This has been bugging me for a while. OK, I have an Asus Radeon 9600 XT, and my sithies are golden. Not silver, golden. When I first got the game I thought that was the way it's supposed to be, but judging from other people's screenshots etc. there's something fishy going on...
:(

Their supposed to be silver.

It doesn't really answer your question, but I remembered this being talked about a while back....

http://lucasforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=130820)

:confused: doesnt the shine depend on the light/shadow or something ?could be why urs is gold or so :confused:

It can't be the lighting, since they are gold no matter how you look at them.
My settings are something like this:
high texture quality, 8x anisotropic filtering, 4x AA.

This is weird... :(
Could it be something with the shiny metal texture?

edit:
The lighting is actually the culprit. These "golden sith" only appear if the brightness is turned down, and there's a bug in KOTOR that makes the brightness reset itself after the cutscenes...:(

Still, I got myself some chromey sith now. Cool!:cool:

another edit:
*sigh*
I can still see the gold. :(

Could someone that doesn't have this problem please send me their cm_baremetal file?