Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

What works

- pretty much everything, including the game and widescreen patches (uniws)

What does not

- in about 1 to 50 cases the game will freeze and then crash when transitioning between maps
- very rarely the ground will not load and you will have to exit the game and start it again

Workarounds

What was not tested

- dark side scenario

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Tested with both amdgpu and radeon drivers = same results *** In certain maps game will begin to lag noticeably, especially when outside on Dantooine. The way to fix this is to edit swkotor.ini and under [Graphics Options] add the following line: Disable Vertex Buffer Objects=1 Additionally, the game will freeze and crash about 1 in a 50 times when transitioning between maps. I have not found a solution to this, except to save frequently. On a one or two odd occasions the game went totally black and froze my system. There is a chance Soft Shadows and Frame Buffer Effects will be grayed out in the configuration options, but you can fix this in swkotor.ini Also, unlike previous comments here, game works just fine in full screen and can be easily patched by uniws for a widescreen resolution. (you should also try to obtain HUD widescreen fixes)

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.­