Velvet Assassin is a stealth assassination game where you play as British secret agent Violette Szabo during World War II. She can sneak, back-stab assassinate, set traps, and use "morphine mode" to attack in plain sight.
Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Velvet Assassin in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the Steam version of Velvet Assassin. 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.
To learn more about PlayOnLinux and Wine configuration, see the online manual: PlayOnLinux Explained
Mint 17.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.10
Wine: 1.8.4
Wine Installation
Note: Wine versions older than 2.0.2 and 2.12-staging no longer work with Steam.
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
Look for the Wine Version: 1.8.4
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Click Next
Downloading Wine
Extracting
Downloading Gecko
Installed
Wine 1.8.4 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: velvetassassin
No spaces
Click Next
Select all three options:
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
Select Wine 1.8.4
Click Next
Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next
Configure Wine
Applications Tab
Windows Version: Windows 7
Click Apply
Graphics Tab
Check: Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows
Check: Emulate a virtual desktop
Desktop size: 1024x768
Click Ok
PlayOnLinux Packages (Libraries, Components, DLL's)
Check the following libraries:
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_d3dx9
- POL_Install_Physx
- POL_Install_tahoma
- POL_Install_vcrun2008
- POL_Install_vcrun2010
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: Velvet Assassin
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 -no-cef-sandbox
This fixes the missing font problem and the store problem
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 Velvet Assassin
Click Run
Note: Click debug to see errors and bugs
Click "Login to existing account"
Login
Find Velvet Assassin in your Library
Click Install
Uncheck "Create desktop shortcut"
Uncheck "Create start menu"
Click Next
Click Finish
Wait for download to finish
Click Play
Physx Installation
Click Cancel!!!
Click "Exit Setup"
Click OK
Note: If you install Physx the game will crash every time you launch it
Optimization
Click Settings
Adjust:
- Language
- Screen Resolution
- Texture Quality
- Shadow Quality
- Anti-Aliasing Quality
- Shader Quality
Click Play
Conclusion:
Once I figured out that Wine needed Physx installed ahead of time instead of during the Steam installation, the game launched perfectly. Everything ran really nice without any bugs or graphical artifacts. Unfortunately its very easy to die in Velvet Assassin. You only have seconds to escape if you are spotted by the enemy. Usually its too late...
Gameplay Video:
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