I've been trying to get this awesome game running perfectly in widescreen 1920x1080 for more than ten years now. Right now I'm on another new attempt and did a fresh install to test some new mods on my Windows 10 64bit .


Like many others, I've got some black screen issues with the fmv/movies left.

Looks like the game can't show the fullHD upscaled version of the intro fmv without me having to Alt+Tab back and forth once between game and desktop. Now, that's perhaps a minor problem, and I read in forums that it only happens with this intro movie and some other fmv later in the game, but I'm still annoyed by it and would like it gone.

The only way to prevent that black screen issue is to cut certain segments of the patch.ini of UniWS needed to make the game go widescreen before patching it. Then, game will run fine in 1080p, the intro after the character build gets played without issue, but the bik-videos will remain in 640x480 centered on screen with black bars around it.

It actually doesn't matter if I use the original low res movies or the upscaled HD versions, with full text of UniWS ini the intro will always stay black screen and I have to alt+tab out of the screen to make it restart and continue.

With shortened ini text both quality versions of the movie play without issue, but there will be no fullscreen depiction.

I did the hex edits for changing the video resolution myself on a fresh editable exe file, but as soon as I patch the swkotor.exe for 1920x1080 fmv display, the intro black screen problem sets in. Compatibility settings don't work either.

So, was anyone ever lucky and managed to make all videos display hassle-free with fullscreen fmvs and widescreen resolution?