Star Wars KotOR problem: Freezes after escaping taris spacefighters.

[boran]

A friend of mine has problems with kotor <rant> the lazy btard doesnt wanna sign up so I'm being all nice and stuff and do his dirty work </rant>

as mentioned in the title, his system freezes after beating the spacefighters that come after your ass when you escape taris, the next planet (tatoine) loads for about 3/4th but then he gets a freeze, forcing a reset to get back into the OS.
the audio freezes and clics as well.

His system specs are as follows:
Windows XP Pro
P4 3 ghz
1 GB ram
Radeon 9800 Pro (256 meg)
Audigy 2 ZS

And KotOR is updated to version 1.03

the strange thing is, he has my game, and I played it trough completely without problems, so that kind of excludes the installation disks being faulty, but I played v 1.02 because 1.03 wasnt out then. is that to blame ? or is there something in his sys.

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Resolved, by taking a new dialogue path, does anyone know why it freezes when he chooses not to argue with bastilla, but he does not freeze when he argues with her about the destination.

 

[Farmer]

Good thing its resolved (though not in an appropriate manner: you shouldn't have to take an alternate dialogue route). You might still want to take this up at the Bioware SWKOTOR forums (its a very helpful place, as many of the developers post their regularly):

http://swforums.bioware.com/index.html?viewcat=11

I had many problems with unpatched versions of KOTOR (random crashes, freezes), but most everything seems to have been resolved by patch 1.01 (and even more so with 1.02 and .03). You might try cleaning out your Radeon drivers and installing Catalyst 3.8, as those seem to work best the KOTOR:

http://www.ati.com/support/products/radeonwinxppreviousdrivers.html

But, it really sounds like a well-hidden KOTOR bug to me. Good luck, and enjoy the rest of this terrific game.

 

[Nothinman]

I had a problem with the game on the XBox that was similar, after escaping one place the cutscene showing me taking off in my ship would play and then the screen would be black. I could hear myself moving and my lightsaber so the game was technically a live but it just got confused and never played the next cut scene.

Anyway the only way around it for me was to load up a previous save game, luckily for me I keep several revisions of my saves so I had like 4 to choose from but after doing that and playing back up to the same point again it worked fine. But since that was on the XBox it may be totally irrelevant.

 

[Looney]

sounds like a file is corrupt or somethign.

 

[boran]

well it's kind of strange, and I'd have to analyse it to figger it out, since normally it's the same stuff that loeads wether or not you argue with bastilla, so it's quite a mystery...