HELP for KOTOR2 vista "invalid Registry/INI"
 

Hello Gentlemen

I've made this account because I'm in desperate need of your help!
I've just brought the KOTOR collection yesterday (CD) Which contains both KOTOR 1 and 2 both only 1 disc.
I can get none of them to work. After reading several guides and watching lots of youtube videos I've managed to install the game properly. Note I'm only interested in playing KOTOR2

I'm using vista 32 bit.
My issue is I simply cannot apply either the 1.0a or 1.0b patches. If i try to start the game as it is, nothing happens and I'm forced to close the process or get my cd out of the comp.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwEZlal8yb8

I've tried everything it says in following video.
I've tried both the UK patch notes and the US ones. I'm living in Denmark, Scandinavia.
Please help!

The KotOR collection should be patched already and compatible with Vista/7.

Well..
 

Obv they aren't or then there's something else wrong. Every time I start up the game, nothing simply happens. I can hear my cd working inside my computer and a cd icon which rotates also appear at my cursor for about 10 sec. But afterwards nothing happens. No window, no nothing. If i open up the task manager, I can see there's a process there with the name...

All of those installation guides apply to the original disk versions of these games. If you followed them while installing that new version, you likely messed up more than you fixed.

point is i couldnt start the game to begin, right after the download. So I had to try something. Is it possible that there isnt a solution to this problem? I've even tried to completely uninstall the game (using revouninstall for example) and install it and try. Always same outcome. Nothing happens.

Have you tried installing it without following the guides?

EDIT: WAITAMINUTE. Download? What download? I thought you said this was on a disk.

Well, yes ofc. I tried to install as I would with any game and suddenly noticed this worked differently. Was a typo, I meant installation. Im not using a crack or something, I can take a picture and upload it :D

A couple of things you could try from the guide are the Vista fix and the Dantooine lag fix:
They shouldn't mess up a normal installation on their own.

Beyond that you might as well contact LucasArts customer service because I know next to nothing about the changes that they made to the collection.

Yeah, you shouldn't have added any patches, they should be up to date. If you did that, I would recommend uninstalling and a clean install. What was it doing to not work BEFORE you added the patches?

Uhm
 

I takes a war to explain this kind of matter, and I'm not even sure they will understand or have a solution on this matter. As I'm not a native english speaker.

Obi-wan bologona: I was never able to apply any patches so I didnt. Well as I already said, nothing simply happens when I try to run the game. The game never "pops".

Is your game English?

I dont know exactly if its from the UK or US, but it is in english yes.

http://postimage.org/image/oh60cw70n/aa28a790/

My game which I bought yesterday..

OK, this might just be a Vista problem. Vista is notoriously finicky; a lot more so than 7. I don't even know if this option is available to you, but if it is, it could be informative. Try using the game's configuration utility to post your system specs:
You can leave out the keymapping and everything after that.

I do not have that option in my launcher im afraid : /

If the "configure" option is not available from the launcher, try finding "swconfig.exe" in the game folder and running it as an administrator.

There isnt no such thing either
http://postimage.org/image/r2dbopr3t/4fbe8588/
This is what i got

Oh, crap. :(

Unfortunately, that's all I've got. Try contacting LucasArts support. I didn't have to wait very long when I tried, though that was many moons ago.

Good luck. :)

You think it would help if I bought the game though steam?

Forsaken place called the earth..
 

Ok im getting tired and frustrated..

I bought the game 3 days ago, tried everything possible except for dual booting maybe. NOTHING worked.
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Then I bought the freaking game on steam, guess what? Didnt work!

I went to today, and contacted lucas arts support despite 8 hours time difference I managed to get though. They couldnt help me, they directed me to another phone number, I called the other company which seemed to be a department dealing with SWTOR (multiplayer), obv they had nothing to do with it, so they couldnt help me either. They told me to contact Obsidian, turned out Obsidian have finanial issues so they do not even have a customer support you can contact.

What do I do now? No solutions work, nobody can help me, and it all seems to be big joke.

Depends on how much it is.

What are your computer's specs, by the way?

Its an acer aspire 7730 g

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Acer-As...G.11118.0.html

Ugh, hybrid power. :dozey:

That's likely the cause of your problems. Your laptop has both discrete and integrated graphics, and it switches from one to the other depending on what programs you're running to save power. In doing so, it's probably confusing the hell out of the game.

Dunno if it has anything to do with it, but my power options are set to maximum performance, and I've never had problems like these before.

KotOR 2 is an old game, using the same engine from an even older game. Disabling hybrid power might do the trick.

The best thing to do would be to uninstall the game, disable hybrid power following these instructions. While you're in the BIOS, I would also look around in the menus to see if there's any way to disable the integrated 9100M GPU so that you're only running off the 9600M GT all of the time. Then I'd reinstall the game.



EDIT: Scratch that; there doesn't seem to be a way to disable it in your BIOS. You may have to set up a profile in your Nvidia control panel. Other than that, I have no idea what else to do. :giveup: