Pathologic HD Guide

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  • booman

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    Pathologic is an open world mystery survival exploration action game where you need help from an investigator, a Ripper and a eccentric girl with mystical healing abilities. Explore a plaque-ridden town and solve mysterious murders in an emotional psychological first person survival cult-classic.

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

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

    Tips & Specs:

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

    Mint 19 64-bit
    PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
    Wine: 4.0

    Wine Installation

    Click Tools
    Select "Manage Wine Versions"

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    Look for the Wine Version: 4.0
    Select it
    Click the arrow pointing to the right

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    Click Next

    Downloading Wine

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    Extracting

    Installed

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    Click (amd64) Tab
    Select 4.0
    Click the arrow pointing to the right

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    Downloading Wine 64-bit

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    Installed

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    Wine 4.0 32-bit and 64-bit is installed, you can close this window

    PlayOnLinux Setup

    Launch PlayOnLinux
    Click Install

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    Click "Install a non-listed program"

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

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    Name the virtual drive: pathologic
    Click Next

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    Check all three options:
    • Use another version of Wine
    • Configure Wine
    • Install some libraries
    Click Next

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    Select Wine 4.0
    Click Next

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    Select "32 bits windows installation"
    Click Next

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    Applications Tab
    Windows version: Windows XP
    Click Apply

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    Graphics Tab
    Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
    Click OK

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    PlayOnLinux Packages

    Check the following:
    • POL_Install_corefonts
    • POL_Install_d3dcompiler_43
    • POL_Install_d3dx9
    • POL_Install_devenum
    • POL_Install_quartz
    • POL_Install_tahoma
    • POL_Install_wmp9
    • POL_Install_wmp10
    Click Next

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    Note: All packages should automatically download and install

    Installing Pathologic

    Click Browse

    Select "setup_pathologic_classic_HD_1.0.3 (16813).exe"
    Click Open

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    Click Next

    Click OK

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    Click Options
    Check "Yes I have read and accept EULA"
    Uncheck "Created desktop icon"
    Click Install

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    Click OK for all errors

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    Click Exit

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    PlayOnLinux Shortcut

    Select "Game.exe"
    Click Next

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    Name the shortcut: Pathologic
    Click Next

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

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    PlayOnLinux Configure

    Back to PlayOnLinux
    Click Configure

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    General Tab
    Wine version: 4.0

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    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

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    Installing Media Pack Update (Required to play WMV Videos)

    Download this Media Pack Update from Lutris
    https://lutris.net/files/tools/windowsmedia-kb942423-x86-intl.exe
    Save to your Desktop
    Move "windowsmedia-kb942423-x86-int.exe" to the Pathologic Virtual Drive drive_c
    Full Path:
    Code:
    /home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/pathologic/drive_c
    Wine Tab
    Click "Command Prompt"

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    Type "explorer"
    Press Enter

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    Navigate to (C)
    Double-Click "windowsmedia-kb942423-x86-intl.exe"

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    Click Next

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    Check "I Agree"
    Click Next

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    Click Finish

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    Close the Command Prompt

    Close Configure

    Launch Pathologic

    Select Pathologic
    Click Run

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    Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs

    Optimization

    Since this is an HD version of Pathologic all of the textures have been increased in resolution. You may get a bit of frame lagging if the settings are too high

    Click Settings

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    Click Video Tab
    Adjust:
    • Resolution
    • Anisotropic filtering
    • Gamma
    • Field of View
    • V-Sync
    • Shadows
    • Anti-aliasing
    • Depth of Field
    • SSAO
    • Bloom
    • Motion Blur
    Click Apply

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    Conclusion:
    Pathologic crashed at every intro screen initially because of the WMV codecs, but after some research I found that we could set Wine to Windows XP, install WMP9 & 10, then install this media update and they play perfectly. Remember this for other games that require WMP codecs. After all of that, Pathologic played perfectly! I was able to save, load and play for over an hour without any issues.

    Gameplay Video:


    Screenshots:
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    Last edited: Jan 7, 2020

Comments

Discussion in 'Guides' started by booman, Jun 8, 2019.

  1. inFlowia Lab.
    Thank you so much for this recipe! It was really priceless :) By the way! Pathologic successfully works if you switch Wine to Windows 7 mode, and this will already allow you to install not only GOG but also the Steam version.
    booman and danrok like this.
  2. booman
    Cool! Thanks for the update! Glad its working for you as well

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