Numen Contest of Heroes Guide

Numen Contest of Heroes is an indie fantasy action RPG based in Greek Mythology. Begin your adventure as a girl or boy and work your way up to hero status by killing huge minions, solving quests, leveling up and looting.

Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Numen: Contest of Heroes in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the DRM Free Desura version of Numen: Contest of Heroes. This installation does not require the Desura client.

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Mint 17 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.8
Wine: 1.6.2

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"

Look for the Wine Version: 1.6.2
Note: Try using stable Wine 1.8 and 1.8-staging

Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right

Click Next

Downloading Wine

Extracting

Downloading Gecko

Installed

Wine 1.6.2 is installed and you can close this window

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: numen
Click Next

Check all three options:

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

Click Next

Select Wine 1.6.2
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: 1024x768
Click OK

PlayOnLinux Packages (Libraries, Components, DLL's)

Check the following packages:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_tahoma

Click Next

Note: All packages will automatically download and install

Installing Numen

Click Browse

Navigate to your Numen installer
Select "Numen-1.40-setup.exe"
Click Open

Click Next again

Click Next

Click Next

Click Next

Uncheck "Create a desktop icon"
Click Next

Click Install

On completion, uncheck "Launch Numen Contest of Heroes"
Click Finish

PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "Numen.exe"
Click Next

Name your shortcut: Numen Contest of Heroes
Click Next

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

PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select Numen Contest of Heroes
Click Configure

General Tab
Wine version: 1.6.2

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 on your video card/chip

Close Configure

Launching Numen Contest of Heroes

Select Numen Contest of Heroes
Click Run

Note: Click debug to launch with a console of errors or bugs

Optimization

Click Options
Adjust:

• Resolution
• Color depth
• Frequency
• Antialiasing
• Filtering anisotropic
• Triple buffer
• VSync

Rule of thumb:
High settings = More detail, lower frame rates
Low settings = Less detail, higher frame rates

Conclusion:
Numen ran really well on my GeForce 500 Ti without any performance issues. There are some graphical artifact (particle effects) when attacking an enemy. You can see them in the video.
I was not able to remove or fix these artifacts.

Gameplay Video:

Screenshots:

 

Very good classic and good guide as always, however in my case is needed have dinput8 as native for input works like as motogp 3 (this title needs same fix)

 

I didn't need dinput8 for Numen for some reason.
Did you have the same graphical artifacts when attacking enemies?

 

I didn't need dinput8 for Numen for some reason.
Did you have the same graphical artifacts when attacking enemies?

Maybe because use 1.7 releases but activate dinput8 fix is very simple only needs add rule in winecfg with dinput8.dll previously stored in binary game folder

Back to game yeah particle bug still remain in both wine tested, regular wine: WINEDEBUG=-all wine steam and
gl177 extensions enabled: __GL_ExtensionStringVersion=17700 WINEDEBUG=-all wine steam

 

Ah, that must be why I didn't need it. I have spent over 8 hours in-game already and no mouse issues or keyboard issues.

I hope Wine will eventually work with all particle effects with all engines.
I wish there was a way to turn it off.