Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

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1 Game Information
2 Widescreen Support
- 2.1 Method
- 2.2 Screen change
3 Surround Gaming support
4 Known Issues
5 Condensed detailed report
6 WSGF links
7 External links

Game Information

By: LucasArts, BioWare
Genre: Star Wars, RPG
Release Date: November 18, 2003
Players: 1
Version: Retail US version with the 1.03b patch installed

The game details events that occurred thousands of years before any of the Star Wars movies. A Sith Lord called Darth Malak is intent on destroying the Republic and needs a lightsaber swatting.

Players can recruit several different NPCs and have active parties of three characters. Battles are a mix of turn-based and real-time actions. NPCs are a collection of humans, droids, and other assorted alien things. Party members develop based on class and player customization decisions.

A lovely array of Force powers is available for your adventuring pleasure.

Widescreen Support

Method

Widescreen is supported by the WSGF-Exclusive UniWS patcher. If the patcher does not work for you, the manual hack (HEX Edit) is available in this forum thread. Additionally, WSGF members have hacked the game HUD, and a "fullscreen" HUD is now available. You can download both the UniWS, and the HUD files by visiting the WSGF Hacks for SW:KOTOR page.

Screen change

Hor +

1600x1200

1920x1200

Surround Gaming support

None, as the hack has not been testing in Surround

Known Issues

1280x720, 1280x768, and 1280x800 crash on startup. 1360x768 runs successfully, but has an issue where conversation text will not display, rendering the game unplayable. If you have a lower resolution screen, you may be able work around this problem by using video card scaling and custom resolutions to setup a higher resolution that will downscale to your native resolution.

Without the additional GUI files, HUD screen coverage is not 100%, there's a partial lighting problem on initial load of certain areas, tooltips do not function, and menu backgrounds stretched. These issues are corrected by the additional GUI files at the WSGF Hacks for SW:KOTOR page.

Condensed detailed report

MGL Classification	Hor +
Widescreen method	Hack
Resolution support	Limited
Singleplayer anomalies	Minor
Aspect ratio support	Limited corrected
HUD stretch	No stretch
Cut-scenes	FMVs and rendered cut-scenes
FMV correction	Anamorphic
Rendered cut-scene correction	Hor +
Calculated grade	D