Jedi Knight II & XP - Your Experiences.

[uberlad]

PIcked up Jedi Knight II on friday and installed it, hoping for some fine lightsabre action. What I got was a game that will crash a random amount of time after being started - never waiting long enough for me to actually play the damn thing. I@ve almost got through the intro movie.

I@ve tried everything that lucasarts suggest: every driver ever released for winXP for the kyroII, removing my MX300, using the onboard sound of my mobo. Nothing makes a difference.

The game refuses to work on the other XP machine in the house too - A duron 900 with a GeFart2 MX.

Am I just unlucky? I've not seen anyone else having issues with the game. If this doesn't work then it's back to win2K, and XP be damned, which is a shame as it was doing well up until this game.

Any suggestions / gloating that people want to share?

Uberlad

System Spec -

SIS645 Motherboard
P$ Northwood 1.6 @ 2.12 (I've tried it at stock speeds)
2x256 Mb Crucial 2100 DDR
Vivid XS Kyro II
Diamond MX300
XP Professional.

[Novdid]

Don't know about XP but the game works fine in 2K, if you decide to revert back.

[PeTe]

I have only played the game a bit [ got DungeonSiege and have been playing it most of the time ], but it was working in XP just fine for me.. on a Radeon 8500LE.

Pe-Te

[Booker]

Turn off gl-extensions works fine

[uberlad]

Ah - GL extensions.

I was going to try that last night, but the beer caught up with me.

I'll give that a go this evening, wish me luck 8-)

Uberlad

[uberlad]

Well, that didn't work. 8-(

It improved stability a lot. I can now get into the game, and play for a few minutes before it locks tight with caught sound.

Possibly it's the Vortex2 drivers, I hear that MS pretty much hosed them. I@ll do some more tweaking and see if I can't get myself something that slightly works.

Curses. Looking more and more like win2K, and possibly dumping the MX300. It's given almost 4 years of sterling work and will recieve a viking funeral. Or I@ll flog it to someone who's still using win9X, where it rocks.

Any suggestions for good new soundcards? I don't want 5.1 sound, I can live without the ability to make my mp3's sound like they're underwater (creative ship some really stoopid things with their sound cards) but I like sound quality - it's feeding a hi-fi.

Uberlad

[MetalCartman]

Just 3 words....

Turtlebeach Santa Cruz

[Novdid]

...also known as Videologic Sonic Fury(essentially the same board, but easier to find).

[uberlad]

Looks like a resounding response. Dare I ask about the quality of XP drivers?

Or would that be hoping for too much?

Uberlad

[KeiFront]

Just give Win2K a try and everything will work again (try to dual boot Win2K and WinXP)

[Paddy]

I have only tried it on XP, but on my machine (A7M266-D, AIW8500DV) it randomly locks when loading a new level.

On my brothers machine (A7V266, 8500Retail) he has no problems whatsoever.

[Greebe]

since when has LucasArts produced anything that's worked straight out of the box?

I've always waited for a patch to be released before messing with their stuff

[uberlad]

It's the first time I@ve had issues with a Lucasarts game since the original Dark Forces. Well, serious issues.

Stability is improved now - I get to shoot stormtroopers for up to 5 mins before it barfs.

I think win2K has to be tried,m I can just use Partition Magic to make myself a partition to install it on can't I? It isn;t like win9X and requires the primary boot partition?

Uberlad

[Paddy]

2K requires the boot partition in the same way that XP does. I dont think you will notice 2K on a second partition if you have XP on the primary. It will just edit your boot.ini i think....

[uberlad]

Cool, I'll dig out a copy of win2K and give it a little partition of its very own.

Uberlad