Game of Thrones Guide

Game of Thrones is an action RPG based on the realm from the book and tells a parallel story through the eyes of Alester Sarwyck and Mors Westford. Control your hero in 3rd person and level up, loot, upgrade skills, and follow a thick plot.

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

Note: This guide applies to the Steam version of Game of Thrones. Other versions may require additional steps.

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

Mint 14 32-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.1
Wine: 1.7.8

Installing Wine

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"

Look for the Wine Version: 1.7.8
Note: Try using stable Wine 1.8 and 1.8-staging

Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right

Click Next

PlayOnLinux will automatically download it and save it in this directory:
/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wine/linux-x86

Note: username is where you put your login name

Its a good idea to backup this directory to another computer because you won't have to keep downloading wine versions when you need them.

Extracting

Downloading Gecko

Installed

Wine 1.7.8 is installed and you can close this window

Downloading Steam

Go To: http://www.steampowered.com
Click Install Steam

Do not click "Install Steam Now"
It will automatically install Linux Steam. Since ###Game### isn't made for Linux, we will download the Windows Steam instead.
click "Windows" under the green button

Navigate to your desktop
Click Save

Setup PlayOnLinux

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install

Click "install a non-listed program"

Click Next

Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next

Name you virtual drive: gameofthrones
No spaces
Click Next

Select all three options:

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

Click Next

Select Wine 1.7.8
Click Next

Note: If you are running a 64-bit system, PlayOnLinux will prompt if you want to use a 64-bit or 32-bit virtual drive.
Always select 32-bit virtual drive.

Configure Wine

Applications Tab
Windows Version: Windows XP
Click Apply

Graphics Tab
Check: Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows
Check: Emulate a virtual desktop
Desktop size: 1024x768
Click Ok

Install Libraries

Check the following libraries:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_dxfullsetup
• POL_Install_dotnet40
• POL_Install_physx
• POL_Install_msxml3
• POL_Install_registered fonts
• POL_Install_tahoma
• POL_Install_vcrun2005
• POL_Install_xinput

Click Next

Installing Steam

Click Browse

Navigate to your desktop
Select: SteamInstall.msi
Click Open

Click Next

Click Next

Check: I accept the license...
Click Next

Click Next

Click Next

Click Install

Click Finish

Updating Steam

More updating, extracting and installing

When Steam is done installing the login screen will pop up. You probably won't see any text because there is a font bug.
Click the "X" to close Steam login

PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select Steam.exe
Click Next

Name your shortcut: Game of Thrones Steam
Click Next

Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next

More PlayOnLinux Configuration

Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure
Select Steam virtual drive

General Tab
Arguments: -no-dwrite -no-cef-sandbox
This fixes the missing font and store problem

Note: -no-dwrite only works if you launch Steam from PlayOnLinux. Steam is automatically set to launch when Windows starts, which means if you do a "Windows Reboot" from the Wine tab -no-dwrite won't execute. Just close Steam and try again.

Display Tab
Direct Draw Renderer: opengl
Video Memory Size: size of memory on your video card
Offscreen rendering mode: fbo

Wine Tab
Click "Windows reboot"
Close Steam because it will automatically launch when Windows reboots and won't execute -no-dwrite.

Close Configure

Installing Game of Thrones

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select Game of Thrones Steam
Click Run

Click "Login to an existing account"

Login to Steam

Note: Steam "In-Game" community overlay can crash games in PlayOnlinux.
To turn it off:
Go to File, Settings, In-Game
Uncheck "Enable Steam Community In-Game"
Click Ok

Select "Game of Thrones"
Click Install

Click Next

Uncheck "Create start menu shortcut to Game of Thrones"
Uncheck "Create desktop shortcut to Game of Thrones"
Click Next

Click Finish

Come back in an hour or so after it has downloaded

Click Play

Configuration

Click Options

Click Graphics

There are limited Graphics options, its best to click "Auto Detect Hardware"

• Screen Resolution
• Game Quality
• Texture Quality

Rule of thumb:
High Settings = High detail, lower frame rates
Low Settings = Low detail, higher frame rates.

Conclusion:
Game of Thrones runs really well on my GeForce 550 Ti and the visuals are beautiful!
I love the realm, detail and even the weapons, but I wasn't very impressed with the fighting and controls. For some reason on PC you are forced to hold the right-mouse button in order to turn and look around. The fighting is very similar to The Witcher or Neverwinter Nights where you click and the moves are automated. After playing Skyrim, I just felt very detached from the action. I would click and wait for my hero to do all the work.
Otherwise, there weren't any buggs or graphical glitches. Loading, saving, graphics options and all the menu's worked pefectly!

Screenshots:

 

High Res Screenshots:

 

one question: game of throne isn't free like, for example, League of legends? I have to buy it on steam in order to install as this guide explain?

 

Yes, you have to purchase it. I got it on Humble Bundle with 5 other games for only $6.00
Otherwise I wouldn't have purchased it.

 

Thank you very much!
but if i purchase it on Humble Bundle i won't find it on steam, right? then I will not be able to use this guide, or not?

 

Unfortunately Game of Thrones is not available at Humble Bundle anymore.
So you will have to purchase it from Steam.
So yes, you can use this guide for the Steam version of Game of Thrones

 

Speaking of this humble bundle, any news of success on BloodBowl ?

Thank you !

 

Nah, I've moved on and tested a few other games. Kinda forgot about that one.
I'll have to try it this weekend.

I have already tried:

• Divinity II - Failed
• R.A.W - Success
• Game of Thrones - Success
• Testament of Sherlock Holmes - Failed

 

THanks for your answer,

I asked since on Wineappdb someone apparently had some success with the legendary version...He even rated it platinum. But I made so many unsucessfull tries installing bloodbowl, now I have lost a bit of confidence.

 

Yeah, tell me about it... Divinity II refuses to even launch because of Games for Windows Live. No way around it for now.

Sherlock Holmes probably has more of a chance, but will take hours of trial-n-error.

 

Hi booman,
I know the topic is old, but I decided to write, if you can help me, would be great
My only problem with the game is the sound - there is crackle and other distortions.
Therefore I added as an argument PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=60, and this works for some time - but unfortunately after a battle or a more severe stage the problem reappears.
Can you give me advice on how exactly to solve the problem?
Thank you in advance

 

No problem, actually, if you are having problems with pulseaudio definitely try the newest wine: 1.7.55
It now supports pulseaudio and hopefully solves all of the buffer errors and crackling we all get with games.

 

booman, thank you for the reply. During installation I use 1.7.54, so now I will immediately change it in playonlinux. I hope the problem disappears, because the game is great and I want to play it.
Thank you again

 

What distro are you using?
What video card/chip does your computer have?
Also 32-bit libraries are pretty important and do not come pre-installed with Linux.

 

Once I changed Wine version, as you suggested, at least for now I no longer have sound problems - once again thank you.
Now, if I manage to run Resident Evil 4 (steam) I will be very happy. Unfortunately, the game starts - I hear the sound on the menu but the screen is black.
Regarding your question - I have a relatively old laptop Clevo - but it works perfectly for me.
The parameters are as follows:
Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz
Nvidia GeForce GTX 260M
4 GB Ram
Ubuntu 15.10

 

Good luck with Resident Evil 4
We have an ongoing thread about it:
RE4 GamersOnLinux

It seems to run as long as you don't use HD textures