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.

Tips & Specs:

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

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

Click Next


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

Click Next


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

Click Apply


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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