Hemoglobin is a first person horror demo taking place in a hospital after something terrible has happened. The hospital is abandoned and you have to find the key to the front door, but you aren't alone...
Follow my step-by-step guide on installing and configuring Hemoglobin in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the itch.io demo version of Hemoglobin. Other versions may require additional steps.
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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: hemoglobin
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 libraries
- d3d10
- d3d10_1
- d3d10core
- d3d11
- dxgi
- xaudio2_7
Select "Native (Windows)"
Click Apply
Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows
Click OK
PlayOnLinux Packages
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
Click Cancel
Download the Hemoblogin demo on itch.io
https://jasozz.itch.io/hemoglobin-project-dd25
Save to your Desktop
Open HG3D_DD25_v5.zip with your archive manager
Click Extract
Extract to Program Files in your hemoglobin virutal drive
Full path:
Code:
/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/hemoglobin/drive_c/Program Files/Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure
General Tab
Click "Make a new shortcut from this virtual drive"
Select "Hemoglobin3D.exe"
Click Next
Name the shortcut: Hemoglobin
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
Setup DXVK
More information on preparing Linux for DXVK
http://www.gamersonlinux.com/forum/threads/dxvk-guide.2540/
Go to DXVK on GitHub
https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v0.96
- Download version 0.96
- Save to your Desktop
- Extract to your Desktop
- Open the x64 directory
- Copy all of the dlls
Paste in the HG3D_DD25_v4 directory
Full Path: [/code]/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/hemoglobin/drive_c/Program Files/HG3D_DD25_v4/[/code]
Back to PlayOnLinux
Select Hemoglobin
Click Run
Note: Click debug to see bugs and errors
This is a Unity Engine game, so you can select resolution, quality and input with the launcher
Click Play
Conclusion:
There is one serious bug in Hemoglobin but it happens randomly... the game will load and you can't move at all. Since its only a 30-60 minute demo, its not a huge deal to just start over, but this can be frustrating. It only happened to me one time at the end of the demo. Besides that, it ran perfectly as everything is low quality and should run on just about any laptop or netbook.
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