rtkvhd64.sys (6.0.1.6363, 2.72 MB (2,854,504 bytes), 31/05/2011 14:53) Could you tell me a way to disable them as i always use the Realtek I have uninstalled the Nvidia drivers and i am left with only the Realtek entry but the game still does not run. I changed it back to the original configuration where it would not open when sound on and still has the same problem. Any help Thanks for replying.
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