Dawn Of Darkness is a recently released free-to-play FPS RPG mod for Quake II. This is a complete Total Conversion, including all-new weapons, bad guys, maps, textures, models, etc. There is even a new inventory system, and a character dialogue system where you can talk to anyone.
Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Dawn Of Darkness in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the Free Unfinished (Modddb) version of Dawn Of Darkness. Other versions may require additional steps.
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Mint 17.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.10
Wine: 1.8.3
Wine Installation
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
Look for the Wine Version: 1.8.3
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Click Next
Downloading Wine
Extracting
Downloading Gecko
Installed
Wine 1.8.3 is installed and you can close this window
Download Dawn Of Darkness
Go To: http://www.moddb.com/mods/dawn-of-darkness1/downloads/dawn-of-darkness-v515-full-file
Save Dawn_of_Darkness_v5.15.7z to your Desktop
PlayOnLinux Setup
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: dawnofdarkness
Click Next
Check all three options:
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
Select Wine 1.8.3
Click Next
Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next
Wine Configuration
Application Tab
Windows version: Windows 7
Click apply
Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Check "Emulate a virtual desktop"
Desktop size: 1024x768
Click OK
Installing Packages (Libraries, DLL's, Components)
Check the following:
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_tahoma
At the Browse screen, click Cancel
Double-click Dawn_of_Darkness_v5.15.7z
Navigate to the Program Files directory of the new virtual drive
Code:
/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/dawnofdarkness/drive_c/Program Files/Click Extract
Click Quit
PlayOnLinux Configure
Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure
General Tab
Select "dawnofdarkness" virtual drive on the left
Click "Make a new shortcut from this virtual drive"
Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of Wine.
Select "Quake2.exe"
Name it: Dawn Of Darkness
Click Next
Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
Arguments
Enter:
Code:
+set game Roarke +set vid_ref gl +set gl_driver opengl32Display Tab
Video memory size: Enter the amount of memory your video card/chip uses
Close Configure
Launching Dawn Of Darkness
Select "Dawn Of Darkness"
Click Run
Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs
Optimization
Dawn of Darkness should run on any laptop, netbook and/or PC. Its based on the Quake II engine.
Use the arrow keys
Select Display
Adjust:
- Renderer (should be default OpenGL)
- Video Mode
- Fullscreen
- Screen Size
- Brightness
- Texture Quality
- 8-bit Textures
- Non-power-of-2 Mipmaps
- Texture Filter
- Anisotropic Filter
- Video Sync
- Refresh Rate
Conclusion:
Dawn Of Darkness ran perfectly on my GeForce 9800, GTX 950... of course since its such an old game. I didn't play all the way through, but apparently the game is unfinished. You can also click "Load" and there are save games to other maps in the game.
Gameplay Video:
Screenshots: