I've been playing Kotor just fine, all the way up until I leave Taris. Right after I shoot down the enemy ships, and I watch the movie of the Ebon Hawk Landing on Dantooine, it goes to a loading screen. And it stays at the loading screen. Most times I have to force it out, last time an error report came up. I just Defragged and ran alot of antivirus/malware/spyware programs, and I really want to know how I can fix this problem! I want to play Kotor! Here is my information, please look at both, and thank you in advance.
Oh, and here's some more info, I got this when I was trying to find an OpenGL 1.4.0 driver, which it says I need (I still haven't gotten it, please give me some info on that also).
The Dell Dimension 3000 has an extremely limited motherboard, and onboard videographics.
But your main problem is inadequate memory. You should add a 2 GB kit of 1 GB modules, and remove the old memory. DO NOT USE VALUE RAM.
If you receive a "Memory available limited to 256MB!" message after installing more than 256MB, enter BIOS and turn OS Install to OFF. Exit saving changes.
memory is relatively inexpensive right now at www.zipzoomfly.com, www.directron.com, www.kahlon.com, www.newegg.com and many other sites.
You want DDR PC3200 memory such as Kingston, Crucial, OCZ, or Corsair... avoid second or third tier memory.
Mictlantecuhtli
01-21-2008, 07:03 AM
The main problem is not memory.
The latest graphics driver is here (http://downloadcenter.intel.com/filter_results.aspx?strTypes=all&ProductID=1044&OSFullName=&lang=eng&strOSs=44&submit=Go%21).
However, it looks like the graphics chip simply doesn't support necessary OpenGL 1.4 features (I'm not sure which features KotoR needs).
The easiest way would be to get a real graphics card instead of an onboard solution.
Of course an alternative could be Mesa3D (http://www.mesa3d.org/), but that's not recommended for beginners without a C compiler...
raybay
01-21-2008, 08:32 AM
As far as I know, ALL Dell Dimension 3000 machines have only PCI slots, and upgrading the video graphics to a better PCI video graphics card does little, while putting a great load on the proprietary power supply. The power supply cannot handle the load of a good card, and improving the power supply is difficult due to the proprietary nature of the existing power supply on many of the Dimension 3000 machines.
The problem is indeed with memory, as far as getting better performance out of a machine that is definitely not designed to run games.
A boost to 1 or 2 GB does make a difference on the machines on which we work. 512 MB is simply inadequate in any case.
The real solution is to upgrade to a better computer, instead of this budget home basic computer, which at the time it was marketed was the bottom feeder of the Dell systems
Holy Kotor
01-21-2008, 12:32 PM
I love life right now.
This just in:I got it to work!
I turned the graphics quality to low, I turned off shadows, etc, and it loaded! After it loaded I could put the graphics back up, etc.
And to think, if I didn't have this crappy computer I wouldn't have to worry about these things. Lol.