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Star Wars™: Knights of the Old Republic seriesKotOR 2 crashes after character creation(28 posts)(28 posts)
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Posted June 12, 2015
It's as the title says. I can launch the game and create a character, but when I click play the game crashes after a loading screen. I own all three versions (this, Steam, and the original retail with like five discs.) and have had this problem with the Steam version as well. I haven't tried the retail but I doubt it would help anything. I tried installing TSLRCM to no avail. I also disabled my widescreen fix to no avail. I'm running Windows 7 64 bit with an ATI GPU on the latest drivers. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Posted June 12, 2015
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Fixed my self by disabling frame buffer effects.
Posted June 14, 2015
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4gateftw: Fixed my self by disabling frame buffer effects.
Thank you. Did the same and the game now works. The only thing that made this game playable to me... Kreia, here I come, once more...
Posted June 30, 2015
Same for me, only way to make it work, but after disabling frame buffer effects i had a black screen but the game was still running, had to quit using sound to know where click and then re start. Now every change in graphism option give me a black screen ! But the game works ^^
so thanks !
Post edited June 30, 2015 by flowright-fye
Posted August 18, 2015
Where do I find the Frame Buffer?
Posted August 18, 2015
options/graphics/advanced options/frame buffer effects
Posted August 21, 2016
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alcaray: options/graphics/advanced options/frame buffer effects
same issue but i cant select frame buffer
Posted August 21, 2016
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alcaray: options/graphics/advanced options/frame buffer effects
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maxpowers25: same issue but i cant select frame buffer
You can try editing your swkotor.ini file. Set "frame buffer = 1" to "0" (or vice versa, depending on what you find when you look at it).

However, when the game does not offer you options to change settings, then that means the game does not think your rig has the ability to make use of that option. So often, doing it manually has no effect. Still worth a try.

What kind of PC and graphics card are we talking about?
Posted April 28, 2017
KotOR II (Star Wars - Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords) *still does not work*

I have tried *everything*, from making changes in the .ini file to cancelling frame buffer effects.

I have also tried running it as administrator.

I have also tried changing the affinity (from the Processes tab of the Task Manager).

****These are just examples of what I tried****.

I am running Windows 7, 64 bit.

Stilll, the game does not work.

IMPORTANT: By "the game does not work" I mean that it crashes right after character creation.

I have also tried renaming the .bik files.

And so on.

I play games old and new on my computer, so I really don't think it is my computer that is the problem.

I have also tried downloading varios patches for KotOR 2. Still nothing.

Any good advice please? PLEASE?
Post edited April 28, 2017 by costrav
Posted May 04, 2017
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4gateftw: Fixed my self by disabling frame buffer effects.
Hey, thanks for this. Got my game to work now.
Posted August 12, 2017
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4gateftw: It's as the title says. I can launch the game and create a character, but when I click play the game crashes after a loading screen. I own all three versions (this, Steam, and the original retail with like five discs.) and have had this problem with the Steam version as well. I haven't tried the retail but I doubt it would help anything. I tried installing TSLRCM to no avail. I also disabled my widescreen fix to no avail. I'm running Windows 7 64 bit with an ATI GPU on the latest drivers. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
swkotor.ini fix worked- turning off frame buffer (changed 1 to 0). Thanks all!
Posted September 24, 2017
Disabling frame buffer effects fixed this problem for me as well, in both KOTOR1 and 2.

Windows 8 ATI GPU system.

Maybe this should be added to the sticky list of fixes for this game?
Posted November 11, 2017
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4gateftw: Fixed my self by disabling frame buffer effects.
I created this account just to thank everyone who gave the frame buffer advice.

I've been trying to get this game to work on Windows 8.1 forever, and was nearly giving up, but this did the trick.

For those of you still having trouble running the game at higher resolutions, I'd recommend checking out Flawless Widescreen, and following its instructions as well.
Posted November 16, 2017
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costrav: KotOR II (Star Wars - Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords) *still does not work*

I have tried *everything*, from making changes in the .ini file to cancelling frame buffer effects.

I have also tried running it as administrator.

I have also tried changing the affinity (from the Processes tab of the Task Manager).

****These are just examples of what I tried****.

I am running Windows 7, 64 bit.

Stilll, the game does not work.

IMPORTANT: By "the game does not work" I mean that it crashes right after character creation.

I have also tried renaming the .bik files.

And so on.

I play games old and new on my computer, so I really don't think it is my computer that is the problem.

I have also tried downloading varios patches for KotOR 2. Still nothing.

Any good advice please? PLEASE?
Do you have an Integrated Graphics system (i.e., the pc has no extra graphics card, e.g., an old laptop without a GPU)?

I managed to work around this problem, but not with the GOG version.

(I'm still working to resolve this, but not in any timely fashion, as I can play the game with my European retail copy, patched to US — the GOG version seems to be the US commercial release — and with the lost content added via the TSLRCM, a third-party mod that restores the content which had been cut from the final version owing to a lack of time to finish the game before its Christmas release).
Posted December 19, 2017
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4gateftw: Fixed my self by disabling frame buffer effects.
Worked like a charm! I think I'm still gonna have to find a save beyond the hangar turret section unless GOG patched that if there is even patch for that bug. Strange that the Xbox version didn't suffer from that...
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