Consortium is an excellent mix of Role Playing and First Person Shooter in a Sci-fi Mystery experience. You will play as "Six" the new Bishop of starship Consortium investigating a mysterious murder. This is a dialog heavy, interactive murder mystery on a single spaceship.
Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Consortium in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of Consortium. Other versions may require additional steps.
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Mint 17.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.10
Wine: 1.8.5
Wine Installation
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
Look for the Wine Version: 1.8.5
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Click Next
Downloading Wine
Extracting
Downloading Gecko
Installed
Wine 1.8.5 is installed and you can close this window
PlayOnLinux Setup
Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install
Click "Install non-listed program"
Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Name the virtual drive: consortium
Click Next
Check all three options:
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
Select Wine 1.8.5
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 drive"
Desktop size: 1920x1080
Click OK
Note: Virtual Desktop will resize to match your Linux Desktop
PlayOnLinux Packages (DLL's, Libraries, Components)
Check the following:
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_tahoma
Note: All packages will automatically download and install
Installing Consortium
Click Browse
Select "setup_consortium_2.2.0.9.exe"
Click Open
Click Next again...
Click Options
Check "Yes, I have read and accept EULA"
Uncheck "Create desktop icon"
Click Install
Click OK on all errors
Click Exit
PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select "consortium.exe"
Click Next
Name the shortcut: Consortium
Click Next
Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
PlayOnLinux Configure
Select "Consortium"
Click Configure
General Tab
Wine version: 1.8.5
Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of Wine.
Display Tab
Video memory size: Select the amount of memory your video card/chip uses
Close Configure
Launching Consortium
Select "Consortium"
Click Run
Note: Click debug to see bugs and errors
Optimization
Click Options
Click Video
Adjust:
- Brightness
- Aspect Ratio
- Resolution
- Display Mode
- Laptop Power Savings
Adjust:
- Post FX Anti-Aliasing Mode
- Filtering Mode
- VSync
- Shader Detail
- Effect Detail
- Model / Texture Detail
- Paged Pool Memory Available
Filter Removal
When Consortium initially launched you won't be able to see anything.
Navigate to:
Code:
/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/consortium/drive_c/CONSORTIUM - The Master Edition/consortium/cfg/Name it autoexec.cfg
Note: Replace username with your Linux login
Copy & paste:
Code:
r_signal_fx "0"
host_writeconfigSave autoexec.cfg
Go back to PlayOnLinux Configure
Select Consortium shortcut
General Tab
Arguments: +exec autoexec.cfg
Conclusion:
Consortium ran fairly well on my GeForce 550 Ti with some minor bugs. Once you fix the overlay filter you will see everything, but I found random characters floating in the air, dead-space in dialog and other random events which apparently existin in Windows as well. Linux gamers have been waiting on a Linux port of Consortium, but until then, this is the best we can expect.
Gameplay Video:
Screenshots:
