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

Click Next



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 one at a time and click Edit
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

Click Next



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

1. Download version 0.96
2. Save to your Desktop
3. Extract to your Desktop
4. Open the x64 directory
5. 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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