How To Pass Black Screen In Kotor Ii, Playing KotOR II from the HDD. Options

[majinangel]

i had some more serious problems. like after after a while i can't speak to Kreia, Visas, Mira, Mandalore, Goto, Remote the only i can speak to is Atton and Bao-dur.


i press de dialog button but it doesn't work. i do see them turn around to face me but they don't say anything. and imagine having the black screen problem troughout the whole game , i did discover a patron, after every five save's it happens but it's solved very easy just press start and load the fifth savegame .

P.S. I already killed Visas's master the one with the red mask, now i'm trying to beat Lord Sion and Darth Treia (Kreia) . too hard

[seddoc]

Alright.
How to pass the black screen that got me past.

Setting TSR to Debug &
In game reset to No,
Did the job.

Get through and save.

Thanks for previous posts

This post has been edited by seddoc: Jan 28 2005, 02:30 AM

[chefelf]

I ran into this problem as well. I tried the original disc and found that that worked perfectly. Then two things happened: 1) the length of the load times quadrupled and 2) I was annoyed that I was "giving up" by using my original disc.

To test, I created and burned an ISO onto DVD-R and found that the backup DVD worked perfectly as well. I then began poking around the game files I'd FTP'ed to my PC and I discovered the "swdirsXbox.ini" file that was previously mentioned here.

This is the original INI file from the game as it appears on the original game disc:

Original "swdirsXbox.ini" file from KotOR II

CODE

[Alias]
HD0=d:\
OVERRIDE=d:\Override
ERRORTEX=d:\Errortex
TEMP=z:\Temp
MODULES=d:\Modules
LOGS=t:\Logs
LOCALVAULT=d:\LocalVault
DMVAULT=d:\DMVault
SERVERVAULT=d:\ServerVault
STREAMMUSIC=d:\STREAMMusic
TEMPCLIENT=z:\Tempclient
SAVES=u:\
CURRENTGAME=z:\currentgame
TEXTUREPACKS=d:\texturepacks
STREAMWAVES=d:\StreamWaves
GAMEINPROGRESS=z:\GAMEINPROGRESS
REBOOTDATA=z:\rebootdata
LIPS=d:\Lips

As you can It references the "d:" directory many times. I figured, why not change those instances to the actual game directory when running from the HDD?

So I revised the file by replacing each mention of d: with f:\games\Star Wars KotOR II. The latter is the directory you are most likely copying to. This will be the directory that 99% of people have backed up to. If you backed up elsewhere, you will obviously have to change to the appropriate game directory.

The resulting INI file should look like this:

Modified "swdirsXbox.ini" file from KotOR II

CODE

[Alias]
HD0=f:\games\Star Wars KotOR II
OVERRIDE=f:\games\Star Wars KotOR II\Override
ERRORTEX=f:\games\Star Wars KotOR II\Errortex
TEMP=z:\Temp
MODULES=f:\games\Star Wars KotOR II\Modules
LOGS=t:\Logs
LOCALVAULT=f:\games\Star Wars KotOR II\LocalVault
DMVAULT=f:\games\Star Wars KotOR II\DMVault
SERVERVAULT=f:\games\Star Wars KotOR II\ServerVault
STREAMMUSIC=f:\games\Star Wars KotOR II\STREAMMusic
TEMPCLIENT=z:\Tempclient
SAVES=u:\
CURRENTGAME=z:\currentgame
TEXTUREPACKS=f:\games\Star Wars KotOR II\texturepacks
STREAMWAVES=f:\games\Star Wars KotOR II\StreamWaves
GAMEINPROGRESS=z:\GAMEINPROGRESS
REBOOTDATA=z:\rebootdata
LIPS=f:\games\Star Wars KotOR II\Lips

After modifying the file the game worked perfectly. No black screen, no getting stuck as the broken T3 droid.

I hope this fix helps you out. I'm going to go back to the game now.

This post has been edited by chefelf: Feb 8 2005, 06:37 PM

[chefelf]

Just realized this is in the "Game Hacking" forum. I think this one is better suited to the "Backup Forum" as the only real "hacking" is in getting it to work properly.

Moved.

[NemesisRX]

Ok i have tried everything and nothing works. I changed the value in the ini file from 0 to 1. I tired running in debug mode. I tried using different angles. I used chefelfs method. I tried unequipping everything. Nothing works. Anyone figure anything else out to try?

[chefelf]

I posted the fix here: http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=355253

Closing this topic.