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

Click Next


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

Click Next


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 opengl32

This is required to launch the mod


Display 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

Arrow down to "Apply changes"


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:


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