Deity Guide

Deity is a free to play Action game by a team of students at DigiPen. Play as a minion of darkness and target Holy soldiers with chain attacks. Don't touch the light, stay in the dark, channel your evil body from torch to torch and don't let the soldiers see you.

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

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Mint 17 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.9
Wine: 1.6.2

Wine Installation

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

Downloading Deity

Go to: http://www.moddb.com/games/deity/downloads/deity
Click Download now

Note: You can also click "Other mirrors" too

Navigate to your Desktop
Click Save

PlayOnLinux Setup

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install

Click "Install a non-listed program"

Click Next

Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next

Name the virtual drive: deity
Click Next

Check 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"
Check "Emulate a virtual desktop"
Desktop size: 1024x768
Click OK

Installing Packages (DLL's, Libraries, Components)

Check the following:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_tahoma

Click Next

Note: All packages will automatically download and install

Installing Diety

Click Browse

Navigate to your Desktop
Select "diety_setup.exe"
Click Open

Click Next

Click Next again

Click Next again

Click Next again

Uncheck "Create a desktop icon"
Click Next

Click Install

Uncheck "Launch Deity"
Click Finish

PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "Deity.exe"
Click Next

Click Next

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

PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select Diety
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 card/chip uses

Close Configure

Launching Deity


Select Deity
Click Run

Note: Click "Debug" to see errors and bugs

Optimization

Click Options

Adjust Resolution to match your Linux Desktop
Click Confirm

Conclusion:
Deity ran really well on my GeForce 550 Ti.
Its a wonderful short game about light, dark and minions.
There were a few moments of stuttering FPS, but then it went away by the next level. I'm not exactly sure why???
there was also a warning on my Chromium browser that the download website could have malware, but I think it might be a false positive because I had not issues with the download or the installer.

Gameplay Video:

Screenshots:

 

Just curious, why 1.6.2?

 

Because its still Wine's recommended "stable" version
At lest until 1.8 is stable
And because it runs just fine.

I try to use stable versions for simplicity, but Diety runs on 1.7.55-staging as well.

 

Hmmm, I got this.

 

What video card/chip are you using? It might not be supported by this game
Its their own custom engine too

 

AMD Radeon R4 Graphics.
> glxinfo \| grep rendering
direct rendering: Yes
> glxinfo \| grep renderer
GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent, GLX_MESA_query_renderer,
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD MULLINS (DRM 2.43.0, LLVM 3.7.0)
> OpenGL libs (Direct rendering testing)
32bits direct rendering is enabled
64bits direct rendering is enabled
If I click ignore I get the start screen. Let me try to change wine bottles.

 

Since its an integrated AMD graphics processor, you never know what results you will get with Wine, OpenGL and performance.
I always recommend a desktop with a GeForce video card and Nvidia drivers, but you probably have a laptop.

I got this same error with my GeForce 7600 because its tool old and the version of OpenGL isn't supported.
If you click "ignore" it will crash

 

yes I get the start screen and music I have no mouse cursor, I can manage to get to settings even though I can't see the mouse move. I will try the recommended version of wine and see I am also using opensource drivers.

 

Did you click "ignore"?
Make sure to use the virtual desktop in Wine Configuration

 

yes, I made it to here with version 1.6.2. Chasing the mouse lol

 

I can select options and the game loads this screen but then it goes to the mouse and the mouse on the screen moves in the opposite direction of the way I physically move the mouse. I mostly notice script binding errors when I debug. I also found this:
> Error ] Shader.cpp:62 0:6(10): error: GLSL 1.50 is not supported. Supported versions are:
| 1.10, 1.20, 1.30, 1.00 ES, and 3.00 ES

 

You can disable GLSL in PlayOnLinux Configure. Go to the Display Tab
Otherwise, your video chip is not supported

 

You can disable GLSL in PlayOnLinux Configure. Go to the Display Tab
Otherwise, your video chip is not supported

I have found Some games you can get to work with open source drivers and some require the AMD/ATI drivers in my case at least, I have had the fglrx driver installed with the radeon blacklisted but sometimes I ran into an error with the kernel, I'm not real acquainted with solving that under Arch. Although I did get games to play which normally would not run with the open source for me. It can be a little complicated at times but I learn..

 

If you aren't totally committed to Arch, you could try Mint or Ubuntu. But you still might have AMD driver problems or open source problems.
I wish there was a button to switch to open source or close source on-the-fly.
Did you have any success with disabling GLSL?

 

If you aren't totally committed to Arch, you could try Mint or Ubuntu. But you still might have AMD driver problems or open source problems.
I wish there was a button to switch to open source or close source on-the-fly.
Did you have any success with disabling GLSL?

No disabling GLSL didn't work I tried a few other things also, AMD/ATI Bar & Grill has a few posts on switching between open source and proprietary drivers but I haven't been brave enough to attempt this yet lol. All in all I love Arch Linux though. I like the rolling releases and having to think to figure things out

 

I'll ask Daerandin if he can help. He is a HUGE Arch gamer

 

I don't have any experience with AMD graphics, so I don't think I can offer much help there. However, for using the proprietary AMD drivers on Arch, I suspect the easiest method by far it to use the unofficial repository which will also hold back xorg upgrades to remain compatible with the proprietary driver.

This specific part of the Arch wiki should prove helpful:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AMD_Catalyst#Installing_from_the_unofficial_repository

You should probably use the main Catalyst repo as I don't think your card require a legacy driver. But keep in mind that integrated graphics are not really suited for gaming and will in many cases fail to meet the minimum requirements of games.