Star Wars: The Old Republic

What works

Everything with patch mentioned below.

What does not

Game is too slow to really play, but it may be caused by not-so-fast hardware. Anyway, I've managed to do Black Talon flashpoint somehow.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Operations, other planets, than Korriban and Dromund Caas.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

3.5.4-1-ARCH, AMD E-450 (2x1.6GHz) & RadeonHD 6320, 8Gb DDR3 RAM, SSD.

Thank you very much for wishing to spend some time on improving AppDB. I have to warn you that general AppDB policies forbid (a) accepting test results for patched Wine versions and (b) forbid accepting results obtained from PoL-driven Wine installations, only "vanilla" unpatched Wine or Wine that had came by default with your distro are considered to be valid. I'm really sorry for that, but it is the way it currently is. For more details feel free to read recent (as of 16th of May, 2012) discussion on wine-devel mailing list. Aside from the requirements above your test results should comply with some simple rules to be accepted:

• Please, test an application under fresh clean wineprefix;
• Include exact specs of the computer you had tested an app on (CPU, GPU, amount of RAM and VRAM) in the "Extra Comments" section of the report;
• Specify versions of essential software components, most notably: is your system 32bit or 64bit, what is the version of the GPU display driver you use and what is the version of the OS kernel;
• Include detailed information on the native dll overrides you had to use in order to get the game working. If you had installed dlls yourself - include complete information on the sources of dlls and the exact steps you took to install them.

Thank you in advance!

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.

You need the native libraries d3dx9 and vcrun2008 installed to run the game.  The easiest way to install these libraries is by first installing winetricks with your package manager:

sudo apt-get install winetricks

sudo yum install winetricks

You can also download winetricks directly:

wget http://winetricks.org/winetricks
chmod +x winetricks 

Installing the prerequisites:

winetricks d3dx9
winetricks vcrun2008
winecfg

The launcher window seems to be composed of two different frames: the actual useful frame that contains the login screen, and a style frame that is mostly black.  As of a recent patch to the launcher, these two frames no longer align properly making it impossible to log in to the game.  You can work around this problem by launching the game in a virtual desktop sized to fit the launcher window:

wine explorer /desktop=SW:TOR,1000x614 launcher.exe

You can later select a different resolution when the game launches.

See Bug 31186 for more details.