Assassin's Creed Brotherhood Guide

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:

 

Screenshots:

 

I actually own a retail version of this game. I'll be reading your guide more thoroughly this weekend and see if it works for the retail version. This game is really awesome and it would be so great to play it again.

Excellent guide.

 

I have a feeling the retail version will still force you to use Steam and Uplay.
Just like the retail Skyrim I have. It forced me to use Steam as well.

 

I played the retail on windows when it first came out. It does not force Steam, but Uplay must be used.

 

Ah nice! Then all you need is Uplay and it likes Wine 1.7.24

 

Good test as always, however in wine 1.7.26 assassins creed brotherhood multiplayer mode entry without problem

At simple seek punkbuster appears improvement in this wine version

 

WHAT!!! I just saw 1.7.25 was available yesterday and now 1.7.26?

 

WHAT!!! I just saw 1.7.25 was available yesterday and now 1.7.26?

Yesterday out wine 1.7.26 around 2pm and since 15 days 1.7.25

if you want know out wine can try see wine git

http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/

In this moment finish 1st test on brotherhood in single player (since 1.7.18 i dont test, and on wine 1.7.22 performance up)

Resuming stay runs very good and multiplayer using punkbuster stay on better form in this wine version