Widescreen Gaming Forum

Hey, I'm running Kotor in 1080P, with the fixed hud, and it's all going great, but whenever a FMV starts, the screen just stays black or keeps the last rendered frame, for the duration of the movie. I can hear all the sounds through the movie fine, just I can't see the video.

Is there a fix for this? It works fine in the native resolution.





Windows 7 64 bit
Dual Core O/C to 3.3
4GB DDR2
512mb ATI 4850

Hmm. It sounds like the UniWS hack to fix the movies wetn bad, or the game's built-in movie player doesn't work correctly at 1920x1080 for some reason.

When you say the game works fine in the "native resolution," do you really mean it works fine when unpatched, or is the native resolution of your display not 1920x1080? If you do mean the movies are working fine for you when the game isn't patched, then what we can do is just not patch the movies so they will run at 1024x768.

-First use UniWS to unpatch the game and restore it to the original state. You don't need to remove the fixed HUD files or anything, just undo the UniWS part.

-Next open the patches.ini file that came with UniWS. You may want to open it with Wordpad as opposed to Notepad for easier editing. For whatever reason it was saved with non-standard newline characters so there are no line breaks when you open it in Notepad.

-Find the [Star Wars: KOTOR (1024x768 interface)] section (which is what you should be using for the game to work with the edited files).

-Find these two entries under that section and either delete them, or put semi-colons (UniWS use them to designate comments) at the start of every line. Then save it.


-Repatch with UniWS to your desired resolution.

As stated, these will make the movies run at 1024x768. So you may have a couple seconds of blankness as your display changes resolutions. Some HDTVs can be pretty slow to changes res.

Sorry if im rezzing an old post, but Im having the exact same problem.

Unfortunately I am very computer illiterate. If someone could please clarify the above solution I would be very grateful. Thank you.

EDIT: Since I posted this I realized something. I have not patched anything to my computer beyond the automatic update to version 1.03

The symptoms are the same. I do not have any crashing issues. The only problem is no video with movies. Sound is there, it just remains a black screen. I am using a 40 inch Samsung 1080p 60 hz TV.