Deadlight Guide

Deadlight Director's Cut takes place after a zombie apocalypse in the 1980s. Play as Randall Wayne in a brilliant side-scrolling action puzzle platform game. Every scene has a clever puzzle and jump tricks, and survival is your goal. This isn't a zombie slaying action game, instead you have to plan out your moves in precision to reach the next area. Sometimes an all out run is the only way.

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

Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of Deadlight. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

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Mint 18.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.12
Wine: 2.21-staging

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"

Look for the Wine Version: 2.21-staging
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right

Click Next

Downloading Wine

Extracting

Downloading Gecko

Installed

Wine 2.21-staging is installed and 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: deadlight
Click Next

Check all three options:

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

Click Next

Select "Wine 2.21-staging"
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

PlayOnLinux Packages (DLLs, Libraries, Components)

Check the following:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dcomplete
• POL_Install_xinput

Click Next

Installing Deadlight

Click Browse

Select "setup_deadlight_directors_cut_2.0.0.2.exe"
Click Open

Click Next again...

Click OK

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

Click OK on all errors

Note: Errors do not affect installation or game-play

Click Exit

PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "LOTDGame.exe"
Click Next

Name the shortcut: Deadlight
Click Next

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

PlayOnLinux Configure

Select "Deadlight"
Click Configure

General Tab
Wine version: 2.21-staging

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

Select Deadlight
Click Run

Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs

Optimization

Click Options

Click Settings

Click "Display Settings"

Adjust:

• Resolution
• Gamma
• Fullscreen
• Vsync
• Graphic Quality

Click Accept

Note: Further detailed graphics adjustments can be made by editing UT3 .ini files

/home/username/Documents/My Games/UnrealEngine3/LOTDGame/Config/LOTDSystemSettings.ini

Conclusion:
Deadlight ran fine in PlayOnLinux. The only problem I had was some screen artifacts that wouldn't go away. I spent hours messing with lighting settings in the LOTDSystemSettings.ini trying to make them go away, but couldn't find the right setting. Otherwise, performance was great on my GeForce GTX 1060

Gameplay Video:

Screenshots:

 

Good game and highly customizable thanks to unreal engine 3

 

Have you tested Deadlight as well?
Did you get the screen artifacts like in my video?

 

Have you tested Deadlight as well?
Did you get the screen artifacts like in my video?

Yeah very strange in my case dont happen in last test

 

What did you do in your last test to make them go away?

 

What did you do in your last test to make them go away?

Last Test

System Specs Used in Test

Wine 2.19

Nvidia Drivers 387.12 (run package from nvidia drivers homepage)

Xubuntu 16.04 x64 - Kernel 4.8.0-34 generic (ubuntu mainline) - CPUFreq: Performance

CPU: INTEL Pentium G3258 (Haswell 22nm) 4.1Ghz + Artic Cooling Alpine 11 Plus

MEMORY: 8GB DDR3 1333 (2x4) Patriot value (dual channel: 21.3 gb/s)

GPU: Gigabyte Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050 OC (GP107 14nm: 640 Shaders / 40 TMUS / 32 ROPS) Windforce 2GB DDR5 7000Mhz 128Bit (110Gb/s)

MAINBOARD: MSI H81M E33

 

Hmm, what overrides did you use?

I HAD to use xinput otherwise the game wouldn't even launch

 

Hmm, what overrides did you use?

I HAD to use xinput otherwise the game wouldn't even launch

Yeah xinput is needed in various games like xaudio

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