Red Faction Guerrilla Guide

Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered is an action sandbox 3rd person shooter where every object is destructable. Join the insurgents and fight the Earth Defense Forces by literally smashing and blowing up their resources. Either piece by piece with your hammer, detonate with explosives or run it through with a vehicle. There is no end to your destructive forces...

Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

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Mint 18.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.12
Lutris Wine: 3.12 64-bit Staging

Wine Installation

We still need to install a stable version of Wine to setup the virtual drive
We'll use the 3.12 version from Lutris later on in the guide

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

Wine 3.0 is installed and you can close this window

Install Wine 3.12 Staging 64-bit

Go to: https://lutris.net/files/runners/
Download wine-staging-3.12-x86_64.tar.gz
Save it to your Desktop
Extract to the PlayOnLinux Wine directory:
/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wine/linux-amd64/

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: rfgurrilla
Click Next

Check the following:

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

Click Next

Select Wine 3.0
Click Next

Select "64 bits windows installation"
Click Next

Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7

Libraries Tab

1. Type: d3d11
2. Click Add
3. Type dxgi
4. Click Add
5. Edit both d3d11 & dxgi
6. Set them as (native) only

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_d3dx10
• POL_Install_d3dx11
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_tahoma
• POL_Install_xact
• POL_Install_xaudio

Click Next

Note: All packages should automatically download and install

Click Browse

Select "setup_red_faction_guerrilla_re-mars-tered_1.0_(21946).exe"
Click Open

Click Next again...

Click OK

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

Click OK on all errors

Click Exit

PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "rfg.exe"
Click Next

Name the shortcut: Red Fction Guerrilla
Click Next

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

PlayOnLinux Configure

Select Red Faction Guerrilla
Click Configure

General Tab
Click the down-arrow to select Wine "staging-3.12-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

Install DXVK 0.60

Go to: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases
Download Version dxvk-0.60.tar.gz

Extract the files on your Desktop
Copy the 64-bit d3d11.dll and dxgi.dll to the Red Faction Guerrilla game folder:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/rfguerrilla/drive_c/GOG Games/Red Faction Guerrilla

Note: username is where your Linux login shows up

Important!
DXVK version 0.60 requires Nvidia 396.24.02 drivers

DXVK Test

One way to test if DXVK is working properly

1. Go to Configure
2. Miscellaneous Tab
3. Command to Execute before running program
4. Paste:

export DXVK_HUD=devinfo,fps

Now when you run your game, you should see a HUD in-game with Direct X and Vulkan versions

Here are detailed instructions in case you still can't get DXVK to run
DXVK Guide

Now Run Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered
Click Run

Note: click debug to see errors and bugs

Optimization:

Click Options

Click Display

Adjust:

• Resolution
• Refresh Rate
• Windowed Mode
• V-Sync
• FOV
• Detail Level

Click Accept

Click Advanced
Adust:

• Shadow Detail
• Depth of Field
• Motion Blur
• Particle Detail
• Ambient Occulusion
• Sun shafts
• Texture Resolution
• Anisotropic Filtering

Click Accept

Conclusion:
Once I was able to get the proper version of Nvidia, Wine and DXVK running... Red Faction Guerrilla Re-Mars-tered ran perfectly! I was able to get decent frame rates and cranked most of the setting to high.
Once I saw the HUD when launching the game, I knew DXVK was working. Otherwise the game would freeze up every time.

Gameplay Video:

Screenshots:

 

How did you get Nvidia 396.24.02 drivers. I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 and only 390.48 show up.

 

You probably need to add this PPA first so the driver manager can see them:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa

 

@booman you forgot to put Re-Mars-tered in Title.

also is there GOG update for this game are you using an older build

 

Yeah, I thought I would keep it simple in the title, but I added it in the description.
Not sure about patches... do you have the original?

 

i have the same build as you do @booman Where you able to see the install bar go across. I can't see it.

 

What bar? The DXVK HUD?

 

The install bar. Installing the game

 

Sorry, I don't remember as I only installed it once.
Its normal to not see a loading/installing bar or seeing it as completed but the installer continues.
Does it ever finish?

 

How long does it take you for the install process

 

Its a fairly large game, I think it was like 30 Gigabytes, so it may take 15 minutes depending on the speed of your hard drive.

I don't exactly remember because I only installed it once.

You can also download the files again just to be sure they aren't corrupted

 

When i start the game. its crashed. Do i need to install vulkan

 

If you are using the Lutris 3.12 staging 64-bit Wine version, the Windows Vulkan packages are already installed.
But you definitely need to install Linux Vulkan too.

Were you able to follow this guide: DXVK

 

OK that's might be the issue. I didn't install vulKan packeges yet. I'm running peppermint 9 its ubuntu it uses LXDE parts and XFCE parts together. what packages do i install. If you can list them for me.

Yes the guide went smooth very good just the game not launch probably due to me not having vulkan installed. I was using playonlinux also then i tried Lutris and still didn't work

 

These Vulkan packages should do it:

• libvulkan1
• libvulkan1:i386