SWOTR - Nov.11/2011 Beta results

CFet · Post by **CFet** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 10:58 am

Greetings,
I received an invite to test SWOTR for the Nov.11 - 13th weekend. I will post reults with wine here as soon as I try it out. I am not the most wine savy but I hope I can provide some data to help ensure a smoother installation for others on release date. I have been using wine with wow for a few years now, hoping it's not too difficult to achieve running status for this game. I am currently running Fedora 15.
Regards,
Chris

doh123 · Post by **doh123** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:17 am

I tried to run it on Mac OS X 10.7... but not having Samba killed the login/patcher. I'll have to get that installed... have you tried the login/patcher yet? YOu don't have to wait for the game servers to be up to get that far.

CFet · Post by **CFet** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:57 am

doh123 wrote:... have you tried the login/patcher yet? YOu don't have to wait for the game servers to be up to get that far.

No I have not yet, waiting for servers to finish maintenance to register the invite. I will try then. Thanks

C

txclimbr · Post by **txclimbr** » Sat Nov 12, 2011 7:28 pm

I have been trying to get the SW:TOR loader to function in wine 1.3, on linux mint 9 most of the day it loads into wine just fine, but everytime i mouse over the SW:TOR loader it disappears. I have had WoW running in wine years ago.

In winecfg i have the graphics settings as follows:
Automatically capture mouse - checked
Allow the window manager to decorate the windows - checked
Allow the window manager to control the windows - checked

These are just the settings they are on currently i have tried all combinations of configurations with these settings.

Direct 3d vertex shader support is using Hardware
Allow Pixel SHader is checked..

Also i went through and loaded Directx9 in wine in an attempt to get the SW:TOR loader stable as well.

Im pretty much about to give up on this as i have my windows laptop downloading the beta tester now, but i would much rather play this on my desktop.

Any suggestions from anyone would be appreciated.
Thanks

doh123 · Post by **doh123** » Sat Nov 12, 2011 9:00 pm

txclimbr wrote:I have been trying to get the SW:TOR loader to function in wine 1.3, on linux mint 9 most of the day it loads into wine just fine, but everytime i mouse over the SW:TOR loader it disappears. I have had WoW running in wine years ago.

In winecfg i have the graphics settings as follows:
Automatically capture mouse - checked
Allow the window manager to decorate the windows - checked
Allow the window manager to control the windows - checked

These are just the settings they are on currently i have tried all combinations of configurations with these settings.

Direct 3d vertex shader support is using Hardware
Allow Pixel SHader is checked..

Also i went through and loaded Directx9 in wine in an attempt to get the SW:TOR loader stable as well.

Im pretty much about to give up on this as i have my windows laptop downloading the beta tester now, but i would much rather play this on my desktop.

Any suggestions from anyone would be appreciated.
Thanks

your running into the known bug with cursors...
This is all documented in the AppDB entry if you read it...

here is the bug though, the attached patch in it fixes the problem
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29041

txclimbr · Post by **txclimbr** » Sat Nov 12, 2011 9:42 pm

Thanks i see the patch fix but am unsure what to do with it after that, haven't used wine in quite a while.

I assume i need to drop this into a config file somewhere, I am looking for a wine config file currently,

PLease advise
THaNKS,

txclimbr · Post by **txclimbr** » Sat Nov 12, 2011 10:44 pm

after some reading it looks like this needs to be altered in the source code for wine. Not too familiar with doing that... here goes nothing

doh123 · Post by **doh123** » Sun Nov 13, 2011 8:08 am

yes, you have to alter Wine source and build it yourself...

Alternately... you can work around the bug.

Move the mouse to the side of the screen right away when launching.. the window should come up. barely move the mouse on the edge (over no actual parts of the window that will interact with the cursor) and click on the window somewhere, then move the mouse back to the edge of the screen.

Then use the keyboard... keys, Tab and Enter to get everything done and log in.