Originally Posted by
anarchticgrimm
Then, Wine Application Database may have the answers. - According to
these testing results;
may help with texture compression problems.
Aha! That did it, man! I was actually trying this method earlier, but I forgot that I need "wine" in there since it was a .exe file.
My many thanks to you!!!
Marking as [SOLVED], but first a quick summary of the finished product for others searching....
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Scenario:
Trying to run "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic" (NOT the online MMO -- rather, the single-player RPG).
Problem:
Upon running the .exe, the "splash screen credits" (LucasArts, BioWare, etc.) ran fine, but the menu had a white background and all 3D models were lacking textures of any kind. Additionally, many text objects appeared as blobs or blocks instead of letters.
Conclusion:
After the help of this forum, it was discovered that S3TC texture compression was disabled by default for me. DRIConf ("3D Acceleration") did not present this option to me. Somehow I must enable S3TC texture compression.
The Solution:
When running the .exe, use the command line tool "force_s3tc_enable=true" BEFORE the rest of the NORMAL command to run the file. In my case, the following is run:
Code:
force_s3tc_enable=true wine /home/robert/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/LucasArts/SWKotOR/swkotor.exe
Setup Notes:
-Using the latest game version (1.0.3)
-No custom registry keys have been added.
-WINE is configured to run in Windowed mode, so none the of "disable certain mouse settings" apply.
-As far as game configuration goes, the default game settings appear to work just fine.
-The game disc is Disc 1 and is mounted manually from an .iso for the sake of a speed increase. This should be no different than from a physical CD/DVD, though.
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