PC Drivers & Software

[wasnvidia]

Just bought an Radeon 5700 XT after a friend suggested that AMD had been better on drivers than Nvidia had, after installing this card I found that I cannot run Kotor 1 with frame buffer effects, a feature that makes up half of the graphic effects in the game. Dropping the catalyst bits in the file does not function so don't even ask, will not take turn it off for an answer and it will be reported.

P.S. The Vertex effects work on this card on Kotor 2,

[bigyundol]

Yes I'm waiting for a fix for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2 too, since I'd replaced my Radeon HD5850 through a Radeon 270X...
At the moment I'm only able to play fully on my second PC with an Radeon HD4770. So there's no possibility to play this awesome game in 4K AND framebuffers activated on actual Radeons this time...

With reshade I was able to compensate the missing bloom effects and you can add some simple SSAO. But you can't use the grass fix with it and there are some more missed grafic gimmicks too.

[JohnA]

Signed up specifically to reply to this.

I also wish this could be fixed. There's a plethora of things people suggest trying out, but if you're on any semi-recent AMD GPU, it basically never works. My current one is an R9 390 from 2015 (which has served me well all things considered), and I am looking to upgrade my entire setup next year. But considering that KotOR 1 is my favourite game and I would really like to be able to play it as intended, with the original graphical effects that worked in 2003, I am now considering to forego going for another AMD GPU

I would really like not to have to switch, but this issue seems to not be fixable on the user end anymore. If there is a solution, I would be glad to hear it.

What I did: Run an older atioglxx.dll, this just stopped the program from running. Using a wined3d wrapper, other opengl dlls, DXVK, all in vain. Couldn't find GPU drivers old enough to both work on my GPU and support this function either.

Regards,
John