Garden Paws demo is a cute crafting, trading and exploration game where you play as a small animal in a beautiful relaxing toon world. Explore to find seeds, plants, rocks, wood and many other items to craft and sell to other characters. The full version boasts multi-player, fishing and many more features.
Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Garden Paws in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the Itch.io version of Garden Paws. Other versions may require additional steps.
Tips & Specs:
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Mint 19 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Wine: 4.0
Wine Installation
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
Look for the Wine Version: 4.0
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Click Next
Downloading Wine
Extracting
Installed
Click (amd64) Tab
Select 4.0
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Downloading Wine 64-bit
Installed
Wine 4.0 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: gardenpaws
Click Next
Check all three options:
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
Select Wine 4.0
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
Click Edit
Select "Native (Windows)"
Click Apply
Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Click OK
Note: You may have to enable "Emulate a virtual desktop" to prevent the mouse bug mentioned in the conclusion.
PlayOnLinux Packages (DLLs, Libraries, Components)
Check the Following:
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx10
- POL_Install_d3dx11
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_tahoma
Note: All packages should automatically download and install
Do not Click Browse
Garden Paws demo does not have an installer
Click Cancel
Download Garden Paws Demo
https://danielsnd.itch.io/garden-paws
Save to your Desktop
Open Garden Paws with your Archive Manager
Click Extract
Navigate to Program Files directory
Full Path
Code:
/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/gardenpaws/drive_c/Program FilesName the Folder: gardenpaws
Click Create
Click Extract
Click "Show the Files"
Download DXVK 1.2
Go to DXVK 1.2 URL
https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v1.2
Download: dxvk-1.2.tar.gz
Save to your Desktop
Extract on your Desktop
Open x64 Directory
Copy all DLLs
Go back to the gardenpaws folder in Program Files
Full path:
Code:
/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/gardenpaws/drive_c/Program Files/gardenpaws/More information on setting up your system to work with DXVK
DXVK Setup in Linux
PlayOnLinux Configure
Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure
Select gardenpaws virtual drive (Left side)
General Tab
Click "Make a new shortcut from this virtual drive"
Select "GardenPaws.exe"
Click Next
Name the Shortcut: Garden Paws
Click Next
Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
General Tab
Wine version: 4.0
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
Select "Garden Paws"
Click Run
Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs
Unity Launcher
Select a resolution and graphics quality
Click Play
Conclusion:
Garden Paws ran perfectly on my GTX 1060 without any performance issues.
I did have a problem where the mouse will stop working in the menus which can prevent you from saving, crafting and interacting with NCPs. I found that experimenting with the Display Tab in Wine Configuration can help. Like enabling the virtual desktop and/or enabling "capture the mouse in full-screen windows". Or just play Garden Paws in windowed mode. Otherwise make sure to save by sleeping in-game otherwise you might loose a lot of progress because the only way to fix it is by killing the processes and starting over. The easiest way to resolve this is by playing in Windowed mode, but you won't get to play in a cinematic fullscreen view.
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