Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
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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 |
WSGF links
http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12710
External links
http://www.bioware.com/games/knights_old_republic/
Categories: Software | Game | Hack | Hor Plus | Grade D | LucasArts | BioWare | Star Wars | RPG | XHD 1680x1050 | XHD 1920x1200 | XHD 2560x1600 | 2003
