Standalone Wine network code fix for Star Wars: The Old Republic (SW:TOR)

Wine needs a patch to correct system time synchronisation - which is essential to support the SW:TOR network code.

See Wine Bug 29168 - Multiple games and applications need realtime updates to KSYSTEM_TIME members in KUSER_SHARED_DATA (Star Wars: The Old Republic game client, GO 1.4+ runtime) ...

The swtor_fix.exe operation sequence is to:

1. wait for the main swtor.exe executable to start up.
2. Stores the PID of main swtor.exe executable.
3. Two additional threads are forked off the main swtor.exe thread.

• The first thread waits for swtor.exe to end and then does cleanup.
• The second thread continuously updates the process KUSER_SHARED_DATA time fields and copies these fields into swtor.exe process memory.

This code is based on the swtor_fix Github repository by Artur Wyszyński. This in turn was based on the original patch for Wine by Carsten Juttner & Xolotl Loki.

Updates to the original swtor_fix repository contents:

• launcher.sh script: code refactoring, sets required mouse warping override, handles Windows filesystem case insensitivity, trapping exit conditions, etc.
• swtor_fix.exe: supports a time parameter (in milliseconds) to set the update interval for the KUSER_SHARED_DATA time fields.

Howto Use Launcher Script

# Set WINEPREFIX to location of SWTOR WINEPREFIX.
cd "${WINEPREFIX:-${HOME}/.wine}/drive_c"
git clone https://github.com/bobwya/swtor_fix.git
cd swtor_fix
./launcher.sh