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!
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:
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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"
Look for the Wine Version: 4.11-staging
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Click Next
Downloading Wine
Extracting
Installed
Click (amd64) Tab
Select 4.11-staging
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Downloading Wine 64-bit
Installed
Wine 4.11-staging 32-bit and 64-bit is installed, you can close this window
PlayOnLinux Setup
Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install
Click "Install a non-listed program"
Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
Name the virtual drive: wildwoods
Click Next
Check all three options:
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
Select Wine 4.11-staging
Click Next
Select "64 bits windows installation"
Click Next
Wine Configuration
Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7
Libraries Tab
Type the following:
- d3d10
- d3d10_1
- d3d10core
- d3d11
- dxgi
Click "Edit"
Select "native (Windows)"
Click Apply
Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full screen windows"
Click OK
PlayOnLinux Packages (DLLs, Libraries, Components)
Check the following:
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx10
- POL_Install_d3dx11
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_tahoma
Note: All packages should automatically download and install
Do not click Browse
Wild Woods demo does not have an installer
Click Cancel
Download Wild Woods demo
https://wildwoods.itch.io/wildwoods
Save to your Desktop
Open Wild Woods ZIP with your archive manager
Click Extract
Navigate to Program Files
Full Path:
Code:
/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/wildwoods/drive_c/Program_Files/Type: wildwoods
Click Create
Click Extract
Click "Show the Files"
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
Go back to the wildwoods folder you just created for the game
Paste all of the DLLs you copied
PlayOnLinux Configure
Back to PLayOnLinux
Click Configure
PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select wildwoods on the left column
General Tab
Click Make a new shortcut from the virtual drive"
Select "Wild Woods.exe"
Click Next
Name the shortcut: Wild Woods
Click Next
Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
General Tab
Wine version: 4.11-staging
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
Run Wild Woods demo
Select Wild Woods
Click Run
Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs
Unity 3D Launcher
Adjust resolution and quality
Click Play!
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:
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