Assassin's Creed Brotherhood continues the journey of Ezio Auditore da Firenze as he conquerors Rome. Explore the vast cities in Rome, recruit assassins, fight the Borgia, learn new skills, upgrade armor and upgrade weapons.





Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Brotherhood in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the Steam/Uplay version of Brotherhood.

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

int 17 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.4
Wine: 1.7.24

Wine Installation

Note: Versions of Wine older than 2.0.2 and Wine 2.12-staging no longer work with Steam

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"


Look for the Wine Version: 1.7.24

Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right


Click Next

Downloading Wine


Extracting

Downloading Gecko


Installed


Wine 1.7.24 is installed and you can close this window

Download Uplay

Go To: http://uplay.ubi.com/
Click Download Uplay


Click "Download Uplay PC"


Save UplayInstaller.exe to your desktop


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 the virtual drive: asbrotherhood
Click Next


Select all three options:

• Use another version of Wine
• Configure Wine
• Install some libraries

Click Next


Select Wine: 1.7.24
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 "Emulate a virtual desktop"
Desktop Size: 1024x768
Click OK


PlayOnLinux Components (Packages, Libraries, DLLs)

Check the following:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_dxfullsetup
• POL_Install_gdiplus
• POL_Install_steam
• POL_Install_tahoma
• POL_Install_vcrun2008
• POL_Install_vcrun2010

Click Next


Note: All Components will automatically download and install

Steam Installation

Click Next

Check "I accept the license..."
Click Next

Select Language
Click Next

Click Next

Make sure "Run Steam" is checked
Click Finish

Updating...

Close Steam due to the dwrite bug
We will fix this in a later step


Installing Uplay

Click Browse


Go to your desktop
Select UplayInstaller.exe
Click Open


Click Next


Click OK


Click Install


Click Close


PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "Steam.exe"
Click Next


Name your shortcut: Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
Click Next


Click Next

PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
Click Configure


General Tab
Wine Version: 1.7.24

Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of Wine.

Arguments: -no-dwrite



Note: This fixes the missing fonts problem in Steam

Display Tab
Video memory size: Enter the amount of memory your video card/chip uses


Launching Steam

Select Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
Click Run


Note: Click Debug to see errors and bugs

Click Login to an existing account


Login


Click "I Agree"

Disable Steam Overlay

Click Steam (top left)
Click Settings


Click In-Game
Uncheck "Enable the Steam Overlay while in-game"
Click OK


Installing Assassin's Creed Brotherhood

Select Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
Click Install


Click Next


Uncheck shortcut options
Click Next


Click Finish


Wait for it to download...

Click Play


Uplay will update


Login to Uplay
Check "Remember me"
Next time you launch Brotherhood from Steam you won't have to see Uplay


Click Play


Optimization

Click Options


Click Graphics


Adjust Resolution to match your Linux Desktop
Adjust Environment, Texture, Shadow, Reflection, Character and post-effects.
Press Enter to apply


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

Conclusion:
Once I got through all of the Steam and Uplay setup, Brotherhood launched perfectly and ran really well. There may be a little frame stutter during the intial loading while in a cutscene. The mouse didn't seem quite as sensitive as in Windows. A bit of jerkiness here and there, but still totally playable. Cutscenes, freerunning, quests, upgrades worked fine.

Gameplay Video: