Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

What works

Install, basic configuration, gameplay

What does not

Updating failed connection

In-game options: frame buffer effects, anti-aliasing, soft shadows

some sound stuttering

Workarounds

What was not tested

Autoupdate

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

I had this working before the 0.9.38 update, after the update it failed. I did a complete wipe of my Wine install and started fresh with a new 0.9.38 install and made two registry modifications: DirectDrawRenderer set to opengl VideoMemorySize set to my card's actual memory size (256) The game installed without issue and launches when run from the game CDs autorun.exe (launching from the local exe produced menus with missing text). "Enable Hardware Mouse" had to be disabled in the configuration menu to get cursor to function correctly. There are still occasionally pointer trails, but there is a usable mouse cursor. Attempting to use the game's autoupdate feature first failed to even launch, but was fixed with a DLL override of mfc42.dll. Once the autoupdater launched, it failed to connect to the update server, but that is likely a configuration issue on my end.

by ­NSLW on (April 6th 2010)

Method #1

   1. Create empty file and name it SWKOTOR
   2. Fill it with following content

      #!/bin/sh
      X :3 -ac &
      sleep 2
      export WINEPREFIX=${HOME}/.wine
      export WINEDEBUG=-all
      export DISPLAY=:3
      cd "${HOME}/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/LucasArts/SWKotOR"
      wine swkotor.exe

   3. Allow executing that file as program by e.g. typing in terminal

chmod +x SWKOTOR

  4. Add yourself to audio group by e.g. setting it in system-config-users
  5. Start the game by SWKOTOR file
  6. After you quit the game press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace

Method #2 (NVIDIA only)

   1. Type in terminal

sudo nvidia-xconfig --no-dynamic-twinview

   2. Start the game as usual

by ­NSLW on (April 6th 2010)

It's possible to run this game in widescreen resolutions. For more informations visit www.widescreengamingforum.com

by ­NSLW on (April 6th 2010)

Option Enable Hardware mouse, in configurator, works only in fullscreen (Method #1), in other cases you should disable it.

by ­NSLW on (April 6th 2010)

To disable anoying system tray do following:
   1. Start Registry Editor by e.g. regedit
   2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER->Software->Wine
   3. Create X11 Driver if it isn't created already
   4. Create new String Value in X11 Driver key and name it ShowSystray
   5. Set false in Value data for ShowSystray

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic can be easily installed and patched by PlayOnLinux. You can download PlayOnLinux from here.­