Play as a team of UPA agents in a squad based shooter puzzler. Your squad is tasked with investigating the machinery failures in the underground that power the rich aboveground life. Each of the four characters have their own abilties and weapons. Use them wisely or perish against cultists, gang-bangers and mutants.



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

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

Tips & Specs:

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Mint 18.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.12
Wine: 3.3

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"


Look for the Wine Version: 3.3
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right


Click Next

Downloading Wine


Extracting

Downloading Gecko


Installed


Wine 3.3 is installed and you can close this window

PlayOnLinux Setup

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install


Click "Installa a non-listed program"


Click Next

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


Name the virtual Drive: projecteden
Click Next


Check all three options:

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

Click Next


Select Wine 3.3
Click Next


Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next


Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7


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_d3dx9
• POL_Install_tahoma

Click Next


Note: All packages will automatically download and install

Installing Project Eden

Click Browse

Select "setup_project_eden_0908201_(14075).exe"
Click Open


Click Next again

Click OK


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


Click OK on all errors


Note: The errors do not affect the installation

Click Exit


PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "Eden.exe"
Click Next


Name the shortcut: Project Eden
Click Next


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


PlayOnLinux Configure

Select "Project Eden"
Click Configure


General Tab
Wine version: 3.3


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

Launch Project Eden

Select Project Eden
Click Run


Note: Click Debug to see errors and bugs

Graphics Settings

Click Configure


Click Graphics


Adjust:

• Colour Depth
• Screen Resolution
• Depth Quality
• Engine
• Texture Detail
• Texture Filtering
• Chracter Effects
• Aspect Ratio

Click Apply


Conclusion:
Project Eden ran perfectly from the first try on my GeForce GTX 1060. I was able to adjust the graphics settings in game to high and 1920x1080. Everything ran perfectly. Its actually an interesting puzzle shooter where you have to swap between characters in the group to achieve goals.

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