N-DReW25 1,336 Posted December 20, 2018 I swear it feels like whenever I become motivated to work on GenoHaradan Legacy Kotor Tool decides to have a heart attack on me. So my problem started when I was searching in the K1 placeable templates section, I clicked on the large and small blood puddle placeable files and one of them popped up while the other didn't result in severe lag. I used Task Manager to shut down Kotor Tool and when I relaunched I got this familiar looking error. I've tried launching Kotor Tool in various compatibility modes but 90% of the time I get that exact same message, however, a few modes gives me the same message but instead of the "Illegal Characters" line down below it gives me a vaguely different message. I've uninstalled and reinstalled Kotor Tool at least 10 times but to no avail. Does anyone have any suggestions to what I need to do to fix this? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DarthParametric 3,784 Posted December 20, 2018 Where do you have it installed? What's the full path? If it's in Program Files, start by moving it out of there to a different drive. The same for the game (i.e. basically never install anything in Program Files). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
N-DReW25 1,336 Posted December 20, 2018 1 hour ago, DarthParametric said: Where do you have it installed? What's the full path? If it's in Program Files, start by moving it out of there to a different drive. The same for the game (i.e. basically never install anything in Program Files). So I've reinstalled it to a file on my desktop: no difference. You said move it out of Program Files, it normally installs into "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kotor Tool" when I don't modify its installation, is there a problem with that installation? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DarthParametric 3,784 Posted December 20, 2018 Program Files is a semi-protected directory. Windows, especially newer ones, gets very picky about permissions in it. And on Windows 10 you don't actually have a real admin account, so it's even worse. The Desktop is probably little better if it is in its default location. Do you not have a different drive? If you must install it on C drive, do so under a non-system directory (e.g. create C:\Games\KTool). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DeadMan 103 Posted December 20, 2018 3 hours ago, DarthParametric said: Program Files is a semi-protected directory. Windows, especially newer ones, gets very picky about permissions in it. And on Windows 10 you don't actually have a real admin account, so it's even worse. The Desktop is probably little better if it is in its default location. Do you not have a different drive? If you must install it on C drive, do so under a non-system directory (e.g. create C:\Games\KTool). Also, you may try to change your %TEMP% path to something like C:\Temp. I had similar issuises (with another software) with default path when I had my username in non-English characters. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
N-DReW25 1,336 Posted December 20, 2018 I found my problem and a part of me feels like an idiot but the other part tells me it wasn't my fault for not seeing this sooner. So when I reinstalled Kotor Tool it asked me for directors and if you look closely on the pic I showed it says "Illegal Characters in Path". After trying all of the above which didn't fix the problem I read my directories and Kotor 2 is set to "X:C?:\Program Files (x8?6)\Steam\steamapps\common\Knights of the Old Republic II??" I have no idea how that happened or why it would break my Tool but at least it's fixed... for now. Thank you to both of you for helping!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
