At this point, the frustration I've encountered trying to get both KOTOR and KOTOR2 to run correctly in widescreen have caused me to not want to even bother anymore. I'll focus here on KOTOR2 because I'd love to pay it with the restored content mod, but I cannot for the life of me get widescreen to function correctly. And honestly? i don't care.

I can't even get the image to stretch to fil the whole screen, even with the catalyst control center or whatever its equivalent is on any of the 3 machines I've tried it on. Just 2 resolution options,in game, both of which occupy a small box at the center of the screen, The closest I came to getting it to run in some kind of full screen mode was to change the ini file to 1280 x 768 and deal with black spaces at the sides of the screen. Which was actually fine. I'm not a purist, I don't care if my little jedi and all his friends are weird and fat, just please game, exist in some form other than a tiny square in the center of my laptop! The problem is that that "fix" only worked on a computer whose max resolution was at 1280, and I've since given it away. Trying it on the laptop I'm current;y typing on led to a slightly larger box at the center of the screen.

Have to stop here and apologize, I'm not particularly tech savvy and dont know which words to best articulate my problem so sorry if it seems vague.

tldr: How the hell do I just get the damn image to stretch, in all it's misshapen ugly glory, across my frickin computer screen???? No fixes, no patches, no downloads....? This is the only game I've ever encountered that refuses to stretch the image to a 16:9 screen. Catalyst options are set to full screen scaling, not centered. I would have thought that would do the trick.

There's a patch that allows you to play the game in a custom widescreen resolution without stretching.
Take a look here, it contains all the info you need, including the patch:
http://www.wsgf.org/dr/star-wars-knights-old-republic-ii-sith-lords#
Let us know if you encounter problems.

The options menu in KOTOR2 does not have a setting for 1280x960, which is what the patch calls for as a custom resolution. My only selectable resolutions are 800x600 and 1024x768.

as to KOTOR 1 - try the flawless widescreen program as described in the sticky

Flawless widescreen for KOTOR1 did work for me, but for some reason only once. After that I couldnt get the same results even with what I perceived to be the same steps (obviously there must have been something there that I was doing wrong) but ultimately again, I'd rather skip the frustration of resolution fixes and just play it scaled to the size of my screen.

It sounds crazy to most people for some reason (core gamers in particular) but I just don't really care about the hassle of downloading 3rd party software to modify the games, especially when either I'm too dumb or my systems are too odd to perform them correctly in the first place.

Ever since I downloaded kotor for steam years ago and had the same problem I've been searching far and wide for the answer to one question: why won't these games stretch the image like every other game does when I have my video options set to scale to full screen? That's been the burning topic in my head for years...not "how to get it to look right" but "why won't it just look shitty like I wanted in the first place?"

HEHEH!

Well, I'm sorry I can't help you any more than that it seems - but its good to see you have some humour in your quest of frustration at least! :D

Why would you want to stretch your image? That's horrible!
It's the same with the somewhat United Stares-unique hate for black bars, they often rather stretch the image to another aspect ratio instead of simply accepting that it has to be the way it is.

Anyway, if your installation of KotOR II won't offer you the option of 1280x960, you could try to set this resolution manually in the game's configuration file.

And you could try to change the way of scaling in the Catalyst Control Center, by setting "Use graphics processor for scaling" instead of "Use display for scaling", or vice versa.

Indeed. I will never understand why would people prefer to play or see anything deformed.

It's not so much WANTING to stretch the image...it's that widescreen fixes don't work properly and I would assume that the image would scale if I have it set to scale. The problem is that it doesn't. Not just black bars either, it's a small window at the center of the screen. Very unusual. KOTOR2 wasn't showing me the correct resolution option to use the fix, and KOTOR1 is a bitch to try to get that damn widescreen program to work the right way.

In other totally related news, I bought the woman in my life both games in the last humble bundle...they fill out her screen, although the black bars are still there. I was jealous, but the jokes on her...I just bought a new computer and FINALLY was able to get KOTOR2 running with the widescreen fix. I am a very happy boy. KOTOR1 can still get effed. Why does it run right on my CELL PHONE but not on my 2000 dollar laptop??? intentionally stupid question please dont answer

Lots of good information here:

[url=]http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_Knights_of_the_Old_Republic_II_%E2%80%93_The_Sith_Lords[/url]

In my honest, humble, opinion; widescreen is over-rated and not worth it on these games.

I play both KOTOR games at 800x600 resolution with the black bars, on a 16:9 1080p monitor with a GTX 970 :D

I find that older games look better at lower resolutions due to the low resolution textures of older games and low polygon count. To each their own though. Just my 2 cents.

Edit: Sorry for the necro, wasn't paying attention to dates...