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Iriaz. Another RC-K1CP update is almost ready, and as per tradition I would release an update, add something completely obscure, and then I'll get the endless moaning of "where's the Outcast Children and where are the Iriaz" instead of "wow, I sure do love the restored line from that one NPC I didn't even pay attention to". Well, you can all stop moaning... for now, for one of those things that you guys just love to complain about is actually being added in the next update! But no Outcast Children just yet... But when that update does come out I may or may not announce it with this: So, how do Iriaz work in RC-K1CP? Well, I believe in K1R the Iriaz would walk around the map and follow certain way point directions similar to how some Kath Hounds behave, however, the Iriaz will largely wander around aimlessly as the left over Iriaz .UTC file in the Sandrale Estate exterior module was programmed to do just that. Instead of just "walking around" doing nothing the Iriaz will do something... and it's going to be an absolute bloodbath as you journey across the Dantooine planes now. When you enter a Dantooine module, somewhere in that module there will be Iriaz and Kath Hounds fighting each other. Sometimes an Iriaz may take down a Kath Hound or two, but more often than not the Kath Hounds always wipe out the Iriaz. Of course, that happens without Player intervention. Through Player intervention it can be possible for you to save some of the doomed Iriaz, however, simply standing around and letting the Iriaz get mowed down will in-fact chip down some of the Kath Hounds health so there is some benefit to letting them die. And of course, the Iriaz will also be attacked by Mandalorians. In lore, the Iriaz are docile and can get 'provoked' into aggression, and combined with the pre-existing warrior lore of the Mandalorians it does in-fact make sense for these two groups to be fighting. I have taken measures to try and make sure that Iriaz herds are not too close to Mandalorians so there shouldn't be too many instances of Mandalorians being led away from their group by rogue Iriaz's or something stupid like Sherruk running after an Iriaz and leaving his men to die. Now, K1R does have a bug wherein the Iriaz actually break that one cutscene with the Mandalorian and the "wife and children" bit. I have made it so that the Iriaz in that particular area are hostile to the Player meaning they should not break that cutscene and the Player will be able to kill some of these Iriaz themselves. Again, they are "docile" and not "friendly" and so it makes sense why some would want to kill you when others would rather fight Kath Hounds. There is a bug where the Iriaz stand completely still for about five to ten seconds before their AI kicks in, here is an example of this: Here is when their AI kicks in: And this is the result when the Player lets them die: As you can see, despite being outnumbered the Kath Hounds still win the fight. Since this is near Bolook his line "there are plenty of Iriaz around" now makes sense as you literally either just saw a bunch of Iriaz die or saved them and now they're roaming about nearby. I do not yet have screenshots of the Player being attacked by Iriaz, however, I do plan to add screenshots of restored content for the main mod page so I may add them there when this update is finally ready. Now that the one thing you all wanted is out, time for the obscure garbage no one cares about (this list may not be complete/some of it you may recognize if you ever played my ancient K1GI mod from back in the day/some of it may not be added if I can't get it to work flawlessly): * Restored an unused civilian dialogue for one of the male patrons of the Lower City Cantina. * Restored the "search database for planetary launch codes" option for all the Sith Base terminals, this will always fail as the Governor has them. * The Receptionist Terminal, the Computer Terminal, and the Control Center Terminal now have three unique interactions. The Receptionist Terminal offers almost no real benefits besides upload area schematics. The Computer Terminal offers most functions except for open elevator, disable assault droid shield, and overload power conduit. The Control Center Terminal has every function available. * The Hangar Terminal and the Barracks Terminal now have two unique interactions. The Hangar Terminal has no actual function besides the ability to disable the Hangar Security whilst the Barracks Terminal has all the functions except the ability to disable the Hangar Security. * You can now download the Ebon Hawk codes via the Barracks terminal, allowing you to bypass Hudrow. * Restored the cut door model for Davik's Hangar. * You can now attempt to open the Hangar Bay doors via the terminals in the Prison Block and Command Deck, this'll always fail. * You can now overload the power conduit in the Sith Trooper barracks in the Prison Block, this is an alternative to starting a prison riot and then gassing both the Sith and the prisoners. * You'll now have to unlock the Elevator after rescuing the Player. * The Command Deck terminal will now mention the Bridge lockdown before you login. This'll be removed when you open the Hangar doors and the lockdown is lifted. * You can no longer unlock all security doors on the Command Deck as options to unlock specific doors have been restored. * You can now attempt to open the Bridge Security Door, this'll always fail. * You can now use the Command Deck terminal to discover that you can use a Space Suit to access the airlock to bypass the Bridge Security Door. * You can no longer return to the Prison Block if the Hangar is open. That's all for today, please let me know what you think!

Good job as always, N-DReW25! I have a suggestion about the restored door. It's an interesting restoration, but I find the two additional panels to the right quite bizarre. Could they be removed in favor of just purple background? I am looking forward to this new version.

to N-Drew, I like it a lot.

More great additions to the game! And I like the new hanger door in Davik's Estate. Wonder if it will be overridden if I use a texture mod for Taris.

Here you go. I'm not sure if your game being non-English will be a problem after being saved in my English version. Dantooine_Ruins_Door_Fix_xispect.zip Crash? There shouldn't be any crash. What you encountered is a "soft lock". You managed to break the script that triggers the cutscene, leaving you with no way to continue the main quest. I still don't know how people manage to break it, hence why it's not fixed. I can't replicate the problem on my end.

View File KOTOR_FPS_CAP # KOTOR 1 has a built-in frame limiter — BioWare shipped it switched off **TL;DR:** *Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic* (2003, Odyssey engine) contains a complete busy-wait frame limiter in its main loop. It is controlled by a single `float` in the executable that defaults to `0.0`, which leaves the limiter dormant, so the game free-runs at uncapped framerate. On high-refresh displays this uncapped rate is what causes the long-standing **movement / "stuck after combat turn" freeze** and related timing bugs, which the community has only ever worked around with external FPS caps or by dropping the monitor to 60 Hz. Writing `60.0` (or any target) to that one float **arms the engine's own limiter** — a native, self-contained fix. No injected code, no wrappers, no driver settings. It's a 4-byte data patch. Verified: on a 144 Hz display with all external caps removed, the patched exe holds a hard 60 FPS and the freeze does not occur. --- ## The bug KOTOR's main loop (`WinMain`, `FUN_004041f0` in a Ghidra auto-analysis of the standard PC exe) is a classic `PeekMessage` real-time loop: ``` while (quit_flag == 0) { read timer (game clock) if no pending message: render scene (delta-time based) SwapBuffers (present) ... optional limiter here ... } ``` Gameplay logic — movement, and the combat round/turn state machine — advances by frame **delta-time**. With no frame cap, delta-times on a fast display become tiny and irregular, and the 2003-era state machine mis-steps: the controlled character's action queue stalls until something rebuilds it (switching party member, or a save/load clears it). That is the freeze players have reported for 20 years. ## The dormant limiter Immediately after `SwapBuffers`, the loop contains this (Ghidra decompilation, lightly annotated): ```c if (DAT_007a3c58 != 0) // a separate, also-off coarse limiter Sleep(DAT_0078d1e8); if (0.0f < cap) { // cap = _DAT_007a3c64 (the frame-cap float) target = 1000.0f / cap; // target frame time // measure elapsed since frame start, then: if (elapsed < target) { do { // busy-spin: re-read the game timer } while (elapsed < target); // hold the frame until target reached } } ``` With real constant values read from the binary: | Symbol | RVA | Value | Meaning | |-------------------|-----------|----------|----------------------------------| | `_DAT_007a3c64` | `0x7a3c64` | **0.0** | frame cap (FPS). **This is it.** | | numerator const | `0x73d6fc` | 1000.0 | `target_ms = 1000.0 / cap` | | zero const | `0x73d700` | 0.0 | used in the `0.0 < cap` gate | | timer scale const | `0x73d708` | 0.001 | raw timer -> milliseconds | The gate is literally **"if cap > 0, limit the frame."** With `cap = 60`, the loop busy-waits until each frame has taken `1000/60 ≈ 16.67 ms`, i.e. it caps at 60 FPS. This is the *same* formula the engine uses elsewhere — the movie-playback path caps to 30 with it — so the mechanism is proven, not speculative. ## Why it's off `_DAT_007a3c64` starts at `0.0`. The **only** code that writes it is a render-setup function (`FUN_004c5880`), and that write is guarded: ```c if (DAT_00832904 != 0) { ... _DAT_007a3c64 = (float)DAT_00832904; // arm the cap } ``` `DAT_00832904` lives in **BSS** — zero-initialized, and it has **no writer anywhere in the binary** (it's a config variable exposed by address, never set by default). So the guard is never true, the cap value is never assigned, and `_DAT_007a3c64` stays `0.0` for the entire session. The limiter is complete, correct, and permanently asleep. Because nothing ever writes the cap during normal play, **patching its initial `.data` value is safe and permanent** — no code path overwrites it. ## The patch Standard PC v1.03 / GOG / "editable" executable: ``` file offset 0x3A3C64 : 00 00 00 00 (float 0.0, limiter off) -> 00 00 70 42 (float 60.0, 60 FPS cap) ``` Other caps if you prefer: `30.0` = `00 00 F0 41`, `72.0` = `00 00 90 42`, `120.0` = `00 00 F0 42`. A Python patcher (`kotor_fpscap_patch.py`) is included; it fingerprints the two `.rdata` constants before writing, backs up the exe, and refuses to touch an executable whose layout it doesn't recognize: ``` python kotor_fpscap_patch.py "path\to\swkotor.exe" 60 ``` ## Verification - 144 Hz display, all external FPS caps and driver "wait for vertical refresh" overrides removed. - Patched exe launched directly. - Framerate held a hard **60**; the movement/turn freeze did not reproduce on transitions that previously triggered it. ## Caveats - **Busy-wait, by design.** The limiter spins a CPU core while pacing each frame (this is BioWare's own implementation — the movie path spins the same way). On a modern machine, one pegged core for a single-threaded 2003 game is harmless, but it is not a `Sleep`-based idle cap. A future refinement could redirect the gate to the engine's own `Sleep(DAT_0078d1e8)` limiter instead. - **Offset is per-exe-layout.** `0x3A3C64` is verified for the standard PC exe. Other builds (Steam-with-different-packing, 4-CD, Mac) may differ; find `_DAT_007a3c64` by locating the `1000.0 / cap` main-loop math. - **Steam "Verify integrity" reverts it** (restores the stock exe). Re-apply after any verify. - Stacks cleanly with the 4GB LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE patch, UniWS widescreen, and the community mod builds — it only touches one unrelated float. ## Method Static reverse engineering only (Ghidra). Chain: locate timing-API imports (`QueryPerformanceCounter`, `GetTickCount`, `Sleep`) → their callers → the `PeekMessage` message pump → its caller (`WinMain`) → the frame-limiter block in the loop → the cap float and its dormant guard. Full decompiled C of the engine was exported and searched locally to trace the call chain. --- *Reverse-engineered from a legally-owned copy for interoperability and bug-fixing. Not affiliated with BioWare/LucasArts/Aspyr.* Submitter VexFlint Submitted 07/21/2026 Category Mods K1R Compatible Yes  

Hope this can help someone. Improved How To Scale And Rig Player Models In Kotor(1).mp4

PartySwap has been updated to 1.5, by making the PartySwap item to an optional add-on, since the Full Party Select patch from KotOR Patch Manager provides another method to allow you to keep being able to add Handmaiden to your party after Disciple joins your party.

Sounds interesting, but I would welcome a more detailed installation instructions for Windows users.

Why are you using ASCIIs if you're using KBlender?

We are not owed an explanation and the development of this modification touches me only tangentially, but I also find it very curious to drop development a few hours after publishing the first version and having shared detailed development plans. I am sure JuniorModder has his more than valid reasons for it, though. Thanks for the work done, JM!

Added icons.

I was going to post an update for the development of RC-K1CP soon, but since JasonRyder commented I'll update you all now. The Unused Head Restoration Pack mod, which hasn't been updated in several years, shall be renamed to the K1 Appearance Restoration Pack to match its Kotor 2 counterpart. The reason this is happening is because most of the appearance restorations from RC-K1CP, mainly the optional ones, are being removed from RC-K1CP and are instead being added to the K1 Appearance Restoration Pack. The reason I am doing this is because they're mostly incompatible with the NPC Diversity Pack mod. The appearances of RC-K1CP are added solely to restore the unused appearances whereas the NPC-DP is a genuine NPC Overhaul. By installing both mods, it is possible that the end result is not one that I personally intended for the player. Whilst these incompatibilities do not break the game in any way, I am certain players would prefer Restored Content and an NPC Overhaul without these two concepts "meshing" with one another. There are also actual incompatibilities that do impact the game, the Sith Officer Uniform Restoration install is incompatible with heyorange's Sith Army Reformation mod and the Jedi Appearance Restoration install is incompatible with Diversified Jedi on the Star Forge if you install that mod before RC-K1CP. Once this update goes ahead, the RC-K1CP will have most of its restored appearances removed. If players want a "pure" restored content game with no NPC Overhauls they can install the K1 Appearance Restoration Pack whereas if they want an NPC Overhaul they can instead download the NPC Diversity Pack. The unique heads for Tanis and the Czerka Rep on Tatooine from the Unused Head Restoration Pack are going to be added in the Galaxy of Faces mod so NPC Overhaul enjoyers will not need the K1 Appearance Restoration Mod if they want those two heads in particular. This update has been delayed to the development of the M4-78 Unofficial Patch mod this year, and whilst I do intend to make something special for ROR this update shall come eventually. And also, Carth's Restored Blaster icon is being removed in that update until it can genuinely be fixed. Whilst I can see why you'd report it as an RC-K1CP bug, this is actually a Sleheyron Story Mode bug in its entirety. K1CP restores the orange Twi'lek variant and RC-K1CP simply borrows that appearance for the fourth Vulkar. This means either one of two things have happened, you either: A) broke your install. B,) the Sleheyron Story Mode mod's installer is broken and therefore it has broken your game. The orange Twi'lek added in K1CP occupies line 509 of the appearance.2da. If @SAO1138 had setup his tslpatcher/holopatcher correctly then a new appearance number would've been assigned to your appearance.2da, the only way his big Gizka would replace the orange Twi'lek added in K1CP would be if Sleheyron's installer hard overwrote the existing appearance.2da with a pre-made one (which is very bad from a modding standpoint). Can you please attach your appearance.2da file here, since the orange Twi'lek should occupy line 509 of the appearance.2da being able to view your appearance.2da should confirm at least part of my suspicion. SAO, if we get to the bottom of this and it turns out that, by some miracle, it isn't Sleheyron Story Mode as I suspect I do apologizing for pinging you here.

I don't know if this is the right place to post this but I found a strange(and hilarious!) bug in the Taris Lower City Cantina. The fourth Black Vulkar that threatens Calo Nord, the orange Twi'lek that speaks Basic, has somehow turned into a giant gizka!

It's recommended to install KOTOR 2 Community Patch before PartySwap.

FYI Folks, many new patches have been released. https://github.com/LaneDibello/Kotor-Patch-Manager New Aspyr Fixes: Lightsaber Hilt rendering - Lightsaber modders rejoice, the hilt textures no longer disappear Bump Map Restoration - bump maps are back! Others: Allowing all 12 of the K2 Portraits to be visible on party select - Modders can now use a slot for a recruitment mod by using whatever slot the user isn't using for mira/hanarr, and no longer need to utilize the armband while using partyswap. Wiring for Good and Very Good Alignment heads. - If any modders want to take up making good and very good alignment heads, these were in heads.2da already but there wasn't any exe logic calling to them, it now works at 70 and 90 alignment. Also working on a patch to expand the max dynamic lights to 9 instead of the vnailla 3. All of J's fixes have been ported as well.

@darthbdaman since you asked about this last year: It's not perfect, but it's a good start/proof-of-concept I have plans to allow for even more columns than this, was mostly just checking if possible

Today's little demo: This patch was originally put together by @LanguageWriter123 (see here). He and I worked together to see what it would take to port this over, and today I decided to give it a shot, and I'm very pleased with the results! cc @darthbdaman as you asked about level caps earlier

You could also argue that they did not see bastila fit to go from padawan to knight as she was proud, arrogant and head strong at times. Its more than likely that she had assumed that she was a jedi knight due to her importance in the war and she craved to become a master. your ranking doesnt depend on how strong you are alone. For example Anakin was stronger than most of the jedi council but they did not grant him the rank of master due to the way he acted. Im pretty sure they had knight ranking in kotor as jolee said himself that they offered him to become a knight, and he refused. You also tell several people on dantooine that you are a padawan, not a jedi knight... And I am pretty sure that Juhani becomes a jedi knight when she returns from the grove due to that being her last trial as a padawan... i think thats more than feasible

Well, I suppose technically he was a knight for the duration of one conversation. Then he became a master. But that's beside the point. I don't know how else to explain it. Every Jedi character that appears in the game is called either a padawan or a master. Bastila is a padawan in training to become a master. Apprentices are bestowed the rank of padawan upon completing trials, which is exactly how knighting works in other stories. No, she was still a padawan too. She still had a master and was in training. That's the collective term again. I'm talking about knight as a distinct rank between padawan and master. For example, "A small squadron of Jedi Knights in snub fighters could penetrate the Sith blockade and dock on the space station." Vandar isn't talking about Jedi with the rank of knight, specifically. Surely some of them are masters. Some of them may be padawans. But they're all "Jedi Knights". The only named characters ever called knights in the game are actually Revan and Malak, but I don't see any clear mention of that as their specific either - just that Revan was a "charismatic knight" and so on. The word only shows up 44 times in the TLK, and a lot of those instances are due to the game's title or item names.

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