Home Editorial How to make Knights of the Old Republic work on Windows 7 As always, Steam’s annual Christmas sale meant I’d be dumping the best part of two months’ rent on cheap and shiny video games to play. I’ve not played a big RPG for far too long, so it seemed now would be a good time to finally get into Knights of the Old Republic. It was Bioware’s exceptionally well received Star Wars RPG set in the era when there were a ton of Sith around being dicks and it’s your job to be more or less of a dick depending on your particular mood that day/save file. The only problem with my purchase? KOTOR doesn’t work on Windows 7. Shit. But complaining won’t do much good. I had to get this fixed! Two easy fixes for Knights of the Old Republic on modern machines There are two compatibility strategies that can sometimes get rid of the gremlins that make games crap out. Besides, they also double as “ Do these just in case and change them back if you really want to” steps. In a pinch, they can solve the problem of the game not starting up/having errors in XP, and I’ve heard whisperings that they sometimes fix things in Vista. First off, if you have the game on Steam, disable the Steam overlay in-game by right clicking KOTOR in your library click Properties and it’s the checkbox under the General tab. The normally helpful Steam overlay can sometimes interfere with games from the pre- Steam era (otherwise known as the Golden Age of PC Gaming). Done that? Tested it? Still not working? Not to worry. Open up the folder where you installed the game. If you’re on Steam, it’s in your common folder under your account name in the directory where you installed it. If you’re not on Steam, the folder is wherever you installed the game (check Program Files if you get lost) Find the swkotor.exe file – right click it and open up Properties Set it to run in compatibility mode for Windows XP.
plucky027 answered: There's a large number of possible issues and I don't have time to get into everything, but here's a list of the most likely culprits:1) Screen Resolution: your moniter does not support whatever resolution the game is set to run in. This can be fixed by editing the.ini file or using the launcher if there is actually an available resolution that will work. Unfortunately this game does not support widescreen resolutions and the fixes for this (widescreen gaming forum stuff) don't work well with KOTOR2 but did work flawlessly with the first installment of the series.2) Compatibility Modes: make sure you try running in multiple compatibility modes. For Win7 I had to use XP (service pack 3) mode. 3) Run as Administrator: be sure to run as admin, you can check this option in properties as well so it will always run as administrator.4) Reinstall: during installation be SURE to run as admin. If you did not do this during your first install it could be the problem5) Patch the Game: make sure you are using the 1.0b patch, or you will likely never get this to work on Vista. If you are using a copy of the game from anywhere but the U. S., you may have to apply multiple patches.6) Do not use the Secu ROM bypass crack. If you are using an intel graphics chipset it just plain will never work.7) Add the line: Disable Vertex Buffer Objects=1 under Graphics Options in your swkotor2.ini file. Also known as the Dantooine Lag Fix it can clear up other issues as well. 8) Disable the following in-game options: All Shadows, Grass, and Frame Buffer Effects Lastly, unfortunately this game is no where near as good as the first. I could go on a huge tangent about why and how many things Lucas Arts screwed up in other games too. I will spare you tho lol. here's hoping Disney does a better job now that they own the rights to Star Wars heh. 1 year ago 1 0 JAC75 answered: I tried.
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