KOTOR II help?

[Captain2]

normally I would ask this kind of question to the KOTOR II forums or the company, but after trying that and getting no response I have been beaten back to here as my last hope....

okay recently I bought Knights of the Old Republic 2 and installed it, however it wasnt working so I tried to uninstall it, didnt work

I was then advised to try uninstalling it manually, did a search, deleted all game files I could find, deleted it from my start menu and deleted the icon

now when I tried to install it agian it seems to think I still have it installed, another search brings up nothing...

any ideas how to get it totally off my computer?

 

[GarretSidzaka]

first go to add/remove programs in the control panel, and find the game and remove it through there. then go to Program Files directory on your C: hard drive and press shift-delete with the Lucas Arts folder selected (be careful what you delete)

that technically should remove most of it

 

[Captain2]

alright I deleted it all and it worked

however, reinstalled it and it refuses to play, check my details and it gave me all checkmarks

what I do is click on it and tell it to start, nothing happens, left it for two hours and then came back, still nothing

I then turned off the computer and while shutting down it had to close KOTOR II despite never starting it up

 

[Synobun]

Just a question, do you have Folding@Home running while trying to play it?

 

[Captain2]

not that i know of....

name sounds familiar but i dont imagine i'd have it running

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

If you don't think you have Folding running, you probably don't - you have to download and set up the thing yourself.

Folding at Home

And enough advertising

 

[Captain2]

uh huh.... so it would have nothing to do with anything?

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Absolutely nothing - in fact the worst it seems to do to me was stop the games from starting up, which has nothing to do with your problem. I was just commenting on D.Highland's post.

On topic then - I take it you've tried googling and searching KOTOR websites, particularly ones that have technical help forums? I've had remarkable success in solving game problems through random searches.

 

[Captain2]

yep... i got the game a month ago, asked them the same problems and got nothing

finally during a moment of boredom i found the disk and decided that its stupid to throw $30 down the toilet...

sadly enough I havent gotten a reply yet from anyone at their own forums

 

[Synobun]

It's an odd issue, and Folding@Home is known to cause problems with some games (Hence my first post).

Anyways, are you sure your graphic settings are correct?

 

[Captain2]

should be...

it also said all my system stuff would work, ran a check and it gave me all greens

 

[Synobun]

Here's another thing you should try:

Reinstall the game without a firewall. And try to play it without a firewall.

That goes for AntiVirus too.

It's happened to me before. (Specifically KOTOR I, but might be same issue)

 

[Captain2]

sadly enough i've already done that....

it was messing up another game i had

 

[Captain2]

alright.... I asked the yodas help desk and got a reply saying

This error occurs when there is a conflict with the copy protection for the
program and some disk emulation software installed and active on your system.
You should temporarily disable any CD drive emulation software.(Alcohol 120%,
CloneCD, Nero, Daemon Tools) The program will not run with emulation software
running. Please turn off any emulation software (unmount any virtual drives) and
restart the system, then run the program.

however I have no clue how to do anything when it comes to that.... little help with translation? or even how I do that?

 

[Rheinmetall]

If you have no clue what disk emulation software is, you probably don't have any installed. That doesn't mean it still couldn't be a copy protection issue.

 

[GarretSidzaka]

well, im gonna assumed that you bought this game, so i dont know why it would say that about the error message. first shut off all of the firewalls and crap, then go to Start Menu-->Run... then type there MSCONFIG. learn this program before you ever apply the settings though, cause it could really screw up your computer if you use it wrong.

 

[Rheinmetall]

Did you patch the game after installing?

 

[Captain2]

yep....

and with the MSCONFIG I cant find anything that looks like I should turn it off... turns out I dont have nero

 

[Synobun]

Hmm, try doing ALT - CTRL - DLT, and then go to Processes. Shut down all the processes which are programs (ONLY PROGRAMS). Try it then.

 

[Captain2]

alright... how can you tell the difference between programs and other?