Obduction is the latest game from Cyan the makers of Myst series. This fantasy exploration world is full of interactive puzzles and clever surprises. Enjoy the beautiful scenery made with Unreal Engine and discover why you are on this mysterious planet.



Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Obduction in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

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

Tips & Specs:

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Mint 19 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Wine: 4.0
DXVK: 1.2

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: obduction
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
Click Add

• 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



Note: All packages should automatically download and install

Click Browse

Select "setup_obduction_1.7.2_(19600).exe"
Click Open



Click Next again...

Click OK



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



Click OK on all errors



Click Exit



PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "Obduction.exe"
Click Next



Name the shortcut: Obduction
Click Next



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



PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select Obduction
Click Configure



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



Close Configure

DXVK Setup

Go to: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v1.2
Download version 1.2
Save to your Desktop
Extract and open x64 directory
Copy all of the DLLs



Paste DLLs in the Obduction Win64 directory
Full path:

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/obduction/drive_c/GOG Games/Obduction/Obduction/Binaries/Win64

DXVK Complete Setup Guidehttp://www.gamersonlinux.com/forum/threads/dxvk-guide.2540/

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select Obduction
Click Run



Media Foundation Installation

Note: Make sure to run Obduction at least once.... Steps may be different for your distribution...

Step 1
Install Wine Stable in your distro's Software Manager

Step 2 - Download & Run mf-install-master
https://github.com/z0z0z/mf-install

1. Download the ZIP and extract to your Desktop
2. Open Terminal
3. cd to the mf-install-master directory
4. Run the mf-install script in your Proton prefix
5. WINEPREFIX="/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/obduction/" ./mf-install.sh

Note: This command points to the prefix for Obduction

Step 3 - Download & Run mf-installcab
https://github.com/z0z0z/mf-installcab

1. Save to your Desktop
2. Use Terminal
3. CD to the mf-installcab directory
4. Run the install-mf-64.sh script in your Proton prefix
5. WINEPREFIX="/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/obduction/" ./install-mf-64.sh

Note: This one takes some time because it has to download two Windows updates which is about 1.5GB

Step 4 - Copy & Paste mfplatt.dll into prefix

mfplatt is located in the mf-installcab ZIP you extracted to your Desktop
Copy mfplat.dll to the games directory where the Borderlands game executable is located
/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/obduction/drive_c/GOG Games/Obduction/

Note: May have to copy mfplat.dll to the C:\Windows\System32 directory as well

Optimization

Click Settings



Adjust:

• Size
• Screen Setting
• V-Sync
• Gamma
• View Distance
• Anti-Aliasing
• Post Processing
• Shadows
• Textures
• Effects
• Water
• Foliage
• Texture Memory
• Resolution Scale
• Field of View
• Motion Blur

Click Apply



Conclusion:
Obduction runs really well with DXVK on my GeForce GTX 1060 and all the settings on epic. The only side-effect is not being able to see the videos. They are all Windows Media formats and Windows Media Player 10 will not install in a 64-bit virtual drive. The game is still totally playable, but I've heard that you need to watch these to progress. I will continue to troubleshoot installing the codecs and researching how to get these videos running.

Gameplay Video:


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