Play as a team of UPA agents in a squad based shooter puzzler. Your squad is tasked with investigating the machinery failures in the underground that power the rich aboveground life. Each of the four characters have their own abilties and weapons. Use them wisely or perish against cultists, gang-bangers and mutants.
Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Project Eden in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of Project Eden. Other versions may require additional steps.
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Mint 18.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.12
Wine: 3.3
Wine Installation
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
Look for the Wine Version: 3.3
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Click Next
Downloading Wine
Extracting
Downloading Gecko
Installed
Wine 3.3 is installed and you can close this window
PlayOnLinux Setup
Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install
Click "Installa a non-listed program"
Click Next
Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
Name the virtual Drive: projecteden
Click Next
Check all three options:
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
Select Wine 3.3
Click Next
Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next
Wine Configuration
Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7
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_d3dx9
- POL_Install_tahoma
Note: All packages will automatically download and install
Installing Project Eden
Click Browse
Select "setup_project_eden_0908201_(14075).exe"
Click Open
Click Next again
Click OK
Click Options
Uncheck "Create desktop icon"
Check "Yes, I have read and accept EULA"
Click Install
Click OK on all errors
Note: The errors do not affect the installation
Click Exit
PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select "Eden.exe"
Click Next
Name the shortcut: Project Eden
Click Next
Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
PlayOnLinux Configure
Select "Project Eden"
Click Configure
General Tab
Wine version: 3.3
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
Launch Project Eden
Select Project Eden
Click Run
Note: Click Debug to see errors and bugs
Graphics Settings
Click Configure
Click Graphics
Adjust:
- Colour Depth
- Screen Resolution
- Depth Quality
- Engine
- Texture Detail
- Texture Filtering
- Chracter Effects
- Aspect Ratio
Conclusion:
Project Eden ran perfectly from the first try on my GeForce GTX 1060. I was able to adjust the graphics settings in game to high and 1920x1080. Everything ran perfectly. Its actually an interesting puzzle shooter where you have to swap between characters in the group to achieve goals.
Gameplay video:
Screenshots:
