Serious Sam II Guide

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Serious Sam II is the second release to another horde-slaying FPS and boasts a bunch of new features. Beautiful HD textures, shadows, interactive objects, new enemies and more. There is a surreal story-line, but your goal is to blast all kinds of odd monsters and bosses into oblivion.

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Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Serious Sam 2 in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the Steam version of Serious Sam 2. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

Try SteamPlay before using this guide as Valve now uses a fork of Wine called Proton and should run most Windows games.


To learn more about PlayOnLinux and Wine configuration, see the online manual: PlayOnLinux Explained

Mint 17.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.10
Wine: 1.8.3

Wine Installation

Note: Wine versions older than 2.0.2 and 2.12-staging no longer work with Steam.


Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
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Look for the Wine Version: 1.8.3
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
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Click Next

Downloading Wine
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Extracting

Downloading Gecko
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Installed
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Wine 1.8.3 is installed and you can close this window

Downloading Steam

Go To: http://www.steampowered.com
Click Install Steam
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Do not click "Install Steam Now"
It will automatically install Linux Steam
Select Windows Steam instead
click "Windows" under the green button
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Navigate to your desktop
Click Save
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PlayOnLinux Setup

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install
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Click "install a non-listed program"
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Click Next

Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
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Name your virtual drive: serioussam
No spaces
Click Next
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Select all three options:
  • Use another version of Wine
  • Configure Wine
  • Install some libraries
Click Next
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Select Wine 1.8.3
Click Next
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Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next
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Configure Wine

Applications Tab
Windows Version: Windows 7
Click Apply
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Graphics Tab
Check: Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows
Check: Emulate a virtual desktop
Desktop size: 1024x768
Click Ok
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PlayOnLinux Packages (Libraries, Components, DLL's)

Check the following libraries:
  • POL_Install_corefonts
  • POL_Install_d3dx9
  • POL_Install_tahoma
Click Next
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Note: All packages will automatically download and install

Installing Steam

Click Browse
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Navigate to your desktop
Select: SteamSetup.exe
Click Open
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Click Next

Click Next

Check: I accept the license...
Click Next

Click Next

Click Next

Click Install

Click Finish

Updating Steam

Click the "X" to close Steam login
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PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select Steam.exe
Click Next
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Name your shortcut: Serious Sam 2
Click Next
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Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
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PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure
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General Tab
Wine version: 1.8.3
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Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of wine

Display Tab
Video Memory Size: Select the size of Memory your video card/chip uses
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Close Configure

Launching Steam

Select Serious Sam 2
Click Run
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Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs

Click "Login to existing account"
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Login
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Go to your Library
Find Serious Sam 2
Click Install
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Uncheck "Created desktop shortcut"
Uncheck "Create start menu shortcut"
Click Next
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Click Finish
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Wait while it downloads in Steam
Click Play
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Optimization

Click Options
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Click Video Options
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Adjust:
  • Quality
  • Resolution
  • Texture size
  • Antialiasing
  • Gamma Correction
  • Full Screen
Click Apply
Click Advanced
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In Advanced, adjust:
  • Dynamic Shadows
  • Particle Amount
  • Crumbs
  • Geometry LOD
  • Brightness
  • Contrast
  • Gamma
  • Texture Quality
  • Texture Size
  • Lightmap Quality
  • Lightmap Size
  • Bloom
  • Anisotropy
  • Filtering
  • LOD Bias
  • Lens Flare Quality
  • Parallax Mapping
  • Reflection Quality
  • Refractions
  • Wait v Syncs
  • Only Shaders
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Conclusion:
Serious Sam II installed and ran perfectly. I had no problems adjusting the graphical settings and was getting really good frame rates with my GeForce GTX 950. My GeForce 9800 was even able to play with some of the graphical settings toned down. Its actually quite a beautiful game considering its age.

Gameplay Video:

Screenshots:
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Last edited:
Very good game and good guide too

This title stay native but installation is complicated, using wine with steam is more less complicated

:)
 
Thank you for confirming MrDeathJr28
The installation and setup was pretty painless in PlayOnLinux and more familiar to Windows gamers.
 
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