Crash Leaving Citadel Station

[jonathonvs 0]

This is the first time I've ever played KOTOR 2 on Windows 8; I hope that isn't the death knell. I noticed someone else on this forum had this problem, but he just switched to compatibility mode and it worked. Mine did not.

 

I got all the way through Peragus and to the end of Citadel Station, but as soon as I board the shuttle to the restoration zone, the game crashes. I have my game saved so that all I have to do is board the shuttle. Here's what I've tried so far:

 

- Run as Administrator

- Run in Compatibility Mode, Windows XP SP3

- Applied Mss32.dll fix

- Disable Movies/Enable Hardware Mouse/Force Software Sound

- Applied 1.0b patch before installing TSLRCM

- Switched Resolution to 800x600

- Ran KOTOR 2 in Windowed Mode

 

I am no closer to being able to continue. I'd appreciate any suggestions! Thanks!

[Hassat Hunter 571]

Other mods?

[jonathonvs 0]

None. But I was able to fix the problem!

 

I did it by copying the saved game to my Windows 7 computer, installing KOTOR 2 without RCM, continuing to the surface of Telos, then copying the saved game back to my Win8 machine. I wasn't sure if it was Windows that made the difference, so I installed TSLRCM on the Win7 edition and tried loading from the same saved game. I got the same crash. Anyway, it's back working on Win8 and I haven't had any issues since, so I uninstalled KOTOR 2 on the Win7 machine so I wasn't violating the EULA.

 

Just for some context, at the time of the crash, I was very far dark-side alignment, male, if that makes any difference. I can't remember what I told Atton in the force cage on Peragus; I was told that made a difference as to whether the clip showed Carth or Cede. Before the crash I could occasionally hear Carth say a few words, but the screen was black when he spoke (it had faded from the image of the back of the NPC's head when I chose to board the shuttle to the restoration zone).