Actually the game engine was done by BioWare this time around.....completely different engine

see this link http://www.bioware.com/games/knights_old_republic/

and as far as i can tell there is no demo available[!]

looking forward to release (even a testing release) .......have a few games i would like to test it on........thanks in advance for all of your hard work....till then have a happy holiday

sorry i havent been on sooner ....but your suggestion worked and i was able to play through the game i appreciate all your help

Thank you for all your suggestions will check back once i give it all a try

have v5 5500 pci currently using 3dhq beta 10 drivers....tried wickedGL and kicked me back to desktop......tried without wickedGl and experienced horrible load times and would hang
also FMV not appearing......also had same issue with am3.0 drivers.....if you need me to elaborate more i will be happy to do so........thanks in advance  

other computer stats:
AMD Duron 1Ghz
192 MB Ram
Linksys 10/100 NIC
SB Live! Value
20 GB Maxtor HD with windows 2000 professional
20 GB Western Digital HD with Gentoo Linux 1.4