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
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
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
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:
Screenshots:
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