Wild Woods Guide

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Wild Woods demo is a cooperative 3rd person action game where your clan of 4 animals guide the caravan through dangerous forests. Collect wood and health to stay alive when it gets dark, because when the light is gone, the enemies come to take all of your goods... and your life!

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Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Wild Woods demo in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the itch.io version of Wild Woods demo. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

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

Mint 19 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Wine: 4.11-staging 64-bit
DXVK: 1.3.1

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"

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Look for the Wine Version: 4.11-staging
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right

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Click Next

Downloading Wine

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Extracting

Installed

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Click (amd64) Tab
Select 4.11-staging
Click the arrow pointing to the right

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Downloading Wine 64-bit

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Installed

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Wine 4.11-staging 32-bit and 64-bit is installed, you can close this window

PlayOnLinux Setup

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install

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Click "Install a non-listed program"

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Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next

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Name the virtual drive: wildwoods
Click Next

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Check all three options:
  • Use another version of Wine
  • Configure Wine
  • Install some libraries
Click Next

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Select Wine 4.11-staging
Click Next

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Select "64 bits windows installation"
Click Next

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Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7

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Libraries Tab
Type the following:
  • d3d10
  • d3d10_1
  • d3d10core
  • d3d11
  • dxgi
Select one at a time
Click "Edit"
Select "native (Windows)"
Click Apply

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Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full screen windows"
Click OK

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PlayOnLinux Packages (DLLs, Libraries, Components)

Check the following:
  • POL_Install_corefonts
  • POL_Install_d3dx10
  • POL_Install_d3dx11
  • POL_Install_d3dx9
  • POL_Install_tahoma
Click Next

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Note: All packages should automatically download and install

Do not click Browse
Wild Woods demo does not have an installer
Click Cancel

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Download Wild Woods demo
https://wildwoods.itch.io/wildwoods
Save to your Desktop

Open Wild Woods ZIP with your archive manager
Click Extract

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Navigate to Program Files
Full Path:
Code:
/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/wildwoods/drive_c/Program_Files/
Click the New Folder button
Type: wildwoods
Click Create
Click Extract

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Click "Show the Files"

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Install DXVK 1.3.1

Go to https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v1.3.1
Download dxvk-1.3.1.tar.gz
Save on your Desktop
Extract
Open the x64 Directory
Copy all of the DLLs

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Go back to the wildwoods folder you just created for the game
Paste all of the DLLs you copied

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PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PLayOnLinux
Click Configure

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PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select wildwoods on the left column
General Tab
Click Make a new shortcut from the virtual drive"

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Select "Wild Woods.exe"
Click Next

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Name the shortcut: Wild Woods
Click Next

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

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General Tab
Wine version: 4.11-staging

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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: Enter the amount of memory your video card/chip uses

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Close Configure

Run Wild Woods demo

Select Wild Woods
Click Run

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Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs

Unity 3D Launcher
Adjust resolution and quality
Click Play!

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Conclusion:
Wild Woods wouldn't even launch with stable version of Wine and DXVK, but I found that it runs GREAT with the staging versions. I was able to play the entire demo several times with my daughters and 2 controllers along with keyboard and mouse. Performance was great, controls were snappy and made sense... it was quite a fun game! I'm looking forward to a full game one day.

Gameplay Video:

Screenshots:
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