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Hellgate London is a hack-n-slash action RPG based in post apocalyptic London after the gates of hell opened up and releases demons upon the earth. Select from many gun weilding and melee classes and level up your stats and skills. Slay demons with all kinds of weapons such as swords, rifles, grenade launchers, flame throwers and rocket launchers that inflict elemental damage like fire and electricity.
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Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Hellgate London in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the retail version of Hellgate London. Other versions may require additional steps.
Tips & Specs:
To learn more about PlayOnLinux and Wine configuration, see the online manual: PlayOnLinux Explained
Mint 18.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.12
Wine: 3.6
Wine Installation
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
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Look for the Wine Version: 3.6
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
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Click Next
Downloading Wine
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Extracting
Downloading Gecko
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Installed
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Wine 3.6 is installed and you can close this window
Copy Files to Desktop & Download Patch
Create a new folder on your Desktop
Open the DVD ROM in one window
Open the new folder in another window
Copy and paste everything in the DVD to the new folder
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Go to: http://www.hellgateaus.info/files/Patch_NA_Europe_Germany_SP_1.2_1.18074.70.4256.exe
Save the 1.2 Patch on your Desktop
PlayOnLinux Setup
Run PlayOnLinux
Click Install
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Click "Install a non-listed program"
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Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
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Name the virtual drive: hellgatelondon
Click Next
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Check all three options:
Click Next
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
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Select Wine: 3.6
Click Next
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Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next
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Wine Configuration
Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7
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Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Click OK
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PlayOnLinux Packages (DLLs, Libraries, Components)
Check the following:
Click Next
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_tahoma
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Note: All packages should automatically download and install
Installing Hellgate London
Select "Seelct another file"
Click Next
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Click Browse
Select "Setup.exe" from the folder on your Desktop
Click Open
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Click Next again...
Click "Standard Install"
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Click Accept
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Enter the KEY from game insert
Click OK
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Click Finish
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PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select "hellgate_sp_dx9_x86.exe"
Click Next
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Name the shortcut: Hellgate London
Click Next
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Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
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PlayOnLinux Configure
Select "Hellgate London"
Click Configure
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General Tab
Wine version: 3.6
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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
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Miscellaneous Tab
Click "Run a .exe file in this virtual drive"
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Select "Patch_NA_Europe_Germany_SP_1.2_1.18074.70.4256.exe"
Click Open
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Click Finish when the patch is done installing
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Close Configure
Launching Hellgate London
Select "Hellgate London"
Click Run
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Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs
Optimization
Click Options
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Click Display icon
Adjust:
Click Accept
- Resolution
- Modes
- Windowed
- V-Sync
- Triple Buffering
- Engine Version
- Shader Quality
- Antialiasing
- Shadow Detail
- Dynamic Lights
- Enhanced Weather
- Model Detail
- Model Viewing Distance
- Texture Detail
- Trilinear Filtering
- Anisotropic Filtering
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Conclusion:
Upon initial testing Hellgate London vanilla would crash when clicking Options. After installing the 1.2 patch it worked fine. Sometimes selecting resolution would be buggy, but it automatically adjusted to fit my Linux Desktop at 1920x1080 anyways. The game plays perfectly in all my tests and runs great on my GeForce GTX 1060.
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