(UPDATED) Knights of The Old Republic Widescreen HD Guide

This is the ultimate guide to getting Start Wars: Knight of The Old Republic working at an HD widescreen resolution.
Links:
KOTOR Editable Executable: deadlystream.com/files/file/1...
UniWS: www.wsgf.org/article/universa...
Hud / GUI Mods: kotor.neocities.org/modding/m...
Cockpit fix: www.nexusmods.com/kotor/mods/...
HiRes Menus: deadlystream.com/files/file/1...
HD UI Menu: deadlystream.com/files/file/1...
Workbench: deadlystream.com/files/file/1...
Icons: deadlystream.com/files/file/1...
Upscaled Computer: deadlystream.com/files/file/2...
Fade fix: deadlystream.com/files/file/1...
Main Menu Fix: deadlystream.com/files/file/1...
HD Cutscenes: www.nexusmods.com/kotor/mods/...
Files needed for different game version:
1.03 patch (original disk): deadlystream.com/files/file/1...
Sound + Movies Fix (Amazon): deadlystream.com/files/file/2...
Full K1 Community Mod Builds Guide: TODO
Kotor Community Discord: Link
Super Secret Project: www.shoelacegames.com/
Check out a full playlist of Kotor mod showcases!
Kotor 1: • Kotor 1 Mods
Kotor 2: • Kotor 2 Mods

[@Guzioo]

I literally wanted to play KOTOR for the first time one hour ago, and watched and completed your old video to the widescreen fix just now. I go to your channel after just for the sake of seeing what you do and you post a new update??? lmao how is fate this random

[@emma5068]

It looks like mostly it's more up to date with the most recent widescreen fix mods. The Icons and Computer fixes are pretty new, for instance. The explanation is also much better this time. It was very easy to follow.

[@mrorange8576]

Amazing tutorial man, I have not fully played kotor since nearly a decade ago. Just finished a playthrough using this setup and it made the experience so much more clean and pretty.

[@stevenmeyer5648]

Thanks for still beeing here for your fans and the fans of KotOR 💪

[@0MJF0]

Thanks so much Xuul. Just installed the KotoR community mod build and your widescreen fix. Everything is working great and the installation process was simple enough to follow. I appreciate your effort and time you put into helping the community! FYI, there is a link on the KotoR community mod page in the widescreen section that links to your old widescreen fix video that could probably be updated to link to this video.

[@scarletguard]

You might want to let the makers of the Build know that as you'll skip the middleman that way.

[@CheddaToastPlus]

Done this guide step by step as shown in this video and it has worked PERFECTLY! Was really missing this game and the last time I modded this game with Wide screen for 1440p x 2560 everything was working then one day (Hadn't installed anything) the sound of the game wasn't working at all. Even after checking sound settings nothing I could do about sound. Even after reinstalling the sound wasn't there after second boot up. So this has somehow fixed that and improved the experience from before! So thank you my Guy!

[@StormOS_Dev_Channel]

thanks for the guide xuul, ill be following this, and i'd love to see you cover the kotor community mod for sure!

[@SchubertDipDab]

Wow what good timing, I just re-bought KOTOR 1 and 2 to replay them. Thanks!

[@artofwar420]

Thanks for the easy to follow guide mate. It all works very well in 4K, yes the map is small but without the fixes it would be small anyway. Icons and playable interface is wonderfully visible. The font/letters aren't as big as your video but I gather that's because you're at a lower resolution. Compared to vanilla 4K, this is so sharp and playable. This might as well be a remaster of sorts.

[@Colonel-Cornelius-CornJulio]

Nice, thanks you so much, Xuul! Keep up with the content man! :D

[@cobysmith3096]

really appreciate this guide and your dedication.

[@eetennak966]

duuuude. played this game as a kid after release, just thought oft it yesterday and now your video. nice :D

[@ficklebud3507]

Huge help. Game runs fantastic and looks fantastic! Thank you so much!

[@DEK4]

Thanks, much appreciated. Helped me play KOTOR, since the game minimizing on me after 10 seconds of unminimizing it was unplayable.

[@Revan0356]

Will be using this guide on my next play through!

[@MasterBruce1984]

Absolutely amazing tutorial. Thank you.

[@han_z363]

Thank you very good video happy to play it again after like 10 years ^^

[@alphared6843]

Perfect fix, fantastic, thank you so much

[@PaladinKorvin]

Played this game wile it was still new so very long ago. I got it on steam but didn't start a replay until a few days ago. The visuals were so cringe I almost gave up until I saw this video. Thank you so much! Now I can relive my childhood again :D

[@PH03N1X420]

i dont usually comment on videos but man i spent a whole weekend trying to get the HD version of this game working. i kept getting that main menu thing where it was an empty box. i followed you guide to the letter even overriding mods i had already had for this that you said to get. what im trying to say is thanks for helping me getting it to work!

[@Sevuz]

Thank you so much for this guide 😃

[@obiewankenobie3]

Very well done tutorial sir I appreciate you

[@ColeEdits]

HE’S BAAAAAACK!!!❤

[@Kalleosini]

VIDEO GUIDE TIMESTAMPS >House Keeping< non-steam versions 0:48 community mod builds 1:07 display scaling 1:34 >Main Video< locate installation folder 2:13 config settings 2:40 swkotor.ini 2:57 editable executable and widescreen patch 3:33 Download and extract lot of mods 6:23 >Installing mods< [CREATE AN OVERRIDE FOLDER IF YOU DON'T HAVE ONE ALREADY] ws models 7:45 K1 High Resolution Menus 8:07 HD UI Menu 10:49 Workbench Screen 11:00 Pretty good Icons 11:06 Upscaled Computer 11:30 Fade Fix 11:36 Main Menu Fix 11:45 Cutscenes 13:00

[@Grzesioo212]

You saved my life and my sanity. I only wish there would be something to make font a little bigger

[@dexioc8410]

you're the goat. thank you so much

[@mistalozna]

YOOOO youre back!

[@sloath2396]

Resolution of 3840x1600 required 'yes' for the 'dialogue letterbox proportions' when patching the exe

[@xirtus]

thank you very useful help. my only issue is still cant get it to display in my game specific monitor, well also any way to make the text larger? its so tiny on a 4k screen

[@SpiceTwice73]

Thank you for this! Only question I have is about the text in menus and dialogues, should one of these mods have made that larger? I am playing at 4k and my text is quite small Edit: I tried a mod called " Larger Text Fonts for KOTOR 1.0.2" and that seemed to do the trick

[@TargosOG]

Hello, thanks for your guide, I followed step by step but I ran into a problem, the workbench just doesnt open any UI when I interact with the first one you can find (I replaced the files from the workbench upgrade screen file multiple times by now) could you help me out? :)

[@twgamer3401]

Hey quick question if one was to upload videos of kotor with mods on video is it copyright in any way or we allowed to do it

[@cmillion]

after 3 hours i can finally play modded kotor

[@jerrymazzola6017]

Only issue is that text is too small. I found a mod called ' Larger Text Fonts for KOTOR 1.0.2' but if you use anything larger than default for the dialogue and description boxes, the quantity of an item won't be visible. Been looking for a fix, but it doesn't look like there is one.

[@InsanityPrevails]

Damn, 8 days ago Really seems like it was more than a coincidence for me to randomly decide to finally get into this game haha

[@RoseLawliet]

I had this installed fine on a previous computer, but now when I try to install it on a new laptop I'm not getting any resolution options at all, either in-game or in the config exe. I'm assuming this is a very important step, because doing everything else changes the game's resolution but not the display window. The internet seems to agree that the game needs to be run at 60hz, but my laptop only has 144 as an option. O kind internet gods, is there a way to change this just for one program? Capping the game's framerate to 60 doesn't seem to help anything.

[@600azo]

So I'm running into an issue where part of the screen is black after following the guide. Alt+tab out of the game didn't help and I have it running in compatibility mode for Windows XP (Service Pack 3). I tried changing it to Windows 7 from a suggestion in another post and disabling compatibility mode but the game will then crash in both of these instances.

[@Noblecreature]

Thank you!

[@Lokeiy]

I have a problem with the h1hrm where the dialogue options just don't appear at all. then i tried to fix that by enabling the letterboxing but it just made all text disappear. My screen resolution is 3440x1440. Help? I'm trying from the ground up again to see if it'll help, will update. Edit: I restarted with a fresh editable exe, hit yes on the letterboxing and it's working fine now.

[@WoWSamiga]

11:28 So what happens if i did overwrite these files? :( I went through the whole guide the last some hours and out of habit replaced the files... >.>

[@gas481]

paitently awaiting a fix for the mouse issues. Mouse goes to bottom of screen but cannot select anything

[@joshuahancock1118]

So I was following the guide and when I got to the Pretty Good Icons I accidently replaced the files out of habit after doing the community mods. I pressed Ctrl+z but when I try to put the files back in it doesn't ask if I want to replace anymore. Are those files gone? Does anyone know which files it tries to replace?

[@Wakemeup456]

I had to select yes for letterbox proportioning for my 3440x1440 21:9 monitor, so you might include that for ultrawide monitors in the description.

[@SteezXVI]

I have a weird problem, I am unable to edit the resolution on the config, there is nothing in the dropdown

[@tricksonafixed]

100% excellent! Thank you, appreciate the help.

[@thantotv3996]

Everything is working but the menus. The save select and even in game the menus are messed up. What's supposed to be on top is down and to the right (in the pause menu, inventory, lvl up etc.) and thus the mouse tracking is off for those buttons as well but the UI in game *unpaused* is scaled correctly and I get dialogue correctly. I've done both the (yes) and (no) option in k1hrm and no change. same issue. Anyone have an idea? My Monitor is also 2560x1440 so I used all the same settings as shown in the video.

[@YanYanson]

So I followed the video and I've gotten everything to work *except* all of the lower HUD elements (party, medpacs, etc) just...don't show up. Does anyone have an idea as to what might be wrong here?

[@osiris9067]

bro all these mods just say copy into override folder which I do but when I start the game they aren’t there?

[@Alex_1729]

why don't someone automate all of those mods into a single installer? At least the smaller ones can be grouped instead of gamers have to spend days installing. I lost 75% of the will to play the game after I finished with all of the modding from that neocities guide...

[@kalvinravn8431]

Yes a mod pack would be great!

[@Alex_1729]

@@kalvinravn8431 For real, and not just for this game, all those games out there that require a week to install and are incredibly mind-numbing to finish: Oblivion, Fallout4, etc. I mean, at least give the option

[@christophecc1313]

thx for the tuto :)

[@calebwooldridge242]

Played KOTOR on Xbox original when it came out and loved it so I want to give a modded playthrough a try as it hasn't aged very well. I just want to make sure i start of with a stable base and am confused on the literal first step of the Mod Build, installing Quicker TSLpatching script. The dialogue box says to pick the location of KOTOR 1 (self-explanitory) and then the location of KOTOR 2 but it says if you don't have either of these games you can hit cancel. I don't have KOTOR 2 and only KOTOR 1, does that mean just pick the location of the first game and then don't select anything on the second window for KOTOR 2? Or does the script require both games installed for some reason? Noob Question but would appreciate any input so i can get chugging along on the mod build.

[@isaac19901]

You select cancel when it asks for kotor 2 location

[@calebwooldridge242]

@@isaac19901 Hey thanks for the reply! 👊 So it still applies it for KOTOR 1 even though you hit cancel? I figured it just canceled the whole installation. Time to start going through the build 😁

[@jarnomikkola8438]

Nice.

[@cgunn2475]

I am trying to mod the Amazon version of the game. I have follow the steps (including the Sound and Movie fix) until relauching the game after the uniws patch with the editable excutable. I just get an error "The procedure entry point _AIL_resume_3D_sample@4 could not be located in the dynamic link library . Has anyone come across this and if so were you able to resolve it. Thanks.

[@Kalleosini]

good video, good guide. not quite the results I was looking for though, my old man eyes need that UI at least 30% bigger. doesn't seem like there's a solution to my problem unfortunately.

[@dee_n_ayy]

Almost worked for me. I have an issue where for example, in the graphics menu the mouse doesn't match up with the menu options. Clicking 'close' will toggle grass. I could look past that, but in character creation the menu with descriptions appeared halfway off bottom right of screen.

[@dee_n_ayy]

I was able to fix the issue by going back to the hires_patcher and typing yes in the command prompt instead of no.

[@spigui500]

@@dee_n_ayy Hey, what resolution were you using?

[@Krelp]

Its like he read my mind

[@Edward-fy6bt]

Can you make a video on how to get the game to stop crashing with AMD GPU

[@Grimo53]

Hi, I've done everything according to your directions, but when i try to select companions or a save file i can't click on anything where it is, I have to blindly find it a few inches diagonaly to the right. Any idea why this would be happening?

[@Grimo53]

It was the letterbox thing in k1hrm. Anyway, thanks for the video. Nice and easy to follow, now i can try this classic for the first time.

[@sensoeirensen]

Sadly it didn't worked on my 3440x1440. I followed exactly step by step but the menüs are off, and the mouse doesn't work anymore. I hope they'll make a remake of this game, I missed it back in the days. But today its unplayable, at least on my rig.

[@ohWorry]

I'm confused on if this is legit or not. Whenever I try to download the very first thing my antivirus is saying it's detecting a virus but so many people are saying this is working for them...?

[@Guzioo]

You forgot to link the Kotor fade whitescreen fix into the description btw!

[@Xuul_]

Good catch i will add that asap

[@Mr.Bronze]

I don't have the option to set the resolution to 1280 x 960.

[@jobobo3617]

Yeah me neither, did you find a fix?

[@AK_0000]

Head ups for 3440x1440 players I had to letter box my dialogue as it was cut off

[@shredkaczynski8414]

Ai makes the faces in the cutscenes look wonky and demonic

[@salehmcballz1238]

Gigachad