Outpost Glacier Guide

Outpost Glacier is a space survival game where you landed on a remote planet that is always below zero degrees. Explore, gather resources and craft items to keep yourself alive! Most importantly... stay warm!

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

Note: This guide applies to the itch.io version of Outpost Glacier. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

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Mint 19.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Wine: ProtonGE 5.1 64-bit
DXVK: 1.5.5

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: outpostglacier
Click Next

Check all three options:

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

Click Next

Select Wine 5.0
Click Next

Note: We will install GloriousEggRolls Proton in a later step

Select "64 bits windows installation"
Click Next

Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7
Click Apply

Libraries Tab
Type each of the following
Click Add

• d3d10
• d3d10_1
• d3d10core
• 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 each of the following:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx10
• POL_Install_d3dx11
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_tahoma

Click Next

Note: Each package should automatically download and install

Do not click Browse
Outpost Glacier does not have an installer
Click Cancel

Download Outpost Glacer from itch.io
Go to: https://unallocated.itch.io/outpost-glacier
Save to your Desktop

Open with Archive Manager
Click Extract

Navigate to Program Files in your outpostglacier virtual drive
Full path:

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

Click The new folder icon
Name it: outpostglacier
Click Create
Click Extract again

Click "Show the Files"
Close Archive Manager

Installing DXVK

Download DXVK 1.5.5
Go to: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v1.5.5

Save to your Desktop
Extract to your Desktop

Open x64 folder
Copy all of the DLLs

Paste in the Win64 folder
Full Path:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/outpostglacier/drive_c/Program Files/outpostglacier/Project_Icebox/Binaries/Win64/

Installing GloriousEggRolls Proton 5.1

Go to "linux_amd64" folder in PlayOnLinux
Full Path:

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

Create a new folder: proton5.1

Download GloriousEggRoll Proton 5.1
Go to: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases/tag/5.1-GE-2

Save to your Desktop
Open with Archive Manager
Extract to your Desktop first

Open the "proton_dist.tar.gz" with Archive Manager

Navigate to the new "proton5.1" folder you created
Full Path:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wine/linux-amd64/proton5.1

Click Extract

Close Archive Manager

PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure

Select "outpostglacier" in the left column

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

Select "Outpost_Glacier.exe"
Click Next

Name the shortcut: Outpost Glacier
Click Next

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

Back to General Tab
Select "Outpost Glacier" in the left column
Click the down-arrow
Select "Proton5.1"

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

Close Configure

Now Everything is setup:

• Proton
• DXVK
• Shortcut

Ready to Run Outpot Glacier
Select "Outpost Glacier"
Click Run

Conclusion:
I was unable to successfully run Outpost Glacier with stable Wine and Wine staging. There was always an error about faudio and xaudio1_7. I even tried adding those overrides in Wine Configure, but it still wouldn't run. After testing with GloriousEggRolls Proton fork, it ran perfectly! Performance was decent on my GeForce GTX 1060 and its actually a pretty fun game. Note: I died a few times because I didn't know to use the shovel for creating snowballs to eat.

Gameplay Video:

Screenshots:

 

Outpost Glacier is an amazing indie game! I was surprised how polished it is and interactive. Even the snow is interactive as you can shovel it, walk through it and creatures make paths in it.

You go to try this one!

 

So, do we need to use this game in order to install proton and where did the linux_amd folder come from? Was that created by the installation? Of the game? Will it still work if I am on intel based hardware and not AMD? Can I uninstall the game afterwards?

 

No, you can install proton and use it for whatever game you are trying to play. I was just using this guide as an example. Follow the DXVK and Proton (GloriousEggRoll) steps for your Virtual Drive in PlayOnLinux. Then you can use this version of Proton for any game.
It mostly just downloading the files and copying them to the PlayOnLinux Wine directory.
Proton is not created by any installation of a game because its not readily available within PlayOnLinux. Its basically a hack.
It will work on Nvidia, AMD and Intel as long as your video card/chip supports Vulkan.