Discover magical embers in the caves, ruins and dungeons below the town of Torchlight. Loot enemies, crates and chests to upgrade your arsenal and armor. Customize your character by leveling up, enchanting and utilizing these embers. Fight hordes of creatures and minions with your pet side-kick.
Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Torchlight in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of Torchlight. Other versions may require additional steps.
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Mint 17 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.9
Wine: 1.6.2
Wine Installation
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
Look for the Wine Version: 1.6.2
Note: Try using stable Wine 1.8 and 1.8-staging
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Click Next
Downloading Wine
Extracting
Downloading Gecko
Installed
Wine 1.6.2 is installed and you can close this window
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: torchlight
Click Next
Check all three options:
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
Select Wine 1.6.2
Click Next
Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next
Wine Configuration
Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7
Click Apply
Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Check "Emulate a virtual drive"
Desktop Size: 1920x1080
Click OK
Note: Match the desktop size to the Linux desktop resolution for full screen
PlayOnLinux Packages (Libraries, DLL's, Components)
Check the following:
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_tahoma
- POL_Install_vcrun2008
Note: All packages will automatically download and install
Installing Torchlight
Click Browse
Select "setup_torchlight_2.0.0.12.exe"
Click Open
Click Next again
Check "Yes, I have read and accept the EULA"
Click Options
Uncheck "Create desktop icons"
Click Install
When Torchlight is finished installing
Click Exit
PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select "Torchlight.exe"
Click Next
Name the shorcut: Torchlight
Click Next
Select "I don't want make another shortcut"
Click Next
PlayOnLinux Configure
Back to PlayOnLinux
Select Torchlight
Click Configure
General Tab
Wine Version: 1.6.2
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
Launching Torchlight
Select Torchlight
Click Run
Note: Click Debug to see errors and bugs
Optimization
Click Settings
Adust:
- Fullscreen
- Rimlights
- Antialiasing
- MW skinning
- Rnder Behind Walls
- VSync
- Resolution
- Shadows
Conclusion:
Torchlight ran perfectly on my GeForce 550 ti and 7600 GT with everything on high. I was also able to run it on my Chromebook with Ubuntu 12.04 and an Intel HD 2000 video chip. In settings there is a nice "notebook" mode to help with performance. Obviously I wasn't able to run any the settings on high with the old Intel HD 2000 chip.
Gameplay video:
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