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.
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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
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 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
Adjust:
- ZBuffer Depth
- Filtering
- Dithering
- VSync
- HW Gamma
- Use HQ textures
- Triple Buffering
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/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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