Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Technical Problems

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So I got KOTOR2: The Sith Lords as an early Christmas gift, and buy, would this game ever be cool if only it worked!

  • 50% of the time a new level has to load, it doesn’t start loading, and it crashes.
  • 50% of reloads from saved games crash.
  • The game slows down the more you play it; after an hour it’s too slow to play, like running a big video game on an old computer.
  • The graphics are generally jumpy.

Is there something wrong with my copy of the game, or something wrong with my Xbox? And what do I do about it? Or is this game just a bug jar?

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I happen to know someone off-board who recently bought this. I’ma send this to him and see if he’s had any troubles…

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I haven’t had problems that extensive.

What I’ve had:

Three times, I’ve fallen through walls. Thankfully, each of the times I was able to fall back of out the wall, thus preventing me from losing everything back to the last save. But that doesn’t mean I’m happy and accepting of it.

After playing the game all day, my X-Box started to make serious chatter. Like the disc was skipping or something. But no actual detriment to game play.

During serious, multi-person combats, the game would occasionally slooooow down while it thought, then jump back to normal speeds.

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Just a quick plea for this thread to remain spoiler free for those still contemplating one whether or not to purchase this game. Thanks!

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  1. I had a corruupted save game my first time through (about 2 hours into it). After starting the game again (I could load the game, but soon as the next scene was supposed to load, nada), I started saving in 6 slots. Not all at once, just one time I would save in 1, then 2, et cetera. Of course, no such problems after I started that, and I am 3/4 through with my second (evil) campaign.

  2. I did have a freeze, but I suspect it was HW related. The Xbox is a $150 dollar PC, and some problems are to be expected. (See how low my expectations are?)

  3. Never had the slow-down problem. When I was searching forums for a solution to my corrupt save, I saw quite a few people were having the problem, but there was talk of DVD ‘lots’, and that the later lots shipped with a less-buggy version of the game. Dunno about that, but people are babbling about it.

I’ve played it for, uh, 14+ hours at a shot with nary a problem. Dunno if I am the exception or the rule, but maybe having a fresh Xbox* helps?

*On a unrelated note, the rear cooling fan on my 5 week old Xbox is starting to go. Nothing like getting into the game, enjoying the bad-ass music in the cantina at Onderon, when all of the sudden it sounds like a cat is being violated behind my component rack.

As for those contemplating whether to buy or not, fuck ya you should buy it. If Lucasarts is non-stupid, they will have Obsidian/Bioware spank out many more games for them, as they are among the few Star Wars games that don’t fucking suck. So buy it. Is good.

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Agreed! Please post spoilers in this thread instead:

KOTOR II: Please explain the ending to me.

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The only other Star Wars game that DIDN’T fucking suck was “TIE Fighter,” and how long ago was that?

I’ve sent an E-mail to Lucasarts. I’d say it’s the XBox, but every other game still works fine. Halo 2 runs like a top.

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I totally forgot about this. The Boy says he’s played it for 3 hours without incident. Could be your copy of the game - hopefully, because that seems the easiest to fix.