Sniper: Ghost Warrior Guide

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Take on the role of a Ghost Warrior, an elite sniper in a highly trained special ops unit, whose unique skills in the art of stalking, target detection, surveillance and shooting accuracy will determine mission success.

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Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Sniper: Ghost Warrior in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the Steam version of Sniper: Ghost Warrior. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

Try SteamPlay before using this guide as Valve now uses a fork of Wine called Proton and should run most Windows games.


To learn more about PlayOnLinux and Wine configuration, see the online manual: PlayOnLinux Explained

Mint 17.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.10
Wine: 1.8

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
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Look for the Wine Version: 1.8
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
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Click Next

Downloading Wine
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Extracting

Downloading Gecko
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Installed
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Wine 1.8 is installed and you can close this window

Downloading Steam

Go To: http://www.steampowered.com
Click Install Steam
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Do not click "Install Steam Now"
It will automatically install Linux Steam
Select Windows Steam instead
click "Windows" under the green button
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Navigate to your desktop
Click Save
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PlayOnLinux Setup

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install
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Click "install a non-listed program"
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Click Next

Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
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Name your virtual drive: snipergwarrior
No spaces
Click Next
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Select all three options:
  • Use another version of Wine
  • Configure Wine
  • Install some libraries
Click Next
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Select Wine 1.8
Click Next
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Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next
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Configure Wine

Applications Tab
Windows Version: Windows 7
Click Apply
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Graphics Tab
Check: Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows
Check: Emulate a virtual desktop
Desktop size: 1024x768
Click Ok
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PlayOnLinux Packages (Libraries, Components, DLL's)

Check the following libraries:
  • POL_Install_corefonts
  • POL_Install_d3dx9
  • POL_Install_tahoma
Click Next
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Note: All packages will automatically download and install

Installing Steam

Click Browse
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Navigate to your desktop
Select: SteamSetup.exe
Click Open
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Click Next

Click Next

Check: I accept the license...
Click Next

Click Next

Click Next

Click Install

Click Finish

Updating Steam

Click the "X" to close Steam login
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PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select Steam.exe
Click Next
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Name your shortcut: Sniper: Ghost Warrior
Click Next
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Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
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PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure
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General Tab
Arguments: -no-dwrite
This fixes the missing font problem
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Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of wine

Display Tab
Video Memory Size: Select the size of Memory your video card/chip uses
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Close Configure

Launching Steam

Select Sniper Ghost Warrior
Click Run
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Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs.

Click "Login to existing account"
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Login
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Go to your Steam Library
Find Sniper: Ghost Warrior
Click Install
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Uncheck "Created desktop shortcut"
Uncheck "Create start menu shortcut"
Click Next
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Click Finish
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Wait for Sniper to download
Click Play
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Optimization

Click Options
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Click Video
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Adjust:
  • Resolution
  • Material Quality
  • Texture Quality
  • Shadows
  • Shadow Map Size
  • Texture Filtering
  • Post Process Quality
  • Foliage
  • FX Quality
  • Max Refresh Rate
  • Bullet Cam

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Rule of Thumb:
High settings = More detail, lower frame rates
Low settings = Less detail, higher frame rates

Conclusion:
Sniper: Ghost Warrior ran perfectly in PlayOnLinux on my GeForce 550 Ti. I did have some issues forcing fullscreen. You may have to disable the virtual desktop. Otherwise, frame rates were great and gameplay was very smooth.

Gameplay Video:

Screenshots:
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Last edited:
"heavy" as in running slow in Wine?

However in your case could try activate fps overlay in steam for see fps in your case

On in game category on steam settings and on this activate steam overlay and after in same place activate fps counter and high contrast color

:)
 
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