Of Orcs And Men is a 3rd person action RPG with some stealth elements and a lot of dialog. Play as Arkail an elite orc soldier and Styx a stealth goblin theif. Together your mission is to kill the Emperor. Use both of their abilities and horde tactics to sneak into the massive maze-like environment and gamble your fate with clever dialog or brutally slay human filth.



Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Of Orcs And Men in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of Of Orcs And Men. Other versions may require additional steps.

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Mint 19 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Wine: 5.0 64-bit
DXVK: 1.5

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"



Look for the Wine Version: 5.0
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right



Click Next

Downloading Wine



Installed



Click (amd64) Tab
Select 5.0
Click the arrow pointing to the right



Downloading Wine 64-bit



Installed



Wine 5.0 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: orcsandmen
Click Next



Check all three options:

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

Click Next



Select Wine 5.0
Click Next



Select "64 bits windows installation"
Click Next



Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7
Click apply



Libraries Tab
Type each of the following:

• d3d10
• d3d10_1
• d3dcore
• d3d11
• d3d9
• dxgi

Select one at a time
Click Edit

Change to "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

Installing Of Orcs And Men

Click Browse...

Navigate to your downloaded game
Select "setup_of_orcs_and_men_1.02_(1233)_(34456).exe"
Click Open



Click Next again...

Select Language
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 "OfOrcsAndMen.exe"
Click Next



Name the Shortcut: Of Orcs And Men
Click Next



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



PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "Of Orcs And Men"
Click Configure



General Tab
Wine version: 5.0



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

Installing DXVK

Download DXVK 1.5
Go to: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v1.5.1
Save to your Desktop
Extract to your Desktop

Open x32 Folder
Copy all of the DLLs



Paste in the Of Orcs And Men game folder
Full Path:

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/orcsandmen/drive_c/GOG Games/Of Orcs And Men/

Run Of Orcs And Men

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "Of Orcs And Men"
Click Run



Note: Click Debug to see errors and bugs

Conclusion:
Of Orcs And Men initially launched in Spanish even though I selected English during the installation. After some research and trial-n-error, I found you can delete the other language packs and leave your language pack to play correctly. There was no in-game solution for changing languages. Other than that, I was able to play without any serious problems on my GeForce GTX 1060 and save/load worked fine.

This game is more like a tactics game than an action RPG because you don't have 100% control over your characters actions. Kinda like The Witcher. You can select which attacks to apply, then watch them do all the moves.

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