Star Wars: Kights of the Old Republic is the first installment of the series developed by Bioware released in 2003. Lead your party in skirmishes against the Sith, Travel to planets across the Galaxy, follow an epic story as you encounter many characters and alien races.
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Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the Steam version of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Other versions may require additional steps.
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Mint 17 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.5
Wine: 1.6.2
Wine Installation
Note: Versions of Wine older than 2.0.2 and Wine 2.12-staging no longer work with Steam
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
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Look for the Wine Version: 1.6.2
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
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Click Next
Downloading Wine
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Extracting
Downloading Gecko
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Installed
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Wine 1.6.2 is installed and you can close this window
Downloading Steam
Go To: http://www.steampowered.com
Click Install Steam
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Do not click "Install Steam Now"
It will automatically install Linux Steam
Select Windows Steam instead
click "Windows" under the green button
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Navigate to your desktop
Click Save
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Setup PlayOnLinux
Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install
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Click "install a non-listed program"
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Click Next
Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
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Name you virtual drive: swkotor
Click Next
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Select all three options:
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
Click Next
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Select Wine 1.6.2
Click Next
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Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next
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Configure Wine
Applications Tab
Windows Version: Windows 7
Click Apply
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Graphics Tab
Check: Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows
Check: Emulate a virtual desktop
Desktop size: 1024x768
Click Ok
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Install Libraries
Check the following libraries:
Click Next
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_tahoma
Installing Steam
Click Browse
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Navigate to your desktop
Select: SteamSetup.exe
Click Open
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Click Next
Click Next
Check: I accept the license...
Click Next
Click Next
Click Next
Click Install
Click Finish
Updating Steam
More updating, extracting and installing
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When Steam is done installing the login screen will pop up. You probably won't see any text because there is a font bug.
Click the "X" to close Steam login
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PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select Steam.exe
Click Next
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Name your shortcut: SW: Knights of the Old Republic
Click Next
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Click Next
PlayOnLinux Configure
Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure
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General Tab
Arguments: -no-dwrite -no-cef-sandbox
This fixes the missing font and store problem
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Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the Down-Arrow to select other versions of wine.
Display Tab
Video Memory Size: Select the size of Memory your video card/chip uses
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Close Configure
Launching Steam
Select "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic"
Click Run
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Note: Click Debug to see errors and bugs.
Click "Login to existing account"
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Login
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Steam Overlay
Steam overlay has been known to cause problems launching games.
Click Steam menu
Click Settings
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Select "In-game"
Uncheck "Enable Steam Commuinty In-Game"
Click OK
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Installing Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Select Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Click Install
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Click Next
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Click Next
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Click Finish
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Wait as the game downloads
When its finished
Click Play
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Optmization
Click Options
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Click Graphics
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Select Resolution
Enable/Disable:
- 800x600
- 1024x768
- 2048x1024
- Shadows
- Grass
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Click Advanced Options
Adjust:
- Overall Quality
- AntiAlias
- Anistropy
- Frame buffer effects
- Soft shadows
- V-Sync
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Rule of Thumb:
High settings = More detail, lower frame rates
Low settings = Less detail, higher frame rates
Custom Resolution
Unfortunately the game does not support high resolutions or widescreen resolutions.
You can force it to run as high as 1600x1200
Navigate to the swotor directory:
Code:/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/swkotor/drive_c/Program Files/Steam/SteamApps/Common/swotor![]()
Note: Username is where you put your Linux login
Open swkotor.ini with a text editor
Enter:
High=1200
Width=1600
Click Save
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Set your Linux desktop for 1600x1200 and then launch Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Now it should appear fullscreen in a high resolution
Conclusion:
Knights of the Old Republic should run well on just about any computer with Linux. Since its a 2003 game, the spec are really low and even laptops should be able to run it.
It ran very nicely on my GeForce 550 Ti and was able to crank all the video settings to High and run on a fairly high resolution.
I tested Flawless Widescreen in PlayOnLinux, but it would crash the game when loading. So I had to resort to 3:4 ratio resollution.
Gameplay video:
Screenshots:
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