Star Wars: The Old Republic

What works

Everything is Working.

I was having severe problems with Microsoft Windows 7 and 8.1 Test, the game took too long to load around 10 minutes and gameplay was awful, so I cancelled the subscription.

 After some playing around with Kubuntu with dist-upgrade, default radeon driver and audio (graphics card is old HD4550) and wine, winetricks, winhttp, msls3 and Direct X. Install took less than 24 hours (compared to Windows 2 days).

 Launcher.exe with swtor_fix launches in 30 seconds, and gameplay starts within 2 minutes.  Planetary transfer are really good - matter of seconds vs 5 to 10 minutes on Windows.

And gameplay is fast and responsive 

 Needless to say I got my subscription back!

Don't get me wrong I am a Microsoft Fanboy, with many ASP.Net websites and Microsoft Servers, but in this case Ubuntu variants win for SWTOR if you can get the configuration right.

I should seriously consider Gold, more testing, and I'll have a definitive answer for you. 

What does not

Graphics a little shaky but that's more likely due to my crap graphics card and limited RAM.

Workarounds

What was not tested

PvP / Multiplayer (yet)

Hardware tested

Graphics:

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Additional Comments

Actually I'd probably say Gold, but I have not tested the multiplayer.

This game requires a 32-bit Wine prefix. To ensure this is so, prefix all commands with "env WINEARCH=win32", or do "export env WINEARCH=win32" once before running any commands.

With some versions of Wine, the game will crash if icons are hovered over on the main map. Avoid this by keeping the mouse out of the way when viewing the map.

This bug occurs for some players, but not all. I (Scott Weldon) have tested with Wine 1.7.50, and the game did not crash when hovering over icons on the map. However, other users have reported that they are still experiencing the bug. Any help in narrowing down the cause is appreciated.

Before running the game, launch swtor_fix.exe (found here) in the background.