Call of Juarez Bound in Blood is another FPS installment of the Old West with the McCall brothers. Fight together in the Civil War and the West to find the Gold of Juarez. Play as Ray or Thomas, choose a variety of guns to slay bandits, soldiers and other enemies. Mount horses, drive wagons or row canoes across beautiful wild west landscapes.



Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Call of Juarez Bound in Blood in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of Call of Juarez Bound in Blood. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

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Mint 19 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Wine: 4.0.2

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"



Look for the Wine Version: 4.0.2
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right



Click Next

Downloading Wine



Extracting

Installed



Click (amd64) Tab
Select 4.0.2
Click the arrow pointing to the right



Downloading Wine 64-bit



Installed



Wine 4.0.2 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: cojboundinblood
Click Next



Check all three options:

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

Click Next



Select Wine 4.0.2
click Next



Select "64 bits windows installation"
Click Next



Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7



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

Click Next



Note: All packages should automatically download and install

Click Browser

Select "setup_call_of_juarez_bound_in_blood_1.1.0.0_(32412).exe"
Click Open



Click Next again...

Click OK



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



Click Exit



PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "CojBiBGame_x86.exe"
Click Next



Name the shortcut: COJ Bound In Blood
Click Next



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



PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "COJ Bound In Blood"
Click Configure



General Tab
Wine version: 4.0.2



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

Click Run



Note: Click debug to see bugs and errors

Optimization

Click Options



Click "Video"



Adjust:

• Resolution
• Material quality
• Texture quality
• Full screen
• Shadows
• Shadow map size
• Foliage quality
• FX quality
• Max refresh rate

Click OK



Conclusion:
Call of Juarez Bound in Blood ran perfectly in PlayOnLinux with stable Wine alone. No need for DXVK or staging versions of Wine. My GeForce GTX 1060 handled the game perfectly and had great frame rates.

The only problem I noticed was the logo videos in the beginning. Just press any key to skip them as you will only see a black screen.

Gameplay Video:


Screenshots: