Graphics on Dantooine KotOR 1

[mxsuprastang]

I just bought an Nvidia 6800gs gfx card and I've never had a problem running dantooine on older cards, but o this one I can't hardly get through it without huge glitches, I even turned all my effects off and to minumum, no difference. I'm running the latest drivers from extreme-G. Any help?

[dede_frost]

I have the same problem, but I never found a solution

[Det. Bart Lasiter]

There's a sticky at the top of the forum that shows how to reduce the lag. You should also get the drivers from nVidia. ForceWare 84.21.

[mxsuprastang]

I had the nvidia drivers but they don't work as well. . .I will try again tho. . .

 

*Edit* Still doesn't work. . .on KotOR 1 or 2. . .what the heck, it CAN'T be my gfx card. I put the settings on all the way low and it still lags. . .

[Ztalker]

I have the same thing

 

If i play Taris on the highest options, it will run smoothly. Of i run Dantooine on lowest, i have a framrate from hell.

 

Dantooine is as good as unplayable

[RC-1162]

well, try switching off shadows and grass, i have a raedon 7000 card which is TOTALLY not supported by the game but the dantooine framerate is good.

[mxsuprastang]

yours works because it requires the older drivers. I've turned EVERYTHING off and to the lowest and it doesn't work. It's gotta be the driver support. many say that the nvidia drivers 77.8 (something around there) work perfect, but anywhere above that, dantooine basically won't play. My gfx card only supports drivers 8xx and up. so I'm screwed until they fix this problem with the drivers. It's not the card, every other level works beautifully.

[Darth333]

Did you try editing your .ini file? Check the Dantoine fix thing in the sticky about issues with ati cards. It seems that it works with nvidia too.

[Det. Bart Lasiter]

Unfortunately, the only other alternative to the *.ini fix is to get a 512 Mb video card. The *.ini edit reduces the lag on Dantooine, but if your willing to shell out some cash you can get rid of it completely with a 512 Mb card.

 

I wish BioWare would patch this game again. Making players choose between an unplayable or near-unplayable level (that's also mandatory to play through without a modification to the game) or shelling out $105 minimum isn't quite what one would expect from a company like BioWare. [/rant]

[mxsuprastang]

the fact that my 6600 ran the game fine and my 6800gs isn't on dantooine has to mean its a driver problem right? or can I just "un-update" the game?

 

*edit* just tried the .ini. fix and it didn't work.

[Det. Bart Lasiter]

No, if anything the 1.03 patch reduces the lag. Before that you were lucky to not have it crash on Dantooine. As for it being a driver issue, if the 84.21's didn't work, it's probably a hardware issue

[mxsuprastang]

how can it be hardware when so many others have the same problem with different hardware? plus, how can EVERY other high end game (BF2, HL2, CS:S, Far Cry) run on high settings and this level can't run on low? seems more like drivers than hardware. . .

[RC-1162]

get the Catalyst 6.something drivers, i believe you'll find a link in stinger's sticky. it worked wonders for me.

[ChAiNz.2da]

get the Catalyst 6.something drivers, i believe you'll find a link in stinger's sticky. it worked wonders for me.

More like a "miracle" if you could get ATI drivers to work on an nVidia card hehehe...

[mxsuprastang]

anyone else have any ideas?

[Ztalker]

Frankly, i played Dantooine with a Geforce FX 5700 videocard. It ran better then with my Ati Radeon X700.

 

So i bought the a cool videocard wich i can't play kotor 1 with...nice...

[mxsuprastang]

That's the only reason I think it's drivers, becuase the better the vid card, the better the fps, framerate the graphics. . . .period. UNLESS the firmware has problems

[Det. Bart Lasiter]

...Or the game has trouble rendering graphics with newer cards.

[RevanA4]

...Or the game has trouble rendering graphics with newer cards.

 

must be because I have the latest drive and have the hardest time playing KOTOR I with it

 

and mine is a Geforce 6200 256MB card.

 

it regesters in the config as not meeting the recomended specs O.o

 

I think it would require a new patch but bioware can make anymore

[Det. Bart Lasiter]

must be because I have the latest drive and have the hardest time playing KOTOR I with it

 

and mine is a Geforce 6200 256MB card.

 

it regesters in the config as not meeting the recomended specs O.o

 

I think it would require a new patch but bioware can make anymore

KotOR II told me my 7800 GTX 512s didn't meet the recommended specs

 

But yeah, I've seen people use newer cards and older cards with the same driver version; the older cards get better performance, but the downside is that they can't run the game on it's highest settings and keep that level of performance

[stingerhs]

well, after running some test with my new GF7800GS, i've, so far, been unable to duplicate the problem. i'm currently running the 84.43B FW's, and i've had no issues with running the game. if anything, the game runs a heck of a lot faster (i can now enable 8x AA and 16x AF simultaneously. )

[Ztalker]

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I did that too, and it looked very nice...to bad it will only work until Dantooine

[mxsuprastang]

where did you get the 84.43b drivers? And have you tested on dantooine?

[ChAiNz.2da]

where did you get the 84.43b drivers? And have you tested on dantooine?

http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_rel70betadriver.html

 

So far they work fine on my system.. though to be honest I only downloaded them for performance in Oblivion...

 

Probably couldn't hurt for Dantooine though.. again however the Dantooine lag was fixed for me using the ATI .ini hack with my nVidia card ("Disable Vertex Buffer Objects=1")

[mxsuprastang]

Yes but as I stated before, that .ini fix didn't work for me. I will try these new drivers at nzone when I get home tonight, time to go lay some tile! thanks for your help guys, lets hope this solves the problem cause when I'm happy. . .nothing else matters :-D.