Dream Willow is a short indie action arcade game. Lead your Necromancer through the colorful wild and slay cute creatures... need some help? Revive their bones into your own minions. Upgrade your health, projectiles and number of minions in the forest store.



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

Note: This guide applies to the itch.io version of Dream Willow. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

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Mint 19 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Wine: 5.0 64-bit
DXVK: 1.5.4

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"



Look for the Wine Version: 5.0
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right



Click Next

Downloading Wine



Installed



Click (amd64) Tab
Select 5.0
Click the arrow pointing to the right



Downloading Wine 64-bit



Installed



Wine 5.0 32-bit and 64-bit is installed, 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: dreamwillow
Click Next



Check all three options:

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

Click Next



Select Wine 5.0
click Next



Select "64 bits windows installation"
Click Next



Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7
Click Apply



Libraries Tab
Type each of the following:

• d3d9
• d3d10
• d3d10_1
• d3d10core
• d3d11
• dxgi

Select one at a time
Click Edit
Change to "Native (Windows)"
Click Apply



Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Click OK



PlayOnLinux Packages (DLLs, Libraries, Components)

Check each of the following:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx10
• POL_Install_d3dx11
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_tahoma

Click Next



Note: All packages should automatically download and install

Do not click Browse
Click Cancel



Download Dream Willow from itch.io
Go to: https://wolverinesoft-studio.itch.io/dreamwillow
Save to your Desktop
Open with Archive Manager
Click Extract



Navigate to your virtual drive Program Files directory
Full path:

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/dreamwillow/drive_c/Program Files

Click Extract



Click "Show the Files"



Installing DXVK

Download DXVK 1.5.4
Go to: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v1.5.4
Save to your Desktop

Open with Archive Manager
Extract to your Desktop

Open the x64 Directory
Copy all the DLLs



Paste in the game folder
Full path:

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/drive_c/Program Files/Showcase Build FINAL/

PlayOnLinux Shortcut and Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure



Select "dreamwillow" on the left column

General Tab
Click "Make a new shortcut from this virtual drive"



Select "DREAMWILLOW.exe"
Click Next



Name the shortcut: DREAM WILLOW
Click Next



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



Select New Shortcut on the left column

General Tab
Wine version: 5.0



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

Run Dream Willow

Select "Dream Willow"
Click Run



Note: Click debug to see bugs and errors

Conclusion:
Dream Willow was made with Unity 3D engine and runs really well in PlayOnLinux with Wine on my GeForce GTX 1060. In fact it should run on almost any vulkan supported hardware. It is a short game, so there is no save or load feature, but everything ran well without any crashing or graphical artifacts.

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