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KotOR II Character stuck and unable to move after a battle FIX

By Sgt Gyn

Hello there,
In this tutorial I will show you how to fix your character being stuck after each fight.

Keep in mind that your character will freezes after a fight if you have a high frame rate in this game. So in this tutorial we are going to cap your FPS at 60 with Nvidia control Panel and the Screen refresh rate + screen resolution. (FIX 1)

We are also going to test if enabling V-Sync in the Options fixes your issue (Because it will cap your frame rate at 60) (FIX 2)

Hopefully this will work for you :D

Award

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Guide Index

Overview

FIX 1

FIX 2

FIX 3

Thanks for reading :D

Comments

FIX 1

For the first part of this tutorial we are going to edit a few settings in the NVIDIA Control Panel.

Right click on your desktop and open Nvidia Control Panel

Select the "Manage 3D settings" task on the left (1)

Then select "Program Settings" (2)

Press "Add" (3) and search for your Kotor II .exe (4)

Now scroll until you see the "Max Frame Rate" feature and select it

Click on "Use global setting" (1) and a new window should appear

Tick the "ON" button (2) and write 60 in the FPS box (3) and press "OK" (4)

Press Apply in the bottom right corner (5)

Launch Kotor II and in the Menu go in your Options - Graphics - Screen Resolution

And pick a 60hz refresh rate instead of 120hz, 144hz or 240hz.

Load your Kotor II save and test if with the new changes you still get stuck after each fight

If everything works congratz you have fixed the problem :D

If your character is still stuck after each battle follow the "FIX 2" tutorial below

FIX 2

If you tried "FIX 1" and it didn't work for you, we will now try FIX 2 to repair your problem.

Launch Kotor II and in your Options - Graphics - Advanced Options - Turn ON V-Sync

Try testing in game if playing with V-Sync enabled fixes the stuck problem for you, If not try the same method but this time V-Sync disabled.

You can also force V-Sync ON or OFF in the Nvidia Control Panel

If you made changes in the Nvidia Control Panel don't forget to apply your changes (bottom right corner)

FIX 3

After a fight if you are stuck make a quick save and then quick load your recently created save to be able to move again. This can become really boring if you get stuck after each enemy but it works 100% of the time at least.

Thanks for reading :D

I hope your character being stuck is fixed now, if you see someone having the same character being stuck problem point them towards this tutorial and they will hopefully also be able to fix this

18 Comments

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UrdnotWes 6 May @ 7:32am

If your Nvidia Control Panel is giving you a 'failed to make changes' message, even if you run the program as an administrator, don't get discouraged!

As far as I understand it, you're running an outdated version of the app. All you need to do is uninstall it, re-download it from the app store, open the program, and reinstall the drivers. Make sure you do a 'custom' download so you can check the box that appears; this tells the program "I'm a big boy who knows how to do computer things, so enable editing privileges for me!" Once your computer restarts, the above steps should work for you, as they eventually did for me.

robertrlab 29 May, 2024 @ 8:31pm

You are an officer and a gentleman sir! Thank you!

Kongus 30 Apr, 2024 @ 2:43am

80 works better

VillagePersn 18 Mar, 2024 @ 11:51pm

Thank you!!!

SpecialEllio 12 Dec, 2023 @ 11:48am

you don't even have to load the quicksave, if you hold both mouse buttons as you quicksave your character will start moving.

Filf 16 Oct, 2023 @ 8:45am

FINALLY!!! Oh my god, thank you. I was about to give up.

Butch Logjammer 13 Aug, 2023 @ 11:19pm

One of the things I have found to work is switching to a different party member as I find usually one of them can move. If there is a different area you can go to that will put up a loading screen then that will undo your inability to move your character.

Epic Evils 5 Mar, 2023 @ 3:30am

Thanks this really helped

Jesus Christ is Lord 7 Aug, 2022 @ 8:46am

my fix was to lower the internal resolution from 1080p

Xantosh82 27 Jun, 2022 @ 3:46am

this guide is just for nvidia, for amd users, i had to tell amd to run vsync always on for this game and also (just in case) disabled the freesync for this game too!

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