Star Wars: The Old Republic

What works

launcher, introvideos, character selection, gameplay, conversation videos

What does not

If you've activated the cooldown timers, they will stop counting down sometimes, but you can see it on the icon (not greyed out anymore), if the ability is ready.

There are two instances of swtor.exe running on different CPU cores. Quitting the game sometimes leaves the one instance running. You can just kill it then.

Workarounds

What was not tested

installation with installer/dvd, server selection, character creation

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

I've set the games graphics details to lowest available. It runs smooth even in crowded areas or fighting in a 1920x1200 resolution. Hardware: Intel C2Q Q8400 / 4GB RAM / GeForce GTX460 (nvidia-glx 295.20-1) Linux 3.2-11.slh.3-aptosid-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Mar 17 01:00:27 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux --- Built Wine from git using the KUSER_SHARED_DATA with no attributes patch: As root: apt-get build-dep wine apt-get install git nvidia-glx-ia32 As user: mkdir ~/wine-git git clone git://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git ~/wine-git cd ~/wine-git wget http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=39316 -O swtor.patch cat swtor.patch |patch -p1 CFLAGS="-O3 -g" CC="gcc-4.6" LDFLAGS="-m32 -L/lib32 \ -L/usr/lib32 -Wl,-rpath,/lib32 -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib32"\ ./configure --prefix=/opt/wine -v make As root: make install --- - copied SWTOR from Windows installation - renamed LoadingIconAnim.dds to LoadingIconAnim.dds.bak # only first run PATH=$PATH:/opt/wine/bin winetricks d3dx9 vcrun2008 /opt/wine/bin/wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/SWTOR/Fixlauncher.exe /opt/wine/bin/wine explorer /desktop:SWTOR,1920x1200 ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/SWTOR/launcher.exe

1) Ensure that git is installed:

sudo apt-get install git

sudo yum install git

2) Get a copy of the wine source:

git clone git://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git wine-git
cd wine-git

3) Get a copy of the patch:

wget -O KUSER_SHARED_DATA http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=40435

4) Make sure that you have the requirements to compile wine:

http://wiki.winehq.org/Recommended_Packages

Check out this link for 64 bit systems.  You may want to only build the 32bit version to simplify things:

http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit

5) Apply the patch:

cat KUSER_SHARED_DATA | patch -p1

6) Build wine:

./configure
make

See Bug 29168 for more details.

- Change to the Loading Screen directory.

cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Electronic\ Arts/BioWare/Star\ Wars\ -\ The\ Old\ Republic/swtor/retailclient/LoadingScreens/

- Rename the loading screens

mv LoadingScreen.jpg LoadingScreen.jpg.bak
mv LoadingIconAnim.dds  LoadingIconAnim.dds.bak

At this point you will have a blank screen loading the server list, and people have seen long pauses while try waiting for the server list to load.

This is an appdb entry for an old version of SW: TOR.  It is being archived to retain old comments.

Check out the new version.