Styx Master of Shadows is a steal sandbox game where you sneak from A to B as you complete objectives. Utilize your dagger and amber clone to assassinate or distract guards. Careful to not bring any attention to yourself because guards will call out for help and it will be the end for you. Patience and timing is the real challenge as you have little defenses against multiple enemies.
Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Styx Master of Shadows in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the Steam version of Styx Master of Shadows. 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 18.2 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.12
Wine: 2.15-staging
Wine Installation
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
Look for the Wine Version: 2.15-staging
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Click Next
Downloading Wine
Extracting
Downloading Gecko
Installed
Wine 2.15-staging is installed and you can close this window
Downloading Steam
Go To: http://www.steampowered.com
Click Install Steam
Do not click "Install Steam Now"
It will automatically install Linux Steam
Select Windows Steam instead
click "Windows" under the green button
Navigate to your desktop
Click Save
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: styxMOS
No spaces
Click Next
Check all three options:
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
Select Wine 2.15-staging
Click Next
Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next
Configure Wine
Applications Tab
Windows Version: Windows 7
Click Apply
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 libraries:
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_d3dx10
- POL_Install_d3dx11
- POL_Install_tahoma
- POL_Install_vcrun2010
- POL_Install_vcrun2012
Note: All packages will automatically download and install
Installing Steam
Click Browse
Navigate to your desktop
Select: SteamSetup.exe
Click Open
styx15.png
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
PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select Steam.exe
Click Next
Name your shortcut: Styx Master of Shadows
Click Next
Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
PlayOnLinux Configure
Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure
General Tab
Arguments: -no-dwrite -no-cef-sandbox
This fixes any missing font problems and the Store problem (Windows needs to be set as Windows XP)
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
Close Configure
Launching Steam
Select Styx Master of Shadows
Click Run
Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs.
Click "Login to existing account"
Login
Find Styx in your Steam Library
Click Install
Uncheck "Create desktop shortcut"
Uncheck "Create start menu shortcut"
Click Next
Click Finish
Wait for Styx to download (About 9 Gigabytes)
Optimization
Click options
Click Graphics
Adjust:
- Global Settings
- Full Screen
- Resolution
- Brightness
- Sync. Vertical
- Light Shafts
- Anisotrophy
- Quality of Textures
- Dynamic Shadows
- Depth of Field
- Motion Blur
- Bloom
- Distortion
- Distant Objects
Rule of Thumb:
High settings = More detail, lower frame rates
Low settings = Less detail, higher frame rates
Conclusion:
Styx Master of Shadows is made with the Unreal Engine and (as always) plays well in Wine. I didn't have any major issues configuring graphics in-game or problem playing on my GeForce GTX 1060. I did have to turn down the Anisotrophy a bit, but otherwise... performance was GREAT.
Gameplay Video:
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