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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords

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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords
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Developers
Obsidian Entertainment
Publishers
LucasArts
Engines
Odyssey
Release dates
Windows February 8, 2005
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords on Wikipedia
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Subseries of Star Wars
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2003
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords 2005
Star Wars: The Old Republic 2011
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic – Remake TBA

Key points

Retail version recently re-released in a bundle with the first game and made compatible with recent operating systems.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Obsidian Forum
Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums
LucasForums

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Amazon.com
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Knights of the Old Republic Collection.
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Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
Amazon.co.uk
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Knights of the Old Republic Collection.
Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
GamersGate
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Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
Incorrect store name. See here for available options.
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Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
GOG.com
DRM-free
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
Steam
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Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty

Version differences

Knights of the Old Republic Collection includes both Knights of the Old Republic and Knights of the Old Republic II – The Sith Lords.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Patches

Gameplay mods

Restored Content Mod

Highly recommended to restore content that was cut from the game.
Version 1.8.2 now supports M4-78 Enhancement Project which restores droid planet content.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/208580/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/208580/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video settings

File:KOTOR2 widescreen screenshot.jpg
16:9 ratio screenshot, with stretched HUD elements.
File:KOTOR2 1366x768 no dialogue.png
Resolutions of 1366x768 and under do not display dialogue below correctly.
File:KOTOR2 UniWS.png
Patching to widescreen using UniWS.

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TweakGuides has created a comprehensive guide for fixing issues in this game. It can be found here.

Widescreen resolution

Widescreen fixes will break the minimap location reporting, which can be solved using the minimap fix.[1]
Widescreen fixes resolutions of 1366x768 and under will not display dialogue option text correctly and are unplayable.[2]
Video tutorial for widescreen available here
This uses a slightly older version of the game with some bugs.[3]
Instructions

Input settings

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Controller

Controller is not natively supported.
Instructions
Instructions

Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish
subtitles with a mod

Issues fixed

Error fixable by going into windowed mode or by changing NVIDIA Control Panel settings.

'Stopped working'

Error occurs after the company logos and before the main menu, or after clicking on 'Load Game' from the main menu.
Full error message: 'Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords has stopped working'.
Instructions
Instructions
Instructions
Instructions
Instructions
Instructions

Stuttering or freezing after combat

This can be fixed by limiting maximum frame rate.[4]
Instructions
Instructions

Unable to move your character

Instructions

Other information

Higher quality media

Not required for Steam version or the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Collection 2 DVD re-release.
Instructions
Instructions

KOTOR and TSL Save Game Editor

KOTOR and TSL Save Game Editor (English Language Only) (3.3.4), also known as the 'KSE'
Save game editor (cheat) works for both KOTOR 1 and 2
The save game editor doesn't automatically detect the Steam version of KotOR2
Instructions
Instructions

Low performance

Instructions
Instructions
Instructions

Retail installation for Windows 7

All steps should be done with an administrator account.
Working on Windows 7 x64 bit.
Instructions

Widescreen minimap problem

Instructions

Dialogue options won't display

Dialogue options will not display on vertical resolutions of 1366x768 or below.
Instructions

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, 2000, ME, XP
Processor (CPU) 1 GHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB Card

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/208580/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (208580) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References