Massive slowdown in KotOR 2 on Dantooine.

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I'm getting massive slowdown in KotOR 2 when you're outdoors on Dantooine?
I'm talking major unplayable slowdown. The bizarre thing is that it's
sporadic. I can get rind of if for a couple of minutes by going to advanced
graphics option and toggling FSAA. The rest of the game so far has run
fine.

Anyone else getting this problem.

My Specs:
Athlon 64 6200+
Radeon X850 XT graphics card
NForce 4 motherboard
Audigy 2 sound card
2GB DDR 400 RAM
RAID 0

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GFree wrote:
> Morgan Sales wrote:
>> I'm getting massive slowdown in KotOR 2 when you're outdoors on
>> Dantooine? I'm talking major unplayable slowdown. The bizarre thing
>> is that it's sporadic. I can get rind of if for a couple of minutes
>> by going to advanced graphics option and toggling FSAA. The rest of
>> the game so far has run fine.
>>
>> Anyone else getting this problem.
>>
>> *Radeon X850 XT graphics card*
>
> KotOR 2 (and the original IIRC) really don't like ATI cards.

I know that it prefers NVIDIA cards, but surly this can be happening in
every ATI card. It wouldn't have got past play testing. Assuming they did
play test it.

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What are your settings?Both in Nvidea control panel and in-game. I was at
1024x768 at the mining station and framerate went down to the teens in the
fuel statiion. Had to switch to 800x600. I aslo have a 5900. And an
A64 2800+ and 512M ram.
"shadows" <shadows@whitefang.com> wrote in message
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> On 2005-02-13, Morgan Sales <morgan.salesDIESPAMMER@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > I'm getting massive slowdown in KotOR 2 when you're outdoors on
Dantooine?
> > I'm talking major unplayable slowdown. The bizarre thing is that it's
> > sporadic. I can get rind of if for a couple of minutes by going to
advanced
> > graphics option and toggling FSAA. The rest of the game so far has run
> > fine.
> >
> > Anyone else getting this problem.
> >
> > My Specs:
> > Athlon 64 6200+
> > Radeon X850 XT graphics card
>
> That's your problem. No slowdowns at all and I have a Geforce FX 5900.
>

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shadows wrote:
> On 2005-02-14, dawg <don't> wrote:
>> What are your settings?Both in Nvidea control panel and in-game. I
>> was at 1024x768 at the mining station and framerate went down to the
>> teens in the fuel statiion. Had to switch to 800x600. I aslo have a
>> 5900. And an
>> A64 2800+ and 512M ram.
>
> I'm running 1280x1024x85 and in-game I have AA at 4x, AF at 2x,
> vsync off. Some parts hit 25-30 fps (which I consider low for 85
> hrtz) and this is usually when I encounter smoke.
>
> Usually I'm at50-60 fps which is perfect. I get this especially
> on-board a ship. Lightsabre combat looks fantastic.

The slowdown thing (at least for me) isn't a normal performance issue. The
game normally runs smooth will all setting maxed out. However when out
doors on Dantoonie it will start off fine for a short while then grind to a
halt. It's got to be a bug. You're may well be right about it only
manifesting it's self on ATI cards though.

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DevNull wrote:
> Try adding the following line to your kotor2.ini
>
> [Graphic options]
>
> Disable Vertex Buffer Objects=1
>
> This workaround seems to help most people who experienced this
> problem. It is a game-bug related to ATI-Cards.

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

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