The world has been laid waste to the Demonic Rhogar Legion and our only hope is the convict Harkyn. Slay the minions of the Legion where every slice of your sword counts as life or death. Lords Of The Fallen is a Dark Souls inspired action RPG where your weapons, armor, magic, offense and defense are your strategy.
Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Lords Of The Fallen in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of Lords Of The Fallen. Other versions may require additional steps.
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Mint 18.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.12
Wine: 3.14 Staging 64-bit
DXVK 0.72
Wine Installation
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
Look for the Wine Version: 3.0
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Click Next
Downloading Wine
Extracting
Downloading Gecko
Installed
Install the 64-bit version as well
Click "Wine versions (amd64) Tab
Select 3.0
Repeat steps
Wine 3.0 32-bit and 64-bit are installed and 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: lordsofthefallen
Click Next
Check all three options:
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
Select Wine 3.0
Click Next
Select "64 bits windows installation"
Click Next
Wine Configuration
Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7
Click Apply
Libraries Tab
Enter the following libraries (one at a time)
Click Add
- d3d10
- d3d10_1
- d3d10core
- d3d11
- dxgi
Click Edit
Check "Native (Windows)"
Click OK
Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Click OK
PlayOnLinux Packages
Check the following:
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_d3dx10
- POL_Install_d3dx11
- POL_Install_physx
- POL_Install_tahoma
- POL_Install_vcrun2012
- POL_Install_vcrun2013
Note: All packages should automatically download and install
Installing Lords Of The Fallen
Click Browse
Select: setup_lords_of_the_fallen_game_of_the_year_edition_1.0.0_(64bit)_(24706).exe
Click Open
Click Next again...
Click OK
Click Options
Check "Yes, I have read and accept EULA"
Uncheck "Create desktop icon"
Click Install
Click Exit
PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select "LordsOfTheFallen.exe"
Click Next
Name the shortcut: Lords Of The Fallen
Click Next
Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
Installing Lutris Wine 3.14-staging (64 bit)
Go to: https://lutris.net/files/runners/
Click and download: wine-staging-3.14-x86_64.tar.gz
Save to your Desktop
Open staging-3.14-x86_64 in Archive Manager
Click Extract
Extract to the PlayOnLinux linux-amd64 Wine directory
Full Path:
Code:
/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wine/linux-amd64/Installing DXVK
Go to: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases
Download Version 0.72
Save it to your Desktop
Extract the folder
Open the 64-bit directory
Copy all of the DLLs
Paste in the Lords Of The Fallen x64 directory
Full Path:
Code:
/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/lordsofthefallen/drive_c/Program Files/Lords of the Fallen - Game of the Year Edition/bin/PlayOnLinux Configure
Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "Lords Of The Fallen"
Click Configure
General Tab
Click the down-arrow
Select Wine version: staging-3.14-x86_64
Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine
Display Tab
Video memory size: Enter the amount of memory your video card/chip uses
Close Configure
Select "Lords Of The Fallen"
Click Run
Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs
Optimization
Click Options
Adjust:
- General Detail Level
- Resolution
- Texture Quality
- Geometry Detail
- Shadow Quality
- Window Mode
- Post Processing
- Volumetric Lighting
- Post Chromashift
- Anisotropic Filtering
- Vertical Sync
- NVIDIA Turbulence
Conclusion:
Lords Of The Fallen runs fairly well even with and older "staging" version of Wine and DXVK. The outside areas slow down the frame rate a bit and maybe a few flickering textures, but other than that, it looks beautiful! I have heard the Steam version doesn't run at all in Wine, so stick with the GOG version for now.
Gameplay Video:
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