The latest version of Star Wars: The Old Republic
Application Details:
| Version: | latest |
| License: | Retail |
| URL: | http://www.swtor.com |
| Votes: | 50 |
| Latest Rating: | Garbage |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 7.22 |
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What works
Installing game using downloadable installer stub from the SWTOR website
Logging in with mobile security key
Installing the last few months' worth of patches
Running around Tatooine killing random mobs
Having and finishing a conversation with an NPC
What does not
I initially did winetricks winhttp corefonts d3dx9 vcrun2008, but performance was very choppy, so I deleted that wine prefix and started again with a fresh one, and the second time I just did winetricks vcrun2008, and everything actually worked bettervcrun2008 is also needed on Windows so I thought it was a good idea to install it; it may or may not be necessary anymore
Workarounds
I used a 64-bit wine prefix and I did not use swtor_fix.exe - everything still worked fine
Windows version was set to Windows 7
I initially did winetricks winhttp corefonts d3dx9 vcrun2008, but performance was very choppy, so I deleted that wine prefix and started again with a fresh one, and the second time I just did winetricks vcrun2008, and everything actually worked better
vcrun2008 is also needed on Windows so I thought it was a good idea to install it; it may or may not be necessary anymore
I set the patching mode to SSN and disabled bitraider in launcher.settings but I also do this on my Windows machine because bitraider is really terrible in general
I used a virtual desktop equal to my ancient laptop's native resolution (1366x768) and I ran the game on "Low" graphics settings in "Fullscreen (Windowed)" mode
Launcher will not start if I set "Terminal=true" in the .desktop file but that ultimately was not a problem
What was not tested
Downloading the entire game - After running the installer, which created shortcuts in my applications menu, I copied the entire game folder into the install directory, selecting "merge" for all subfolders and "overwrite" for all files
Running around the fleet, which is always much more crowded than Tatooine
Chatting with other players
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
My specs:
Toshiba Satellite L655-S5165
Intel Core i5-480M
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 1GB
8GB RAM
2TB Seagate Firecude Hybrid Hard Drive
On low settings, I get about 25 fps in the world killing mobs and about 40 fps in conversations with NPCs; fps is fairly steady so it's playable, albeit not very pretty. People with very powerful machines will most likely get a flawless experience
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | macOS 12 "Monterey" | Dec 05 2022 | 7.22 | Yes | No | No | Garbage | Shaun Carter | |
| Show | Fedora 33 x86_64 | Dec 26 2020 | 6.0-rc3-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | aililoh | |
| Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Jun 28 2020 | 5.9-staging | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | spyrou007 | |
| Show | Arch Linux x86_64 | Dec 21 2019 | 4.21 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Ewan | |
| Current | Fedora 31 x86_64 | Nov 27 2019 | 4.20-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | John Bach |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 41356 | Multiple applications and games need support for szOID_NIST_sha* OIDs in crypt32 (The Crew (Uplay), Star Wars The Old Republic, PSNow v9.0.5) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 43469 | Star Wars the old republic give an error message and exits after latest update | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 47034 | Star Wars The Old Republic - Certificate Authentication Failed with wine-dev 4.6 (regression) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 49011 | Multiple games and applications cause wineserver crash in Wine 5.7 | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 49515 | Star Wars: The Old Republic unable to patch on Debian but works on Mint | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
| 50163 | Multiple applications crash with a stack overflow (Mod Organizer 2, World of Tanks, SWTOR, Audacity) | CLOSED | FIXED | View |
| 50164 | SWTOR crash during splash screen with 5.22 - thread blocked | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 50300 | Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR) crashes in wine 5.22 but works in previous wine versions (ex. wine 5.5) | CLOSED | DUPLICATE | View |
| 50301 | Star Wars:The old republic's launcher crashes | UNCONFIRMED | View |
With wine 6.0 staging everything works fine, but you may need to run:
winetricks d3dcompiler_47 d3dx9_41
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