Shipping Out is a mystery friendship adventure where you create your family and explore the town of McGuire. Your family is always on-the-run and this is yet another new town, new home and new school for you to begin life. But for how long?



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

Note: This guide applies to the itch.io version of Shipping Out. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

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

Mint 19 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Wine: 4.0.2
DXVK: 1.3.3

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"



Look for the Wine Version: 4.0.2
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right



Click Next

Downloading Wine



Extracting

Installed



Click (amd64) Tab
Select 4.0.2
Click the arrow pointing to the right



Downloading Wine 64-bit



Installed



Wine 4.0.2 32-bit and 64-bit is installed, 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: shippingout
Click Next



Check all three options:

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

Click Next



Select Wine: 4.0.2
Click Next



Select "64 bits windows installation"
Click Next



Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7



Libraries Tab
Type each of the following:

• d3d10
• d3d10_1
• d3d10core
• d3d11
• dxgi

Select one at a time
Click Edit
Select "Native (Windows)"
Click Apply



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_d3dx10
• POL_Install_d3dx11
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_tahoma

Click Next



Note: All packages should automatically download and install

Do not click Browse
Shipping Out does not have an installer
Click Cancel



Download Shipping Out
https://dpandaheart.itch.io/shippingout

Open Shipping Out with your Archive Manager
Click Extract



Navigate to the virtual drive Program Files
Full path

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/shippingout/drive_c/Program Files/

Click Extract



Click "Show the files"



DXVK Install

Download DXVK 1.3.3
https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v1.3.3
Save to your Desktop
Open the x64 directory
Copy all the DLLs



Go back to the "ShippingOut_1.1" folder you extracted to Program Files
Paste the DLLs



PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure



General Tab
Click virtual drive "shippingout" on the left column
Click "Make a new shortcut from this virtual drive"



Select "Shipping Out"
Click Next



Name the shortcut: Shipping Out
Click Next



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



Back to General Tab
Wine version: 4.0.2



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

Run Shipping Out

Select "Shipping Out"
Click Run



Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs

Conclusion:
Shipping Out ran fine in Linux Mint 19 with my GeForce GTX 1060. I was able to play with an xbox controller as well, but the map button wasn't "mapped" to the controller. So I still had to use the keyboard for viewing the map. Other than that, I was able to play, load and close the game without issues.

Gameplay Video:


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