Kotor 2 Lag

[Rece]

Omg. After all this time of having Kotor 2 I've finally figured out why my game lagged whenever I was near smoke or anything like that. Disable Vertex Buffer Objects=1 didn't really change anything. If any of you are having trouble with lag, go to the swkotor2.ini file and under Display Options, there are two things you need to do:

 

Disable Movies=1

Disable Intro Movies=1

 

This has solved all lag in my game. I can finally record my walkthrough of the game in HQ and I'm on a Mac (Extra bonus right???)

Anyways, you can still do the vertex buffer thingy, but these movies seem to be what caused all lag in my game.

 

Help: http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/29373-game-performance-changes/?p=266373&do=findComment&comment=266373

[Xuul]

If you get lag while recording kotor 2 (at least on windows, no idea about a mac) and you have a multicore CPU, you can set the CPU affinity to all cores and it can actually improve performance marginally while recording. For some people with may cause crashing though. I have had several people confirm this works ( at least while using Fraps or Dxtory)

[Rece]

I'll try that. It's very weird though. Sometimes when I'm recording I get no lag, but when I review the recording, the video seems to lag in places.

 

I have an     Intel Core 2 Duo idk how to set the affinity though.

 

Edit: Okay I figured out how to reduce the lag tremendously, while also keeping the quality at its best still. I had to record the videos using Lossless and not Adaptive. There will be a difference seen coming in Episode 7 of my series.