sw:kotor and wide screen

[you2]

I tried the widescreen patch for sw:kotor and when starting a new game it seems to crash a bit; has anyone had success with this (also it runs rather slow - i have an e-8400 and 8800gts (g2)

 

[you2]

ack kotr is no longer popular

 

[Lonyo]

Just play it either with distortion or set your monitor to do 1:1 mapping so you get black bars.

And be glad it runs. Seriously, just go with it running and play it however it will work.
I'm glad I have 3 computers available to me otherwise I could never have replayed KOTOR1 and 2, since neither worked on my desktop, and one worked on one laptop, and the other on my old laptop. (All different graphics, OS, processors etc)
And they still both liked to crash all too frequently even when I did get them working.

 

[ICXRa]

Why is it crashing so much for you? What OS?

 

[you2]

OS is xp 32 bit; I figured it was either the wide screen patch or maybe it is duo core issue ? (cant' remember if kotr is one of those programs that require that you set affinity). Also it seems to run at a fairly slow frame rate at 1680x1050; i.e., very jerky. I might try removing the patch and setting the monitor to 1:1; the stretch effect is rather unpleasing in this particular game. Kind of wished i had finished it years ago when I still had my 20inch 4:3 monitor.

 

[you2]

Hum this thread suggest I might need to DOWNGRADE my video driver; I did do an update since I started the game so that might be it...
http://swforums.bioware.com/fo...=623079&forum=80&sp=15
and this thread suggest it is an affinity problem:
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg...-1-47459006&pid=516675

 

[Cheesetogo]

The widescreen patch you're referring to -- is that the UniWS patcher from WSGF?

 

[you2]

http://www.widescreengamingfor...SGF_Hacks_for_SW:KOTOR
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afinity didn't fix the problem. Hate to have to downgrade drivers to get this game to work
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I think Disable Vertex Buffer Objects=1 fixed the issue.

 

[s44]

Forget the widescreen patch altogether. It looks fine pillarboxed.

 

[you2]

But but I finally got it to work and now you want me to remove the patch

 

[cecco]

I'm currently at work so I can't check my settings for you. But there is a lighting effect setting that if turned off improves stability and it definately helped with both the choppiness and crashing every 15 minutes. I also run it in window mode at 1280x1024 on my 1680x1050 monitor. Just recently finished the game running Vista 64. Hope this helps.