http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29168
--- Comment #250 from StewVed stewved@gmail.com 2013-07-18 17:39:22 CDT --- (In reply to comment #249)
No char selection screen here, I can wait forever and nothing gonna happen.
Are you using the latest Wine (1.6 RC5 at time of writing) with no extra patches built in it, and a dedicated wineprefix just for SWTOR where you have put in DirectX 9 and VCrun2008?
not sure if it works with 1.4.1 for instance... also maybe try the Repair Installation in the Launcher's settings - maybe a file is corrupt.
Once, I was fooling with my launcher and didn't have the fix running. it did just as you'd expect - only the loading screen with the little spinning icon spinning so you know it hasn't crashed. Luckily my terminal history had the swtor_fix.exe command in it, so I pressed ctrl+alt+t and pressed the up arrow, then enter (I couldn't see, but that brought up a new terminal, then the up arrow rewrote the last command, then enter executed it) It worked and within a couple of seconds the character screen came up :D
If your loading screen icon (Botton-Right) is not spinning, I think I had that when I forgot to put DX9 and vcrun2008 into the SWTOR wineprefix .. maybe that was where I put in msls31 thinking about it - no idea where that came from otherwise... lol.
That is the end of my knowledge on SW:TOR, and I sincerely hope you get the game up and running... and the Wine Dev geniuses fix our issues in the future :D