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Title: Help With Kotor 2 Please
Post by: mgins27 on December 08, 2004, 08:07:00 AM

i got kotor 2 yesterday, and before i decided to load it onto my system, i played off the disk for about an hour and a half. after that, i stopped playing, loaded the game onto the hdd, and then tried to play. the game loads fine, but all of the writing is messed up, and u cant read anything. i turned off my system, and then tried to play the game off of the cd, but got the same problem. deleted the game off my hdd, and it still wouldnt work when trying to play the cd. is there anyway that i can get the game to work off my hdd, or at least with the cd?

thanks for any help

Title: Help With Kotor 2 Please
Post by: barranger on December 08, 2004, 09:13:00 AM

Try backing up your game save then deleting it, and trying a new game (this won't help you continue your game, but it could tell you where the problem is)

Hope this helps,
Barranger

Title: Help With Kotor 2 Please
Post by: mgins27 on December 08, 2004, 10:27:00 AM

thanks alot, ill try it now
im only about an hour and a bit in, so its not that big of a deal if i cant continue it

This post has been edited by mgins27: Dec 8 2004, 06:28 PM

Title: Help With Kotor 2 Please
Post by: mgins27 on December 08, 2004, 10:34:00 AM

same problem, only now there is absolutley no trace of the game ever being on my system (unless there are files hidden somehwere i cant see) could it have something to do with the specific copy of the game? maybe if i were to get a different game disc it would work?  any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

thanks

Title: Help With Kotor 2 Please
Post by: kungfujesus on December 08, 2004, 04:12:00 PM

In an hour or so i will be able to try the game on my HDD without a save file being their first, i will be able to tell you then atleast if the problem has to do with the save (dont see why it would) wed atleast know thats not the problem

Title: Help With Kotor 2 Please
Post by: Salpula on December 08, 2004, 05:35:00 PM

Well my problem is a little screwier. . . I noticed it sometimesgot a ltitle choppy, but not enough to take away from gameplay but enough to notice, then it froze once when I pressed start and a couple other buttons at the same time by means of fat fingers and carelessness but hey things happen.

Then today I was playing a part about an hour and a half or so in I guess where you open a forcefield or door something liek that, its goes to a cutscene of the droid you were using in solo mode getting shot thengoes black, but if I save and reload the same spot its not black, only the main character is standing there with no explanation as to how he got there and when I leave through the only exit which is an elevator I am not the broken droid and cannot move again.

Maybe its part of the story line vbut I am really fucking confused and frustrated because I can perform no task or move or do ANYTHING at ALL but pause the game and unequip stuff.

I heard you have to edit an INI file to get it to properly run a backup of this game from the hard drive but I have not seen anything about it and my friend failed to tell me where to find it. And he conviniently went to sleep.

I haven't noticed anything else wrong with the game but what I mentioned here either.

I also loaded it right to the hard drive before I played. However, I didn't seem to notice anything wrong with the game when the DVD was in the drive.

Title: Help With Kotor 2 Please
Post by: Marmite on December 08, 2004, 07:49:00 PM

It is a problem with the game being loaded onto the hard drive. To my knowledge there is not a fix yet, until then just play with the DVD in the drive.

Title: Help With Kotor 2 Please
Post by: mgins27 on December 09, 2004, 08:25:00 AM

i got my game fixed. i forgot to check on the msdashboard, and there was still a save file there, and after i deleted it, it was fine. i had the same problem after the droid was blown up, so just saved, reloaded with the disk in, got past, saved again, and continued without the disk. im about an hour and a bit past that, and havent had any other problems like that.

does anyone know of any other times in the game when it blacks out?

Title: Help With Kotor 2 Please
Post by: Drilus on December 09, 2004, 11:52:00 PM

i'm 14 hours into the game, no black outs, nothing. started playing from HD too.

Title: Help With Kotor 2 Please
Post by: Deryck on December 10, 2004, 05:17:00 AM

Maybe its something to do with the in game reset stuff?  

Title: Help With Kotor 2 Please
Post by: kungfujesus on December 10, 2004, 07:09:00 AM

maybe so cuz my game plays fine and my in game reset is turned off

Title: Help With Kotor 2 Please
Post by: ZASADAR on December 11, 2004, 01:33:00 AM

QUOTE (Marmite @ Dec 8 2004, 09:21 PM)

It is a problem with the game being loaded onto the hard drive. To my knowledge there is not a fix yet, until then just play with the DVD in the drive.

STOP TELLING PEOPLE THAT!!!!! I had no proplems playing this game from the hd the problem

This post has been edited by ZASADAR: Dec 11 2004, 09:34 AM

Title: Help With Kotor 2 Please
Post by: SonicRaT on December 11, 2004, 06:43:00 AM

It is a problem for people who copied it to the HD, it's mostly common for the people who've pirated it. Anyway, try this if it does it: save the game right before the terminal, quit the game and go back to the main screen, scroll down  to movies and play the sith trailer and let it run all the way through and finish, then go back load the game and go through the scene again and it should continue. This seems to work pretty well for people who run into it. Otherwise just use the DVD for that spot and you'll be fine, and if you don't have the dvd, well then.

Title: Help With Kotor 2 Please
Post by: Deryck on December 12, 2004, 03:08:00 AM

Well that could be it, since they all have the prob at the same area maybe the pirate version was a bad rip? I don't know but ill post my specs since it works on mine maybe we can figure the problem out for everyone else

I have a 1.0 launch xbox, xenium modchip OS 2.0, evo x m8 bios, and an aftermarket 40g hdd.

This post has been edited by Deryck: Dec 12 2004, 11:09 AM

Title: Help With Kotor 2 Please
Post by: JediYodaNT on December 12, 2004, 12:18:00 PM

Ok, I Spent Two Hours Trying To Do Everything Listed To Get Past The Blackout Problem.....Finally Got It To Work, But I Did Have To Play That Segment From The Disc.  New Problem.....I've Gotten To The First Set Of Swoop Races And The Times I'm Makeing Are Not Getting Saved.  The Race Guy Said That The Time I Had To Beat To Make 1st Place Was 41:28 And I Had Made 41:18 And Is Said I Had Beaten None Of The Track Records....Any Ideas Guys?

Title: Help With Kotor 2 Please
Post by: xgpu on December 13, 2004, 12:39:00 AM

na that last fix doesn't work either...i even dumped all my cache directories after the change.  I'm going to do what someone recommended on another forum and, change the SWdirsXbox.ini file and re-assign all directories referrencing d:\ to, the directory that the game is installed to.

Title: Help With Kotor 2 Please
Post by: xgpu on December 13, 2004, 01:00:00 AM

bah none of those ini edits worked unless...there's some file I should be editing simultaneous to those ini files.

Title: Help With Kotor 2 Please
Post by: fishmonger on December 13, 2004, 10:20:00 PM

QUOTE (VoxAngel @ Dec 12 2004, 11:35 PM)

Actually, you might try changing a value in the swkotor2.ini [Game Options] ... UseLocalContent=1 << (This is usually set to 0)

I was having this problem, and after making this fix, it went away.  Thanks a ton!

Title: Help With Kotor 2 Please
Post by: rakewrath on December 14, 2004, 12:21:00 PM

 All you need to do is remove all the droids equ then access the term. It does the cine, then the droid dies. But then your back to the reg. path of the game. Badow. It doesn't work all the time, but I tried it 3 times and it worked twice... sooooo.. do it.
                                                         


                     Peace.

                              The Rake.

Title: Help With Kotor 2 Please
Post by: knicksrule on December 14, 2004, 04:01:00 PM

hey i need some help from someone pretty far in the game,i just found the jedi master on onderian or however u spell that,and now im stuck i dont know were else to go...he said like the jedi master on nah-shadar he will meet me at the old jedi enclave but when i go there nobodys there.... am i missing somthing were do i go next!??

Title: Help With Kotor 2 Please
Post by: Greevy on December 14, 2004, 07:38:00 PM

Couldn't it be a Cache related problem ?
Seems to be happening on different configurations and those "fixes" don't seem to fix it for everyone.

Title: Help With Kotor 2 Please
Post by: dj_malo on December 18, 2004, 06:00:00 PM

I may have the answear... I first got the blackscreen when the droid gets zapped. I saved just before the controlpanel where u press to open the something something... I got past by trying to access the console from different spots... It seemed to work for me when I stood very close to the conole and alittle to the right... I got past it! The game loaded and everything went ok until I acountered my second blackscreen at the swoop race. I tried speaking with the swoopdude from a different spot and the same thing happened here. IT WORKED! So I recommend u to save right before the blackscreen and try accessing the console/swoopguy from different angles.

PS: Don't give up! Try 10 different angles before u give in!

Hope it will work for u as it worked for me!