Discover a disturbing world in the mind of a crash survivor. In this psychological thiller you will explore creative worlds of horror in an interactive point-n-click adventure. Interact with spooky mangled characters, explore areas and objects, solve puzzles and try to keep your sanity.





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

Tips & Specs:

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

Mint 17 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.5
Wine: 1.6.2

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"


Look for the Wine Version: 1.6.2
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 1.6.2 is installed and you can close this window

Search for Sanitarium and download it from the various abandonware sites

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: sanitarium
Click Next


Check all three options:

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

Click Next


Select Wine 1.6.2
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 (Components, DLL, Libraries)

Check the following packages:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_tahoma

Click Next


Note: All packages will automatically download and install

Installing Sanitarium

Click Browse


Select Sanitarium executable
Click Open


Click Next

Click Install


Installing...


Error
Click OK


PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select Sntrm.exe
Click Next


Name your shortcut: Sanitarium
Click Next


Click Next again

PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "Sanitarium"
Click Configure


General Tab
Wine version: 1.6.2


Note: Click the + to download more versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of Wine.

Display Tab
Video memory size: Select the amount of memory your video card/chip has


Miscellaneous Tab
Click "Run a .exe file in this virtual drive"


Navigate to: /home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/sanitarium/drive_c/Sanitarium
Select Setup.exe
Click Open


Click OK


Close PlayOnLinux Configure

Launching Sanitarium

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select Sanitarium
Click Run


Note: Click Debug to see errors and bugs

Error
Click Yes


Conclusion:
Naturally the game played perfectly due to being a simple point-n-click scrollable interface. Audio and animation ran flawlessly.

Sanitarium will only run fullscreen in an 800x600 Linux desktop. Make sure to set your desktop resolution first, or just run in windowed. Unfortunately there is no way to play in higher resolutions.

Gameplay video:


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