Problem viewing videos

[Joghaz 3]

I have the K1 mod active, the latest version. I've noticed that whenever the game shifts to show a video - like the Leviathan pass for example - it will go black, and sometimes boot me to desktop. The game will still be on, and i can click back to it, but often it will continue showing a black screen. This is merely annoying, and i can get used to it, but the real problem is when I get randomly attacked by starfighters between planets, this problem makes it much harder to survive encounters. Can anything be done? Should I switch the resolution to compensate, or is there an error happening with the mod? The only other mod I'm using is the one that offers alternate crew avatars, and I really doubt it could be causing this.

 

As a sidenote: can anything be done to increase mouse sensitivity beyond using the settings slider? My mouse is much too slow at targeting those sith ships, but it's fine for everything else, and even at max sensitivity it doesn't really make a difference.  

[Snigaroo 119]

Fullscreen bug. Follow the instructions here, specifically the third option with the two linked videos. Although time-consuming, that should allow you to play at native resolution while avoiding the issue, provided you're not on a laptop (in which case it becomes more complicated, as the fix may or may not take).

[Kexikus 995]

Unless you want Widescreen anyway, there's a much simpler solution:

 

Right-click your swkotor.exe and select Properties. Then go to the Compability tab and check "Deactivate Visual Designs", "Deactivate desktop..." and "Deactivate scaling...". Note: This is for Windows 7, I don't know which of these are available in other Windows versions. Also, the names might differ since I translated them from my German Windows version. And it's possible that you don't need all of them but I was too lazy to test it and I haven't seen any disadvantages when using them all.

[Snigaroo 119]

Unless you want Widescreen anyway, there's a much simpler solution:

 

Right-click your swkotor.exe and select Properties. Then go to the Compability tab and check "Deactivate Visual Designs", "Deactivate desktop..." and "Deactivate scaling...". Note: This is for Windows 7, I don't know which of these are available in other Windows versions. Also, the names might differ since I translated them from my German Windows version. And it's possible that you don't need all of them but I was too lazy to test it and I haven't seen any disadvantages when using them all.

 

Really, this works? Interesting, I'll absolutely have to keep that in mind for future bug reports on the sub. I've actually never heard of this as a fix before.

[Kexikus 995]

Really, this works? Interesting, I'll absolutely have to keep that in mind for future bug reports on the sub. I've actually never heard of this as a fix before.

 

It worked for me at least. Not sure where I got this from but I actually had to apply this "fix" even after following Xuul's videos. Sadly I only found the fix after I had played without movies for most of the game...

[Snigaroo 119]

It worked for me at least. Not sure where I got this from but I actually had to apply this "fix" even after following Xuul's videos. Sadly I only found the fix after I had played without movies for most of the game...

That sucks about your situation, but I thank you for mentioning it. It's another option in my expanding arsenal of "things you can try using to un-f*ck your game," which is becoming unfortunately long at this point.

[Guest]

I have it switched to Win7 Compatibility mode on Windows 10 does the trick for me. 

[Joghaz 3]

Thanks for the replies.

 

I switched to win7 compatibility, as well as toggling all the checkboxes that Kexikus suggested. The game no longer collapses to window, which is great.

 

However, it continues to black out between videos. It also blacks out if I switch from the game to desktop, unless I click escape to bring up the menu beforehand. Again, that's not really a big deal, but it's a pain. It still blacks out with starfighter, but if I hit pause quick enough it isn't usually fatal. The videos are the annoying bit though, I just finished off Malak and the video clip between dodonna and Vandar was blacked out for a significant period of time. I've found that if I keep switching between desktop and game it'll eventually clear up, but it seems very hit and miss [and i can't bring up the menu for those bits either] 

 

I have two questions: 

 

1) Would the longer fix outlined by Snigaroo solve this problem, or just make it widescreen? Would it be better to just shut down the video sequences altogether?

 

2) I have kotor2 as well. Is it likely this problem will reoccur on that game with TSL enabled?

[Haveayap 127]

Thanks for the replies.

 

I switched to win7 compatibility, as well as toggling all the checkboxes that Kexikus suggested. The game no longer collapses to window, which is great.

 

However, it continues to black out between videos. It also blacks out if I switch from the game to desktop, unless I click escape to bring up the menu beforehand. Again, that's not really a big deal, but it's a pain. It still blacks out with starfighter, but if I hit pause quick enough it isn't usually fatal. The videos are the annoying bit though, I just finished off Malak and the video clip between dodonna and Vandar was blacked out for a significant period of time. I've found that if I keep switching between desktop and game it'll eventually clear up, but it seems very hit and miss [and i can't bring up the menu for those bits either]

 

I have two questions:

 

1) Would the longer fix outlined by Snigaroo solve this problem, or just make it widescreen? Would it be better to just shut down the video sequences altogether?

 

2) I have kotor2 as well. Is it likely this problem will reoccur on that game with TSL enabled?

Play around with in game graphic/videi settings. I had the same issue till I turned vsync off and changed graphic quality from low to medium. I'm sure someone else knows why it's happening I only know how I fixed the issue for myself

[Guest]

I can send you my ini's and modified exes for both games if you like, other than enabling Win 7 compatibility for K1 there's nothing else you need to do yourself. The Movies also play at 1080x1920. & I've got a folder full of the replacement movies optimized for that if you want them too. 

[CrashBandiTeam 18]

how did you made the mplay 1080x1920? Just curious how that works ^^

[Guest]

Xuul has a tutorial about patching the exe to do that and upscaling the videos.

[CrashBandiTeam 18]

Ah , Okay thanks

[Joghaz 3]

I can send you my ini's and modified exes for both games if you like, other than enabling Win 7 compatibility for K1 there's nothing else you need to do yourself. The Movies also play at 1080x1920. & I've got a folder full of the replacement movies optimized for that if you want them too. 

 

Thank you, but I was able to solve it by changing the ini to accommodate windowed mode as per Snigaroo's link. Since then I've had no problems, though the mouse is now too sensitive, so i'll have to play around with it a bit.