Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a medieval first person RPG simulator. The details are so realistic with character development, survival, fighting techniques, skills and even graphics... I have never played a game so immersive. Play as Henry the blacksmiths son who barely survives a massacre where your parents were murdered and your hometown burned to the ground.



Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Kingdom Come: Deliverance in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Other versions may require additional steps.

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Mint 19 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Proton 4.19-GE-1
DXVK: 1.4.2

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"



Look for the Wine Version: 4.0.2
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right



Click Next

Downloading Wine



Extracting

Installed



Click (amd64) Tab
Select 4.0.2
Click the arrow pointing to the right



Downloading Wine 64-bit



Installed



Wine 4.0.2 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



Check all three options:

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

Click Next



Select Wine 4.0.2
Click Next



Note: We will download and use GloriousEggRoll's proton fork in a later step

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

Select one at a time
Click Edit
Select "native (Windows)"
Click Apply



Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Click OK



PlayOnLinux Packages (DLLs, Libraries, Components)

Check the following:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx10
• POL_Install_d3dx11
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_tahoma

Click Next



Click Browse

Open the setup_kingdom_come_deliverance_1.9.3.404-501_(33541).exe
Click OK



Click Next again...

Click "Options"
Uncheck "Create desktop icon"
Click "Yes, I have read and accept EULA"
Click Install



Click Finish...

PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "KindomCome.exe"
Click Next



Name the shortcut: Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Click Next



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



Installing Proton

Download GloriousEggRoll's Proton Fork
Go to: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases/tag/4.19-GE-1
Save to your Desktop
Extract



Open the "dist" folder
Copy all of the files and folders



Go to PlayOnLinux's Wine Directory
Full Path:

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wine/linux-amd64/

Create a new folder and name it: proton
Paste all of the files and folders you copied



PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "Kingdom Come: Deliverance"
Click Configure



Select "Kingdom Come: Deliverance" shortcut

General Tab
Click the down-arrow
Select "proton"



Add the argument: PROTON_NO_ESYNC



Display Tab
Video memory size: Enter the amount of memory your video card/chip uses



Kingdom Come Executables Fix

Upon Launching the game will crash
In order to fix this we need to move some files in the game folder
Navigate to the Kingdom Come Deliverance game folder
Full Path:

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/deliverance/drive_c/GOG Games/Kingdom Come Deliverance/bin

Open the Win64Shared Folder



Copy all the files in Win64Shared
Go back one directory and open the Win64 folder



Paste all of the copied files in Win64 folder



Note: Keep this folder open for the next step

DXVK Installation

Download DXVK 1.4.2 (or newer)
Go to: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v1.4.2
Download dxvk-1.4.2.tar.gz

Save to your Desktop
Extract

Open the x64 directory
Copy all of the DLLs



Go back to the Win64 folder
Paste all of the DLLs



Now you are ready to run Kingdom Come: Deliverance

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "Kingdom Come: Deliverance"
Click Run



Note: Click debug to launch a debugging window with errors and bugs

Optimization

Click Settings



Graphics Settings



Adjust:

• Resolution
• Window mode
• Overall image quality
• Show FPS
• VSync
• Vertical FOW

Click Confirm



Go back one
Click "Advanced Graphics Settings"



Adjust:

• Antialiasing
• Object quality
• Game effects
• Lighting
• Particles
• Physics
• Postprocess quality
• Shader quality
• Shadows
• Textures
• Water details
• Volumetric effects detail
• Vegetation detail
• Object distance
• Character distance

Click Confirm



Conclusion:
Initially when downloading 50 Gigabytes from GOG of individual 4GB files some of them were corrupted. I was not able to install the game and had to run the integrity check to see which files were corrupted. Then I had to download them again. Eventually I was able to install the entire 50GB game.

I began testing Kingdom Come with stable Wine then staging Wine and it ran but very slow. Frame rates were easily under 20 FPS and I was barely able to play. After some research on https://www.protondb.com/app/379430 several gamers posted great frame rates with GloriousEggRoll's Proton fork and disabling esync. Sure enough it worked and I was getting 30+ FPS even on high settings. There are a few areas where it still might drop below 20 FPS but still way better than stable Wine. My GeForce GTX 1060 was able to handle the CryEngine and its quite a beautiful game!

I did get a crash when loading a cutscene, but it only happened once. Definitely experiment with different GloriousEggRoll versions of Proton and DXVK. I did notice some graphical artifacts with textures or missing textures, but it was very rare.

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