Gunfighters is an indie lowpoly western first person shooter. Gun it out with your friends or bots in an old main street shoot out! Play typical game styles like deathmatch, team deathmatch, gunslinger, duel and more.



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

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

Tips & Specs:

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Mint 19 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Wine: 4.0.3
DXVK: 1.5

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"



Look for the Wine Version: 4.0.3
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right



Click Next

Downloading Wine



Extracting

Installed



Click (amd64) Tab
Select 4.0.3
Click the arrow pointing to the right



Downloading Wine 64-bit



Installed



Wine 4.0.3 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: gunfighters
Click Next



Check all three options:

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

Click Next



Select Wine 4.0.3
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:

• d3d10
• d3d10_1
• d3d10core
• d3d11
• d3d9
• 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 (Components, DLLs, Libraries)

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

Click Cancel
Gunfighters does not have an installer



Download Gunfighters

Go to: https://gunfighters.itch.io/gunfighters
Save to your Desktop

Open Gunfighters with your Archive Manager
Click Extract



Navigate to your virtual drive Program Files
Full path:

Code:

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

Click Extract



Click "Show the Files"



Install DXVK

Download DXVK 1.5
Go to: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v1.5
Extract on your Desktop

Open the x64 Folder
Copy all of the DLLs



Paste the DLLs in the previously opened fold in Program Files
Full path:

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/gunfighters/drive_c/Program Files/Gunfighters/

PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure



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



Select "Gunfighters.exe"
Click Next



Name the shortcut: Gunfighters
Click Next



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



Select Gunfighters Shortcut (Left column)

General Tab
Wine version: 4.0.3



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 Gunfighters

Select "Gunfighters"
Click Run



Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs

Optimization

Click Options



Adjust:

• Resolution
• Shadows
• Anisotropic Filtering
• Shadow Quality
• Texture Quality
• Shadow Distance
• Vertical Synchronization
• Fullscreen

Conclusion:
Gunfighters ran great on my GeForce GTX 1060 in Mint. I was able to play against bots without any performance or graphical issues. Sometimes the bots would huddle in the spawn area and not move, but other than that, they are really hard. I was able to create an online game and my daughters were able to join after exiting the game and re-opening.

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