Bastion is a wonderfully narrated action role-playing game. The narrator describes everything your character is doing in order to fill the story with life and yet can be ironic or funny as well. Shoot arrows, smash everything with a massive hammer, slice-n-dice with swords, use granades, pets and many other weapons in your upgrade-able arsenal.



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

Note: This guide applies to the GOL version of Bastion. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

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Mint 17 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.9
Wine: 1.7.51-staging

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"


Look for the Wine Version: 1.7.51-staging
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 1.7.51-staging 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: bastion
Click Next


Check all three options:

• Use another version of Wine
• Configure Wine
• Install some libraries

Click Next


Select Wine: 1.7.51-staging
Click Next


Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next


Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows XP


Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically catpure the mouse in full-screen windows"
Check "Emulate a virtual desktop"
Desktop size: 1024x768
Click OK


ptrace_scope

In order to install dotnet35 libraries this command has to be run in Terminal
Launch Terminal Ctrl+Alt+T

Type:

Code:

echo "0"|sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope

Press Enter
Enter password


Close Terminal

PlayOnLinux Packages (Libraries, DLL's, Components)

Check the following packages:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_dotnet35
• POL_Install_tahoma

Click Browse

Navigate to your Bastion download from GOG
Select "setup_bastion_2.0.0.6.exe"
Click Open


Click Next again

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


XNA Installation
Click Next


Check "I accept the terms in the License Agreement"
Click Next


Click Install


Click Finish


Click Exit


PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "Bastion.exe"
Click Next


Name your shortcut: Bastion
Click Next


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


PlayOnLinux Configure

Select "Bastion"
Click Configure


General Tab
Wine version: 1.7.51-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

Launching Bastion

Select Bastion
Click Run


Note: Click Debug to see errors and bugs

Optimization

Click Help & Options


Click Resolution


Select the resolution of your Linux Desktop for fullscreen
Click Back


Click Display


Adjust:

• Fullscreen
• Vertical Sync
• Anti-Aliasing

Click Confirm


Conclusion:
Bastion ran perfectly after tediously installing dotnet35 packages. Without dotnet it refuses to run at all. Even the GOG installer doesn't install the packages with the installation. Once in-game everything ran pefectly on my GeForce 550 Ti.

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