Prince of Persia is the latest installment of the franchise and with a new make-over. All of the trick-jumps, climbing and platforming is there, but now you get to play cooperative with Princess Elika. Purge the corruption by slaying bosses of each realm and explore multiple routes to the next objective, all in comic-book style graphics.
Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Prince of Persia in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of Prince of Persia. Other versions may require additional steps.
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Mint 18.1 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.10
Wine: 2.0-staging
Wine Installation
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
Look for the Wine Version: 2.0-staging
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Click Next
Downloading Wine
Extracting
Downloading Gecko
Installed
Wine 2.0-staging is installed and 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: princeofperisa
Click Next
Check all three options:
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
Select Wine: 2.0-staging
Click Next
Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next
Wine Configuration
Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7
Click Apply
Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Check "Emulate a virtual desktop"
Desktop size: 1024x768
Click OK
PlayOnLinux Packages (DLLs, Libraries, Components)
Check the Following:
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_tahoma
Click Browse
Select "setup_prince_of_persia_2.0.0.17.exe"
Click Open
Click Next
Click Options
Check "Yes, I have read and accept EULA"
Uncheck "Create desktop icons"
Click Install
Click Exit
PlayOnLinux Shortcuts
Select "Prince of Persia.exe"
Click Next
Name the shortcut: Prince of Persia
Click Next
Select "Launcher.exe"
Click Next
Name this shortcut: PoP Launcher
Click Next
Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
PlayOnLinux Configure
Select "Prince of Persia"
Click Configure
General Tab
Wine version: 2.0-staging
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
Optmization
Select "PoP Launcher"
Click Run
Note: Click Debug to see errors and bugs
Click Settings
Adjust:
- Screen Resolution
- Widescreen
- Vertical Sync
- Antialiasing
- Graphics Quality
- High Resolution textures
Click "Launch the game!"
or Quit launchPoP Launcher and run Prince of Persia
Conclusion:
Prince of Persia ran great on my GeForce GTX 950. There were some short freezes when loading some content, but otherwise climbing and fighting was smooth. This game has some wonderful Borderlands-ish graphics and amazing animation. It is a lot of fun playing co-operative finding the way to the next area and then fighting off minions and bosses.
Gameplay video:
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