Star Wars Republic Commando is a single-player squad based action game where you play as one of the Republic clones. Lead your 4 soldier squad through alien territories covering each others backs and maneuvering in attack formations to achieve the best strategy of survival.



Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Star Wars Republic Commando in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of Star Wars Republic Commando. Other versions may require additional steps.

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Mint 17.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.10
Wine: 1.8.2

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"


Look for the Wine Version: 1.8.2
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right


Click Next

Downloading Wine


Extracting

Downloading Gecko


Installed


Wine 1.8.2 is installed and you can close this window

PlayOnLinux Setup

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install


Click "Install a non-listed program"


Click Next

Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next


Name your virtual drive: republiccommando
Click Next


Check All three options:

• Use anothe version of Wine
• Configure Wine
• Install some libraries

Click Next


Select Wine 1.8.2
Click Next


Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next


Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7
Click Apply


Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Check "Emualte a virtual desktop"
Desktop size: 1024x768
Click OK


PlayOnLinux Packages (Components, DLL's, Libraries)

Check the following:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_gdiplus
• POL_Install_tahoma

Click Next


Note: All packages will automatically download and install

Installing Star Wars Republic Commando

Click Browse


Select "setup_sw_republic_commando_2.0.0.6.exe"
Click Open


Click Next again

Click Options
Check "Yes, I have read and accept EULA"
Uncheck "Create desktop icon"
Click Install


Errors
Click OK on all errors


Click Exit


PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "SWRepublicCommando.exe"
Click Next


Name the shortcut: Republic Commando
Click Next


Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next


PlayOnLinux Configure

Select "Republic Commando"
Click Configure


General Tab
Wine version: 1.8.2


Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of Wine

Display Tab
GLSL Support: disabled
Video memory size: Enter the amount of memory your video card/chip uses


Close Configure

Running Star Wars Republic Commando

Select "Republic Commando"
Click Run


Note: Click Debug to see errors and bugs

Optimization

Click Options


Click Graphics

Adjust:

• Graphics Quality
• Brightness
• Vdieo Resolution
• Texture Quality
• Character Detail
• Bumpmapping Quality
• Blur Quality
• Bloom Effects
• Shadows
• VSync
• AntiAliasing

Click Done to apply


Graphical Artifacts

Even with GLSL disabled some of the characters will flicker black.
disabling the Tactical Mode helps remove it.



Conclusion:
Star Wars Republic Commando ran perfectly on my Geforce 550 Ti and my GeForce 9800. I only had a crash once because of missing video codecs. You can either pres ESC quickly to skip the video's or install WMP9 & WMP10 packages.

I also noticed a few missing textures where structures were just plain black. Disabling GLSL fixed this problem.

There is a texture/bumpmapping bug in Windows that can be fixed by installing this mod:
http://www.moddb.com/mods/star-wars-republic-commando-graphics-fix/downloads

Just install it by extracting the zip file, then cut-n-paste the folders in the data files in the games folder. Make sure to merge and replace all the files.

Gameplay Video:


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