why does kotor 2 look incredibly low res on vista?

i got it to load on my sisters laptop here after swapping the .dll file and making it boot in compatibility mode - but the game looks like a bad youtube video.

this laptop has a dual core AMD, a GeForce 7000M / nForce 610 graphics card, and 800mb ram ish-

it runs CS source fine, and kotor looks and runs like crap

i know this game has issues with vista, and the game wasnt built for it

but its more the resolution thats buggin me

the logo boots up and theres like squares everywhere, its incredibly low res

its a bad card yeah but the game ran fine on my 6 year old computer running a radeon 9600xt

i'll try actually playing it

it was more the menus and the bootup lucasarts logo

its a bad card yeah but the game ran fine on my 6 year old computer running a radeon 9600xt

i'll try actually playing it

it was more the menus and the bootup lucasarts logo

BobSacamento

Thats because a 9600 is a gaming card and the one you are using right now isn't(at least I don't think it is)