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Title: Star Wars: The Old Republic

volmok 10 Oct 2014

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I do not know how many of you still play this game and of those I do not know how many play this game on Linux.

For me it was a hard road to making the game playable on Linux, but this week I did it :)

What I did is:
- downloaded and build wine-git (only for 32bit since I will this build only for SWTOR)
- applied patch https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=47704 (from bug https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29168 )
- downloaded the files from https://github.com/aljen/swtor_fix
- installed vcrun2008, d3dx9, winhttp
- modified launcher.settings based on the launcher.sh file (change BR to SSN)
- read this post: http://www.swtor.com/community/showpost.php?p=5374253&postcount=2
- created two files based on the post above. You can find them on Wine site: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=27088#Comment-92783

You should have the game on an SSD to make it a lot more faster, or at leas the Assets folder on an SSD.

There are some issues still:
- if you hover over objectives on the map the game will crash
- if you change video setting while not in character select the gae will crash
- there are some weird blinking textures (this is random)

With these settings and the video settings set to medium (no shadows!) I was able to get 90 FPS while travelling around Balmorra and on the star fleet.

I hope this helps someone!

My specs:
I7 3770k OC to 4.5Ghz
MSI GTX680 2GB
24GB RAM
ArchLinux x64

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leillo1975 13 Feb 2015

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I play the steam version of this game without problems if I configure wine to play it in a Virtual Desktop (1280x1024). If I try to play it in Fullscreen, the game crashes or get blocked in videos.

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volmok 13 Feb 2015

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I cannot find SW:TOR on Steam.
Maybe you are playing Knights of the Old Republic; I was describing the Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO.

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leillo1975 13 Feb 2015

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Ohhh, You're right, I apologize.

I'm talking about KOTOR

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seguleh 15 Feb 2015

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Perfectly playable with PlayOnLinux except issue with mouse over area objective on map. Ok, not perfectly: on my machine (Phenom II x2, GF460SE, 4Gb Ram) on some locations fps drops under 24, especially when many enemies around.

PS. : This is absolutely awesome game, if any of U have more powerful rig than mine U should try it out. Of course if U love SW universe, like I do :)

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Cimeryd 17 Feb 2015

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Always wanted to play it, but I don't have Windows and couldn't get this thing to work with Wine/PoL. Might follow this guide the next time I get the urge to try it out, but at this point I feel like Bioware is making zero effort to get me as a customer, so why should I do their job for them?

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FinCoder 22 Feb 2015

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wine-staging is offering a hack for the map crash until they find prober fix.

check their irc channel

freenode.org

#wine-staging

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