Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords

What works

The game can be installed and run. After starting a new game, it successfully loads the first module (the prologue aboard the Ebon Hawk).

What does not

winealsa.drv seems not to work with this game at all (produces only noise). winepulse.drv may require you to restart the pulseaudio daemon (type "pulseaudio -k" in the terminal of your choice).

Workarounds

What was not tested

I haven't played the game to completion yet, so there may or may not occur problems at some point in the storyline.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

If you own the retail version, ensure that the game has been patched to the latest build: http://help.disney.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/Where-do-I-find-the-latest-patch-for-Knights-of-the-Old-Republic-II-The-Sith-Lords#patch Otherwise, the game might not run at all (i.e. the program exits with no error message) because it cannot access the CD drive. In the game's configuration program (swconfig.exe), you might have to uncheck the hardware mouse option. To fix issues with broken sound, ensure that you are using winepulse.drv rather than winealsa.drv as your audio driver. If the sound still "stutters", restart the PulseAudio daemon by opening up a terminal and typing in the command "pulseaudio -k". You may also have to set mss32.dll to "Native" or "Native, then Builtin" in winecfg. Furthermore, running the game directly from the swkotor2.exe tends to crash it instantly for me, whereas running it from the launcher.exe seems to work just fine.

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.­­