Star Wars: The Old Republic

What works

• Launcher
• Patching
• Character selection
• Questing
• PvP
• Flashpoints
  

What does not

• Cool-down text fails to count down properly and gets stuck sometimes, although it works most of the time.
• An instance of swtor.exe is left running after quitting the game.
  

Workarounds

What was not tested

• Ops (But I'm sure they work fine, will test later)
• Installation (I copied my Windows install)
• Character Creation
  

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

I'm running the game at High settings at 2560x1440 resolution, with Anti-aliasing turned off. The frame-rate is smooth and playable, although there's some hick-ups after first loading in to the world. I found the frame-rate to the somewhat lower than on Windows on my hardware. Hardware: Intel Core i5 760 @ 2.8GHz / 8GB RAM / GeForce GTX460 1GB (nvidia-glx 295.20) I used the latest KUSHER_SHARED_DATA patch by Xolotl Loki. Patched and installed the latest wine from git following H. M. Kruse's instructions in his test data.

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.

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