Pathologic is an open world mystery survival exploration action game where you need help from an investigator, a Ripper and a eccentric girl with mystical healing abilities. Explore a plaque-ridden town and solve mysterious murders in an emotional psychological first person survival cult-classic.



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

Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of Pathologic HD. Other versions may require additional steps.

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Mint 19 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Wine: 4.0

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"



Look for the Wine Version: 4.0
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right



Click Next

Downloading Wine



Extracting

Installed



Click (amd64) Tab
Select 4.0
Click the arrow pointing to the right



Downloading Wine 64-bit



Installed



Wine 4.0 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: pathologic
Click Next



Check all three options:

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

Click Next



Select Wine 4.0
Click Next



Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next



Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows XP
Click Apply



Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Click OK



PlayOnLinux Packages

Check the following:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dcompiler_43
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_devenum
• POL_Install_quartz
• POL_Install_tahoma
• POL_Install_wmp9
• POL_Install_wmp10

Click Next



Note: All packages should automatically download and install

Installing Pathologic

Click Browse

Select "setup_pathologic_classic_HD_1.0.3 (16813).exe"
Click Open



Click Next

Click OK



Click Options
Check "Yes I have read and accept EULA"
Uncheck "Created desktop icon"
Click Install



Click OK for all errors



Click Exit



PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "Game.exe"
Click Next



Name the shortcut: Pathologic
Click Next



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



PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure



General Tab
Wine version: 4.0



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



Installing Media Pack Update (Required to play WMV Videos)

Download this Media Pack Update from Lutris
https://lutris.net/files/tools/windowsmedia-kb942423-x86-intl.exe
Save to your Desktop
Move "windowsmedia-kb942423-x86-int.exe" to the Pathologic Virtual Drive drive_c
Full Path:

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/pathologic/drive_c

Wine Tab
Click "Command Prompt"



Type "explorer"
Press Enter



Navigate to (C)
Double-Click "windowsmedia-kb942423-x86-intl.exe"



Click Next



Check "I Agree"
Click Next



Click Finish



Close the Command Prompt

Close Configure

Launch Pathologic

Select Pathologic
Click Run



Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs

Optimization

Since this is an HD version of Pathologic all of the textures have been increased in resolution. You may get a bit of frame lagging if the settings are too high

Click Settings



Click Video Tab
Adjust:

• Resolution
• Anisotropic filtering
• Gamma
• Field of View
• V-Sync
• Shadows
• Anti-aliasing
• Depth of Field
• SSAO
• Bloom
• Motion Blur

Click Apply



Conclusion:
Pathologic crashed at every intro screen initially because of the WMV codecs, but after some research I found that we could set Wine to Windows XP, install WMP9 & 10, then install this media update and they play perfectly. Remember this for other games that require WMP codecs. After all of that, Pathologic played perfectly! I was able to save, load and play for over an hour without any issues.

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