Problem with star wars knights of the old republic 2

Perhaps this may help some people, only hearing about the problem, but never hearing from people for whom the problem went away can only be depressing...

I had the same problem: game started fine, but after the intro movie where the Ebon Hawk flies into an asteroid field, just a black screen and some music.

I have a X600, so I went and downloaded the latest graphics drivers from ATI and the problem was solved.

Running Win XP SP2, fairly high end system.

KOTOR2 has problems in general with ATI vid cards. I use geforce personally so I never experienced it... The only thing you can do is go play another game and wait until the release a patch when ever that may be.

Done some reading on lucasarts official forums for the game and have never seen so many disgruntled gamers in one place before. Going off from what is getting said in there alot of people not just us poor ATI users are having problems with the game, rumor has it that the patch is due to be released before the end of next week provided no more problems crop up. I will post here if I can fish more information out of them

thank u, u are my man
these are the best news, i've got this week, oh thank u once more!
I can play with kotor, i can play with kotoooor...
just dont forget to post the release of the patch

LOL it is no problem at all, share the wealth and share the knowledge. The common problem seems to be people who seem to get blank screens often or parts of a level are missing, not even got past the medical room at the very start is upsetting as some people I know have already completed it. But leave it with me and I shall post when the patch is out and if it is ok post a link to it save people trying to pin it down. But there is a patch out already but it is for everyone except American owners but it is only for a language problem and not a fix for graphics so don't think that thats the fix.

Yay

I am most pleased to hear the news!!

It is not only ATI cards, b/c i have tried a 5600 and it still continued. All i can do is wait for a patch!

Sean

Ok I may have a possible fix, I have spoken to 3 people and all of them have said that their game now runs alot better, the fix is for people who have ATI Radeon Mobility cards, Omega drivers have a rather nice 4.11 catalyst driver that seems to do the trick, link is http://www.omegadrivers.net/archive.php i cannot say for sure what radeon cards it will work for, but I have been told that desktop users who have problems can also use the driver. (my friends have radeon mobility 9000). Not the patch I know but I hope that this helps someone until the patch is finally released.

I will test this myself this weekend when I get home and let you know if it works or not.

aaargh... :dead:
"the page cannot be displayed"
but thx anyway

http://www.techspot.com/drivers/index/file/mirror/3690

yesss, i have found a site from where you can download the driver

i tried out the 4.11 catalyst, but it didnt worked, ohh i cant wait for the patch...

was it omega driver or one of ATI's older versions? and whats your specs I'll ask the guys tomorrow but you know I have to endure talk of star trek for an hour before i get any kinda response lol, give let me know your specs and leave the rest to me as for the patch still not heard anything

hm, i think it was an older ati driver, i couldnt find this omega driver.
But i'll searxh for one, and try it out.
my specs:
AMD Athlon 2400+
512 RAM
Ati Radeon 9550 256MB
mouse+keyboard
im using the ati 4.11 driver right now, but i have the 5.1 too
thx in forward...

I'll rty out the 4.11 beta, and the 4.12 omega driver and i'll post you the result

same here

Yea, I am using Windows 2000 on an Athlon XP 1800+ with an ATI Radeon 7200 (so what, I'm poor) and I get a crash too right when the game starts playing on its own engine (right after the beginning cut scene with the asteroid field).. Memory could not be read at 0x00000000 it says.

Based on what I've seen here I presume that it's another ATI problem. what the hell. Did these guys not test the game before they shipped it?

That's all.. I'm just confirming it might be an ATI issue. I'll be checking the update patcher program daily till it comes out!

--antron

Well you can't really blame LA for ATI's drivers, tested Omega's 4.11 beta and game works fine, I am sure ATI will have a few emails to read up on. But what your saying about memory is rather odd not seen that error reported (yet) but sit tight patch shouldn't be much longer

I too am having the problem and am currently downloading the latest ati catalyst drivers to se eif that fixes it. But I'm curious about the tech requirements for the game. I have a:
Mobile AMD Athlon(tm) 64 2800+
Mobile ATI Radeon 9700 w/ 128 RAM
plenty of HD space.

Now I've had this laptop for about 6 months and it has run alot fo other high end games rather well. I ran Far Cry, Doom 3, Half Life 2, and Prince of Persia: Warrior Within really well. But with this game and Prince of Persia, it saidm y processor is inadequate, but PoP still ran without problems. Why is this?


Oh and I have windows XP w/ sp2

lol ok first off, what you need are Omega's drivers and not ATI's www.omegadrivers.net now on the left will be a floating menu, select archieves then look for the catalyst 4.11 beta drivers those are what you need, now before you install them you will need to uninstall all current graphics card drivers and ATI's control panel, good tool for that would be driver cleaner not sure where you would get that from to be honest, but then reboot then install the omega 4.11 beta drivers and it will work, i have tested it and all is fine with mine (Radeon mobility 9000) even running it at 32mb still works.

Now why won't the new ATI drivers work, simple they are untested and useless never expect anything good from ATI I am already looking at getting a laptop with nvidia built in.

But if your unsure or stuck email me on my aol email address and I will get back to you asap

Well they must of took it to NASA and let them beta test it on those uber machines there and forgot to test it on us poor mortals with our less powerful machines... but the patch will (from what i heard so please don't use me as a scape goat) sort alot of graphical issues out along with gameplay, 2 many bugs to post here but check out LA's tech forum for info. I will update here when the patch finally is released

OKies... while I am new here, I am an old hand with Windows. I also know a bit about the Windows XP (2000, NT) architecture. I also know that computers are supposed to be predictable (if you do the same thing they respond the same way (given the same starting point).

None of these however explains why I was able to play KOTOR just fine until I managed to complete it for the first time, after which I uninstalled it to make room for other stuff. I decided to get a hold of KOTOR II and that's when the problems started...

Now, having installed KOTOR II, not only is it producing the above problem (see below for the exact error message) but also reinstalling KOTOR I produces the exact same error.

I did update DirectX to 9.0c from the KOTOR II disc. Is it possible this version of DX could have a problem with my ATI card (9200SE IIRC)? I've updated to the latest driver set with no change.

Can I back out of DX 9.0c and replace it with 9.0b? As I understand it DX installs with version checking which would mean an earlier version of a library would be unable to overwrite a newer one...

And one more leetle point I have noticed... Windows XP contains a compatibility feature where you can pretend to a particular executable that a particular version of Windows is running. KOTOR I and II will both *start* if I set this (Properties|Compatibility tab) to Windows 95 or Windows 98/ME. It fails predictably for Windows NT4 but also more surprisingly for Windows 2000. Of course this isn't a full solution as with one of the 9x's selected the sound is charitably described as "choppy" and the game crashes with the original error after character creation...

Ho hum. This one has me at my wits end... I feel that it has to be graphics oriented but I seem to have run out of things to mess with.

For reference, my KOTOR I has been updated to version 1.03 with no change either.

The error message that I am getting is the following:

The instruction at "0x0000000" referenced memory at "0x0000000". The memory could not be "read".

Of course this is the standard Windows "someone tried to jump to address 0" error - probably the most common way of getting an access violation. Interestingly, this is a "user mode" message whereas the graphics driver runs in kernel mode so it's not _directly_ a problem with the graphics drivers...

Dunno if this will help anyone else move it on another step...

Cheers,
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nullboy

the more people talk about the graphics problems the more it makes me think DX 9.0c is the culprit, but what just does not make sense is that an old catalyst driver works with the game more than the most recent one, I have tried the compatability setting for the game and all it did was take me back to my desktop but all version 98 and upwards are compatable. I have tested the game on the following system with the omega 4.11 beta drivers and it now works

Windows XP Home (SP1)
P4 3.08ghz (although system says 2.8ghz but who's counting)
512mb DDR
Radeon mobility 9000 (currently running 64mb)
Omega 4.11 beta graphics driver
Bog standard sound card (Realtek lol)
DirectX 9.0c

I get a little bit of system lag when moving in large areas but its a vast imporvement from not moving at all from the med bay at the very start. oh just so you know I mailed the lovely people at Lucas and Lackofvision and both told me to update my drivers although I told them the updated drivers do not work £29.99 to some company that must use bots that use random reply scripts phoning them did not help much, the guy on the phone said he selects the problem from the list and tells the person what to do... I could of done that via the net and not spent a fortune on the call but at least it keeps them off the dole. Anyway to cut a long story short all I can say is, if Omega does not work for you just sit back and wait for the patch oh and don't touch Republic Commando due here in the UK soon but out in the states and already alot of bugs reported, seems Mr Lucas has switched to the dark side of the force (that and episode 3 is out soon so they are putting all hands to the pump for the game)