Rise of Flight is a free-to-play combat simulator with online battles and campaigns. Of course you only get two planes for free and the rest have to be purchased. But once you get your Controller or Joystick setup with the 400 controls and your plane is in the air, all the combat simulator natalgia hits you in the face.
Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Rise of Flight in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the Steam version of Rise of Flight. Other versions may require additional steps.
Tips & Specs:
Try SteamPlay before using this guide as Valve now uses a fork of Wine called Proton and should run most Windows games.
To learn more about PlayOnLinux and Wine configuration, see the online manual: PlayOnLinux Explained
Mint 18.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.12
Wine: 3.0 64-bit
Wine Installation
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
Click "Wine versions (amd64) Tab
Look for the Wine Version: 3.0
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Click Next
Downloading Wine
Extracting
Downloading Gecko
Installed
Wine 3.0 is installed and you can close this window
Downloading Steam
Go To: http://www.steampowered.com
Click Install Steam
Do not click "Install Steam Now"
It will automatically install Linux Steam
Select Windows Steam instead
click "Windows" under the green button
Navigate to your desktop
Click Save
PlayOnLinux Setup
Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install
Click "install a non-listed program"
Click Next
Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
Name your virtual drive: riseofflight
No spaces
Click Next
Check all three options:
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
Select Wine 3.0
Click Next
Select "64 bits windows installation"
Click Next
Configure Wine
Applications Tab
Windows Version: Windows XP
Click Apply
Graphics Tab
Check: Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows
Click Ok
PlayOnLinux Packages (Libraries, Components, DLL's)
Check the following libraries:
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_d3dx10
- POL_Install_d3dx11
- POL_Install_tahoma
- POL_Install_vcrun2005
Note: All packages will automatically download and install
Installing Steam
Click Browse
Navigate to your desktop
Select: SteamSetup.exe
Click Open
Click Next
Click Next
Check: I accept the license...
Click Next
Click Next
Click Next
Click Install
Click Finish
Updating Steam
Click the "X" to close Steam login
PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select Steam.exe
Click Next
Name your shortcut: Rise of Flight
Click Next
Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
PlayOnLinux Configure
Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure
General Tab
Wine Version: 3.0
Arguments: -no-dwrite -no-cef-sandbox
This fixes any missing font problems and the Store problem (Windows needs to be set as Windows XP)
Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of wine
Display Tab
Video Memory Size: Select the size of Memory your video card/chip uses
Close Configure
Steam Servers Error
You will get a "content servers unreachable" error due to certificates
click OK
Navigate to your game's wineprefix:
Code:
/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/riseofflight/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Steam/config/Copy this code below
Code:
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"InstallConfigStore"
{
"Software"
{
"Valve"
{
"Steam"
{
"CM"
Paste in a new line under the "CM" line with all the IP Addresses
Save config.vdf
Launching Steam
Select Rise of Flight
Click Run
Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs
Click "Login to existing account"
Login
Search for "Rise of Flight United"
Click "Play Game"
Uncheck "Create desktop shortcut"
Uncheck "Create start menu shortcut"
Click Next
Click Finish
Wait for Rise of Flight to download (9GB)
Click Play
Optimization
Click the Gears
Click Video Tab
Adjust:
- Resolution
- FPS Limiter
- Fullscreen
- Vertical Synchronization
- Post Effects
- HDR
- Bloom
- Rain Drops
- Supersampling
- Antialiasing
- Textures Filtration
- shaders Quality
- Light Sources
- Textures Detail
- Reflections Detail
- Shadows Detail
- Multi GPU
- Landscape Mesh Detail
- Landscape Textures Detail
- Forest Detail
- Grass Quality
- Forest View Distance
- Objects View Distance
Conclusion:
Rise of Flight ran perfectly. I didn't even have to install dotnet35 as recommended on Steam. I was able to fly fullscreen with my old Logitech joystick and program all the buttons I needed. Now I completely suck at flying simulators, so I didn't bother with a video, but all the controls are there. All the settings are there. All the graphical eye candy is there too. Beautiful game with a lot of planes to fly.
Note: Did never tested online play with other players.
Note: Windows XP will no longer be supported by Steam at the end of 2018. Wine has not provided a way to download free-to-play games with the broken store.
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