Sniper Elite V2 is a stealth action WWII shooter. You start off by killing a Nazi general and have to escape in a war demolished city. Your arsenal includes your cherished scoped rifle, sub machine guns, silenced pistol, tripwire, grenades, land mines, dynamite and even a stealth kill with your hands. When you successfully snipe enemies you will experience a random "kill cam" where the game will show you the internal damage the bullet does to their body in slow motion.
Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Sniper Elite V2 in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the Steam version of Sniper Elite V2. Other versions may require additional steps.
Tips & Specs:
Try SteamPlay before using this guide as Valve now uses a fork of Wine called Proton and should run most Windows games.
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Mint 18.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.12
Wine: 2.21-staging
Wine Installation
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
Look for the Wine Version: 2.21-staging
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Click Next
Downloading Wine
Extracting
Downloading Gecko
Installed
Wine 2.21-staging is installed and you can close this window
Downloading Steam
Go To: http://www.steampowered.com
Click Install Steam
Do not click "Install Steam Now"
It will automatically install Linux Steam
Select Windows Steam instead
click "Windows" under the green button
Navigate to your desktop
Click Save
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: sniperelitev2
No spaces
Click Next
Check all three options:
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
Select Wine 2.21-staging
Click Next
Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next
Configure Wine
Applications Tab
Windows Version: Windows 7
Click Apply
Staging Tab
Check "enable CSMT for better graphic performance"
Graphics Tab
Check: Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows
Click Ok
PlayOnLinux Packages (Libraries, Components, DLL's)
Check the following libraries:
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_d3dx10
- POL_Install_d3dx11
- POL_Install_tahoma
- POL_Install_vcrun2008
Note: All packages will automatically download and install
Installing Steam
Click Browse
Navigate to your desktop
Select: SteamSetup.exe
Click Open
Click Next
Click Next
Check: I accept the license...
Click Next
Click Next
Click Next
Click Install
Click Finish
Updating Steam
Click the "X" to close Steam login
PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select Steam.exe
Click Next
Name your shortcut: Sniper Elite V2
Click Next
Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
PlayOnLinux Configure
Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure
General Tab
Arguments: -no-dwrite
Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of wine
Display Tab
Video Memory Size: Select the size of Memory your video card/chip uses
Close Configure
Launching Steam
Select Sniper Elite V2
Click Run
Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs
Click "Login to existing account"
Login
Find Sniper Elite V2 in your Steam Library
Click Install
Uncheck "Create desktop shortcut"
Uncheck "Create start menu shortcut"
Click Next
Click Finish
Wait for game to download
Click Play
Optimization
Click Options
Click Display
Adjust:
- Brightness
- Resolution
- Graphics Detail preset
Click Advanced Options
Adjust:
- Texture Detail
- Shadow Detail
- Anti-Aliasing
- Draw Distance
- Anisotropic Filtering
- Supersampling
- Advanced shadows
- Motion Blur
- Ambient Occlusion
- use Compute Shaders
- Reduce Mouse Lag
- V-Sync
Conclusion:
I was able to adjust graphics settings in game and could run it on mostly high settings with my GeForce GTX 1060. There are some bugs like the binoculars do not work and "kill cam" textures were all rainbow colors. Every once in a while a texure will "bug out" and have the wrong texture map. Otherwise, it runs really good!
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