Far Cry 2 takes place in Central Africa during the civil war. Your mission is to find and kill The Jakal who is selling arms to both sides. Explore beautiful desert and jungle environments on the land and rivers. Take out mercenaries, find diamonds and set fire to a completely destructible world.

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Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Far Cry 2 Fortunes Edition in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of Far Cry 2 Fortunes Edition. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

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Mint 19 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Wine: 4.0.2
DXVK: 1.3.3

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"



Look for the Wine Version: 4.0.2
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right



Click Next

Downloading Wine



Extracting

Installed



Click (amd64) Tab
Select 4.0.2
Click the arrow pointing to the right



Downloading Wine 64-bit



Installed



Wine 4.0.2 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: farcry2
Click Next



Check all three options:

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

Click Next



Select Wine 4.0.2
Click Next



Select "64 bits windows installation"
Click Next



Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7



Libraries Tab
Type the following:

• d3d10
• d3d10_1
• d3d10core
• d3d11
• dxgi

Select one at a time
Click Edit
Select "native (Windows)"
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_d3dx10
• POL_Install_d3dx11
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_tahoma

Click Next



Note: All packages should automatically download and install

Click Browse

Select "setup_far_cry2_2.1.0.12.exe"
Click Open



Click Next

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



Click "I Agree"



Click "OK"



Click "OK" on all GOG Installer errors



Click Exit



PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "farcry2.exe"
Click Next



Name the shortcut: Far Cry 2
Click Next



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



PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "Far Cry 2"
Click Configure



General Tab
Wine version: 4.0.2



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

Install DXVK

Go to: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v1.3.3
Download DXVK 1.3.3
Extract to your Desktop
Open x32 directory
Copy all DLLs



Paste in the Far Cry 2 bin directory
Full path:

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/farcry2/drive_c/GOG Games/Far Cry 2/bin/

Run Far Cry 2

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "Far Cry 2"
Click Run



Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs

Optimization:

Click Options



Click Display



Adjust:

• Resolution
• Refresh Rate
• V-Sync
• Anti-aliasing
• Widescreen
• Real Tree
• Fire
• Physic
• Overall
• Vegetation
• Shading
• Terrain
• Geometry
• Post
• Textures
• Ambient
• HDR
• Bloom

Click Apply



Conclusion:
With DXVK Far Cry 2 ran great! I had to turn off anti-aliasing because there were some graphical artifacts with trees. I also experienced random crashing at about 30 minutes of gameplay. So save your game often... quicksave F5 works fine. Always check the display settings because by default it was set to low with my GeForce GTX 1060, but I was able to play with almost everything on High or Very High.

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