Aron's Adventure is a clever low poly Dark-Souls-ish 3rd person action adventure. The demo starts you later in the game where a siege of goblins and zombies are attacking the castle. Sneak or fight your way into the castle and fight side-by-side with whats left of the soldiers. Use bow & arrows or your sword & shield with special attacks, kicks and dodges to survive.
Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Aron's Adventure in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the Itch.io Demo version of Aron's Adventure. Other versions may require additional steps.
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Mint 19 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Wine: 4.0
DXVK: 1.0.3
Wine Installation
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
Look for the Wine Version: 4.0
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Click Next
Downloading Wine
Extracting
Installed
Click (amd64) Tab
Select 4.0
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Downloading Wine 64-bit
Installed
Wine 4.0 32-bit and 64-bit is installed, you can close this window
Download Aron's Adventure
Go to: https://timergames.itch.io/arons-adventure
Save the demo on your Desktop
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: aronsadventure
Click Next
Check all three options:
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
Select Wine 4.0
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
- xaudio2_7
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
- POL_Install_physx
- POL_Install_vcrun2012
- POL_Install_vcrun2013
Note: All packages should automatically download and install
Do not click "Browse"
Aron's Adventure Demo does not have an installer
Click Cancel
Open "Demo Build V1.31" with Archive Manager
Click Extract
Navigate to the Program Files directory
Full Path:
Code:
/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/aronsadventure/drive_c/Program Files/Click "Show the Files"
Installing DXVK
Download DXVK 1.0.3
Save to your Desktop and extract
https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v1.0.3
Open x64 directory
Copy all DLLs
Paste the DLLs in the Win63 Directory
Full Path:
Code:
/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/aronsadventure/drive_c/Program Files/Demo Build V1.31/DungeonGame/Binaries/Win64/PlayOnLinux Configure
Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure
General Tab
Click "Make a new shortcut from this virtual drive"
Select "AronsAdventure.exe"
Click Next
Name the shortcut: Aron's Adventure
Click Next
Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
General Tab
Wine version: 4.0
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
Visual C 2015 Install
Miscellaneous Tab
Click "Open a shell"
Copy/Paste:
Code:
Code:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricksCopy/Paste
Code:
Code:
chmod +x winetricksCopy/Paste
Code:
Code:
WINEPREFIX=/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/aronsadventure ./winetricks -q vcrun2015Note: Replace "username" with your login
Close Shell
Direct X 2010 Runtime
This will fix the stuttering audio with DirectX 11 games
Go to: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=8109
Download and Save to your Desktop in a Folder
Back to Miscellaneous Tab
Click "Run a .exe file in this virtual drive"
Select directx_jun2010_redist.exe
Click Open
Click Yes
Click Browse
Extract on your Desktop in the same folder
(it will extract many files...)
Click OK
Back to Miscellaneous Tab
Click "Run an exe in this virtual drive" again
Navigate to the extracted Direct X files
Select "DXSETUP.exe"
Click Open
Select "I accept the agreement"
Click Next
Click Finish when its complete
Set Wine to Windows 10
Wine Tab
Click "Configure Wine"
Applications Tab
Select Windows 10
Click OK
Close Configure
Aron's Adventure First Launch
Select "Aron's Adventure"
Click Run
Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs
Optimization
Click "Settings Menu"
Click Video
Adjust:
- Resolution
- V-Sync
- Gamma
- Brightness
- Presets
Click Advanced
Adjust:
- Volumetric Fog
- Resolution Scale
- Sharpening
- Foliage Density
- Anti-Aliasing
- Post Processing
- Shadow Quality
- Texture Quality
- Effect Quality
- Motion Blur
- View Distace Scale
- Click "Apply Settings"
- Click "Close Settings"
Conclusion:
Aron's Adventure ran perfectly with DXVK and Wine 4.0 on my GeForce GTX 1060. Frame rates were great, mouse an keyboard were responsive and I was able to quit and continue playing the demo without bugs. Some day Wine will fix the audio issues so we do not have to install DirectX 2010 Runtime. This demo is amazing and I can't wait to see a finished game!
Gameplay Video:
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