Like its predecessor, The Sith Lords takes place thousands of years before any of the Star Wars movies and is focused on some of the formative struggles between the Jedi and their power-hungry counterparts, the Sith. In the first game, you eventually discovered your Jedi powers, as well as your mysterious past. This time, you play as a different character that begins the adventure as a Jedi--but your knowledge of the character's past, the character's Force powers, and even the character's lightsaber are all missing. A journey of self-discovery awaits, and as you pick up the pieces of your character's past and discover the reasons for his or her exile from the Jedi order, your path will lead you to the few Jedi who survived the catastrophic events that took place at the conclusion of the original game.
Application Details:
| Version: | 2.x |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | http://www.lucasarts.com/games... |
| Votes: | 8 |
| Latest Rating: | Platinum |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 3.5 |
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What works
Almost everything; installation, basic configuration, gameplay
What does not
Some advanced configuration; anti-aliasing, frame buffer effects, hardware mouse
At first, sound did not work, fixed with an older Mss32.dll
Workarounds
What was not tested
Everything was tested
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
I initially had a problem with sound not working, but I found that if I replaced the Miles sound system DLL (Mss32.dll) in the game's install directory with an older one from KotOR 1, it began to work fine. The version of the DLL that came with KotOR 2 is 6.6.7.0 while KotOR 1 has the 3.0.0.0 version. The current version available from Rad Game Tools is 7.1.x.x, but I don't know if using a newer version will work. Interestingly, I originally read about replacing the DLL in a forum post about getting the game to work properly in Windows Vista
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Apr 04 2018 | 3.5 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Erol | |
| Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Oct 20 2016 | 1.9.21 | Yes | Yes | No | Garbage | an anonymous user | |
| Show | Ubuntu 14.04 "Trusty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Oct 06 2015 | 1.7.50 | Yes | Yes | No | Gold | an anonymous user | |
| Show | Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jan 18 2014 | 1.6.1 | Yes | Yes | No | Gold | theAntiBob | |
| Show | Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Sep 12 2013 | 1.7.1 | Yes | Yes | No | Bronze | morin |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 24495 | Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Steam) can't keep a video mode. | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
| 30148 | Star Wars: The Old Republic - slow loading times | RESOLVED | NOTOURBUG | View |
| 48608 | Kotor 2 crashes when starting a new game/loading a new game | UNCONFIRMED | View |
by NSLW on (April 6th 2010)
Method #1
1. Create empty file and name it SWKOTOR2
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/SWKotOR2"
wine swkotor2.exe
3. Allow executing that file as program by e.g. typing in terminal
chmod +x SWKOTOR2
4. Add yourself to audio group by e.g. setting it in system-config-users
5. Start the game by SWKOTOR2 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 II - The Sith Lords can be easily installed and patched by PlayOnLinux. You can download PlayOnLinux from here.
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