Tony Hawk: Pro Skater 3 Guide

Tony Hawk Pro Skater is an extreme sports game where you can customize your character, pull flips, grabs, grinds and spins in a variety of locations. Execute your own combos by switching between grinds, board flips and grabs to achieve higher points. Skate in L.A. Tokyo, on a cruise ship, Burnside park and more...

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Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Tony Hawk: Pro Skater 3 in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the Retail version of Tony Hawk: Pro Skater 3. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

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Mint 17 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.6
Wine: 1.6.2

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
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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
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Click Next

Downloading Wine
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Extracting

Downloading Gecko
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Installed
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Wine 1.6.2 is installed and you can close this window

PlayOnLinux Setup

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install
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Click "Install a non-listed program"
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Click Next

Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
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Name your virtual drive: proskater3
Click Next
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Check all three options:
  • Use another version of Wine
  • Configure Wine
  • Install some libraries
Click Next
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Select Wine 1.6.2
Click Next
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Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next
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Wine Configuration

Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows 7
Click Apply
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Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Check "emulate a virtual desktop"
Desktop Size: 1024x768
Click OK
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Installing PlayOnLinux Packages (Components, Libraries, DLL's)

Check the following packages:
  • POL_Install_corefonts
  • POL_Install_d3dx9
  • POL_Install_tahoma

Click Next
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Note: All packages will automatically download and install.

Installing Pro Skater 3

Select "Select another file"
Click Next
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Click Browse
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Navigate to your Tony Hawk Pro Skate 3 CD ROM
Select "setup.exe"
Click Open
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Click Next again...

Click Next

Click Yes

Click Next

Click Next

Click Next

Click Install

After completing installation...
Desktop shortcut
Click "No"
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Check "Register Later"
Click Next
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Check "Install later"
Click Next
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Check "do not install DirectX 8.1"
Click Finish
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Click finish
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PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "Skate3.exe"
Click Next
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Name your shortcut: Tony Hawk: Pro Skater 3
Click Next
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PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "Tony Hawk: Pro Skater 3"
Click Configure
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General Tab
Wine Version: 1.6.2
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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
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Close Configure

Launching Tony Hawk: Pro Skater 3

Select Tony Hawk: Pro Skater 3
Click Run
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Note: Click Debug to see errors and bugs

Setup

Options Tab
Adjust Quality, Resolution and Performance
Click OK
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Note: Pro Skater 3 does not support widescreen resolutions. You will need to ajust your Linux desktop resolution to 2048x1024 first, then launch Pro Skater 3 to simulate full-screen.

Conclusion:
Tony Hawk: Pro Skater 3 ran really well on my GeForce 550 Ti. No bugs, graphical artifacts or anything else. I was not able to configure my controller in the setup, but the keyboard works well with WSAD and Num pad. I also did not test the network game because I only have one copy.
Creating a custom skater worked perfectly as well.

Gameplay video:

Screenshots:
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I remember playing Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 on the Playstation and I made a lot of skateparks. That was one of my favorite things to do is make parks.

Awesome game! I've never played the newer ones like Underground.
 
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