Dungeon Siege III is an Action RPG where you play as the last Legionnaire who will save the people of Ehb. Focusing on story, loot and decision-making dialog, you will hack-n-slash through linear levels with amazing skills and magical abilities.
Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Dungeon Siege III in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the Steam version of Dungeon Siege III. Other versions may require additional steps.
Tips & Specs:
Try SteamPlay before using this guide as Valve now uses a fork of Wine called Proton and should run most Windows games.
To learn more about PlayOnLinux and Wine configuration, see the online manual: PlayOnLinux Explained
Mint 17 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.8
Wine: 1.7.49-staging
Wine Installation
Note: Wine versions older than 2.0.2 and 2.12-staging no longer work with Steam.
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
Look for the Wine Version: 1.7.49-staging
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Click Next
Downloading Wine
Extracting
Downloading Gecko
Installed
Wine 1.7.49-staging is installed and you can close this window
Downloading Steam
Go To: http://www.steampowered.com
Click Install Steam
Do not click "Install Steam Now"
It will automatically install Linux Steam
Select Windows Steam instead
click "Windows" under the green button
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 your virtual drive: dungeonsiege3
No spaces
Click Next
Select all three options:
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
Select Wine 1.7.49-staging
Click Next
Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next
Configure Wine
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
PlayOnLinux Packages (Libraries, Components, DLL's)
Check the following libraries:
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_Physx
- POL_Install_tahoma
- POL_Install_vcrun2005
Note: All packages will automatically download and install
Installing Steam
Click Browse
Navigate to your desktop
Select: SteamSetup.exe
Click Open
Click Next
Click Next
Check: I accept the license...
Click Next
Click Next
Click Next
Click Install
Click Finish
Updating Steam
Click the "X" to close Steam login, we will download the game in a later step...
PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select Steam.exe
Click Next
Name your shortcut: Dungeon Siege 3
Click Next
Click "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
PlayOnLinux Configure
Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure
General Tab
Wine version: 1.7.49-staging
Arguments: -no-dwrite -no-cef-sandbox
This fixes the missing font and store problem
Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of wine
Display Tab
Video Memory Size: Select the size of Memory your video card/chip uses
Close Configure
Launching Steam
Select Dungeon Siege 3
Click Run
Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs
Click "Login to existing account"
Login
Find Dungeon Siege 3 in your Library
Click Install
Click Next
Click "I Agree"
Click Finish
After its done donwloading
Click Play
Optimization
Click Options
Click Video
Adjust:
- Resolution
- Vertical Sync
- Anisotrophic Filtering
- Motion Blur
- Multisample Antialiasing
- Shadow Quality
- Texture Quality
- Shader Quality
- Visual Effects Quality
Anything other than "low" will result in black textures for everything
Click Apply
Conclusion:
Dungeon Siege played rather well and only had a few graphical artifacts. There are some flickering textures or shaders as your character moves around the environment. Keep shaders set to Low, because Medium and High result in black textures. Otherwise, everything else works great: mouse/keyboard, load/save, frame rates, inventory and graphical user interface.
Gameplay Video:
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