Dead Meets Lead is a free-to-play twin-stick zombie slaying action game in the 18th Century on the island of El Mirando. Fend off hordes of zombie minions with melee and projectile weapons and survive long enough to reach the next area of the island.
Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Dead Meets Lead in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the Official Website version of Dead Meets Lead. Other versions may require additional steps.
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Mint 17 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.9
Wine: 1.8
Wine Installation
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
Look for the Wine Version: 1.8
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Click Next
Downloading Wine
Extracting
Downloading Gecko
Installed
Wine 1.8 is installed and you can close this window
Download Dead Meets Lead
Go to: http://deadmeetslead.org/download/
Click Direct Download
Navigate to your Desktop
Click Save
Click "SlimDX January 2012 End User runtime x86"
Navigate to your Desktop
Click Save
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 your virtual drive: deadmeetslead
Click Next
Check all three options:
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
Select Wine 1.8
Click Next
Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next
Wine Configuration
Applications Tab
Windows Version: Windows XP
Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Check "Emulate a virtual desktop"
Desktop size: 1920x1080 (or your Linux Desktop resolution)
Click OK
Ptrace_scope
In order to install Dot Net Framework 20, 30, 35 & 40
Open Terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T
Type:
Code:
echo "0"|sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scopePlayOnLinux Packages (DLL, Libraries, Components)
Check the following:
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_dotnet35
- POL_Install_dotnet35sp1
- POL_Install_dotnet40
- POL_Install_gdiplus
- POL_Install_tahoma
Note: All packages will automatically download and install. Dotnet 20, 30, 35, 35sp1 & 40 will take some time to download and install, please be patient.
Click Browse
Select "DeadMeetsLead-1.1.0.0.exe"
Click Open
Click Next again
Click OK
Click Next
Click Next
Click Next
Click Next again
Uncheck "Create a desktop icon"
Click Next
Click Install
Uncheck "Launch Dead Meets Lead"
Click Finish
PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select "DeadMeetsLead.exe"
Click Next
Name your shortcut: Dead Meets Lead
Click Next
Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
PlayOnLinux Configure
Select "Dead Meets Lead"
Click Configure
General Tab
Wine Version: 1.8
Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of Wine.
Display Tab
Video memory size: Enter the amount of memory your video card/chip uses
Miscellaneous Tab
Click "Run a .exe file in this virtual drive"
Navigate to your desktop
Select "SlimDX Runtime .NET 40 x86 (January 2012).msi"
Click Open
Check "I accept..."
Click Install
Error: Unable to find a version of the runtime to this application
Click OK
Click Finish
Close Configure
Launching Dead Meets Lead
Select "Dead Meets Lead"
Click Run
Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs
Optimization
Click Options
Click Video
Adjust:
- Overall Video
- Animation
- Anti-aliasing
- Lighting Quality
- Resolution
- Shadow Quality
- Terrain Quality
- Texture Filtering
- Vertical Sync
- Window Mode
Note: For fullscreen the virtual desktop has to be set to match your Linux Desktop resolution, then in-game set the resolution exactly the same.
Conclusion:
The main menu has some flickering issues and seems to come and go depending on when its fullscreen or not. The menu still works, but has a flickering on the buttons and a square around the cursor.
Otherwise, the game play is smooth and beautiful on my Geforce 550 Ti.
The menu refuses to work without dotnet 35sp1 and dotnet40. Those won't install without dotnet 20, 30 and 35.
Gameplay Video:
Screeshots:
