Shelly "Bombshell" Harrison is the perfect soldier for the job... any job that requires getting even with alien scum! Weild Shell's robotic arm with an arsenal of weapons tand slay the apocalyptic Alien threat on Kyron and Zeroth. Shell always gets the last word!



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

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

Tips & Specs:

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

Mint 18.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.12
Wine: 3.3

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"


Look for the Wine Version: 3.3
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right


Click Next

Downloading Wine


Extracting

Downloading Gecko


Installed


Wine 3.3 is installed and you can close this window

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install


Click "Install a non-listed program"


Click Next

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


Name the virtual drive: bombshell
Click Next


Check all three options:

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

Click Next


Select Wine 3.3
Click Next


Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next


Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows XP
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_dotnet40
• POL_Install_dxfullsetup
• POL_Install_tahoma

Click Next


Click Browse

Select "setup_bombshell_1.2.10466(g))(16787)_(g).exe"
Click Open


Note: I don't know why it has such a long file name, but make sure to select the .exe installer. The .bin files are just containers

Click Next again...

Select Language
Click OK


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


Click OK on all errors


Click Exit


PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "Bombshell.exe"
Click Next


Name the shortcut: Bombshell
Click Next


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


PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "Bombshell"
Click Configure


General Tab
Wine version: 3.3


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

Select "Bombshell"
Click Run


Optimization

Click Options


Click Visual


Adjust:

• Resolution
• Mode
• Graphics Preset
• Texture Filtering
• Anti-Aliasing
• direct X Version
• V-Sync

Click Apply


Go back
Click "Visual Advanced"


Adjust:

• Dynamic Shadows
• Light Env shadows
• Shadow Quality
• Character Detail
• World Texture Detail
• Detail Level
• Particle quality
• Lens Flares
• Light Shafts
• Depth of Field
• Motion Blur (recommend off)
• Ambient Occlusion (recommend off)
• Distortion

Click Apply


Visual settings can also be manually set with an .ini file
For some reason the fullscreen resolution would not be automatically inherited

Go to:

Code:

Documents/My Games/Bombshell/ShellGame/Configure

Open ShellSystemsettings.ini


Adjust ResX & ResY to match your Linux desktop resolution
Click Save


.NET error
Sometimes you will get a Dot NET Framework Inistialization Error.
This error won't affect the game or installation
Click OK


Conclusion:
Bombshell ran really well with Wine 3.3 and my GeForce GTX 1060. There are times where it begins to slow down, but you can easily lower some of the visual settings to resolve this. Otherwise, its pretty fun and visually brilliant!

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