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Before we get too involved in troubleshooting lets start with some basics.

1.What is your game version?

2.What is your game localization? (Country)

3.Is 1280x960 in your desktop resolution menu? If the game cannot find 1280x960 it may break any hack using the 1280 HUDs.

4.When doing step one give me a large section of the resolution values that you are using.


5. Step 3 is independent of the other steps and only affects the movies. You can test it by itself and know right upon startup if it is working.




Some other things to try. Just do step one and see if the resolution value appears. You should have the 800x600 HUD but it will be in the proper resolution. If that works try using the 1024x768 HUD. Then try your desired HUD. What you are trying to do is isolate the problem area.



I hope there is something useful in this mess. 8)

Thanks for the patch! Unfortunately the HUD resize bit of it didn't work for me somehow so I'm editing the exe manually.

I'm up to the part where I have to input my chosen HUD horizontal size but I'm a bit of a maths retard so what do I need to input if I want it to be sized at 1280?

(I want to try a 1280x960 hud on my 1440x900 screeen)

I'm up to the part where I have to input my chosen HUD horizontal size but I'm a bit of a maths retard so what do I need to input if I want it to be sized at 1280?

(I want to try a 1280x960 hud on my 1440x900 screeen)

Your HUD needs to be smaller in both the length and the width. So 1280x960 is too big for 1440x900. The biggest HUD size you can use would be 1024x768.

Ok, thanks. So I changed the other two res options for step 2 to 0000 and left the 1024x768 one intact yet my hud is still mesed up. The character bar is only just visible at the bottom and the action bar is not visible at all, still.

Ok, thanks. So I changed the other two res options for step 2 to 0000 and left the 1024x768 one intact yet my hud is still mesed up. The character bar is only just visible at the bottom and the action bar is not visible at all, still.

That sounds like it is using a bigger HUD than the resolution.

Take a screenshot with "PrintScreen" and paste it in paint. Look at the image attributes and make sure the size is actually 1440x900.

You could also try the UniWS again using the smaller 1024x768 HUD.

Thanks, that's sorted. Misread something in the uniws tool.

One last thing, could you tell me what hex values do I need to put in for 1440x900 in this string?

80 02 00 00 75 15 81 3D D8 D1 78 00 E0 01

Just to reiterate that I'm a bit useless with this sort of thing.

1440 = 05A0 Flipped = A005


900 = 0384 Flipped = 8403



A0 05 00 00 75 15 81 3D D8 D1 78 00 84 03

Thank you very much :)

No more questions.

Having just got a new PC with Vista and a 22" widescreen, I tried installing KotOR. The copy protection stopped it from running even with the CD in the drive, but I managed to get it working with a no-CD executable.

I fired up a hex editor and went in to change it as shown in this thread, and I managed to find and make the first and third changes - resolution and movie resolution - but the string for the HUD doesn't match anywhere in the no-CD executable, so I have KotOR running at 1680x1050, but with an 800x600 HUD. This isn't ideal :) Is there anything else I could look for hex-wise that might mark the HUD size?

Having just got a new PC with Vista and a 22" widescreen, I tried installing KotOR. The copy protection stopped it from running even with the CD in the drive, but I managed to get it working with a no-CD executable.

I fired up a hex editor and went in to change it as shown in this thread, and I managed to find and make the first and third changes - resolution and movie resolution - but the string for the HUD doesn't match anywhere in the no-CD executable, so I have KotOR running at 1680x1050, but with an 800x600 HUD. This isn't ideal Is there anything else I could look for hex-wise that might mark the HUD size?

PM me the link to the executable you are using. I will take a look at it.