Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

What works

All. Completed full game on both sides.

What does not

Nothing. Except video RAM detection, it looks like game was developed in times when 1GB or RAM was just not existed. Other testings good.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Patch for widescreen.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Why I gave it Platinum status? So, as a description of Gold status "Works flawlessly with DLL overrides, third party software or other settings" I didn't used 3rd party or overriding DLL's except NoDVD patch. Game has default settings and running perfect with them. I had only about 8-10 crashes, during complete game or dialogs what never repeated in same time (I believe it can be related with KOTOR itself as in Windows) and had screen problem during space travels (game was minimized in bar and repeated this action after restoring, but I just repeated restoring and minimizing 5-8 times and it's continued to work as before). So, this bug repeated randomly, I didn't remebered it everytime. This thing repeated 10-15 times during full game and every time when I clicked mouse too many during videos. I believe it could be window manager problem, not Wine or KOTOR itself, need to test it on another window manager. Other things you may want to know... My distribution is: - Netrunner 14.04 (Ubuntu/Kubuntu 14.04 LTS derrivative) My desktop is: - KDE My sound system is: pulseaudio4.0 My kernel is: - Linux 3.13.0-37-generic x86_64 My wine version is: - 1.7.28 My wine prefix is: - default, 64 bit arch What packages do I additionaly installed to run this game?: - d3dx9 What videocard do I used?: - NVIDIA Corporation GF108M [GeForce GT 630M] How do I run this game?: - I played on my laptop with 1366x768 screen resolution. I used Nvidia optimus technology to run this game and primus backend. Command is: $ env WINEPREFIX="/home/user/.wine" primusrun wine C:\\windows\\command\\start.exe /Unix /home/user/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Games/KOTOR/swkotor.exe

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.­