Goatboy76

That's a huge problem with Kotor 2 on most systems. There's a fix that seems to help tremendously on most systems of the game. I'll point you in the right direction on how to fix it

 

Path: /Users/The_Parents/Desktop/Knights of the Old Republic II.app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common/Knights of the Old Republic II

 

In there will be a swkotor2.ini:

 

 

 

Open that .ini and scroll down to Graphics options. Once there, go to the final option on the list there, whether it's fullscreen=1 or enablehardwaremouse=1 it differs (or it could be something else idk)

 

Anyways, you're going to type this line EXACTLY under the last option in the Graphics Option there: Disable Vertex Buffer Objects=1

 

 

Thanks for the help. Good luck with your Youtube channel.

Btw, if you ever want to see how the game runs along with mods, check out my channel

 

The videos are going to make the game look laggy (Because I'm recording) but when I'm not recording, I can play the game on the highest graphics and it runs amazingly.

For some reason I get a big frame rate drop when ever there's smoke effects. 

Applied that fixed and it worked. Everything seems to be good now. There are some minor problems like the holorecordings arent holograms, they're fully colored. Also, movies start off a little shaky before they get going. The screen is black the first 2 seconds then I get video of a few seconds into the moive and then finally audio. Its not that big of a problem but just thought I'd mention it. Thanks for the help!

Use Widescreen UI FIX by Achilles to fix that

 

Anyway i'm glad you made it. So setting 1920x1200 as fullscreen resolution inside Wineskin fixed the issue.

 

Can you please tell me which graphic options are you allowed to set inside the game? (Anti aliasing, buffer effects...) 

I can't use Frame Buffer or Soft Shadows. They are greyed out. 

I'll look into applying that fix sometime later today.

Ok so you set inside screen options of wineskin your native resolution (1920x1080 I guess) and checked Override under "Override Wine control of Screen Settings".

 

If you can, in game options just set to 1280x1024 and then exit the game and try to patch. 

 

But if you ca not click on Exit due to screen restriction, try to change the resolution you set before inside wineskins screen options from 1920x1080 to 1920x1200. This should allow you to select 1280x1024 properly, and maybe 1600x1200 too.

 

In any case just select 1280x1024.

Sweet, widescreen now works! The catch is that the map in game doesn't really display correctly. Everything is there expect for the room layouts. I'm using the native res of 1920x1080. Maybe I should decrease that.

Which resolution are you allowed to set inside the game?

800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024 I'm using 1023x768. Using 1280x1024 makes it so that I can only see the top left forth of the screen.

Ok let's see. Apparently your UniWS is not properly recognizing swkotor2.exe... Did you overwrite old swkotor2.exe with the squ1zzy's??? That's crucial to make things work. And, most important, you have to open the game once to set 1280x960 resolution. Only after that you can apply UniWS patch. 

 

 

That is not supposed to happen... I wonder if the recent OSX updates have may caused compatibility issues for the wrapper

I swapped the swkotor2.exe and the 1280x920 resolution is not avilable to choose. So I tried going into the wine wrapper and setting the resolution to the native res of my monitor. That didn't make the 1280x920 res appear in options. So I tried the path if your monitor doesn't support 1280x920 that didn't allow my to apply the uniWS patch either. 

1920x1080 is a Widescreen (16:9) resolution, 1280x960 is 4:3. This last one is not really "natively" supported by your Mac Monitor, but you are setting it just temporarily, in order to patch it later with UniWs and obtain a fullscreen 1920x1080 resolution. Just follow the instructions, and  you will get a perfect image in the end (If 1280x960 resolution does not appear in graphic options check Known Issues).

 

Regarding your fist problem, "steamwebhelper.exe" was causing the problem, and that actually should be the update checker for Steam. Maybe disabling wifi could have prevented that program from starting... 

Btw thank you so much for answering all of my annoying questions. 

I followed the UNiWS instructions, but the "Patch" button is greyed out for some reason.

Screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rz71esdlmbcsw1h/Screen%20Shot%202015-04-30%20at%206.16.03%20AM.png?dl=0

I select KOTOR 2 as the game, then when I find my Steam folder it doesn't have the plus sign next to it to expand it so I click "Find it for me" and then it says it found it. But then I can't enter  in a resolution or click patch. 

Edit: When I click on Steams expand plus sign is disappears.

Ok regarding screen resolution, go to swkotor2.ini (open with textedit) inside game directory and change screen resolution to 1280x960 ( should be under [Graphic Options] if i remember well). It should appear propely now. Use this resolution to apply widescreen fix.

 

Regarding winetricks, never worked for me, seems it`s not working for you too... at this point giving it a try was needed!

 

So leave the winetricks and try this

 

Next time try to launch wrapper with wifi disabled and ethernet unplugged, steam should go in offline mode and maybe resolve the problem.

 

I dont really know if it's going to work... let me know if you get any improvement

So Steam lanuchs without error when wifi is disabled. I don't know if that is because of it or just a coincidence. The only problem now is, how do I get widescreen? The game resolution is constrained to the old timey monitor shape. 

Edit: Following instructions on guide for widescreen

Edit 2: Can a monitor with a max res of 1920x1080 support a 1280x960 resolution?

Steam only starts about 1/10 tries. I think my problem is with installing Steam using the .exe . I would use Winetricks to install it but I get this error when I try and install it "sha1sum mismatch!  Rename /Users/jamessullivan/.cache/winetricks/steam/SteamSetup.exe and try again.". After that it says " Winetricks Commands Finished!!". Do you know what would fix this?
 

I got KOTOR 2 running in full screen and I was playing with the resolution settings and I changed it to the largest resolution and now I can only see the top left piece of the screen and can't changed the resolution settings since my mouse can't leave the screen.

Well i have no clue right now. I remember that error message appeared few times, even after the game was installed. Reopening wrapper usually resolved that. 

 

Right now my only suggestion is to reinstall steam again, uninstalling the old one and repeat from the beginning.

 

You can also try using Winetricks (Point 4 in the guide, under Installing Steam).

 

If that is not working, last attempt would be to erase the wrapper and downloading it again, and repeating the procedure. Luckily you are not going to lose large files...

 

Please tell me if you get any changes

I can get steam to start after restarting the computer but it seems to be able to only run once. When I close it and go to reopen it it gives me the error every time. Restarting the computer allows me to reopen it but after that one time it won't reopen.

I am currently downloading KOTOR 2

That's quite strange. Just after Steam installation should start an auto update for steam. Did it happen?

 

Just to be sure, did you tweaked something inside wineskin options?

 

 

Wait which files?

You can ignore "I'll problem just copy and paste the files from my Mac version of Steam. ". I haven't done that yet and I'm planning on copying and pasting the game files from my Mac version of steam to save time on downloading it. 

After I double click on KOTOR2.app It brings up a "Checking for Steam updates" window and then its replaced by that error message window after about 5 seconds. I have to force quit the program in order to get it to close after. 

I haven't changed anything in the Wineskin that wasn't in the guide. Heres a link to a pic of my wineskin options.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/tr6o9ot3yctu1jv/Screen%20Shot%202015-04-28%20at%205.34.27%20PM.png?dl=0

Wrappers are made specifically for each games. Each wrapper create a virtual Windows machine that works exclusively with that game. It's like a virtual pc for each game (Of course you can install more than one game in a wrapper but usually it's not convenient). So if you have more than one wrapper installed (One for aoe, one for kotor), it's like you have two different windows computer you can access from your mac, and they will not interfere between them. 

 

 

 

 

They simply are You will have no problems from other wrappers.

 

Regarding your second problem, when this issue occurred? Did you download Kotor or it happened right after you get steam installed?

It happened right after I installed Steam by using the "Install Software" in the Wine wrapper with SteamSetup.exe. When I look into the Program Files, Steam seems to be fully installed. I haven't gotten Steam working as of yet, so I haven't had the chance to install Kotor 2. I'll problem just copy and paste the files from my Mac version of Steam. 

Hi Goatboy. Once you opened wrapper with show package content, you should have 3 files, just like in the photo I posted inside the spoiler under point 4.

 

Just open drive_c folder, then Program Files, steam, Steamapps, and finally Knights of the old Republic 2 and there's your directory.

 

This path is exactly the same when you install this game on a regular Windows machine, that's why I said "as using windows"

 

 

If you used Crossover or another wrapper to install Steam (Age of empire I guess? ) there will be no problem at all.

 

 

 

The best thing is actually to open Steam directly, so put Steam.exe path. Mine is: 

 

/Program Files/Steam/Steam.exe

 

And uncheck "Use Start.exe"

 

So when you click on Knights of the old republic II.app, Steam should star automatically.

 

 

Pleas tell me if you have any other question!

Thanks for the quick response  .  I understand your answers but can you clarify "Crossover or another wrapper to install Steam (Age of empire I guess?  ) there will be no problem at all.". Its a Wine Wrapper and I haven't used touched it at all while I've been trying to get Kotor 2 working. As far as I know they're completely unrelated. 

I'm having a problem when I double click Knights of the Old Republic 2.app after installing Windows Steam. Steam starts to launch then I get an error. I screen shotted it and the link is down below.

Link to Screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/vftl9fqfst8lb44/Screen%20Shot%202015-04-28%20at%203.59.07%20PM.png?dl=0

 

 

• Widescreen

The most important fix you're going to do is Widescreen indeed. I learned these steps from Xuul youtube video Link

Here revisited for Mac.

 

Overwrite swkotor2.exe

• First thing you need is this file This File from widescreenforum by Squ1zZy.
• You need only swkotor2.exe file. Copy it, throw the rest.
• Go to Knights of the old Republic 2 directory. This folder is crucial for installing any mod or fix you want, so here how to find it:
• Right click on wrapper (Knights of the old Republic II.app) and click show package content. Here you will find 3 files. One is Wineskin, which we have just used before to install the Steam software, one si Contents (we are not going to use it), and an alias to drive_c. This folder correspond to C: main hard drive of a windows pc. Open it.
  

• Now as using windows, go to the kotor2 directory:
• drive_c/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common/Knights of the old Republic II/
• Here you find the original swkotor2.exe. Rename it swkotor2.exe.old, allowing to backup in any moment. Paste squ1zzy’s .exe. 
• Launch the game, go to options and set resolution to 1280x960. Exit game.

 

 

@Lupo_dK Hello. I've followed your instructions success fully until this part. I don't know what you mean by "Now as using windows, go to the kotor2 directory".

• Now as using windows, go to the kotor2 directory:
• drive_c/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common/Knights of the old Republic II/
• Here you find the original swkotor2.exe. Rename it swkotor2.exe.old, allowing to backup in any moment. Paste squ1zzy’s .exe. 
• Launch the game, go to options and set resolution to 1280x960. Exit game.

Also, I've already installed a Windows version of Steam on my mac to play Aoe 2. Does that interfre with this process? 

Also again, In the wine skin for KOTOR 2.app , under Advanced/Configuration/Windows EXE: what should be in that place, I think I've messed that part up.