Alone In The Dark: New Nightmare is the fourth installment of the series and was inspired by Resident Evil. Featuring amazing lighting effects as Edward Carnby walks around with a flashlight to reveal items and secrets behind the cover of darkness. Utilize many weapons and inventory items to kill evil demons, zombies, serphents and much more.





Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Alone In The Dark: New Nightmare in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of New Nightmare. Other versions may require additional steps.

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Mint 17 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.6
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

Download New Nightmare from GOG and save it in a folder on your desktop


PlayOnLinux Setup

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install


Select "Install a non-listed program"


Click Next

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


Name your virtual drive: darknewnightmare
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 desktop"
Desktop size: 1024x768
Click OK


Installing Packages (Components, Libraries, DLL's)

Check the following packages:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_gdiplus
  
• POL_Install_tahoma

Click Next


Note: All packages will automatically download and install.

Installing New Nightmare

Click Browse


Navigate to the folder on your desktop
Select setup_alone_in_the_dark_the_new_nightmare_2.0.0.9.exe
Click Open


Click Next

Check "Yes, I have read and accept EULA"
Click Options
Uncheck "Create desktop icons"
Click Install


After the installation is complete
Click Exit


PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "launch.exe"
Click Next


Name your shortcut: New Nightmare
Click Next


PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "New Nightmare"
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 New Nightmare

Select New Nightmare
Click Run


Note: Click Debug to see errors and bugs

Click "Video Options"


Select a screen resolution
For fullscreen choose the resolution that matches your Linux desktop
Check "High Quality"
click OK


Click Play


Click New Game


Conclusion:
New Nightmare ran extrememly well. Mostly because its an older game from 2001 and will probably run well on any laptop or netbook. I didn't play the entire game, but never experienced any artifacts, bugs or mouse problems.

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