I just bought KoToR today, went through the installation, etc. etc., ran the game, and it's extremely choppy. The thing is, I can't see why. I've tried restarting, disabling my virus scanner, scaling options, and nothing seems to help. Sound runs fine, but everything else is slow and jerky. The system scan on the configuration menu tells me that my system exceeds the recommended requirements as well. Anyone know what the problem is or how to fix it?

My specs:

Windows XP
Intel Pentium 4 2.6 GHz
512 MB RAM
77 GB free (111 GB total)
Radeon 9200 128MB
DirectX 9.0b

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"This hole is octogo. Ogiganeel. It's Octa.. It's got eight sides."
"We interrupt this program again, A. to annoy you, and B. to provide work for one of our announcers."

The word around town is that KotoR crashes after doing about anything.

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Et E'llo Endorenna ut / Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn' / Ambar-metta!
(This IS[/b] SAJN_Master)

It's not crashing, it's just jerking

It's the latest version by the way.

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"This hole is octogo. Ogiganeel. It's Octa.. It's got eight sides."
"We interrupt this program again, A. to annoy you, and B. to provide work for one of our announcers."

If its giveing you problems then you give it problems! YOU GET IN THERE AND BEAT THE HELL OUT OF THAT GAME!!!

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Et E'llo Endorenna ut / Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn' / Ambar-metta!
(This IS[/b] SAJN_Master)

I had to turn the graphic settings way down. I had 2x AA and no AF. I ran at 800x600 @ 72 and even then I was still choppy. And there was a GeForceFX 5400 I believe in that machine.

My crashing dilemma is when the Yoda-looking guy is introduced, the screen is filled with HOM, two characters clip each other, and then I get a runtime error. No joke.

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I must be the only person who has no problems with KotOR. Go figure.

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

You aren't the only one. Runs great on mine.

However, you have a 9200 in that machine... it is a budget card. You can't expect much out of it.



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"She turned me into a newt!"
Pause
"Well I got better..."

Well, I went over to GameFAQs to see if anyone there had any problems, and one guy mentioned something called a Catalyst XP Driver, so I downloaded that from ATI's website. 22 MB later, KoToR's running great. Budget cards so rock

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"This hole is octogo. Ogiganeel. It's Octa.. It's got eight sides."
"We interrupt this program again, A. to annoy you, and B. to provide work for one of our announcers."

Try turning off shadows. That helped a lot for me.

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All you need is love.

No problems here - I've started it again as a female soldier, since I did male scout last time. I figured, two genders, three classes and two paths, makes twelve different games! Nice!

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"So... Graham Andrew Rutland [Gee_4ce]... well, it says here that Graham and Andrew mean... strong and manly!" - My girl Naomi whilst consulting a big book of names...

My friend has it, and it requires 2 things--Processor and Video Card. His system

Athlon XP 1800, 1.5 GHz
ATi Radeon 9700 pro
512 MB PC2700 DDRAM

the important specs are there, and it runs kinda crappy on his system (20fps). However it IS frellin beautiful, I've seen it. I don't see why it should run so badly on Livid's comp, and if you have a decent comp it runs well.

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[This message has been edited by Dj Yoshi (edited December 28, 2003).]

[This message has been edited by Dj Yoshi (edited December 28, 2003).]

Tell him to get a new CPU such as Athlon XP 2600. No wonder it runs badly! He has an 1800.

Yah, he ordered 2400...dunno why he didn't spring for the 2500...barton goodness

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wow, I have the same specs as your friend and I run it at all maxed with 40 FPS in normal places.

Edit: Well, not the same vid card - Got a GF4 TI4400

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[This message has been edited by Nauree (edited December 28, 2003).]

Runs like a dream for me, but then again there's no reason why it shouldn't, heh.

I did have one issue with it crashing when using the elevator on the Leviathan though. Took like 4 tries for it to get through there without crashing.

Odd... your specs are far superior to those of the x-box, yet the x-box version of the game ran flawlessly with a decent framerate.

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GhostOfYoda - General doer of stuff.

Turn off shadows and the grass in the graphics options. I have a 1GHZ machine, 512 MB RAM, and a 64 MB DDR RAM video. Runs fine after that.

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Everyday I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

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Ususaly games run worse on *suposivly* better system because the person doesnt know how to up keep there system and let a ton of junk use up all its resoures and use the worse drivers even tho there the newest one. I use the 4.4.0.3 drivers and there like 1000 points better on 3dMark2001 than the newer ones.

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[This message has been edited by Nauree (edited December 29, 2003).]

Mine ran flawlessly.. With a higher resolution than the X-box AND I could still run opera and trillian in the background.. Take that GOY

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Happy "Diseased" dud: You said I'd be like this guy. Boycotting everything..
Happy "Diseased" dud: ted kazcnisky. That's who it was.
Happy "Diseased" dud: Wait, That's the unibomer.
Happy "Diseased" dud: Wrong guy.

Well; I ran KoToR on the X-box, and still had my PC free for doing other things =p.

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GhostOfYoda - General doer of stuff.

I just started playing KotOR again, and now I am having signature safedisc problems. Is there a patch to remove the safedisc protection system? I remember having this problem with Morrowind on an old machine ( that was still able to murder Morrwind), and when they released a patch taking away safedisc it was fine.


BTW, from your description, you are having safedisc problems too.

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Eat the pudding.

[This message has been edited by Connection Problem (edited December 29, 2003).]

I don't really have any problems on mine. The only thing that happens is after every time I have a vision, it scrolls through the conversation with Bastilla, so I can't read any of it. . .

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I think everyone should have to take a test to determine their eligibility to have children. If they failed, they'd be fixed. We'd have fewer stupid people that way.

Here, perfectly legal if you own the game.



I found the game's performance to be much improved with the 1.1 Patch and the (older) 3.8 Catalyst drivers. I'm sure 3.9 had some Open GL issues, which may or may not have been fixed in 3.10.

[This message has been edited by KnobZ (edited December 29, 2003).]