In Shadow Man, you play as Michael LeRoi the voodoo warrior who protects our world from the dead crossing over from Deadside. Take on "The Five" and Legion immortal warriors with the Mask of Shadows and save Liveside.



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

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

Tips & Specs:

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Mint 18.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.12
Wine: 3.6

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"


Look for the Wine Version: 3.6
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right


Click Next

Downloading Wine


Extracting

Downloading Gecko


Installed


Wine 3.6 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: shadowman
Click Next


Check all three options:

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

Click Next


Select Wine: 3.6
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


Click Browse

Select "setup_shadow_man_2.1.0.5.exe"
Click Open


Click Next

Click OK


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


Click OK for all errors


Click Exit


PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "Shadowman.exe"
Click Next


Name the shortcut: Shadow Man
Click Next


Select "D3DConfigUtility.exe"
Click Next


Name the shortcut: Shadow Man Config
Click Next


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


PlayOnLinux Configure

Select "Shadow Man"
Click Configure


General Tab
Wine version: 3.6


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

Select "Shadow Man Config"
Click Run


Click Setup


Adjust:

• Resolution
• Gamma
• Brightness

Click Advanced


Adjust:

• ZBuffer Depth
• Filtering
• Dithering
• VSync
• HW Gamma
• Use HQ textures
• Triple Buffering

Click OK


In Game Options

Click Options


Click "Detail Settings"


Adjust:

• Shadow Detail
• Dynamic Shirt
• Procedural Textures
• Sky Detail
• Fog Detail
• Environment Detail

Re-Texture Mod

Go to: http://www.moddb.com/mods/na22920/addons/shadow-man-re-texture-by-arkup-updated-2015
Download the 2015 re-texure rar
Extract it to your Desktop
Go to the game folder:

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/drive_c/shadowman/GOG Games/

Rename the existing "data" folder
Cut-n-paste the extracted "data" folder to the same directory

Conclusion:
Shadow Man ran perfectly in PlayOnLinux in Mint on my GeForce GTX 1060. I never had any performance issues and the re-texture mod improved the visuals as it was painful to play in the original 1999 state. I'm not sure why there are so many graphical adjustments for such an old game? Maybe it was way beyond-its-time back then.... Either way, it should run on any laptop or desktop computer.


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