EnGarde Guide

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Play as Adalia de Volador, a noble & impetuous swordswoman! Your palace has been seized by a mysterious mastermind and his hoard of guards - you will have to defend your family's honor! Fight with your rapier and acrobatic moves against numerous opponents, and use the environment to your advantage in an intuitive way (every object is interactive, from tables to chandeliers!)

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

Note: This guide applies to the Itch.io version of EnGarde. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

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

Mint 18.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.12
Wine: 3.12-staging 64-bit

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
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Click Wine versions (amd64) Tab
Look for the Wine Version: 3.0
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 3.0 64-bit is installed, but we'll install Wine 3.12-staging 64-bit in a later step.
You can close this window

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install
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Click "Install a non-listed program"
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Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
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Name the virtual drive: engarde
Click Next
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Check all three options:
  • Use another version of Wine
  • Configure Wine
  • Install some libraries
Click Next
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Select Wine 3.0 for now...
Click Next
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Select "64 bits windows installation"
Click Next
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Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7
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Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
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Adding DXVK DLL's

Libraries Tab
Type: d3d11
Click Add
Click Edit
Change to "Native (Windows)"

Type: dxgi
Click Add
Click Edit
Change to "Native (Windows)"
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Type: xaudio2_7
Click Add
Click Edit
Change to "Native (Windows)"
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Click OK to close Wine Configuration

PlayOnLinux Packages (DLLs, Libraries, Components)

Check the following:
  • POL_Install_corefonts
  • POL_Install_d3dx9
  • POL_Install_d3dx10
  • POL_Install_d3dx11
  • POL_Install_tahoma
Click Next
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At the install "Browse" step
Click Cancel
EnGarde does not have an installer
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Download EnGarde here: https://engarde.itch.io/en-garde

Navigate to your new Virtual Drive
Path: /home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/engarde/drive_c/Program Files
Extract Engarde into Program Files
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Installing Lutris Wine 3.12 Staging 64-bit

Go to: https://lutris.net/files/runners/
download wine-staging-3.12-x86_64.tar.gz
Extract it to the PlayOnLinux Wine directory
Path:
Code:
/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/Wine/linux-amd64
Note: This version of Wine is required for DXVK to work

PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure
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General Tab
Wine Version: Click the down-arrow
Select "staging-3.12-x86_64"
Click "Make a new shortcut from this virtual drive"
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Select "EnGarde.exe"
Click Next
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Name the shortcut: EnGarde
Click Next
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Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
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Display Tab
Video memory size: Enter the amount of memory your video card/chip uses
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Close Configure

DXVK DLLs

Go to: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases
Download DXVK 0.60
Extract to your Desktop
Copy the 64-bit d3dx11.dll & dxgi.dll to the EnGarde Win64 folder
Path:
Code:
/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/engarde/drive_c/Program Files/EnGarde/Binaries/Win64
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Follow this full step-by-step guide in order to have DXVK running properly with Nvidia drivers
DXVK in PlayOnLinux

Launch EnGarde
Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "EnGarde"
Click Run
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Note: Click "debug" to see errors and bugs

Optimization

Click Options
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Click video
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Adjust:
  • Screen Resolution
  • Fullscreen Mode
  • Framerate Limit
  • Vsync
  • Overall Quality
  • Texture Quality
  • Shadow Quality
  • Post Process Quality
  • VFX Quality
  • View Distance Quality
  • Foliage Quality
  • Anti Aliasing Quality
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Conclusion:
Sometimes EnGarde will take 15 seconds or so to load the initial screen, but after that the game runs fine. I was able to play without any major bugs or artifacts. The level is full of enemies and objects to interact with. Its actually pretty entertaining watching ragdoll physx when killing enemies.

Gameplay video:

Screenshots:
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