Mind: Path To Thalamus is an epic puzzle adventure where you play the role of a Tsunami survivor stuck in his own mind while in a coma. He searches for his daughter Sophia but finds the inner depths of his mind a surrealistic place of memories and fantasy. Experience stunning visuals, control night and day, explore many different natural environments, interact with your surroundings and solve puzzles with sight, sound and physics.





Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Mind: Path To Thalamus in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the Humble Bundle version of Mind: Path To Thalamus. Steam and GOG versions will require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

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Mint 17 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.5
Wine: 1.6.2

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"


Look for the Wine Version: 1.6.2
Note: Try using stable Wine 1.8 and 1.8-staging

Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right


Click Next

Downloading Wine


Extracting

Downloading Gecko


Installed


Wine 1.6.2 is installed and you can close this window

Create a new folder on your desktop
Name it Mind

Download Mind: Path To Thalamus from Humble Bundle


Save the compressed zip folder in the Mind folder on your desktop
Click Save


PlayOnLinux Setup

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install


Click "Install a non-listed program"


Click Next

Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next


Name your virtual drive: mind
Click Next


Check all three options:

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

Click Next


Select Wine 1.6.2
Click Next


Select "32-bit windows installation"
Click Next


Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows Version: Windows 7
Click Apply


Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Check "Emulate a virtual desktop"
Desktop size: 1024x768
Click OK


PlayOnLinux Packages (Components, Libraries, DLL's)

Check the following Packages:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_dotnet40
• POL_Install_tahoma
• POL_Install_vcrun2010

Click Next


Note: All packages will automatically download and install

Installing Mind: Path To Thalamus

The compressed zip file contains the actual game
There is no installer
Click Cancel


Double-click mindpathtothalamus_win_XXXXXXXXXX.zip
Select mindpathtothalamus_win_XXXXXXXXX
Click Extract


Extract it in the same Mind folder you downloaded it to
Open the Mind folder on your desktop
Open Program Files in

Code:

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

Note: Username is where you put your Linux login

Drag-n-drop the game into Program Files


PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure


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


Select "Mind.exe"
Click Next


Name your shortcut "Mind: Path To Thalamus"
Click Next


Click Next again...

Display Tab
Select the Mind: Path To Thalamus shortcut on the left
Video Memory size: Enter the amount of memory your video card/chip uses


Close Configure

Flickering Black Textures Fix

Navigate to:

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/mind/drive_c/Program Files/mindpathtothalamus_win_XXXXXXX/UDKGame/Config

Open UDKEngine.ini


UDKEngine.ini should open in a text editor
Use the Search menu to find: DirectionalLightmaps
Change it from "True" to "False"
Click Save


Launching Mind: Path To Thalamus

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select Mind: Path To Thalamus
Click Run


Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs

Click "I Accept"


Optimization

Click Options


Click Video Settings


Adjust Resolution to match your Linux Desktop

Set:

• Vsync
• Windowed/Fullscreen
• Vignette
• Grain
• Post Processing
• Draw Distance

Click Save


Rule of thumb:
High settings = More detail, lower frame rate
Low settings = Less detail, higher frame rate

Conclusion:
Mind is so visually stunning that I was impressed with every level. Some maps seem to span off in the distance forever! There is a lot of reflection, rain effects and natural terrain. Wine handles it very nicely. I tried newer versions of Wine and Mind still runs great.
Just make sure to turn off the DirectionalLightmaps to remove the flickering textures. They almost ruined the game for me and then I stumbled on that setting. It doesn't seem to affect anything else in the game. I'm sure Mind will run perfectly from GOG and Steam as well. Just use the appropriate steps for installing Steam or using the GOG installer in your 32-bit virtual drive.

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