P.T. Remake is an Unreal 4 remake of a Playstation psychological horror game that was a playable-teaser for Silent Hill. This is a very repetitive game as you explore the same hallway over and over with new clues and puzzles each time.



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

Tips & Specs:

To learn more about PlayOnLinux and Wine configuration, see the online manual: PlayOnLinux Explained

Mint 19.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Wine: ProtonGE 5.6
DXVK: 6.1

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

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: ptremake
Click Next



Check all three options:

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

Click Next



Select Wine 5.0
Click Next



Note: We will download and install Proton GE 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 each 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, Components, Libraries)

Check each of the following:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx10
• POL_Install_d3dx11
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_tahoma

Click Next



Click Cancel
P.T.Remake does not have an installer



Download P.T. Remake

You will have to search for it yourself
I found it with a google search

Open P.T. Remake rar with Archive Manager
Click Extract



Navigate to the ptremake virtual drive Program Files
Full path:

Code:

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

Click Extract



Click Show the Files



Install DXVK

Go to: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v1.6
Download dxvk-1.6.tar.gz

Extract to your Desktop
Open the x64 directory
Copy all of the DLLs



Go back to the open folder where you extracted the game
Open the Win64 directory
Full path:

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/ptremake/drive_c/Program Files/PT_2/Binaries/Win64

Paste the DLLs



Download Proton GE 5.6

Go to: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases/tag/5.6-GE-1
Download Proton-5.6-GE-1.tar.gz

Extract to your Desktop
Open the "dist" directory
Copy all of the folders and files



Navigate to the PlayOnLinux Wine folder
Full Path:

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wine

Create a new folder
Name it: proton-ge5.6



Note: ignore the name in the screenshot

Paste all of the "dist" folders and files in directory: proton-ge5.6



PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure



Select ptremake in the left column

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



Select "PT_2.exe"
Click Next



Name the shortcut: P.T. Remake
Click Next



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



Back to Configure
Select "P.T. Remake" in the left column

General Tab
Click the down arrow and change Wine 5.0 to proton-ge5.6



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



Close Configure

Play P.T Remake

Select "P.T. Remake"
Click Run



Note: It make take a minute to initially launch. Click debug to see errors and bugs

Conclusion:
P.T. Remake ran really well with Proton GE (Glorious Egg Roll fork) on my GeForce GTX 1060. I didn't have any issues with launching or playing the game. Unfortunately there is no save funciton, so you loose all progress if you quit before finishing.

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