Sacred 2 Gold Guide

Sacred 2 Gold has been improved in every way over the original Sacred. Better models, lighting, animation, skills and much more. At the same time it still "feels" like the original Sacred with the same Action RPG style of gameplay. Similar fighting styles, leveling up system, powerups and navigational styles. There are few additional aspects of the game to get us addicted for long nights of slaying minions.

Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Sacred 2 Gold in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of Sacred 2 Gold. Other versions may require additional steps.

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Mint 17 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.5
Wine: 1.7.32

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"

Look for the Wine Version: 1.7.32
Note: Try using stable Wine 1.8 and 1.8-staging

Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right

Click Next

Downloading Wine

Extracting

Downloading Gecko

Installed

Wine 1.7.32 is installed and you can close this window

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: sacred2
Click Next

Check all three options:

• Use anothe version of wine
• Configure Wine
• Install some libraries

Click Next

Select Wine 1.7.32
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

Installing Packages (Libraries, DLL's, Components)

Check the following:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_gdiplus
  
• POL_Install_tahoma
• POL_Install_vcrun2008
• POL_Install_vcrun2010

Click Next

Note: All packages will download and install automatically

Installing Sacred 2 Gold

Click Browse

Select "setup_sacred2_gold_2.0.0.6.exe"
Click Open

Click Next

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

Physx will install at the end (two times)
Check "I accept the license agreement"
Click Next

Click Finish

You might get a few errors

Runtime Error
Click OK

Invalid Opcode
Click OK

Installed
Click Exit

PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "sacred2.exe"
Click Next

Name your shortcut: Sacred 2 Gold
Click Next

PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "Sacred 2 Gold"
Click Configure

General Tab
Wine version: 1.7.32

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

Launching Sacred 2 Gold

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "Sacred 2 Gold"
Click Run

Note: Clicking Debug will show you the errors and bugs

Optimization

Click Options

Click Graphics

Select preset for Quality
Or manually adjust sliders:

• Shadow
• Render
• Ground
• Effect
• Grass

Note: Uncheck "PhysX Effects" because it will cause Sacred to run really slow!

Set the resolution to match your Linux desktop
Click Accept

Rule of Thumb:
High settings = More detail, lower frame rates
Low settings = Less detail, higher frame rates

Conclusion:
Sacred 2 Gold runs Great on my GeForce 550 Ti. It supports all resolutions and the mouse works great in the Wine virtual desktop. Quests and cooperative complete perfectly! Its a huge world in Sacred 2 Gold.

The only problem I have is that it crashes exactly one hour after starting the game. The only solution is to Press F7 to save your character or exit the game before one hour lapses. Then launch again and continue.

Gameplay Video:

Screenshots:

 

Good guide as always, however how time stay stable (crash issue)?????

 

Pretty dang stable after I re-installed the game. I actually played for an hour cooperative via LAN with a Windows Vista machine hosting the game.
Thats when I decided to post the Guide. At first I was skeptic because of the random crashing, but now it run GREAT.

 

Hello, I tried to install Sacred 2 Gold GoG from disk and the installation always hangs up at around 75% of the progress bar. I tried your step-by-step guide and the same happens. Did you encounter this ? I tried on Win 7, Win XP, 32bit, 64bit, several different Wine versions but everytime it hangs up at 75%. I even left it over the night but the progress bar won't move, and there is no disk activity. Any ideas ? P.S.: I am installing on a 64bit Debian Sid system, dual video card: GTX660m and integrated Intel video on i7 quad-core CPU. I can play games with any of the 2 cards, the GTX with primusrun (bumblebee).

 

Yes, I have seen this issue with the GOG installer. When you install PlayOnLinux packages, add:

• gdiplus

Then it should finish the installation.
I had this same problem with Van Helsing and it would eventually pop up an error and then finish the installation.

 

Works great, it didn't want to launch at all with wine 1.8 but oh well...

Thanks a lot again for all the effort you put into this booman.

 

So what version of Wine did you end up using?
No problem! I have a lot of fun testing games.

 

So what version of Wine did you end up using?
No problem! I have a lot of fun testing games.

The one you used, 1.7.32

 

Try using Wine 1.8.3

Do you get any errors when launching Sacred 2?

 

Try using Wine 1.8.3

Do you get any errors when launching Sacred 2?

Worked! and believe it or not the game loaded to the main screen even faster :O

 

Nice! Its amazing how newer stable versions of Wine fix things.

 

hi all!
can somebody help me with a problem by installind the Sacred 2
- before your step "Check "Yes, I have read and accept the EULA"" - i see just a window with a Disk choosing (exactly as in windows installation) and then ive got enter some adress (d:/games/...).

if ill do it next, the i get a error that:

An error occured while unpacking: unable to wtire data to disk.
Unarc.dll returned an error code: -11
ERROR: archive data corrupted (decompression fails).

what i did wrong?

ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS

 

hi all!
can somebody help me with a problem by installind the Sacred 2
- before your step "Check "Yes, I have read and accept the EULA"" - i see just a window with a Disk choosing (exactly as in windows installation) and then ive got enter some adress (d:/games/...).

if ill do it next, the i get a error that:

An error occured while unpacking: unable to wtire data to disk.
Unarc.dll returned an error code: -11
ERROR: archive data corrupted (decompression fails).

what i did wrong?

ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS

Never change the default installation location inside the Wine drive. Leave it to: "C:\GoG Games\Sacred 2 Gold\" or whatever it is. Also, make sure you have write permission on your ".playonlinux" path (usually in your home folder, take care that it is a hidden folder). If you have disk space issues in your home folder where ".playonlinux" is and where usually the games are installed, you can move ".playonlinux" on any disk you want but make a symbolic link to it (it's like a shortcut to the folder): in terminal write

ln -s /media/newdrive/.playonlinux /home/user/.playonlinux

See "man ln" in terminal for more options.

 

Make the symbolic link after you have moved the ".playonlinux" directory.

 

Thank you stefutz!
Also, make sure you are using PlayOnLinux 4.2.12 and a newer version of Wine like:

• Wine 3.0
• Wine 3.13
• Wine staging versions

Octalink, which version of Sacred 2 are you installing? Is it the GOG version?

 

thank you for recommendations.

so, if i have only one disk and enouth space on it, then i dont need to make a symbolic link?

- i've downloaded new version of Playonlinux 4.2.12
- i've downloaded wine 3.0 and 3.13 (also 3.0 staging), is it ok?
-it was a sacred 2 gold but not from GOG. a dont know which version.
ive tried to install with new version of wine and POL and ive got the same error.

do i need to download wine 3.0 or 3.13(amd64)?

 

Hmm, are you installing from a DVD?
I've only tested the GOG version, but you can always copy all of the data from the DVD into a folder on your Desktop, then install it from there. That is usually what I do when a Disk is causing issues in Wine. This is a common problem.

Also, PlayOnLinux will make a shortcut for you when the game is done installing. No links necessary. Unless you mean the DVD of course, then you can go into Wine Configuration, Drives Tab and mount the DVD there as a D: drive.

Wine 3.13 should be fine. If not then go back to Wine 3.0. Either of these should run Sacred 2

 

OR you can
Install the game in Windows yuck i know
copy the game file directory to HDD or backup_drive game_drive
Then go to your Linux OS and copy all the files to the right dir GOG or Games folder or programsXfiles etc etc where ever the path was in windows
Then just use a wine version to run the game voila