KOTOR and driver woes!!!

[Prussian to the Iron]

all right, so i now have KOTOR fully installed on my Vista 64-bit, and due to my download of the mss32.dll patch it now recognizes my OS as XP, allowing it to run. however, now my computer fails the graphics card test. why and how do i fix it? my graphics card is a Nvidia Geforce 9600M GT, and everytime i try to download the newest driver....nothing happens. i click on "accept and download" on the Nvidia site and it just sits there.


any ideas? some way to fool it maybe? ive been searching for an answer for 3 days and have found nothing i can use. any help is really appreciated guys

[pevergreen]

To hard-software and awaay?

[Monk]

Getting the first Kotor to run on vista was an absolute nightmare. Compatibility mode failed to keep the game stable and all attempts at getting it to work ended in a lot of disappointment on my NVIDIA box. If i recall right, there is a problem with the 9000 series drivers that leaves the game unable to recognize your video card correctly. It is a known problem and documented on the support forums for KOTOR, unforunately there's no real fix that i'm aware of (i never found one that worked, though a few claimed to). The only way I ever got KOTOR in vista to work was on an ATI based laptop.

[pevergreen]

KOTOR one works fine on my GTX275 and Win7. No compatibility mode or anything.

[Monk]

Yeah i'm not surprised. The 9000 series cards are the pits when it comes to backward compatibility, good to know the newer ones are more stable.

[pevergreen]

Yeah i'm not surprised. The 9000 series cards are the pits when it comes to backward compatibility, good to know the newer ones are more stable.

And to think the thing I wanted most for my computer for the years previous to the ix core range was a GTX9800...

[Prussian to the Iron]

Yeah i'm not surprised. The 9000 series cards are the pits when it comes to backward compatibility, good to know the newer ones are more stable.

the thing is that ive never had problems with any other game with my graphics card, including, but not limited to:

TES 2:Daggerfall (1996)
TES 3:Morrowind (2002)
Fallout 1 (1997)
Fallout 2 (1998)
Battle for Middle Earth (2006)
The Guild 2 (2006)
Halo 1 (2001)
Rome: Total War + expansions (do I need to say it?)
Medieval II: Total War +expansions (see above)
Star Wars: Battlefront 2 (2005)
Carnivores: Ice Age (2001)


all on this same computer, admittedly a couple from The Pirate Bay (though i had previously bought them, the disk just wasn't working anymore)


someone mentioned people claiming to have fixed it? can i have a link?

[Monk]

Many old games are updated to work with modern day operating systems, anything bought through GoG for instance has a very good chance to run on the average set up most people may be running (Vista or no). You have to be careful though, as many games of late claim to be updated for vista and are anything but.

Google is your friend. There is a number of threads across the internet that detail different methods folks have tried, like this one (http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=91799). However, from the sound of it you're encountering the exact problem I was and to that I never found a fix. If the cases are related, the problem is that KOTOR cannot recognize the driver software and therefore encounters a lot of buggy behavior when you try to run it. I believe it would always crash out on the Endar Spire if I tried to run it on my 9600.

[Prussian to the Iron]

ill try that....sigh this is getting kind annoying.

fortunately we have a couple old XP's still hangin around our house, unfortunately only one we can find is the crappy one my little baby brother uses. and i need to download lots of stuff to get my copy to work. and its very slow. and i hate the keyboard. so much troube over one game; better be worth it.

[Beskar]

I got KOTOR from steam in a sale for £1 around Xmas times. I had no issues with it at all. So it could be a case of having an updated patch or whatever.

[Prussian to the Iron]

well, youll be glad or at least neutral to know that i got it to work on the old XP, though with minimal graphics settings, and its great. i guess this may not be needed, up to you mods.