Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

What works

Installs pretty good. I used the 4 discs. I had to use gmountiso ('apt-get install gmountiso') to mount the ISOs. Ran the install just fine. No problems installing. Installed using both Wine and PlayOnLinux, both installed simply, no errors.

What does not

Nothing that I've seen yet. Still going though the game though. (Played it multiple times, but only in Windows, now working it over in Linux).

Workarounds

What was not tested

Haven't finished the full game yet. Worked up through Endar Spire (first mission) and Tatooine. Am still going and will post any bugs & fixes as I go along.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

One thing I ran into constantly is a flickering screen so bad I couldn't play the game (I'm using an ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics Card on my Laptop). It booted up nicely, nice screen, just fine, but after you make your character and are ready to star the mission, it flickers and you can't play. I found a fix on the net which is to go to System -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Visual Effects and turn this option Off. This stopped the flickering and it works well now.

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.­