Does it work on Steam

[Perfectly Valid School of Magic]

I've heard there are a TON of problems with the Steam version of this game, like bugs and crashes. Is it any better, or should I look somewhere else for a copy (preferably somewhere trustworthy :D)?

[Oddballs]

I've never had an issue with it on steam myself, Cant speek for anyone else but its always worked for me.

[Perfectly Valid School of Magic]

That's easing. I just want to make sure it'll work before I spend money on it. It's just an issue of "will this game work and not have issues" and not 'will I like this game". I KNOW I'll like the game because I've plaed it before, on a disc. I can't anymore because it requires an older version of Windows which I no longer have, so that's why I'd need to buy it from here.

[¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

If I remember right it used to sometimes randomly crash, but I quick save every 5-10 minutes out of habit so it's never been a huge issue.My most recent play through I haven't had that happen

[Knights-Templar]

you can,t get of the first planet it will just crash every time

[cerberusiv]

Originally posted by Jurassic King:

It's just an issue of "will this game work and not have issues".

Both Kotor games usually work (I have 1 on disc and 2 on Steam) but not always without issues. There are fixes for most of the problems - check out the guides section here on Steam.

Both run under Win 10 but if you have a recent PC with a multi core CPU and/or a current graphics card it may be problematic and may simply be impossible to get running, older computers are generally OK.

Kotor is currently on sale so it is only a few pennies and if it won't work you should be able to get a refund up to 2 weeks and 2 hours gametime from purchase.

[Perfectly Valid School of Magic]

Originally posted by cerberusiv:

Originally posted by Jurassic King:

It's just an issue of "will this game work and not have issues".

Both Kotor games usually work (I have 1 on disc and 2 on Steam) but not always without issues. There are fixes for most of the problems - check out the guides section here on Steam.

Both run under Win 10 but if you have a recent PC with a multi core CPU and/or a current graphics card it may be problematic and may simply be impossible to get running, older computers are generally OK.

Kotor is currently on sale so it is only a few pennies and if it won't work you should be able to get a refund up to 2 weeks and 2 hours gametime from purchase.

I have KotoR 2 here and have never had issues with it, but I also haven't seen boatloads of negative reviews regarding crashes. The person right before you said it crashes after Taris, so that's cause for alarm.

[cerberusiv]

Originally posted by Jurassic King:

I have KotoR 2 here and have never had issues with it, but I also haven't seen boatloads of negative reviews regarding crashes. The person right before you said it crashes after Taris, so that's cause for alarm.

The usual reasons for that are a computer that doesn't like the in-game movies, which can be disabled (there are several movies on leaving Taris) or issues with opening the turret sequence. As I said, it will probably run, particularly if Kotor 2 works for you - but it is not 100% guaranteed to.

[Perfectly Valid School of Magic]

How does one disable the ingame movies?

[smallturns]

Amazon is where I got my none Steam version of this game but yes I think you might-of heard right their are still some programs with the Steam version that i'am actually noticing myself while I play the game and it is starting to really I mean really pis me the ♥♥♥♥ off ex since my CD version might be broken and or cracked but yea aside from beginning to hate Steam go on Amazon and buy it or any game you want there if you want.

[smallturns]

As for this other person I think you might half to go into either gameplay or graphics in setting when you click on options don't quite me on that but I think that's where you disable movies.
However if you just turn off fram buffering effects in graphic settings and manybe turn V=-Sync on the game should work for you or at=-less that's what someone said to me.

Hope this helped.

[Perfectly Valid School of Magic]

Originally posted by smallturns:

Amazon is where I got my none Steam version of this game but yes I think you might-of heard right their are still some programs with the Steam version that i'am actually noticing myself while I play the game and it is starting to really I mean really pis me the ♥♥♥♥ off ex since my CD version might be broken and or cracked but yea aside from beginning to hate Steam go on Amazon and buy it or any game you want there if you want.

The problem with that is I'd be buying a disc version and I already own a disc version; my computer just can't run it anymore.

[Perfectly Valid School of Magic]

Just as I had feared: it's crashing (well, minimizing) on start up. I can't get back in.

I don't speak tech so if there's a solution, can it please be dumbed down?

[cerberusiv]

Have a look at these.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=150685862

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=326825824

They go through the common fixes step by step.

[Perfectly Valid School of Magic]

I don't have a "swkotor.exe" file so these are of no use

[Perfectly Valid School of Magic]

Strange...it suddenly started working when I picked the launcher in the files of the game.