STAR WARS™: The Force Unleashed™ II

STAR WARS™: The Force Unleashed™ II

Ther_Karl 4 Sep, 2020 @ 3:48am
FIX: Game crashing before, during, or after a cutscene
First off, this game crashes frequently. However, you can usually just start it up again, and it probably won't crash in the same place again, allowing you to progress through the game.

The game breaking problem I encountered was the cutscene where PROXY and Kota are discussing whether they should abandon ship during their attack on Kamino. The game kept on crashing, and no amount of restarts, fiddling with Vsync, or even reinstalling seemed to help at all.

The fix that worked for me:
Press win+r, run appdata.
This address: AppData\Local\LucasArts\Star Wars The Force Unleashed 2
Open Config file in notepad
Find this line: <s id="PlayMovies">Yes</s>
Change it to: <s id="PlayMovies">No</s>

This will disable the "cinematic" cutscenes, and instead play the cutscenes with the game engine. It does look significantly worse, but you can at least play the game, and you don't miss out on the story.
After doing this the game hasn't crashed for me, yet.
I tried enabling PlayMovies after getting past the first cutscene where the game kept crashing, hoping it was a problem with that specific cutscene. But, it just started to crash again, so I would recommend leaving it off. You're welcome to try, but it didn't work for me, just letting you know.


Hope this helps for the few people that play this game, and may encounter this problem.
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ThatDood 8 Nov, 2020 @ 6:32pm 
I did not expect this fix to work, but it did, thank you so much
Darth Nipple 14 Nov, 2020 @ 2:07pm 
this is one of the places my game crashes a lot too. Ill try this fix
Heisenberg.TAC 6 Dec, 2020 @ 3:03am 
How can i change the file ? It dosnt work when i click it
Heisenberg.TAC 6 Dec, 2020 @ 3:08am 
never mind i got it
StarkillerMEGA 22 Dec, 2020 @ 11:29am 
So I did it and now I can play again but there are no more cutscenes now but u said that I still can see them, so what to do that I can see them again?
Last edited by StarkillerMEGA; 22 Dec, 2020 @ 11:30am
Ther_Karl 23 Jan, 2021 @ 3:09pm 
Originally posted by StarkillerMEGA:
So I did it and now I can play again but there are no more cutscenes now but u said that I still can see them, so what to do that I can see them again?
Oh, that's weird. They played for me after I disabled movies. You could try to re-enable them, but for me that just caused the game to crash endlessly again.
turnerid71 16 Feb, 2021 @ 4:30am 
Thanks for this, it worked.
Matuvo 20 Mar, 2023 @ 10:25am 
Originally posted by Ther_Karl:
First off, this game crashes frequently. However, you can usually just start it up again, and it probably won't crash in the same place again, allowing you to progress through the game.

The game breaking problem I encountered was the cutscene where PROXY and Kota are discussing whether they should abandon ship during their attack on Kamino. The game kept on crashing, and no amount of restarts, fiddling with Vsync, or even reinstalling seemed to help at all.

The fix that worked for me:
Press win+r, run appdata.
This address: AppData\Local\LucasArts\Star Wars The Force Unleashed 2
Open Config file in notepad
Find this line: <s id="PlayMovies">Yes</s>
Change it to: <s id="PlayMovies">No</s>

This will disable the "cinematic" cutscenes, and instead play the cutscenes with the game engine. It does look significantly worse, but you can at least play the game, and you don't miss out on the story.
After doing this the game hasn't crashed for me, yet.
I tried enabling PlayMovies after getting past the first cutscene where the game kept crashing, hoping it was a problem with that specific cutscene. But, it just started to crash again, so I would recommend leaving it off. You're welcome to try, but it didn't work for me, just letting you know.


Hope this helps for the few people that play this game, and may encounter this problem.
cant believe this sh*t worked but it did thx o:
Gumbee 9 Apr, 2023 @ 4:31am 
Not sure who is still playing this game but there's away to get the cut-scene to work K-Lite Codec Pack Full. Once its download the cut-scene worked pass the first level , hope this helps. Also wanted to add that on my home computer running lintel and NVIDIA hardware it didn't need the k-pack . but on my steam deck running windows 11 it did
Last edited by Gumbee; 9 Apr, 2023 @ 4:59am
idunnomadude 11 Apr, 2024 @ 2:55am 
worked! thanks
Henry Mccoy 30 Apr, 2024 @ 2:31pm 
thanks man
Zortez 14 May, 2024 @ 1:10am 
thanks!
Originally posted by Ther_Karl:
Originally posted by StarkillerMEGA:
So I did it and now I can play again but there are no more cutscenes now but u said that I still can see them, so what to do that I can see them again?
Oh, that's weird. They played for me after I disabled movies. You could try to re-enable them, but for me that just caused the game to crash endlessly again.
Why would the game play an in-game cutscene in place of a pre-rendered cutscene? I'm so confused by this. It doesn't play the new game cutscene of vader landing somewhere for me, I assume because its pre-rendered, right? But will it play other cutscenes for the rest of the game?
Originally posted by COWABUNGA:
Originally posted by Ther_Karl:
Oh, that's weird. They played for me after I disabled movies. You could try to re-enable them, but for me that just caused the game to crash endlessly again.
Why would the game play an in-game cutscene in place of a pre-rendered cutscene? I'm so confused by this. It doesn't play the new game cutscene of vader landing somewhere for me, I assume because its pre-rendered, right? But will it play other cutscenes for the rest of the game?
Okay just to confirm, there are some in-game cutscenes, but there are plenty of pre-rendered scenes that are skipped that has no in-game alternative, so you DO miss out on the story if you do this.
ElMaG1K 24 Jul @ 11:23am 
Originally posted by Gumbee:
Not sure who is still playing this game but there's away to get the cut-scene to work K-Lite Codec Pack Full. Once its download the cut-scene worked pass the first level , hope this helps. Also wanted to add that on my home computer running lintel and NVIDIA hardware it didn't need the k-pack . but on my steam deck running windows 11 it did
How do you fixe it?
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