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Frant
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couleur
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I wish there were some serious gfx mods for these games. You'd think that after all these years and the huge fanbase, there would be something good out there.
I must say I played and enjoyed both of the games at their time.
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| Posted: Thu, 4th Oct 2012 14:20 Post subject: |
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me too Couleur - the only one I could find looked quite promising, but it's dead as helen keller, despite 'drewton' (the author) promising many times over the years he was going to finish it. Now that it's dead for good, he needs a kick to the nuts
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| Posted: Thu, 4th Oct 2012 15:08 Post subject: |
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I never understood the fapping over Drewton's stuff. I think it was mostly because of the heavily 'shopped "promotional" images. Unaltered in-game stuff wasn't overly special.
I'm not sure what a "serious gfx mod" is, but whatever your definition, I think you'll find the answer to why nothing meets your standards is that the engine doesn't support it. Odyssey was a version of the Aurora engine made for the Xbox 1. Not exactly a graphical powerhouse. You can't expect mods to turn it into Crysis.
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couleur
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| Posted: Thu, 4th Oct 2012 15:14 Post subject: |
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| DCB wrote: | | You can't expect mods to turn it into Crysis. |
Aw damn! I was expecting exactly that.
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Frant
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| Posted: Fri, 5th Oct 2012 04:39 Post subject: |
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| DCB wrote: | I never understood the fapping over Drewton's stuff. I think it was mostly because of the heavily 'shopped "promotional" images. Unaltered in-game stuff wasn't overly special.
I'm not sure what a "serious gfx mod" is, but whatever your definition, I think you'll find the answer to why nothing meets your standards is that the engine doesn't support it. Odyssey was a version of the Aurora engine made for the Xbox 1. Not exactly a graphical powerhouse. You can't expect mods to turn it into Crysis. |
Have you compared Morrowind original with the latest complete overhaul mod? It brings a shit ugly low-poly, low-res game into modern gfx-territory as far as graphics is concerned. And Morrowind isn't that much younger than the KOTOR games.
The kotor(bioware)-engine doesn't lend itself to modding, it has to be hacked to bits which is probably why there have been no serious mods made for it, but imagine a total remodeling/retexturing project with a post-fx system patched in and we have a high poly, high res, modern graphical standard game..... IF the damn game engine/data structures could be opened up to allow for such modding.
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| Posted: Mon, 22nd Oct 2012 22:34 Post subject: |
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about the first kotor
no way of making the game run in widescreen unless i put a crack?
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| Posted: Mon, 22nd Oct 2012 22:36 Post subject: |
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Apparently not, no, you'll have to use the NoCD so that it can be patched by UniWS. It won't matter anyhow, the cracked .EXE can still be used on the Steam version without negative effect.
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| Posted: Tue, 23rd Oct 2012 04:48 Post subject: |
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| Frant wrote: | | IF the damn game engine/data structures could be opened up to allow for such modding. |
They can't. Which is why I said the engine doesn't support "serious gfx mod".
| Frant wrote: | | Have you compared Morrowind original with the latest complete overhaul mod? |
Morrowind is a whole other kettle of fish given that it has an official toolset and a far larger community with a suite of mature mod tools. Even so, while the collection of mods smushed together in overhaul does look pretty in vista screenshots, it's mostly doesn't hold up under close inspection, or at least it didn't the last time I looked, in v2. It's mostly just texture and shader improvements which don't radically change the underlying game. So for instance the plants look good in a screenshot, but they are still all just alpha textured planes, which is painfully obvious when you start moving around/through them. And in v2, all the NPCs were still the god awful looking original super low poly models. Although it looks like the latest version includes some new meshes for the Telvanni environments, judging by screenshots.
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| Posted: Fri, 23rd Nov 2012 19:28 Post subject: |
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Anyone knows where can I download Restored Content mod? Cause the link on Moddb, which is Gamefront, does not work. Firefox says file not found when I try to download.
Edit: I'm not sure wtf is going on I can't download jack shit from Gamefront.
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| Posted: Fri, 23rd Nov 2012 22:55 Post subject: |
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| H4wkeye wrote: | Anyone knows where can I download Restored Content mod? Cause the link on Moddb, which is Gamefront, does not work. Firefox says file not found when I try to download.
Edit: I'm not sure wtf is going on I can't download jack shit from Gamefront. |
http://deadlystream.com/forum/files/
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| Posted: Sat, 24th Nov 2012 00:00 Post subject: |
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| Prismvg wrote: | | H4wkeye wrote: | Anyone knows where can I download Restored Content mod? Cause the link on Moddb, which is Gamefront, does not work. Firefox says file not found when I try to download.
Edit: I'm not sure wtf is going on I can't download jack shit from Gamefront. |
http://deadlystream.com/forum/files/ |
Thanks.
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| Posted: Fri, 11th Jan 2013 00:14 Post subject: |
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Since there doesn't seem to be a KOTOR 1 thread, I'll ask here. I'm trying to play it, but I have a very annoying problem. For some reason, my fps is stuck at 30 when I enbale Vsync. "Why not disable it then?" you say. Well the tearing in this game is right in your face it seems. I've tried windowed mode, I've tried forcing Vsync through CCC, I've tried Vsync + triple buffering, but nothing helps. It's 60 in the menu (I use riva to limit frames), but reverts to 30fps ingame. Does anyone know wtf is happening here? I'm using the WS fix btw.
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| Posted: Fri, 11th Jan 2013 03:12 Post subject: |
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its AMD. and im not trolling you. heard it from a others as well.
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| Posted: Fri, 11th Jan 2013 04:07 Post subject: |
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K1 does run terribly compared to TSL though, even on nViidia cards. I abandoned a recent attempt at a playthough after about 15 minutes as it was just too much trouble what with the crashes, seizure-inducing flickering during loading, and UI issues. TSL, by comparison, generally runs pretty smoothly on Win7, aside from the odd crash or two.
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Frant
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| Posted: Fri, 11th Jan 2013 09:02 Post subject: |
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Hmm, I've played both K1 and K2 in Win7 several times without issues. I can't remember if I did something in particular (patches, fixes and tweaks) but they worked flawlessly.
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| Posted: Fri, 11th Jan 2013 09:11 Post subject: |
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Yeah TSL is mostly fine, once you add the hacked Mss32.dll, but K1 I've always had problems with on Win7, on a variety of both nVidia and ATI cards (and both AMD and Intel CPUs for that matter).
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Frant
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| Posted: Fri, 11th Jan 2013 09:24 Post subject: |
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Last time I played through the games I think I had a 6950 and i5 750 with Win7 x64. However, I didn't have the steam versions then, I used the "ISO demos" with unofficial patches etc.
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| Posted: Fri, 11th Jan 2013 11:13 Post subject: |
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I'll just take the tearing for granted, 30fps feels very strange.
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| Posted: Fri, 11th Jan 2013 11:50 Post subject: |
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| DCB wrote: | | K1 does run terribly compared to TSL though, even on nViidia cards. I abandoned a recent attempt at a playthough after about 15 minutes as it was just too much trouble what with the crashes, seizure-inducing flickering during loading, and UI issues. TSL, by comparison, generally runs pretty smoothly on Win7, aside from the odd crash or two. |
both run completely fine maxed out on my PC. no crashes, framerate what ever i set it to in nvidia inspector tool. on win 76 64bit. didn't even have to use the mss dll file.
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| Posted: Sat, 12th Jan 2013 13:25 Post subject: |
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For an ancient game, KOTOR 1 still looks great with everything on max. Great engine.
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| Posted: Sat, 12th Jan 2013 14:53 Post subject: |
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Hrm, it seems I have some sort of Kotor 1 curse then. I don't really have any problems with TSL, but the first one doesn't run well for me at all.
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prudislav
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| Posted: Sat, 12th Jan 2013 15:14 Post subject: |
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| DCB wrote: | | Hrm, it seems I have some sort of Kotor 1 curse then. I don't really have any problems with TSL, but the first one doesn't run well for me at all. |
same here
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| Posted: Sat, 12th Jan 2013 15:29 Post subject: |
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all i did was when i fully played Kotor 1 in on win7 64 was normal install+ follow the widescreen guide from wsgf.com. this was in 2011. weird that it has issues for some people.
now i have kotor 2 installed. it is the basic game the restore patch+ high res movies+widescreen fixes. works fine too. I jsut keep putting off a playthrough until i delete some of the 25gb games i have installed.
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tonizito
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Didn't find a proper KOTOR 1 thread so I'll drop it here:
I've just installed it and was looking for some textures but so far this is the best I've found:
http://www.moddb.com/games/star-wars-knights-of-the-old-republic/addons
(the Xarwarrz/2012 stuff)
Soooooo... anyone knows of any other stuff out there, preferably retextures and not "new" textures like these seem to be?
And any cool mods? 
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, KOTOR 1 didn't need any mods or restore project to finish a game. KOTOR 2 HAD NO STORY AT ALL!!!
I much prefer KOTOR1 actually.
