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Hey Brad,

10.3.9 was just released. Do you know if this update is Kotor and 9200 Mobility friendly?

Thanks,
Fabio

NightCougar_37 wrote:

Still crashes with grass enabled in the same area. But after first trying it, seems like performance might just be a lil better. I havent ran it much yet but, looks like Brad was right about the X.3.9.

I haven't tried it under 10.3.9 yet, but I was told a few days ago that 10.3.9 would not have any driver updates from ATI or nVidia. That's not to say that OpenGL itself didn't get updated some, so perhaps there are some improvements that bring KOTOR performance back in line with 10.3.7. If anyone notices an improvement, please let me know.

As for the crash, I've been working with ATI and Apple about that the past few days. No workaround yet other than to disable grass, but we're getting closer to the root cause.

Yeah, even on my brothers PC Dantooine runs terrible. When I look at the map, then go back to the game it goes to horrible framerates. If I save, then load that save game, it usually goes back to playable framerates though.

Hey Jeap, I do a stupido

There is a switch characters button in KOTOR2 which will let you change the save games. So go ahead and knock yourself out in KOTOR2.

Guess I should have read the manual but I was used to KOTOR soo much that I didn't mess with it much.

It figures...  So NOW I find this old thread!  I guess I'm not entirely alone! 

Well, the Dantooine problems still exist with 10.4.3 and my machine is well over the minimum requirements...

I just got KOTOR and it seems to run fine on my Ibook 1.33ghz with 768 and osx 10.3.9 the newest ibook before the switch to intel,

but im only on the the first planet and iv heard bad things about whats to come is there any
suggestions.. i have down-loaded the patch already, i guess im wondering if i sould do this down grading thing i hear so much about, before i get totaly addicted to the game ...

anything to make my KOTOR gaming easier would a great help.
id rather get it fixed now before it comes to me throwing the compurt out the window.

Thanks MACneill

Last edited by MACneill (2006-02-14 8:24 am)

The bright side is that there is almost zero performance loss by jacking up all the settings to maximum.  I'm serious.  As long as you're playing with crappy performance, you might as well turn the pretty on.

DudetheCreator wrote:

MACneill wrote:

I just got KOTOR and it seems to run fine on my Ibook 1.33ghz with 768 and osx 10.3.9 the newest ibook before the switch to intel,

but im only on the the first planet and iv heard bad things about whats to come is there any
suggestions.. i have down-loaded the patch already, i guess im wondering if i sould do this down grading thing i hear so much about, before i get totaly addicted to the game ...

anything to make my KOTOR gaming easier would a great help.
id rather get it fixed now before it comes to me throwing the compurt out the window.

Thanks MACneill

I just got a 12" 1.33ghz iBook with 1gig of ram and the Radeon 9500 (32mb).

It still runs horrible.  Yes it's patched.  Yes, it is better than before.  But honestly, how can a game with a mediocre graphics engine on *lowest* detail not achieve at least continued smooth gameplay.

Oh well.

I dunno. . . KotR has a whole lotta stuff to render (specially in outdoor scenes) for a 32MB card; doesn't matter how un-detailed the graphics are if you still have to draw all those shapes.

_Nik