Kotor 2 won't even start up

[DeadYorick]

Alright all of the sudden I decide to play Kotor 2 and suddenly it doesn't even start up. Every time I click on GAME in the launcher the screen fades to black and gives me this error message "Starwars Knights of the old republic 2 has encountered a problem and has to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

 

Now I have reinstalled this game 3 times. I have tried almost every trick I know. Including updating it to the latest version. But that doesn't work either.

 

Here are my system specs

 

[sWKotOR]

ReportDateTime=8/10/2008 3:20:17 PM

SysInfoVersion=v1.00.60

GameExists=1

GameVersion=v2.10.427

GameInstallLocation=H:\Kotor 2\

 

[OS]

Name=WinXP

Version=Windows XP v5.1 build 2600 Service Pack 2

Service Pack=Service Pack 2

Status=Pass

 

[swapFiles]

C:\pagefile.sys=1536

 

[CPU]

CPUCount=1

CPUSpeed=2660

CPUFamily=15

CPUModel=4

CPUStepping=7

CPUVendor=Intel

CPUName= Intel® Pentium® D CPU 2.66GHz

Status=Pass

 

[Memory]

RAM=2048

Status=Pass

 

[Disk Free Space]

C: (NTFS), UNICODE=38.62GB

D: (NTFS), UNICODE=51.42GB

H: (NTFS), UNICODE=242.58GB

Status=Pass

 

[CD-ROMs]

DriveLetters=E:\,F:\,G:\

Drives=HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H10A

 

[Video]

Video Card Name=NVIDIA GeForce 6200 TurboCache

Video Memory=256

Desktop Resolution=1360x768x32 @ 60Hz

DirectX=DirectX 9.0c (4.09.00.0904)

OpenGL Version=1.5.3

OpenGL Vendor=NVIDIA Corporation

OpenGL Renderer=GeForce 6200 TurboCache/PCI/SSE2

NVidia Driver=6.14.10.7124

Vid Card Status=Pass

Vid Card Driver Status=Pass

GL Status=Pass

DX Status=Pass

 

[Audio]

Sound Card Name=SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio

Status=Pass

 

 

;Game Options from swkotor2.ini

 

[Display Options]

FullScreen=1

Disable Movies=0

Disable Intro Movies=0

Sort Modules=1

Width=640

Height=480

BitsPerPixels=32

RefreshRate=60

 

[sound Options]

Number 3D Voices=30

Number 2D Voices=64

2D3D Bias=1.50

EAX=2

Sound Init=0

Disable Sound=0

Force Software=0

 

[Graphics Options]

EnableHardwareMouse=1

FullScreen=0

RefreshRate=60

Width=1280

Height=960

V-Sync=0

Texture Quality=2

Anti Aliasing=0

 

[Game Options]

Disable Movies=1

 

[config]

firstrun=0

 

[ChAiNz.2da]

If it's any consolation mine does the same thing now

 

I haven't trouble-shooted it much since I'm changing systems here soon.. however I have a sneaking suspicion it has to do with Suck-Urom 7 (Securom 7)

 

It seems to happen everytime I use a cd/DVD writer drive in order to attempt to play the game (installs fine).. but I took out my normal drive (non burning) weeks ago so I can't test out the theory.

 

If you have such a device, might try running it on that drive for giggles. I know it's how I 'used' to get it to work.

[DeadYorick]

Never mind I got it to work. I restarted my computer and reinstalled Kotor 2 one last time and it worked properly.