EA joins the fre-to-play tower-defense RPG tournament arena genre with their own title: Dawngate.
If you play DOTA2 or League of Legends, you will like Dawngate. Guide your hero through a large arena alongside your minions, level up your abilities, buy items and upgrades from the store and obliterate your opponents.




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

Tips & Specs:

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int 16 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.2
Wine: 1.6.2

Installing Wine

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"


Look for the Wine Version: 1.6.2
Note: Try using stable Wine 1.8 and 1.8-staging

Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right


Click Next

Downloading Wine


Extracting

Downloading Gecko


Installed


Wine 1.6.2 is installed and you can close this window

Download Dawngate

Go to: https://www.dawngate.com/register
Enter your email and click Submit


After registration click "Download Dawngate Now!"


Navigate to your desktop
Click Save


Setup PlayOnLinux

Launch PlayOnLinux
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: dawngate
Click Next


Select all three options:

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

Click Next


Select Wine 1.6.2
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
Click OK


Installing Dawngate

Click Browse


Navigate to your desktop
Select Dawngate.msi
Click Open


Click Next


Check "I accept the terms in the License Agreement"
Uncheck "Install a shortcut on the Desktop"
Click Next


Click Next


Click Next


Click Install


Done Installing
Uncheck "Run Dawngate Now?"
Click Finish


PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "Launcher.exe"
Click Next


Name your shortcut: Dawngate
Click Next


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


PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure


General Tab
Wine version: 1.6.2
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 chip/card uses


Close Configure

Launching Dawngate

Select Dawngate
Click Run
Note: To see errors click Debug instead of Run


Downloading files and updating...


Click "Play Now"


Login with your registration information
Click Login


Optimization

Click the tiny gear for options
Adjust your Graphics settings by selecting High, Medium or Low

• Shadows
• Glow
• Distortion
• World Detail

Rule of Thumb:
Higher settings = more detail, lower frame rates
Lower settings = less detail, higher frame rates

Check or uncheck video options
Choose a window mode

• Windowed
• Borderless Window
• Fullscreen

Screen Size is not available unless you select fullscreen


Select a screen size that matches your Linux desktop


Conclusion:
Dawngate installation was fairly painless and the game ran perfectly. The only side-affects I noticed was some texture flickering, but it did not affect gameplay. Dawngate was easy to learn and there are countless options with different classes, abilities and store items.
Since this is the Beta version, hopefully the full version installation won't be much different.

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