Far Cry 2 takes place in Central Africa during the civil war. Your mission is to find and kill The Jakal who is selling arms to both sides. Explore beautiful desert and jungle environments on the land and rivers. Take out mercenaries, find diamonds and set fire to a completely destructible world.
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Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Far Cry 2 Fortunes Edition in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of Far Cry 2 Fortunes Edition. Other versions may require additional steps.
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Mint 19 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Wine: 4.0.2
DXVK: 1.3.3
Wine Installation
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
Look for the Wine Version: 4.0.2
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Click Next
Downloading Wine
Extracting
Installed
Click (amd64) Tab
Select 4.0.2
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Downloading Wine 64-bit
Installed
Wine 4.0.2 32-bit and 64-bit is installed, you can close this window
PlayOnLinux Setup
Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install
Click "Install a non-listed program"
Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
Name the virtual drive: farcry2
Click Next
Check all three options:
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
Select Wine 4.0.2
Click Next
Select "64 bits windows installation"
Click Next
Wine Configuration
Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7
Libraries Tab
Type the following:
- d3d10
- d3d10_1
- d3d10core
- d3d11
- dxgi
Click Edit
Select "native (Windows)"
Click Apply
Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Click OK
PlayOnLinux Packages (DLLs, Libraries, Components)
Check the following:
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx10
- POL_Install_d3dx11
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_tahoma
Note: All packages should automatically download and install
Click Browse
Select "setup_far_cry2_2.1.0.12.exe"
Click Open
Click Next
Click Options
Uncheck "Create desktop icon"
Check "Yes, I have read and accept EULA"
Click Install
Click "I Agree"
Click "OK"
Click "OK" on all GOG Installer errors
Click Exit
PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select "farcry2.exe"
Click Next
Name the shortcut: Far Cry 2
Click Next
Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
PlayOnLinux Configure
Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "Far Cry 2"
Click Configure
General Tab
Wine version: 4.0.2
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
Close Configure
Install DXVK
Go to: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v1.3.3
Download DXVK 1.3.3
Extract to your Desktop
Open x32 directory
Copy all DLLs
Paste in the Far Cry 2 bin directory
Full path:
Code:
/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/farcry2/drive_c/GOG Games/Far Cry 2/bin/Run Far Cry 2
Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "Far Cry 2"
Click Run
Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs
Optimization:
Click Options
Click Display
Adjust:
- Resolution
- Refresh Rate
- V-Sync
- Anti-aliasing
- Widescreen
- Real Tree
- Fire
- Physic
- Overall
- Vegetation
- Shading
- Terrain
- Geometry
- Post
- Textures
- Ambient
- HDR
- Bloom
Conclusion:
With DXVK Far Cry 2 ran great! I had to turn off anti-aliasing because there were some graphical artifacts with trees. I also experienced random crashing at about 30 minutes of gameplay. So save your game often... quicksave F5 works fine. Always check the display settings because by default it was set to low with my GeForce GTX 1060, but I was able to play with almost everything on High or Very High.
Gameplay Video:
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