Star Wars: The Old Republic

Pre-release and retail versions of SW:TOR.

Application Details:

Version:	1.0.x
License:	Retail
URL:	http://www.swtor.com
Votes:	Marked as obsolete
Latest Rating:	Garbage
Latest Wine Version Tested:	1.5.4

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Test Results

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Selected Test Results

What works

Game playing. I am doing PvP, 4 man, 8 man, questing, leveling.
Patching.
Frame rate seems a tad slower than in windows, but barely noticable.
Loading screens seem actually somewhat faster.

Tested on a i7 2600 @4.6 GHz. GFX is a 460 GTX 1GiB.

What does not

Bloom, blur in depth of view during dialogs. This causes random textures becoming transparent, which shouldn't be.
Antialiasing. Looks good and initially seems to work, but leads to crashes after a few minutes or an hour of game play. Probably related to memory consumption on the GFX, e. g. Taris crashes pretty quick, while the space station runs forever.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Installing. I just copied from a windows installation.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

GPU:
Driver:

Additional Comments

Needs the patch mentioned in http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29168 . Without the rating is "garbage".

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Show	Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	May 18 2012	1.5.4	Yes	No		Garbage	Hideaki
Show	Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)	May 04 2012	1.5.3	Yes	No		Garbage	Benjamin Lawrence
Current	Gentoo Linux x86_64	May 08 2012	1.5.1	No, but has workaround	Yes		Bronze	hirschhornsalz
Show	Aptosid x86_64	Mar 22 2012	1.5.0	N/A	Yes		Gold	Hideaki
Show	Aptosid x86_64	Mar 18 2012	1.5.0	N/A	Yes		Gold	H. M. Kruse

Known Bugs

Bug #	Description	Status	Resolution	Other apps affected
30148	Star Wars: The Old Republic - slow loading times	RESOLVED	NOTOURBUG	View

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HowTo / Notes

How to compile wine from git

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.

Getting around the hang at loading screen

- 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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